OPPO Find X7 Ultra

The cameras remain the highlight of the Find X7 Ultra, and understandably so. OPPO's partnership with Hasselblad has steadily evolved since 2022 with the former looking to create a smartphone camera system that comes close to achieving the kind of photography that's possible on Hasselblad's SLR cameras. The Find X6 series touted three 50MP flagship cameras and the Find X7 Ultra takes it one notch higher by offering four 50MP sensors on the back. This system includes a 50MP Sony Lytia-900 primary sensor, a 50MP Sony IMX600 ultrawide lens, and two 50MP telephoto lenses.With 50MP sensors across the board, OPPO is going for consistency between different modes and that is what you get. The cameras shine in daylight conditions, delivering excellent sharpness, balanced exposure, colour accuracy, and dynamic range. We compared the device with the Xiaomi 14 Ultra and the OPPO phone came out on top, especially in low light conditions. In the comparison slider below taken in a dimly-lit walkway, you can see the Find X7 Ultra offers a brighter image with better detailing of the road and control of the light falling on the tree.The Find X7 Ultra comes with what the company calls HyperTone Image Engine, an on-device algorithm that improves exposure levels in tricky scenarios and delivers natural skin tones without over-sharpening. All of this happens in real time resulting in improved picture clarity with very low noise.Portrait captures are where the OPPO Find X7 Ultra truly shines. Both telephoto lenses can capture excellent portraits in 3x and 6x optical zoom, offering good detail and natural colours in various lighting. The reason OPPO opted for two tele cameras is so that you get good detail in between 3x and 6x zoom levels as well. While portrait shots look good on the Find X7 Ultra, I still prefer the ones taken by the Vivo X100 Pro. In the comparison shot below, the Vivo X100 Pro's 3.7x portrait shot offers better colours especially the skin tone while the Find X7 Pro leans towards a warm, orange-ish tone. Both phones, however, do extremely well with edge detection and background blur.When taking close-up shots using the Find X7 Ultra, the camera switches to the wide-angle lens for macro mode and you get pretty acceptable results in daylight. There's a Master mode for those looking for more control when capturing photos. The Auto option in Master mode is a basic version that allows you to tweak the exposure and capture in RAW or RAW Max modes, while the Pro option gives you more settings to play with such as ISO, White Balance, manual focus, and more. Take a look at some photos captured using the various cameras of the Find X7 Ultra.

In addition to offering stellar cameras, the Find X7 Ultra also delivers top-of-the-line performance. There's a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset along with 12GB LPDDRX5 RAM and 256GB of internal storage in the unit we received. In China, the phone is available with up to 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. Benchmark scores are as you would expect from a 2024 flagship. The Find X7 Ultra scored over 20 lakh on AnTuTu, much like other Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-powered phones like the Xiaomi 14 Ultra and iQOO 12.

Much like the display, things are largely the same in the battery department as well. OPPO has packed a 5,000mAh battery inside the Find X7 Ultra. The device supports 100W wired fast charging and there's a charger in the box. The phone takes roughly 31 minutes to charge from 20 to 100 percent using the bundled charger. The Find X7 Ultra also supports 50W wireless charging, but we couldn't test the charging speed as we did not have OPPO's proprietary charging pad around.In our PCMark battery test, the Find X7 Ultra delivered around 10 hours of battery life, which is underwhelming. Real-world testing had a similar story with the battery draining quickly through the day, requiring a top-up before going to bed. This is clearly not a two-day battery phone and even getting a day and a half out of it on a single charge will be difficult on heavy usage. But it does charge quickly, so that's nice.