Oppo has unveiled its 2021 flagship smartphone— the Find X3 Pro which comes in a sleek, powerful, and unusual design package. Oppo recently overtook Huawei to become number one in the Chinese smartphone market and seems it’s still on a winning streak.
The Find X3 Pro’s display is one of the major key features; it’s a 3216 x 1440 LTPO OLED panel with a peak brightness of 1,300 nits and a refresh rate of up to 120Hz coming close to the Galaxy S21 Ultra display specs. Oppo has also quickly come out to talk about its a 10-bit panel and that it’s integrated full-path color management into ColorOS; in lay-mans terms, this means that the photos and videos captured with the cameras can be displayed with more than a billion colors, as opposed to the 16.7 million colors on conventional smartphone screens. Unfortunately, this 10-bit color setting comes disabled by default to save on power consumption.
The camera system of the Find X3 Pro has striking resemblances with the iPhone 12 Pro Max itself. Both the main and wide-angle cameras are with 50-megapixel 1/1.56-inch Sony IMX766 sensors, meaning the image quality should be comparable across both.
There’s also a 3-megapixel microlens, which shouldn’t be mistaken for the useless macro cameras found in most Chinese phones today. Oppo claims that the Find X3 Pro can go up to 60x magnification.
What is missing on the cameras is a periscope zoom lens, even though Oppo did more than anyone to popularize the technology in their previous flagships. There is a telephoto lens here, but it’s just a 13-megapixel sensor with a 2x optical zoom over the primary camera. There is no doubt that the Find X3 Pro won’t have anywhere near as much zoom reach as its 5x-telephoto-equipped predecessor in the X2 Pro.
The Find X3 Pro has typically flagship-tier internals: the latest fast Snapdragon 888 processor, 12GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. The 4,500mAh battery can be fast-charged at up to 65W, and Oppo has finally embraced wireless charging on the Find X3 Pro with a 30W system that can fully charge the phone in 80 minutes.
