Oppo Find X9 review: Reliable performer with feature-rich camera

Last weekend, Oppo launched the new flagship Find X9. It comes with big upgrades over the predecessor.

Design, build quality and display

Oppo's latest flagship, Find X9, comes in an all-new design language.

Compared to the Find X8 series, which had a massive circular camera deco, the successor flaunts a curved square camera module with quad sensors and LED flash with Hasselblad branding at the top left corner.

The device flaunts smooth aluminium flat rails around the edges, and the back panel features smooth frosted glass texture with matte finish, offering good grip for the fingers to hold on to the phone.

It measures 7.99mm in thickness, 73.9mm wide, 157mm tall and weighs 203g.

Oppo Find X9.

Our review unit is space black. It looks lovely in the sunlight, and thanks to the matte finish, it does a fine job of repelling the sweat-induced fingerprint smudges on the back. Oppo also offers the device in a titanium grey variant.

The Find X9 is one of the most durable phones from the house of Oppo. The screen is safeguarded by Corning's Gorilla Glass 7i shield, and the device comes with the IP66+IP68+IP69 water-and-dust resistant rating, meaning the device can survive a fall in the swimming pool or any fresh water body up to 1.5 metres (around five feet) for close to 30 minutes.

Also, it can even survive a hot (up to 80-degree) water jet of around 80-100 bar pressure.

Additionally, the company pre-fits another layer of screen guard and offers a free cover case, which safeguards phone's glass-like back panel from cracking. Even if the device falls on the house floor with the display down, it is unlikely to shatter thanks thick raised lip around the edge.

However, there is no guarantee of protection if it suffers a hard fall on a sharp , uneven surface like rocks on the beach or on the pot hole-laced roads of Bengaluru.

One new thing you notice in the Oppo Find X9 is the Snap Key on the left side at the top. It is by default programmed to open the AI Mind Space, Oppo's propreitary generative Artificial Intelligence (gen AI)-powered assistant feature.

With a short-press, the phone captures the screen content to save or look up on the internet to get more details of a particular object in the screenshot. With a long-press, users can add a voice note to be reminded later.

And, a double-press opens Mind Space to check for older saved screenshots. This feature comes in handy for certain scenarios, where the user comes across an interesting thing on the internet and wants to research it later during free time.

For instance, if a user, while travelling in a mass transit vehicle like a bus or a metro, watches reels and spots a good ad related to a handy home appliance or a gadget or even contact details of a house contractor for roofs, or kitchen reconstruction, they can instantly take a screenshot and add a voice note. So that the user, in his free time at home , can go back to the AI Mind Space page and do more research on the product or contact the person. Previously, those screenshots used to get lost in all the other photos in the album and the user, most often times forgets it.

If you don't like the Mind Space feature, you can reprogram it to perform other functions such as loading your favourite app, torch light, record voice, take a screenshot, switch between ring/vibrate/silent modes, trigger the camera app for a quick photo and more.

At the base, the device features a Type-C USB port, an infrared sensor, stereo speakers, dual-SIM slots (type: nano) and an in-display fingerprint sensor. The latter, by the way, is a 3D Ultrasonic biometric sensor. It works amazingly fast in terms of recognising the fingerprint impression and unlocking the home screen.

On the front, it sports a beautiful 6.59-inch 1.5K (2760 × 1256p) AMOLED display. It supports a variable 120Hz refresh rate, offering up to 3600 nits peak brightness and supporting Dolby Vision.

The display is of high quality and has super thin bezels, measuring just 1.15mm symmetrical on all sides and has a screen-to-body ratio 91 per cent. Be it watching multimedia content on OTT apps, or doom scrolling on social media platforms or reading long-form articles, the Find X9 delivers good on enhanced viewing experience.

Performance

With MediaTek's powerful Dimensity 9500 chipset, Arm Mali-G1 Ultra MC12 GPU and Oppo’s chip-level resource management system Trinity Engine, the device delivers smooth performance.

Oppo Find X9's single-core and multi-core CPU performance score on Geekbench 6.0.

It can handle all day-to-day tasks and remains stable even when pushed to the extreme, such as playing graphics-heavy games or recording 4K videos for long or running generative Artificial Intelligence applications.

Oppo Find X9's GPU performance score on Geekbench 6.0.

Even when performing heavy-duty tasks, the device does not overheat much. It houses a massive vapour chamber having 32,052.5mm² total dissipation area. It is 21.6% larger than the previous generation. The company says it has combined multiple advanced materials, including a redesigned vapour chamber, high-performance thermal gel, and extensive graphite.

The vapour chamber itself has been completely redesigned with an ultra-fine 0.02mm stainless steel mesh. It not only reduces its thickness but also significantly improves thermal conductivity for more efficient heat dissipation.

ColorOS 16 on Oppo Find X9.

The device is available in two configurations: 12GB RAM +256GB storage and 16GB RAM + 512GB storage.

The device runs Android 16-based ColorOS 16. It comes with an all-new Luminous Rendering Engine, which revamps the Android rendering framework. This enables smooth visuals, instant responses, and truly immersive interactions when operating apps on the phone.

Oppo Find X9.

With Android 16's Material-3 Expressive UX, it delivers a fluid user interface, with smooth transitions and natural, expressive animations while launching an app or switching between apps.

With the AI Dynamic Depth feature, users can create a wallpaper with a motion poster and immersive layered depth.

The device is guaranteed to get five Android OS updates (up to 2030) and six years of security software patches for protection against new emerging cyber threats up to 2031.

The device also boasts of Oppo's propreitary RF chip that boosts uplink power by over 30 per cent in key frequency bands. With advanced 360-degree surround antenna architecture, it significantly enhances signal stability and anti-interference capability to offer enhanced phone call experience and stable cellular internet connectivity.

The device comes with a massive 7,025mAh battery. With 3rd gen Silicon Carbon battery technology, it is designed to retain up to 80 per cent of its original capacity even after five years of regular use. This ensures the owner doesn't have to replace the battery after two years, which is usually the case for most people.

Under normal usage, it can easily last one and a half days.

It supports 80W SuperVOOC fast charging and 50W AirVOOC wireless charging.

Oppo Find X9's camera sample.

Photography

The Find X9 boasts of quad-camera module-- main 50MP camera (with 1/1.4-inch Sony LYT808 sensor, f/1.6 aperture, OIS: Optical Image Stabilisation) with 50MP ultra-wide camera (with JN5 sensor), a 50MP (with 1/1.95-inch Sony LYT600 sensor 3x periscope telephoto lens, ƒ/2.6, OIS) and a 2MP (f/2.4, multi-spectral lens, Hasselblad portrait) with LED flash on the back.

Backed by Lumo Imaging Engine, the Find X9 series takes impressive photos in all light conditions.

Oppo Find X9's camera sample.

With natural sunlight in the background, it captures all the fine details and also enhances the colour tone of the subjects, particularly the human face and flowers. They look vibrant and colourful.

Even in low-light conditions, it takes sharp and crisp photos. The main camera features an ultra-large aperture that can capture 57 per cent more light than the previous generation.

Oppo Find X9's camera sample.

It does a fine job with portrait mode, way better than most rival brands in its class. It boasts of AI Portrait Glow, which tries to effectively capture the real skin tone of the subject during uneven light conditions.

Oppo Find X9 camera sample with portrait mode on.

The device also takes pretty nice ultra-wide-angle photos. As you can see the sample photo below, I was able to whole face of the famous Kankrej breed cow and its huge horns in the same frame from close up range.

[Shot on Oppo Find X9] Kankrej breed (Origin: Kutch, Gujurat) cow displayed at GKVK Krishi Mela 2025 at Gandhi Krishi Vigyana Kendra, Bengaluru.

Oppo Find X9's camera sample.

It also supports optical zoom up to 6X and digital zoom up to 120X.

Oppo Find X9 camera sample captured with 3.2X Zoom.

Also, it is touted to be the first phone to boast 4K Motion Photo. To use 4K Motion Photo, the user has to enable Hasselblad Hi-Res Mode and tap the 4K icon at the top of the screen.

Oppo Find X9 camera sample captured with 40X Zoom.

It can record 4K Dolby Vision videos at 120 frames per second. The video quality is really good and stable, even when taken with a shaky hand.

Oppo Find X9's camera sample.

On the front, it houses a 32MP camera (with a 1/2.74-inch Sony IMX615 sensor, f/2.4).

Oppo Find X9's camera sample.

The Find X9 can take pretty impressive portrait selfies in natural sunlight.

It can record 4K Dolby Vision quality videos at 60 fps. It is also really good for video calling.

Oppo Find X9's camera sample.

It supports several gen AI photography tools such as AI Portrait Glow, AI Eraser, AI Recompose and more. They do a fine job of enhancing the photography experience on the Find X9.

Final thoughts

Besides delivering a stable performance, the premium Oppo Find X9 excels with its versatile cameras and impressive long-lasting battery life, making it a compelling alternative to other branded flagship phones

Oppo Find X9.

The device is available in two configurations-- 12GB RAM +256GB storage and 16GB RAM + 512GB storage for Rs 74,999 and Rs 84,999, respectively.

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