Introduction
OPPO held a launch event today (6-March) to unveil its brand-spanking-new flagship smartphones - the Find X2 and Find X2 Pro. The Chinese smartphone manufacturer also announced the OPPO Watch alongside these devices. The Find X2 series comes with punch-hole displays with support for a 120Hz refresh rate. The Snapdragon 865 SoC powers the Find X2 and Find X2 Pro phones, and they are equipped with 65W fast charging technology. The Find X2 series promises stellar photography experience through its 48-megapixel triple cameras. Moreover, the Find X2 Pro arrives in premium leather and ceramic offerings. The Find X2 Pro is coming to Australia and is set to cost AU$1,599. The Find X2 isn't confirmed for Australia, but it will be coming to the UK, and the price is set at €899. As for the European markets, the Find X2 has landed in Europe with a price tag of 999 euros ($1,131). It can be bought in black and blue colors. On the other hand, the Find X2 Pro costs 1,199 euros ($1,357). The leather model of the Find X2 Pro arrives in orange color. Its ceramic edition can be availed in black. Oppo also unveiled a special limited edition OPPO Find X2 Pro Lamborghini Customized Edition that comes with 12GB RAM and 512GB onboard storage. The Find X2 Pro Lamborghini edition will go on sale on March 24 with a hefty price tag of 12,999 yuan ($1,876).
Oppo Find X2 and Find X2 Pro design and display
The Oppo Find X2 is an IP54 rated splash-proof smartphone with Gorilla Glass 6 protection on its rear. Apart from the IP54 rating, the Find X2 Pro is also an IP65 certified dustproof smartphone. It comes in leather and ceramic versions. The Pro variant weighs 200 grams and has 165.2 x 74.8 x 8.8mm dimensions. The leather model weighs 207 grams and 165.2 x 74.8 x 9.5mm. Both phones are equipped with standard connectivity features like 5G support, dual SIM, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, GPS, and USB-C. They lack support for 3.5mm headphone jack and microSD card slot. The Oppo Find X2 measures 164.9 x 74.5 x 8 mm dimensions, and its weight is 196 Grams. Both phones have two speakers: one on the bottom side and another in the top bezel. Speaking of audio, there’s no 3.5mm headphone jack to be found anywhere on this device, so you’ll have to either use a 3.5mm to USB-Type C adapter, a Type-C audio accessory, or a Bluetooth audio accessory. There is an under-display fingerprint sensor for the biometric security option.
The punch-hole Super AMOLED display of the OPPO Find X2 and Find X2 Pro measure 6.7 inches in size. The 1080 x 3168 pixels quad HD+ resolution supporting screen delivers a high aspect ratio of 21:9 and is integrated with a fingerprint sensor. The HDR10+ complaint Find X2 and X2 Pro support up to 120Hz refresh rate. OPPO is also employing a display chip that allows for SDR to HDR video conversion, motion interpolation to smoothen videos, and Ambient EQ-like automatic white balance adjustment. It can also upscale video content of any quality to 60fps or 120fps, and it can convert SDR to HDR. The front panels on both phones are protected by Gorilla Glass 6. As the company has promised, both handsets provide a 90.9 percent screen-to-body ratio at 513 PPI density. Find X2 series has 240Hz touch sensing capability, 800 nits maximum brightness, and 0.8 JNCD color accuracy. The displays of both phones are gorgeous to look at in its Vivid screen color mode. Natural Tone Display - this is OPPO’s name for automatic white balance adjustment based on ambient lighting. Unlike the Pixel 4, the white balance adjustment range on the OPPO Find X2 series seems to be much greater. The 120Hz refresh rate makes for a super smooth experience when it works. You’ll notice it immediately when scrolling through the settings app, the launcher, and most applications.
Oppo Find X2 and Find X2 Pro cameras
Back in December during the OPPO Innovation Day event, OPPO stated us the Find X2 will feature Sony’s new 2×2 On-Chip Lens Solution, which we now know to be the Sony IMX689 image sensor. This image sensor is capable of “all Pixel Omni-directional PDAF,” which Sony states improve the overall focus performance. In addition, this 48MP image sensor is large at 1/1.43″ with a single-pixel size of 1.12µm pre-pixel binning and 2.24μm post-pixel binning into 12MP images. That means we can expect better light sensitivity in low-lighting conditions as well as improved auto-focus from this new camera. Let’s talk about both phone cameras: the vertically shaped triple camera system on the back panel of the Find X2 has the new 1/1.43” Sony IM586 48-megapixel primary sensor coupled with 2×2 OCL technology from Sony for accurate and fast focusing. It is combined with the new 12-megapixel Sony IMX708 ultrawide video camera (16:9 aspect ratio) and a telephoto lens of 13-megapixel, which enables support for 20x digital zoom, 5x hybrid zoom, and 3x optical zoom.
On the other hand, the rear-mounted triple camera setup of the OPPO Find X2 Pro has an OIS assisted custom-made 48-megapixel Sony IMX689 with a 1/1.43 sensor size, a 120-degree 48-megapixel Sony IMX586 ultrawide lens (can work as a macro lens with 3cm focal length) and an OIS enabled periscope zoom lens. The latter allows Find X2 Pro’s user to capture images with 60x digital zoom, 10x hybrid zoom, and 5x optical zoom. The OPPO Find X2 series comes with Ultra Video Steady Pro, and Ultra Night Mode. For the selfie experience, both devices fitted with a 32-megapixel Sony IMX616 front-facing camera. You can record 4k videos as well as Full HD videos at 30/60fps by using both smartphones. Front-facing 32MP sensors with f/2.4 aperture can record only Full HD videos at 30fps. The OPPO Find X2 Pro takes great wide-angle shots that are as beautifully detailed and vibrant as shots from the primary camera. There’s also no visible distortion near the edges. The field-of-view isn’t as large as the Galaxy S20’s wide-angle camera, though the Find X2 Pro’s wide-angle camera can also be used to take macro shots. Macro photography with a wide-angle camera can help you take a neat photo or two for social media. Surprisingly, OPPO Find X2 Pro takes the No.1 Spot in DxOMark Camera tests with 124 points.
Oppo Find X2 and Find X2 Pro processor, battery and software
The Snapdragon 865 mobile platform, along with 12 GB of LPDDR5 RAM, powers the Find X2 duo. Both phones have UFS 3.0 storage. The Find X2 has 256 GB storage, whereas the Pro model has 512 GB of storage. There is an Adreno 650 GPU, and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Chipset is constructed on a 7nm+ Octa-core processor (1x2.84 GHz Kryo 585 & 3x2.42 GHz Kryo 585 & 4x1.8 GHz Kryo 585). The Find X2 Pro and Find X2 run the company's thoroughly customized ColorOS overlay, now in version 7.1, based on Android 10. Certain features that come with the latest OS release will help you know it's 10 and not Pie - like the system-wide dark mode and the more granular location permissions.
Other things are entirely Oppo's own. Gesture navigation, for one, may look like it's basically the same as is natively implemented in the latest Android, but ColorOS actually does it one better. Oppo points out it's opted for more subdued color saturation for system icons and menus, while the UI now offers a choice between three different iconography types. There's an excellent set of picturesque wallpapers preloaded too. The 65W SuperVOOC 2.0 technology can fast charger Find X2’s 4,200mAh battery and Find X2 Pro’s 4,260mAh battery in only 38 minutes. Unfortunately, the Find X2 series has no support for wireless charging. SuperVOOC 2.0 is OPPO’s latest charging tech that first arrived on the OPPO Reno Ace last year. It relies on the phone having a dual-cell battery so the charger can provide a high current without overheating them. Indeed, the charger can give a max 6.5A at 10V for 65W wired charging. Most of the heat is generated in the charging brick itself, so the smartphone won’t overheat from repeated charging cycles and lose its battery longevity for this reason.