Oppo Find X10 review: Two-minute review

I’ve been using a selection of Oppo phones as my daily drivers for the last two years, and in that time, I’ve always gravitated towards the higher end of the lineup. I’ve stood by my habit of choosing the ‘pro’ option where possible for several reasons — such as wanting a high-quality camera system, long battery life, a great screen, and powerful internals — but Oppo’s new baseline flagship throws that all into question.

Put simply, the Oppo Find X10 feels like a ‘pro’ phone. It blazes through multitasking, gaming, and productivity tasks. It lasts for ages thanks to an iPad-sized battery. Its three rear cameras are some of the clearest and sharpest I’ve used on a smartphone. And its mid-sized display feels bigger than it is thanks to razor-thin bezels and a super-sharp resolution.

However, the Oppo Find X10 also comes with a pro-grade price tag. While last year’s Oppo Find X9 launched at £899 / AU$1,799 (it wasn't available in the US), the Find X10 hikes that number up to £1,099 (AU$ TBC) — the same price as the Oppo Find X9 Pro.

Really, then, it makes more sense to see the Find X10 as the successor to the Find X9 Pro. This year’s actual step-up model, the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max, is in a different class altogether, with three 200MP cameras and a ludicrous £1,499 launch price.

Still, as you might expect from such an expensive handset, the Oppo Find X10 punches above its weight class as a standard flagship. Though we’ve seen other Android manufacturers like Samsung and Google release phones with triple-camera systems and fast internal components, Oppo’s latest offering has some seriously impressive specs up its sleeve, and it's a strong contender for future inclusion in TechRadar's best Android phone and best camera phone guides.

As well as the aforementioned battery — a monstrously huge 7,150mAh cell (or an even bigger 8,000mAh cell in APAC regions) — the phone comes locked and loaded with two 200MP camera sensors, one of the cleanest Android wrappers in the game, and a thin and light design that takes more than a little inspiration from Apple.

Indeed, the Find X10 makes it clearer than ever that Oppo has no plans of slowing its roll when it comes to taking, ahem, inspiration from the design and engineering teams over in Cupertino. I'll leave you to decide whether that's a help or a hindrance; the phone itself works marvelously, but it’s hardly the most original product on the market. With that said, if you’re someone who absolutely must use Android, but like the look and feel of the best iPhones, the Find X10 is about as close as you can get while keeping a hold of Google’s mobile OS.

Across the industry, phones aren’t getting any cheaper — the standard iPhone 17 is approaching the launch price of the iPhone 15 Pro, and Android phone makers are jacking prices across the board — and Oppo's latest flagships are no exception.

At £1,099, the Oppo Find X10 is very expensive for a supposed base-model flagship, but, to be real, this is a pro-level flagship in disguise. Thanks to its excellent cameras and solid performance, its standard-sounding name is not a facade that holds for long; a pro by any other name still feels as complete.

Oppo Find X10 Pro review: Price and availability

• Costs £1,099
• Comes in a single configuration with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage
• Not available in the US; Australia availability TBC

The Oppo Find X10 costs £1,099 — exactly the same as last year’s Find X9 Pro at launch and £200 more than the standard Find X9. That might sound like a mighty price hike at first, but the truth is that the Find X10 is more obviously a follow-up to the Find X9 Pro than the standard Find X9, and makes a case for its price point with some properly pro-grade features.

The Find X10 comes in one configuration: 12GB of RAM with 256GB of storage. That is, annoyingly, less RAM and storage space than last year’s Find X9 Pro, which came with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. But with rising prices across the industry and still-excellent performance (as I'll discuss below), the Find X10 is hardly the worst offender on the market when it comes to changes in value proposition.

If you buy the phone directly from Oppo, you get your choice of the Hasselblad Teleconverter Kit or Oppo Watch X3 at no extra cost. Personally, I’d recommend the teleconverter kit — I didn’t get to test it with the Find X10, but having used last year’s version with the Find X9 Pro, I’d recommend it for any keen mobile photographers.

One thing I do appreciate about Oppo is that everything you need to get started with your phone comes in the box. As well as the phone itself, my Find X10 review unit came with an 80W SuperVOOC charger and a color-matched silicone case. Considering how expensive high-power chargers can be, that’s a decent value-add.

• Value score: 3 / 5

Oppo Find X10 review: Specs

Check out the table below for a quick overview of the Oppo Find X10's specs, or keep scrolling for detailed breakdowns of each feature.

Oppo Find X10 review: Design

• Comes in three colors: Glacier Blue, Glow Coral, and Mist Grey
• The most iPhone-like Oppo phone yet
• Simple but elegant, with beautiful details

There’s no getting around the fact that the Oppo Find X10 looks like an iPhone 17 Pro (or indeed an iPhone 18 Pro). Its aluminum frame, glass rear panel, and raised camera plateau housing a trio of rear cameras make this the most iPhone-like Oppo phone ever released — somehow, it looks even more Apple-esque than last year’s Find X9 Pro, and given the brand’s history with taking inspiration from Cupertino, that’s really saying something.

However, despite its lack of originality, I am a fan of the Find X10’s design. In typical Oppo style, the phone feels both tanky and elegant. I wasn’t concerned about it taking knocks in my pocket or at the bottom of a backpack, but I also found myself stopping to appreciate the refinement and precision in its construction. Funnily enough, that familiar-looking camera plateau is perhaps the best example of Oppo's attention to detail; it rises from a rear panel made of a single piece of glass.

It helps, too, that the Find X10 comes with some protective kit in the box — you get a color-matched silicone case at no extra charge, and the phone comes with a glass screen protector pre-installed. The phone has also been separately rated at IP66, IP68, and IP69, meaning it can take a dip in shallow fresh water without any fuss (that’s a safety net, not an invitation).

My review unit came in the Glacier Blue colorway, which is rather nice, and the phone also comes in the stylishly loud Glow Coral (read: pink) and understated Mist Grey (read: grey) color options for those who want something more or less noticeable.

In the interface department, the Find X10 comes equipped with the standard power button and volume rocker as well as the Snap Key, Oppo’s take on Apple’s Action Button. By default, it’s set to activate Mind Space (more on that in the Software section), but I tend to set it as a camera shortcut or handy flashlight button.

The USB-C port uses a USB 3.2 Gen 1 connector, meaning file transfers zip by at a speedy 10 Gbps, and the main speaker alongside it is one of the best I’ve heard on any phone, with plenty of bass and depth to the sound.

• Design score: 4 / 5

Oppo Find X10 review: Display

• 6.59-inch screen
• 2768 x 1272 resolution
• 800 nits of typical brightness, peaking at 3,600 nits for HDR

I’m a large guy who likes large phones, and as such, I’ve spent the last few years daily driving the biggest phone I could get my oversized mitts on. With that said, I’ve found myself really enjoying the Find X10’s slightly smaller screen. 'Slightly' is the operative word here — at 6.59 diagonal inches, the phone isn’t much smaller than the 6.78-inch screen shared by the Find X10 Pro Max and last year’s Find X9 Pro, but it’s still a noticeable, and I dare say welcome, change.

Perhaps I shouldn’t be so surprised. Oppo has long proved itself as a maker of truly excellent displays, and the Find X10 is no different. With a resolution of 2768 x 1272 and pixel density of 460 pixels per inch, the screen on the Find X10 is even sharper than that of its bigger sibling, the Find X10 Pro Max. Oppo claims 800 nits of typical brightness, rising to 2,000 nits in high brightness mode and 3,600 nits peak for HDR content. In daily use, brightness wasn’t really a concern — the display was always legible and colorful, both indoors and outside, and with such a huge battery under the hood, I was content to let auto-brightness just do its thing.

The display also sports razor-thin bezels that measure a uniform 1.15mm around its entire edge. In practical use, they’re basically unnoticeable, which helps the slightly smaller display feel as immersive as a larger premium flagship. An adaptive 1-120Hz refresh rate keeps things feeling smooth in motion, while certain games can bump that figure up to 144Hz.

As usual, you get a choice of color profiles in the settings app — I like the ‘vivid’ look for its richer, poppier colors, though there are warmer, cooler, or more muted options to match other tastes. As is now typical for high-end phones, the Find X10's display uses an OLED panel to deliver deep blacks and excellent contrast, and I found it perfect for watching videos, playing games, and everyday browsing alike.

• Display score: 5 / 5

Oppo Find X10 review: Cameras

• 200MP main camera
• 200MP 2.8x telephoto camera
• 50MP ultra-wide camera
• 50MP selfie camera

The Find X10 makes its strongest case for a high price tag with its camera system.

With two 200MP sensors powering the main and telephoto cameras, respectively, as well as 50MP ultra-wide and selfie cameras, the Find X10 is a performant and reliable camera phone that excels at taking detailed snaps in a variety of lighting conditions.

I was impressed by just how sharp and colorful photos looked, and Oppo seems to have toned down the AI-flavored image signal processing common to its last generation of phones.

The name of the game here is consistency — no matter which lens you pick for your shot, Oppo’s hardware and software teams have clearly worked together to make the photography experience feel reliable, with similar colors, detail, and sharpness offered across the three cameras. The best synergy comes between the main and 2.8x telephoto cameras, both of which have a 200MP sensor at 1/1.4-inches and 1/1.56 inches, respectively. Both take excellent photos and offer superb detail in low light, and while neither can work miracles in pure darkness, the automatic long-exposure feature can garner impressive results.

The ultra-wide camera is smaller, with a 1/2.75-inch 50MP sensor, but it still performs well in bright situations, and serviceably in darker climes.

As standard, the Find X10 bins photos to 26MP JPEGs, but you also have the option to shoot JPEG-XL or RAW files at native resolution. The huge telephoto resolution means the Find X10 can take losslessly cropped 12MP photos at 12.4x zoom. The optional Hasselblad Teleconverter kit affixes a zoom lens to the telephoto camera, increasing the base zoom to 10x — alas, I didn’t get to test it with my review unit, but it’s worth mentioning that buying the phone from Oppo directly gives you the option of getting the kit or an Oppo Watch X3 at no extra cost.

I do, however, miss the Quick Button (Oppo’s version of the iPhone’s Camera Control) introduced with the Find X8 Pro and carried over to the Find X9 Pro. I appreciate that opinions on smartphone shutter buttons are mixed — I’ve got plenty of friends who never touch them, and TechRadar's Phones Editor, Axel Metz, has debated their value with me on more than one occasion — but I personally used the Quick Button almost every time I took a photo with the Find X9 Pro, and I loved swiping across it to access that high-quality telephoto lens.

That said, the Quick Button’s absence on the Find X10 isn’t a dealbreaker by any means, as the camera app is still one of the smoothest and best-featured I’ve used on any phone. The handset’s smaller frame also makes it easy to grab for quick snaps and videos.

Oppo Find X10 Camera Samples

• Camera score: 5 / 5

Oppo Find X10 review: Software

• Android 17 with ColorOS 17
• Fast and reliable, though thoroughly unoriginal
• Bloatware is infuriating at this price point

ColorOS 17, Oppo’s take on Android 17, remains one of my favorite Android wrappers; it’s fast, fluid, well animated, and aesthetically clean. It’s also a clear and shameless dupe of iOS 27, right down to the Control Center-esque menus and Liquid Glass-like transparency effects. If you’re a die-hard Android user who just happens to like the look and feel of Apple phones, it’s a genuinely fantastic option, but those who want something a little more original should look elsewhere.

Debates around originality aside, I can’t overstate how much I enjoy using ColorOS. Its UI strikes the best balance between fluidity and stability of any mobile OS I’ve used. Oppo continues to use parallel animation processing, which runs each UI animation as its own task independent of other on-screen motion, and makes getting to the apps and content you need to access effortlessly fast.

Finally, ColorOS knows when to stay out of the way and when to suggest useful features like Smart Sidebar, which adds a floating dock for apps and files. It’s an impressive bit of software.

Less impressive is Oppo’s continued insistence on shipping incredibly expensive phones loaded with bloatware. On setup, I found my Find X10 review unit stuffed with apps I don’t and won’t use — TEMU, ChatGPT, BIGO LIVE, and Booking.com, among others. It is fundamentally unacceptable to ship a phone at £1,099 while patronizing users by pre-installing this nonsense, and Oppo needs to cut it out immediately.

The Find X10 also offers a few neat features for AI fans. The Snap Key on the left side of the phone is set by default to trigger Mind Space, which is sort of like a self-organizing junk drawer for your digital bits and bobs. Screenshots, notes, and reminders all end up here, processed and categorized into a searchable database. And as an upper-tier Android, the Find X10 is absolutely riddled with Gemini and first-party Oppo AI features like Circle to Search, image generation tools, and audio transcription.

• Software score: 3 / 5

Oppo Find X10 review: Performance

• MediaTek 9600M chipset
• 12GB of RAM
• Fast and fluid in all scenarios

Looking only at benchmarks, the Oppo Find X10 is a reasonable performer that runs in the middle of the pack for its price range, neither lagging behind nor pulling ahead.

As a daily driver, though, I found the Find X10 to be a perfect performer in all kinds of everyday scenarios. I suspect Oppo has optimized the heck out of this thing, as I just couldn’t get it to slow down, no matter how many apps I left open or how high I cranked the graphics settings on Call of Duty: Mobile.

The Find X10 comes with a MediaTek 9600M chipset and 12GB of RAM, both of which are fine for a phone in this price point. The iPhone 18 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, respectively, have the A20 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Elite chipsets, which are a bit faster, and many of the best phones give you 16GB of RAM for smoother multitasking and on-device AI. But as mentioned, I couldn’t get the Find X10 to stutter in my varied usage, so I’m not really concerned.

I did run some benchmarks to see what the Find X10’s internal hardware is capable of. Geekbench 7 returned a single-core score of 2466 and a multi-core score of 7759, while Geekbench AI gave a quantized score of 3119. This is on track with previous- and current-gen flagships from Samsung and Apple, and a fair bit ahead of Google — but at this price point, power users might want a little more oomph.

Still, I was always happy with the Find X10 in daily use. It nails the basics, with clear calls and phenomenal haptics, while delivering enough power for all but the most demanding users.

• Performance score: 4 / 5

Oppo Find X10 review: Battery

• Battery capacity varies by region
• 8,000mAh in Asia-Pacific, 7150mAh in EU
• 80W wired charging
• 50W wireless charging

Oppo has long been a leader in the global phone market when it comes to battery life, and the Find X10 offers a serious upgrade over last year’s models… as long as you live in the Asia-Pacific region.

You see, the Find X10 comes in two regional variants: one for the aforementioned APAC region and one for the EU and the rest of the world. The former gets an 8,000mAh battery, up from the Find X9 Pro’s 7,500mAh cell, while the EU version sees a downgrade to 7,150mAh.

My review unit came with the larger 8,000mAh cell, so I can only speak to how well this version’s battery performs — and as you’d expect from a phone with a larger battery than a base-model iPad, it is truly excellent. I found it almost impossible to kill the Find X10 in a single day. I could easily get a day and a half or two days of use on a single full charge, and with cautious use, I reckon three days would be possible.

Again, I haven’t used the 7,150mAh version of the Find X10, but this is still larger than any battery an Apple, Samsung, or Google phone can offer, so expect great battery life at a minimum.

These fantastic results are due to Oppo’s use of silicon-carbon batteries, a technology the brand has long championed and continues to push forward. Silicon-carbon isn’t without its controversies, and some commentators doubt its long-term durability versus the typical lithium-ion batteries you’ll find in the best iPhones and many of the best Android phones — but for those who want all-day battery life with plenty of power to spare, the benefits are obvious.

When it comes to charging, the Find X10 benefits from Oppo’s proprietary SuperVOOC charging tech, with support for up to 80W wired charging or 50W wireless charging. The bundled wired charger hits that 80W mark, and charging is therefore relatively speedy; the sheer size of the Find X10’s battery means this isn’t the fastest-charging phone on the market, but its heft also means that a charge to 50% goes further than it would with Western competitors. It took me around 1:15h to charge from empty to full.

• Battery score: 5 / 5

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How I tested the Oppo Find X10

I used the Oppo Find X10 in a variety of everyday and test situations for this review. I used it as a daily driver for calls, texts, and social media, took it on dedicated photo walks, played games, and ran benchmarks to stress-test the CPU and AI abilities. I left as many apps open as I could to see how it held up to multitasking, and monitored battery life over the course of days and nights out.

I then applied my experience reviewing phones and journalistic training to provide an assessment of the phone's capabilities and value offering.

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First tested October 2026

Oppo Find X10 Pro Max: Two-minute review

The Oppo Find X9 Pro was my favorite phone of 2025, so of course, I had extremely high hopes for the X10 series. Interestingly, Oppo hasn't released an X10 Pro in 2026 — instead, there's just an Oppo Find X10 and an X10 Pro Max.

The Pro Max isn't larger than last year's Pro, but it is larger than the X10. If I had to hazard a guess as to why the name has changed, I reckon the RAM shortage-induced price hike might have something to do with it.

That aside, the Find X10 Pro Max does not disappoint. The star of the show is the new camera system, which now features three large 200MP sensors on the rear. The new model also gets a chip upgrade, a larger battery (in some regions), and a faster, professionally calibrated display.

After using this phone for about three weeks, I find myself with almost no complaints. It's super fast, the software is superb, battery life is excellent (I have the larger-capacity version), and the cameras are some of the best on the market.

Honestly, the Find X10 Pro Max's cameras are so impressive that there's a case to be made for picking up this device over a compact point-and-shoot or a vlogging camera. The fact that it's also a phone only sweetens the deal. As a content creator who likes to travel light, it's a dream come true.

What sets the X10 Pro Max's cameras apart is that you can use any lens in any situation without compromising quality. They all share the same 200MP resolution, and they're all at least 1/1.56-inch sensors, so they handle low-light conditions well. The same goes for video, where each lens can capture at up to 8K/30fps or 4K/120fps, and each supports open-gate capture, Log recording, and Dolby Vision. Even the selfie camera is impressive, offering a super-wide field-of-view and reliable autofocus.

Cameras aside, everything else about the Find X10 Pro Max is great, too. Its display is bright and speedy, its software is among the best around, and it games like a champ.

The only real sticking point is the price (spoiler: it's very, very expensive), but if you can stomach the cost, the Find X10 Pro Max is an extremely easy recommendation.

Oppo Find X10 Pro Max review: Price and availability

• £1,499 for 12GB + 512GB
• Introductory offers and bundles available
• Not sold in the US; Australia availability TBC

The globally available version of the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max only comes in one configuration: 12GB of RAM with 512GB of storage.

As ever, it won't launch in the US, but everywhere else, it'll cost you a pretty penny; the Find X10 Pro Max starts at an eye-watering £1,499 in the UK.

Of course, we have the component shortage going on, so a feature-packed flagship like this was never going to be cheap, and this is a higher price point than most were expecting. Still, the Find X9 Pro launched at £1,099 in the UK, so if you see the Find X10 Pro Max as its successor (which I do), that's a £400 price hike.

That said, the 512GB iPhone 18 Pro Max also costs £1,499, and the 512GB Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra costs even more. Meanwhile, the Find X10 Pro Max's spec sheet is in a completely different league, so perhaps this isn't such an outlandish sum after all.

If you're in the UK, there are some tempting introductory deals to help soften the blow. For a limited time, Oppo is offering £100 off the Find X10 Pro Max, plus you can grab a free accessory worth £500. Options include the Hasselblad Teleconverter kit, Oppo Watch X3, or Oppo Pad 5. Other regions will likely have similar offers.

• Value score: 3 / 5

Oppo Find X10 Pro Max: Specs

Here’s a look at the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max’s key specs:

Oppo Find X10 Pro Max review: Design

• Aluminum frame and glass back
• Titanium Grey and Lunar White options
• IP69 dust- and water-resistant

When I first saw the design of the Find X10 Pro Max, I wasn't quite convinced, but it has grown on me over time. It shares some DNA with the Find X9 series, but the camera bump has grown larger, and the lenses are now covered by a single dark pane of glass.

The Find X9 Pro was already a little iPhone-inspired, but that's perhaps even more noticeable with the Titanium Grey X10 Pro Max, which has a raised platform spanning most of the upper rear panel — just like the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro.

The Luna White model (which is the one I have) looks a little more unique. It has a two-tone rear panel, while the camera island and the module containing the flash and color sensor are completely separated, with no platform underneath.

It's a little quirky, but it's nothing too outlandish, and I've grown to like it a lot. Crucially, having the cameras shoved up in the corner (rather than being in a central circle like on the Vivo X500 Pro Max) means that this phone works really well with MagSafe accessories. And while we still don't get magnets built into the Find X10 Pro Max itself, almost all of Oppo's official cases come with magnets.

Oppo has ditched the somewhat controversial Camera Control clone, but it kept the Action Button (which Oppo calls the Snap Key). It's not a popular stance, but I actually quite liked the Camera Control, and I'll miss it, but I'm very aware that I'm in the minority there.

The Snap Key is great, too, but Oppo's implementation is on the basic side. It can be assigned to access a number of features, like the flashlight, translation, camera, and Mind Space, but you still can't choose your own app. There are also no options for double- or triple-press actions, as we've seen from some competitors.

Otherwise, the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max has the typical flagship look and feel. You get flat aluminum side rails, and a flat front and rear made from Oppo's own Crystal Guard Glass (co-developed with Corning). It's a sizable phone with a bit of heft to it, but I'm used to that, and I felt immediately at home when picking it up for the first time.

It's hard to speak much about the durability, as I haven't tortured my device much, but on paper, the Find X10 Pro Max should handle the elements well. It's IP69 rated for dust and water resistance, and it has an SGS Five Star Drop Resistance Certification, too.

The phone comes with a basic opaque white TPU case in the box, a factory-installed screen protector, a charger, and a USB-C Cable — although I expect the charger inclusion might differ from region to region.

• Design score: 4 / 5

Oppo Find X10 Pro Max review: Display

• 6.78-inch 120Hz LTPO OLED
• Can boost to 144Hz in some games
• 3,600 nits, 3,840Hz PWM

The display on the Find X10 Pro Max is nothing short of excellent. It has super-slim symmetrical bezels that measure just 1.15mm on each side. That's the same size as the bezels on the Find X9 Pro, but it's just as impressive to see such thinness the second time around.

What is new on the Find X10 Pro Max is the refresh rate. It can dynamically adjust between 1 and 144Hz as required. Oppo admits that only a few games will take advantage of the full 144Hz, like COD: Mobile, PUBG, and Free Fire, and you won't see such high refresh rates outside of those titles. Still, if you play those, it's a great perk.

As for brightness, it peaks at 3,600 nits, just like last year's model. In my experience, that's more than enough for just about any situation. What I find even more useful is the fact that it can dim down to 1nit for late-night scrolling without melting your eyeballs.

On the topic of eye health, the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max supports 3,840Hz high-frequency PWM dimming to prevent screen flicker at lower brightness levels. Above 70Hz, it'll switch to full DC dimming. If you're sensitive to flicker, you'll really appreciate this feature.

One thing that's pretty unique to the X10 Pro Max is that the screen is professionally calibrated and covers 95% of the BT.2020 wide color space — that's 40% more color coverage than most phone screens, which usually target DCI-P3 instead.

As a result, while the image might not look as vibrant or poppy as some competitors, you can be assured that the colors displayed are accurate. That makes a lot of sense on a content-creation powerhouse such as the Find X10 Pro Max, and I appreciate it.

• Display score: 5 / 5

Xiaomi 17T Pro review: Cameras

• 200MP f/1.5 main (1/1.3-inch)
• 200MP f/2.2 ultra-wide (1/1.56-inch)
• 200MP f/2.1 3x telephoto (1/1.56-inch)
• 50MP f/2 selfie camera (1/2.75-inch)

The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max takes a fresh, zero-compromise approach to the camera system. All three rear cameras have a 200MP resolution, and they all have large sensors, too.

Usually, you have a primary camera that's the best of the bunch, while the telephoto and ultra-wide come with compromises — I wouldn't recommend shooting low-light photos with most ultra-wide cameras, or with that tiny 3x telephoto on the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, for instance.

With the Find X10 Pro Max, you don't need to worry about compromises; just pick the right focal length for the scene and snap away. It reminds me of the Vivo X300 Ultra (which has even larger sensors on all three rear cameras), but even that beast makes a compromise with the ultra-wide's resolution.

The Find X10 Pro Max's selfie camera shares most of its specifications with that of last year's X9 Pro, but it has a wider field of view (similar to the ultra-wide on the back), so it's much better for group photos. Reliable autofocus helps in that regard, too. Of course, if you want a normal selfie, the camera UI lets you crop in to a standard FOV.

The Oppo Find X9 Ultra has been my favorite phone for photography since launch, and the Find X10 Pro Max shares a lot of the same DNA. The pro-focused Master Mode is what truly stole my heart, and thankfully, Oppo is extending that joy elsewhere.

The standard photo mode now uses the same tone mapping as Master Mode, and the sharpening and noise reduction have been dialled back a little, too. It's still a very different look to Master Mode — it's still sharpened much more heavily, and the HDR effect is more pronounced — but it's much more natural than before, and I think it's a change for the better.

The picture styles have been reworked on the Find X10 Pro Max, too. They're available in most modes, and they're all extremely customizable, with their own tone pad (like on the latest iPhones) as well as individual adjustment sliders. Primrose is my favorite, which simulates the look of Portra film stock, but there are plenty of other excellent options, too.

To summarize my experience with photography, the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max is unquestionably among the best camera phones, regardless of lighting conditions. The X9 Ultra is really the only phone that beats it. The Ultra still has the edge with long-range zoom and low-light capture, unless we're talking about the ultra-wide camera, in which case the Pro Max easily comes out on top.

Now, photography is only one part of the puzzle, because Oppo put a lot of effort into this phone's video capabilities, too. Again, consistency is the name of the game here.

All three rear lenses can shoot up to 8K/30fps or 4K/120fps, and they all support open-gate capture at up to 60fps. The same goes for Log recording and Dolby Vision. Just use whatever focal length feels right for the occasion, because they can all do everything.

The Find X10 Pro Max is a seriously capable video-making tool. Solid stabilization and microphone performance add to the appeal, too. If you make YouTube content using your phone, this device should definitely be on your shortlist.

If all that wasn't enough, Oppo also has an external (10x equivalent) teleconverter kit for the Find X10 Pro Max, so you can push the zoom even further, or use it on closer subjects for DSLR-like compression and bokeh. There's also a full-on video rig developed with Tilta, if you want to fully transform this phone into a video workhorse.

• Cameras score: 5 / 5

Oppo Find X10 Pro Max review: Camera samples

Oppo Find X10 Pro Max review: Performance

• MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro chipset
• 12GB RAM
• 512GB storage

The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max is powered by MediaTek's latest flagship chip, the Dimensity 9600 Pro. In most situations, it beats the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 on performance and efficiency, and it trades blows with the new 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, too.

For the globally released version, the Find X10 Pro Max only comes in one configuration: 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. That's less RAM than last year, and of course, we have the data centre-driven shortage to thank for that. Still, these capacities are more than sufficient for my needs — the Find X10 Pro Max never skipped a beat, even under heavy multitasking pressure.

It won't be surprising to hear that the Find X10 Pro Max feels incredibly quick, no matter what you ask of it. You have to boot up a seriously demanding game to get the phone to break a sweat.

For this purpose, I put a few hours into Neverness to Everness, which has a detailed urban open-world map that makes some phones chug. The Find X10 Pro Max, though, can run it at 60fps on the highest graphics preset without issue.

The phone's frame does get fairly hot after a while, but the performance seems steady enough. In reality, that just means the cooling system is doing its job, drawing heat away from the chip. If you use a case or a gaming grip, it won't bother you in the slightest.

Gamers will have a great time with the Find X10 Pro Max, and other phones are unlikely to come close to the performance limits of this hardware. It's great.

• Performance score: 4 / 5

Oppo Find X10 Pro Max review: Software

• ColorOS 17, based on Android 17
• Fresh design and new animations
• New Mind Space and AI features

The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max runs ColorOS 17, Oppo's take on Android 17. I have become a big fan of this operating system over the past couple of years, and it's a big part of the reason that I daily-drive an Oppo phone.

The latest version doesn't stray too far from the winning formula, but it has been spruced up a bit. The animations have been refined with some extra elasticity that makes interactions feel even more natural. Plus, there are subtle new glowing touches that appear over the Liquid Glass-esque quick settings and notification shades. It's not a dramatic change, but it's an extra bit of polish that you'll notice.

There's a lot of Apple influence in the styling, but I'm fine with that. Apple has always been strong in the design department, and while Oppo's approach isn't too novel, it does look great. Plus, if there's anything you don't like in ColorOS, it's all very easy to customize.

Oppo has been putting a lot of effort into making its software feel smooth, and the OS now apparently uses up to 25% less RAM than previous versions. Apps should open slightly faster, and Oppo says its software should maintain this smooth operation even when your storage fills up — but I haven't come close to doing that just yet.

Of course, there are loads of AI tools built into the Find X10 Pro Max. There's plenty that we've already seen, like Mind Space, which organizes your screenshots into searchable collections with AI summaries, and there are some new additions, too.

For instance, there's a new tool called AI Photo Agent, which lets you edit your pictures using natural language prompts. Plus, it can give suggestions for edits that might look good, or attempt to recreate the style of another image.

As with anything involving AI, the results can be a bit of a mixed bag, but on occasion, AI Photo Agent works really well. You can do anything you can dream up, from subtle color adjustments to background replacement, subject removal, subject addition — you name it, AI Photo Agent can do it.

There's also something called AI Mind Pilot, which is designed for AI super freaks. It pulls models from Gemini, Perplexity, and OpenAI all into one app, so you can ask the same question to a chorus of chatbots, or switch between them as you see fit.

Mind Pilot was already available on the X9 Ultra, but this version now has more agentic capabilities. The AI can find files and photos from around your phone, move them, rename them, or even create something with them, like a presentation or a collage.

• Software score: 4 / 5

Oppo Find X10 Pro Max review: Battery

• 7,150mAh battery (EU) / 8,000mAh (APAC)
• 80W wired charging
• 50W wireless charging

The battery situation with the Find X10 Pro Max is a little complicated. If you live in Asia, Australia, or the Middle East, you'll get a mammoth 8,000mAh battery pack. Meanwhile, in Europe, shipping regulations mean that you'll only get a 7,150mAh-capacity cell.

There's nothing unusual about that, except for the fact that I have the 8,000mAh version of the Find X10 Pro Max, despite living in the UK. This means that any of my observations about battery life only apply to the APAC version of the phone. Relevant to some of you, less relevant to others.

Unsurprisingly, with an 8,000mAh pack inside, the Find X10 Pro Max's battery life has been excellent. I'm consistently getting at least a day and a half of use per charge, despite lots of camera use and gaming. Two days on a charge is easily achievable, too.

Charging is also pretty quick. You'll get up to 80W speeds with the official adapter or 55W with third-party USB-PD chargers. It'll still take well over an hour to charge from completely flat to full, but that's understandable with such a large capacity.

• Battery score: 4 / 5

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How I tested the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max

• Review test period: Three weeks
• Testing included: Everyday use, including web browsing, social media, photography, video calling, gaming, streaming video, music playback
• Tools used: Geekbench 7, 3DMark, native Android stats

I put my SIM card into the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max and used it as my main phone for over three weeks. I used it exactly as I would use any other phone, taking lots of photos, gaming, messaging, working, streaming video, and navigating with Google Maps and Waze.

I also compared the experience of playing graphically challenging games like Neverness to Everness to my experience on other Android flagships like the Galaxy S26 Ultra and Xiaomi 17 Ultra. I ran lots of benchmarks on the handset, including 3DMark and Geekbench, to confirm my performance findings.

I assessed the phone's battery performance based on my real-world usage, and charging times were measured using the official Oppo wall adapter along with the included charging cable.

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First tested October 2026