Today, Oppo unveiled its flagship phone for 2025 – the Oppo Find X8 Ultra – and it’s refining all that made the X7 Ultra great. Tagging along are the Oppo Find X8s and X8s+, but we’ll tell you about them in a separate story.
The design is nicer, the performance is up to 2025 flagship standards, the battery is bigger, and of course, the cameras are improved. Let’s start with the body.
The Oppo Find X8 Ultra claims to be is the thinnest flagship cameraphone at 8.78mm (down from 9.5mm on its predecessor). Despite the reduction in thickness, the new phone is tougher, packing both the expected IP68 rating for dust and water resistance and IP69 for water jets. Oppo also claims SGS five-star drop resistance.
The display is seemingly unchanged, which is no bad thing. It’s a 6.82-inch 10-bit LTPO OLED panel with 1-120Hz refresh rate, 3,168×1,440px resolution, and a peak brightness of 1,600 nits.
Continuing the specs thread, Oppo has upgraded the Find X8 Ultra to the 8-core Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, packaged with up to 16GB of LPDDR5X-9600 RAM, and up to 1TB of UFS 4.1 storage. The phone runs ColorOS 15 based on Android 15.
One of the significant upgrades is the new 6,100mAh silicon-carbon battery – that’s a nearly 20% increase in size. The new cell supports the same 100W SUPERVOOC wired and 50W AIRVOOC wireless charging (10W reverse wireless too).
The Find X8 Ultra comes in Matte Black, Pure White, and Shell Pink – all with smooth, matte surfaces on both the metal rails and the glass panels.
Oppo Find X8 Ultra
The Oppo Find X8 Ultra brings two new physical controls – there’s a new Shortcut button on the upper left side of the phone and a new Quick button on the bottom right edge of the phone. The Shortcut button can be customized for a myriad of different functions and apps, while the Quick button primarily acts as a camera control. It looks similar to the one found on the Oppo Find X8 Pro.
Oppo upgraded the two zoom cameras on the Find X8 Ultra, kept the main shooter mostly unchanged, and downgraded the ultrawide angle camera, on paper at least. Finally, there’s a new True Chroma camera, which is used to analyze the color temperature of a scene, and in tandem with the Hasselblad-tuned processing, deliver accurate skin tones under any lighting conditions – a feature extensively demonstrated during the launch event.
The main camera is a 23mm f/1.8 unit with the same 50MP 1-inch Sony LYT900 used in last year’s Find Ultra. It’s the largest sensor used in a modern smartphone, and it’s some 63% bigger than the main camera in the iPhone 16 Pro Max, and 69% bigger than the 200MP main imager of the Galaxy S25 Ultra, per Oppo.
Then there are the two periscope zoom cameras, both improved from the previous gen. The short 3x has the same-size LYT700 1/1.56-inch 50MP sensor, but the lens is a 70mm (2.8x or 65mm on the old one) unit with a much brighter f/2.1 lens (f/2.6 on the Find X7 Ultra). Per Oppo’s claims, the sensor is 105% larger than the one in the Xiaomi 15 Ultra’s 70mm zoom, and some 300% larger than the one in the Galaxy S25 Ultra’s 67mm.
The 6x 135mm telephoto zoom now has a larger 1/1.95-inch LYT600 sensor (1/2.51-inch on the Find X7 Ultra) with a significantly brighter f/3.1 (vs f/4.3) lens.
The ultrawide sounds inferior, though – it’s a 15mm f/2.0 lens and a 1/2.75-inch Samsung JN5 sensor; the previous model had a 14mm f/2.0 camera with a larger 1/1.95-inch sensor. Finally, upfront is the same 21mm f/2.4 autofocusing ultrawide camera with the LYT506 1/2.74-inch sensor.
Behind the scenes, Oppo’s next-gen HyperTone Image Engine improves the computational abilities and, in turn, performance under demanding light. There’s AI tone mapping for better depth and detail (Oppo says particularly in backlit scenes), and the ProXDR engine enhances brightness and color information (Oppo claims a 4x increase in data richness).
Thus, Oppo says you’re getting the “Holy Trinity” of lenses in your pocket. But it doesn’t end with photography, the Find X8 Ultra doubles the slow-mo capabilities with 4k 120fps, and it’s now Dolby Vision to boot.
The Oppo Find X8 Ultra is shaping up to be a monster of a smartphone. Sadly, it’s unlikely to ever make it out of China.
