TechPhonesAndroid PhonesMove over Apple and Samsung, Oppo just made one of the best-ever phone camerasThe Find X7 Ultra features four 50MP cameras that promise stellar photographic capabilities – except you can’t buy oneWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesAndroid PhonesMove over Apple and Samsung, Oppo just made one of the best-ever phone camerasThe Find X7 Ultra features four 50MP cameras that promise stellar photographic capabilities – except you can’t buy oneWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
The Find X7 Ultra features four 50MP cameras that promise stellar photographic capabilities – except you can’t buy one
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(Image credit: Oppo)
(Image credit: Oppo)
When it comes tothe best phonesthere are lots of amazing options out there: theApple iPhone 15 Pro Maxis stupendous, whilethe best Android phoneoptions are split between theSamsung Galaxy S23 UltraandGoogle Pixel 8 Proin my opinion. All of which deliver stellar cameras with standout computational photography capabilities that I love using.
But now there’s a new player in town that’s caught my attention: Oppo just officially revealed the new Find X7 Ultra (it was already known about late last year), which comes replete with a quad camera system, all of which are large-scale 50-megapixel sensors that encompass a massive focal range with support from Hasselblad. Colour me impressed.
The Find X7 Ultra is the world’s first camera phone to include two periscope zoom lenses. And it has probably just won the phone-camera crown. Except, there’s a problem: you and I won’t ever be able to buy one. Why? Because Oppo “has no concrete plans” to release this new flagship-of-flagships outside of its native China (just as was the case with the Find X6 Pro). Which, to me, seems like a loss for allAndroidand photography enthusiasts the world over (it also adds further fuel to theOppo pulling out of international markets rumour).
Oppo Find X7 Ultra: Cameras key features
But just because you can’t buy one doesn’t stop the Find X7 Ultra from beingexciting. Just like most of us can’t buy a Ferrari, sometimes the appeal is in looking and dreaming, right? And this new Oppo – which I am due a sample of, so can experiment using – does have a camera line-up, which I’ve outlined above, that’s very impressive indeed.
The main sensor is the cream of the crop, as it’sSony’s second-gen 1-inch sensor, which is frankly just massive. I’m talking around 60% larger than the main sensor in theiPhone15 Pro Max. And while that doesn’t instantly translate to ‘better’, Oppo’s picture-handling and work with Hasselblad has in the past already proven itself to be impressive.
Why does a large sensor matter anyway? The bigger the surface, the more pronounced the depth of field’s potential, that being the blurred background and foreground around a subject. Furthermore each ‘pixel’ on the sensor’s surface can capture ‘more light’ than an equivalent smaller sensor, which means more raw product to work with and, therefore, a cleaner source signal for a cleaner end result. It just provides more for the system to work with.
It’s no only the main camera that impresses though: the Find X7 Ultra’s mixture of large sensors are all a step bigger than iPhone 15 Pro Max or Galaxy S23 Ultra in their closest forms. I think that’ll translate well, especially as theSamsungphone in particular doesn’t deliver the best super-zoomed image results. That makes this a rival to take note of (well, if you’re based in China anyway).
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Oppo Find X7: Impressive spec
Outside of the cameras there’s plenty about the Find X7 Ultra that excites. The screen, which measures 6.82-inch across the diagonal, is a direct competitor for the 6.8-inch panel found in theSamsung GalaxyS23 Ultra. Only in the Oppo it’s maintained a more curved edge, which I think looks more special – even if it could introduce in-use practical issues.
Visually speaking the X7 Ultra’s mix of textures and glass rear, with that massive camera area, is distinctive. The Ocean Blue is my favourite of the lot for being that little more interesting than many current phones' colour options. I look forward to getting one in my hand to see how it translates in the real world.
Then, of course, there’s the flagship power. Oppo has opted forQualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3platform, the excitement-inducing chipset for 2024, complete with up to 16GB RAM that’ll clearly be handy when handling so many high-resolution images through the image pipeline. There’s a large capacity battery to support that level of power, too, plus super-fast SuperVOOC charging that can refuel to full in just half and hour.
So there we have it: 2024’s potentially best camera-phone is a flagship Android handset that you won’t be able to buy. But you should certainly ogle the Oppo Find X7 Ultra nonetheless, and bothAppleand Samsung should take note of what the competition can offer – because some of these features are major wins that we can only hope will help advance what comes next.
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