Oppo’s Find X5 Pro flagship is lastly official

After in depth leaks and teases, Oppo has formally introduced the Find X5 Pro, its flagship telephone for 2022. It’s a reasonably iterative follow-up to final 12 months’s Find X3 Pro, however that was an excellent telephone, and after spending greater than per week with a not-yet-final model of its successor I’m anticipating the identical to carry true.

The Find X5 Pro’s design performs off the curved unibody strategy of the X3 Pro. This time across the again panel is ceramic, which when mixed with the summary form of the digital camera bump offers the white unit I’ve been testing a futuristic, Star Wars stormtrooper-esque really feel. It’s an eye catching gadget with spectacular construct high quality — it appears higher in individual than I anticipated.

That uncommon digital camera bump has rather less happening than the Find X3 Pro’s. The ring light-equipped microscope digital camera isn’t any extra, and Oppo is settling for a similar 50-megapixel IMX766 sensors in its main and ultrawide cameras, in addition to a 13-megapixel telephoto. That microscope digital camera wasn’t precisely an important function, nevertheless it’s disappointing to not see it changed with one thing extra helpful, just like the form of periscope telephoto digital camera that Oppo itself pioneered.

While the primary 50-megapixel digital camera sensor is similar, the lens in entrance of it’s barely quicker at f/1.7, and Oppo says it now makes use of extra glass than the earlier all-plastic optics. The lens additionally now has five-axis stabilization. Oppo is speaking up the Hasselblad partnership in addition to its in-house MariSilicon X imaging NPU, too, which is claimed to ship huge enhancements for low-light HDR video recording specifically with a devoted “4K Ultra Night Video” mode. I’ll reserve judgement on the outcomes till I’ve a launch model of the software program, since Oppo tells me the subsequent replace will particularly deal with digital camera efficiency.

Elsewhere, you get the standard flagship specs you’d anticipate this 12 months. There’s a 6.7-inch 1440p 120Hz OLED show, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, a 5,000mAh battery, 80W quick charging, 50W wi-fi charging, IP68 water and mud resistance, 256GB of storage, and 12GB of RAM. Oppo can also be releasing a non-Pro model of the Find X5 the place the primary variations are a Snapdragon 888, 8GB of RAM, and a smaller 6.5-inch 1080p OLED display screen.

Pricing and launch dates for the Find X5 Pro will fluctuate by area. We’ll have extra protection on this gadget as soon as the software program has been finalized.