Oppo Find X9 Pro review: I Think I’m In Love

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Skilled’s Ranking

Execs

• Phenomenal cameras
• Gigantic battery
• Wonderful efficiency and software program
• One of many nicest screens round
• Superior equipment

Cons

• Not accessible within the US
• Solely 5 years of Android OS updates

Our Verdict

The Oppo Discover X9 Professional is likely to be my favorite telephone of 2025. There are some fashions which are higher at particular duties, however as an all-rounder, nothing beats the X9 Professional. It has distinctive cameras, extraordinarily lengthy battery life, nice efficiency and superior software program with helpful AI additions. I simply find it irresistible.

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Following just a few years of absence, Oppo returned to the UK market with the Oppo Discover X8 Professional in late 2024. On the time, I stated it was most likely the perfect digicam telephone you could possibly purchase (excluding imports). Now, its successor has landed, with a recent design and upgrades throughout, and I couldn’t be extra excited.

This mannequin sports activities the newest Dimensity 9500 chip, a gargantuan 7500mAh battery, a brand new digicam system (together with a 200Mp telephoto), and a images equipment with an attachable telephoto extender. All indicators level in direction of it being top-of-the-line digicam telephones of the 12 months.

I’ve truly had this telephone for nearly a month, and I’ve been utilizing it as my main handset the vast majority of the time. I’ve examined completely all the pieces and flown world wide with it in my pocket, too. After spending a lot time with it, I’ve acquired loads of ideas, so let’s dive in.

Design & Construct

• New iPhone-like design
• Aluminium body, glass again
• 224g, IP69 rated

With the Discover X9 collection, Oppo has modified issues up. We’ve seen giant centrally positioned digicam modules for the previous few generations, however now, Oppo is reverting to the basic iPhone-esque upper-left nook digicam array.

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After I first noticed the brand new design, I wasn’t too eager. It appears to be like superb, however I simply couldn’t assist feeling that this was a step backwards. In comparison with the previous few designs, this one appears to be like relatively nameless.

Nonetheless, as soon as I acquired my arms on it, I rapidly modified my tune. It appears to be like and feels extremely premium, rather more so than the X8 Professional, which, regardless of being constituted of aluminium and glass, has a slight plasticky really feel to it. This mannequin is chilly, dense {and professional}.

The Discover X9 Professional has adopted a completely flat design with boxy facet rails, once more, very very similar to an iPhone. This often makes telephones really feel bigger within the hand, however holding it side-by-side with its predecessor, the brand new mannequin feels surprisingly compact.

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Just like the earlier technology, the Oppo Discover X9 Professional sports activities a Fast Button, which is actually Oppo’s clone of Apple’s Digicam Management, and it’s positioned in the identical spot. This one’s been reengineered to detect swipes as small as 0.3mm, however in any other case it really works in the identical means. A double press will open the digicam app, swiping can zoom out and in, and clicking will take a photograph.

The basic notification slider has been changed on this mannequin, and now you get a customisable button that Oppo calls the Snap Key. Once more, the Apple affect is apparent to see; it’s like a 1-to-1 copy of the Motion Button. That stated, I really like the Motion Button, and Oppo’s model is simply as helpful.

It’s accessible in two colourways, both Titanium Charcoal or Silk White, and I’ve the previous in for testing. Each are very minimalist {and professional}. I like the best way they appear, however they don’t make a lot of a press release in comparison with one thing just like the orange iPhone 17 Professional. Relying in your tastes, that could possibly be a superb or a nasty factor.

Each the rear and sides have a matte end, and also you’ll by no means have to fret about fingerprint smudges, as a result of this panel appears to be immune. 

Oppo hasn’t talked about what glass it’s utilizing on the show, however there’s a factory-applied display protector included, and it’s of fantastic high quality. I’m a little bit of a display protector hater. I often rip them off on the first alternative, both as a result of they smudge too simply, appeal to mud, or simply really feel a little bit cheesy. This one, although, didn’t trouble me in any respect, and I’m nonetheless utilizing it after weeks. 

The telephone is IP68/69 rated for water and dirt resistance, so it ought to deal with the weather with ease. Nonetheless, there’s no case included within the field (uncommon for Oppo), so that you’ll doubtless wish to choose one as much as preserve your telephone wanting pristine.

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In case you choose up an official case, most have MagSafe-compatible magnets in-built, which is admittedly helpful. Utilizing this telephone with a MagSafe holder in my automobile made me respect the design change extra. The smaller digicam bump means the magnets might be rather more central, and so equipment like that work higher than they do with my Discover X8 Extremely.

Hasselblad teleconverter equipment

• Aramid-fibre case with magnets
• Fast-release lens attachment
• 3.28x teleconverter lens (9.8x in use)

Vivo noticed numerous success earlier this 12 months with its non-compulsory Zeiss teleconverter add-on for the X200 Extremely, and it doubled down with the brand new X300 collection telephones. Now, Oppo is getting in on the motion with a teleconverter of its personal.

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This one, as you may count on, has a Hasselblad brand on it, however in any other case it appears to be like rather a lot like Vivo’s one, and capabilities in principally the identical means.

The equipment comes with a really good slim-line aramid fibre case, full with MagSafe-compatible magnets. It appears to be like and feels nearly equivalent to a high-end case from a model like Pitaka. It’s an enormous enchancment on Vivo’s plasticky and chunky images equipment case.

The teleconverter lens attaches through a small bayonet mount on a plate, which slides over the digicam module and clicks into place. It blocks all lenses apart from the telephoto when it’s connected, but it surely slides on and off fairly simply, so it’s not too inconvenient to take away and reattach as and when it’s wanted.

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The lens itself feels extraordinarily premium. It’s constituted of steel with glass lenses, and it has some heft to it. It supplies a 3.28x magnification, so whenever you place it in entrance of the 3x telephoto, you get a shot equal to only beneath 10x zoom.

It feels a bit loopy taking pictures with such a big lens protruding of your telephone, and I believe that stood out to me extra as I wasn’t despatched a grip to counterbalance it. Early teaser photos present that some form of grip accent does exist, however whether or not that launches internationally or not stays to be seen.

To make use of the lens, you must go into the devoted “Hasselblad Teleconverter” mode within the digicam app, as in any other case the picture might be the other way up. It’s similar to the X200 Extremely’s setup, whereby your choices are barely extra restricted utilizing the exterior lens.

Video maxes out at 4K 60fps, relatively than 4K 120fps, and there aren’t any professional choices or Log recording. When taking pictures pictures, you get some fundamental choices like stage mode and movie model choices, however there aren’t any handbook controls, and you’ll’t shoot in RAW or on the full 200Mp decision.

To be truthful, this was what I anticipated. However after taking the Vivo X300 Professional for a spin, which lets you entry primarily each a part of the digicam app with the teleconverter connected, this looks like a step backwards. In fact, there’s each chance that Oppo will increase the performance through software program updates.

Display & Audio system

• 6.78-inch, 1272 x 2772, LTPO OLED, 120Hz
• 1-3600 nits, 2160Hz PWM dimming
• Stereo audio system

The display on the Oppo Discover X9 Professional is well amongst my favourites. It’s now a spacious 6.78-inch totally flat show, with an extremely slim symmetrical bezel. So far as I’m conscious, this is likely to be the slimmest bezel of any smartphone to date, measuring simply 1.15mm on all sides.

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It makes the telephone really feel extraordinarily refined, and implies that you get most display dimension with a minimal bodily footprint.

The show can dim all the best way all the way down to 1 nit, so you possibly can scroll socials in mattress with out disturbing your companion. And in the event you’re fearful about eye pressure, you needn’t be, as this panel boasts 2160Hz high-frequency PWM dimming.

On the opposite finish of the size, the display can increase to 3600 nits to compete with vivid daylight, however Oppo measures its output in a different way than another manufacturers, so it’s brighter than it might sound. In any case, I definitely by no means had bother seeing it outdoor.

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It’s a 10-bit show that covers 100% of the DCI-P3 color area, and it’s licensed to playback Dolby Imaginative and prescient, HDR10+ and HDR Vivid content material. This implies TV reveals and films out of your favorite streaming apps at all times look as they had been meant.

Relating to audio, the telephone has twin stereo audio system. One fires from the bottom of the telephone subsequent to the USB-C charging port, and the opposite doubles up because the telephone’s earpiece. 

They’re a really respectable set of audio system, providing each readability on the high finish and a full, weighty bass response. My solely grievance is that they’re not the loudest round, however on the plus facet, they don’t distort or sound too harsh at most quantity.

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Specs & Efficiency

• MediaTek Dimensity 9500
• 16GB RAM
• 512GB storage

The Oppo Discover X9 Professional is likely one of the first telephones (alongside the Vivo X300 collection) to function MediaTek’s newest flagship chip, the Dimensity 9500. Supposedly, it’s round 30% sooner than the previous-gen in CPU and GPU workloads, and round 42% extra energy environment friendly.

Briefly, the brand new chip is a rocket. I demand rather a lot from my telephones, whether or not it’s enjoying Wuthering Waves on most settings, enhancing movies or critical multitasking. The Dimensity 9500 simply stored tempo all through.

I acquired some bizarre outcomes from the GFXBench suite (which occurs on occasion), however the telephone posted a formidable 3DMark Wildlife Excessive rating of 7062, handily outperforming the Galaxy S25 Extremely, with its particular overclocked Snapdragon 8 Elite chip.

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The larger query, although, is the way it compares to the recent new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. We haven’t correctly examined a manufacturing mannequin but, and there’s each probability it could possibly be faster. In actuality, although, I believe you’ll wrestle to search out one thing you possibly can’t run at most settings on this telephone – who actually wants greater than that?

Sustained efficiency is respectable, however the telephone will throttle considerably in the event you’re pushing the boundaries for prolonged intervals. On the plus facet, the telephone by no means will get too sizzling, so you possibly can sport for a very long time with out uncomfortably sweaty palms.

Just one mannequin is launching internationally, which comes with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. It’s greater than sufficient for my wants, and I dare say many others will really feel the identical means.

Oppo Discover X9 Professional benchmarks

Cameras

• 50 Mp f/1.5 principal digicam (1/1.28-inch)
• 200 Mp f/2.1 3x telephoto (1/1.56-inch)
• 50 Mp, f/2.0 ultrawide (1/2.75-inch)
• 50 Mp, f/2.0 selfie digicam, AF

The Oppo Discover X9 Professional takes a unique method to its predecessor. Reasonably than having two separate telephoto lenses, it opts for a extra widespread three-lens array. There’s now solely a singular 3x telephoto, but it surely has an enormous 200Mp decision and a big 1/1.56-inch sensor.

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It’d sound like a downgrade, however in idea, the high-resolution sensor will make up for the dearth of a 6x lens, as it could possibly use pixel-binning to seize high-quality, cropped-in photographs.

We’ve seen comparable from the likes of Vivo and Honor, which each use 200Mp telephoto sensors on their 2025 flagship telephones. They each persistently outperform the S25 Extremely for long-range zooms, too, regardless of the S25 Extremely having the quad-lens setup. So, this method has benefit.

As for the opposite sensors, there’s a 50Mp 1/1.28-inch principal with a super-wide f/1.5 aperture, and a 50Mp ultrawide with autofocus. Across the entrance, you get a 50Mp selfie snapper, which additionally has autofocus, making it good for group pictures.

One other massive change with the Oppo Discover X9 Professional is that it defaults to 50Mp decision at any time when the sunshine is enough. If it’s darker, the cameras will bin all the way down to a extra widespread 12Mp decision to let extra gentle in.

Apple modified the iPhone’s default decision to 24Mp a few years again, however most Android manufacturers have but to comply with go well with. Oppo has determined to only leapfrog the iPhone and shoot at over double the decision, and I respect it.

Total, I’ve been more than happy with my photographs from the Discover X9 Professional, whatever the lighting circumstances. The default picture profile offers you a really pure and true-to-life look, however that’s simply tweaked with the library of filters and enhancing choices, if you wish to give your pictures a little bit extra flavour.

I observed the color accuracy has been significantly improved on this mannequin, maybe due to the brand new devoted color sensor. The Discover X8 Professional and Extremely would each are inclined to favour cooler tones, however that wasn’t an issue with this mannequin in any respect.

Relating to zooming, the dearth of a 6x lens doesn’t appear to carry this telephone again in any respect. Oppo’s picture processing is excellent, and you’ll take pictures that stay considerably usable as much as round 30x. Pushing past that, you’ll have the choice to allow Oppo’s Generative AI to wash up the picture. It really works shockingly effectively, but it surely makes up particulars that aren’t there, and I’m not too eager on that, personally.

The non-compulsory teleconverter turns the 70mm equal telephoto lens into roughly a 230mm lens, and naturally, you possibly can zoom additional than that with a digital crop. It makes a giant distinction to the readability at 230mm, and it’s significantly better in low gentle at an equal focal size, because it makes use of the entire sensor relatively than cropping in.

As for whether or not it’s price utilizing, that depends upon your expectations. For long-range zooms, I didn’t discover the standard distinction too spectacular, and I felt the identical means in regards to the X300 Professional’s teleconverter. The processing on the built-in lens is so good that the distinction between the 2 is commonly fairly refined. It’s actually with nearer topics that this lens involves life.

Capturing middle-distance portraits, or semi close-ups, the pure compression of this exterior lens fully blurs the background, and provides photos a way more 3D look. It’s onerous to consider pictures like that come from a telephone, and I completely find it irresistible. I had a good time utilizing it for wildlife and candid road snaps.

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Video taking pictures on this telephone is great, too. You get some critically professional-level options right here, together with the flexibility to shoot at 4K 120fps in 10-bit Log or Dolby Imaginative and prescient with each the primary and telephoto cameras. In any other case, the stabilisation is stable, and the readability is excellent. It could possibly be an awesome companion for content material creators.

Battery Life & Charging

• 7500mAh battery
• 80W wired charging
• 50W wi-fi charging

The Oppo Discover X9 Professional comes with a big 7500mAh silicon-carbon battery, the most important of any telephone I’ve examined to date, and double the capability of the bottom iPhone 17. Bucking latest developments, you’ll get this similar huge battery, regardless of the place you reside, too.

Maybe unsurprisingly, the battery life is phenomenal. I used the X9 Professional as my principal gadget for per week in Shanghai, which was an absolute torture check, and it surpassed my expectations time and again. I carried my energy financial institution with me all week, and I by no means wanted it.

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To present a little bit extra context, I used to be continually utilizing the telephone for navigation and ride-hailing, utilizing it as my main fee technique, translating all the pieces with Google Lens and taking a great deal of pictures and movies. Even nonetheless, I’d get to the top of a really lengthy day with 30-40% left within the tank.

In additional regular circumstances, once I’m working at my desk, two days on a cost is well achievable, and I typically get into a 3rd day.

You may assume that such an enormous battery will take ages to cost, however fortunately, that’s not the case. With an official 80W Oppo charger (sadly not included), you possibly can go from totally flat to 50% charged in simply half an hour. Wi-fi charging is speedy, too, supporting as much as 50W speeds with Oppo’s AirVooc adapter.

Software program & Apps

• ColorOS 16, based mostly on Android 16
• Apple-inspired design and options
• AI options that you just’ll truly use

ColorOS has grown to grow to be certainly one of my favorite Android skins in the previous few years, and this newest iteration appears to be like to be the perfect but. It has obtained a fairly vital overhaul, and as with numerous issues on this telephone, the Apple affect couldn’t be extra apparent.

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There’s new Liquid Glass-like styling, cut up notifications and fast settings shades, upgraded lockscreen choices and a Dynamic Island clone. If Apple has it, there’s a superb probability Oppo has its personal model. I’m positive this can rub some Android purists the unsuitable means, however personally, I’m a fan. Apple does some neat issues with its software program, and in the event that they work, why not have them on an Android telephone too?

The Apple-like shenanigans don’t cease there, both. Oppo has been onerous at work making certain that the Discover X9 collection telephones work with the Apple ecosystem higher than most rivals. In case you use a MacBook, you should use Oppo’s O+ Join app to wirelessly join and remotely management one gadget from the opposite. It’s also possible to share a clipboard, drag and drop recordsdata, and extra. I’ve solely examined this briefly, but it surely appears to work as marketed, and it’s actually helpful.

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The Oppo Discover X9 also can share recordsdata to an iPhone with Contact to Share, and it’ll even pair with an Apple Watch, as long as it was initially activated with an iPhone. In case you’re considering of constructing the bounce from iOS to Android, this telephone could possibly be an ideal match.

As well as, Oppo has been engaged on the smoothness of the OS, and it reveals. The animations have been reworked, and the brand new Luminious Rendering Engine permits for simultaneous rendering of a number of animations and results. The result’s a house display that feels extremely fast, regardless of what number of belongings you’re doing directly.

Oppo’s AI options had been already my favorite, primarily as a result of AI Communicate function, which can learn webpages and articles to you in a really natural-sounding voice, so that you’re free to multitask. In fact, all the same old stuff is included, like superior picture enhancing instruments, translation, transcription, writing help, and extra. There’s additionally Gemini and Circle to Search, as you’d count on.

What’s new, although, is one thing referred to as AI Thoughts House. That is principally Oppo’s reply to Nothing’s Important House, or the Pixel Screenshots app. You may activate it with the brand new Snap Key, or swipe up with three fingers to take a screenshot that’s saved into the brand new Thoughts House.

Then, your screenshots might be searchable, and you’ll ask questions on them with the built-in LLM (Massive Language Mannequin). It understands the context of photos, so if there’s a date, for instance, it could possibly provide so as to add it to your calendar.

It’s a helpful function, however as I discovered with the Pixel and Nothing variations, the dearth of cross compatibility prevents me from counting on it. If there have been an internet interface the place I may see these screenshots, I’d be rather more inclined, however as somebody who switches telephones nearly each week, this simply doesn’t match my life-style.

One space the place this telephone lags behind barely is with the software program replace coverage. Similar to the Discover X8 collection, Oppo is promising 5 years of OS upgrades and 6 years of safety patches. It’s not a nasty providing, but it surely’s much less spectacular than the seven years of each that you just get from the likes of Samsung, Google and Honor flagships.

Value & Availability

Oppo says the Discover X9 collection is its largest international launch ever, which incorporates the UK and most areas in Europe. Sadly, the US gained’t get a glance in, and with the present political happenings, I can’t think about that altering anytime quickly.

There’s just one configuration accessible for the worldwide market, which comes with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. It’ll value you £1099 within the UK and €1299 in Europe, comfortably undercutting the Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely and iPhone 17 Professional Max – a formidable feat contemplating the specs on provide right here. See extra alternate options in our information to the perfect telephones you should buy.

The Discover X9 Professional is on the market to order now, both immediately from Oppo, or by an authorised reseller. Whether or not you’ll be capable of discover this telephone as contract deal stays to be see, so for now, we’d advocate trying out our information to the perfect SIM-only offers.

Must you purchase the Oppo Discover X9 Professional?

The Oppo Discover X9 Professional is well certainly one of my favorite telephones of 2025 (and I’ve tried most of them). There’s not one space the place this telephone falls brief. The battery life is excellent, the efficiency is top-notch, the software program is slick, and the cameras are beautiful. Plus, there’s the superb telephoto extender equipment, which provides an additional degree of versatility for eager photographers.

The one actual downsides are the dearth of availability within the US and the shorter software program help phrases than among the competitors. In case you’re on the fence and may afford the Discover X9 Professional, simply get it. This telephone won’t disappoint.

As for whether or not that is the perfect digicam telephone accessible, that’s a more durable query. I’m fairly comfy saying it’s the perfect mannequin at present bought within the UK, however globally, the Vivo X300 Professional is a sizzling contender, as is Oppo’s personal Discover X8 Extremely. In any case, you possibly can count on some beautiful photographs, and that’s what it’s all about.

Specs

• ColorOS 16, based mostly on Android 16
• 6.78-inch, 1272 x 2772, LTPO OLED, 120Hz
• Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor
• MediaTek Dimensity 9500
• 16GB RAM
• 512GB storage
• Cameras:
• 50Mp principal sensor
• 50Mp ultrawide
• 200Mp 3x telephoto
• 50Mp selfie digicam
• As much as 4K @ 120fps rear video
• Stereo audio system
• Twin-SIM + eSIM
• Wi-Fi 7
• Bluetooth 6.0
• 7500mAh battery
• 66W wired charging
• 50W wi-fi charging
• 161.26×76.46×8.25mm
• IP68/69 licensed
• 224g
• Colors: Titanium Charcoal, Silk White