OPPO Find X10 Pro Max first impressions: a camera phone that wants to be more than a camera phone

OPPO has kick-started the 2027 flagship race in India with the launch of the Find X10 series. The lineup includes the base Find X10 and the Find X10 Pro Max. We’ll cover the latter in depth here, since that’s the unit we received for review. While it’s not a direct successor to the Find X9 Ultra (review) in the traditional sense, the Find X10 Pro Max sits well above it, priced at Rs 1,99,999. But it does offers a few upgrades over the Ultra, including a newer chipset, a bigger battery, and an upgraded ultrawide camera. While we’re working on a full review, you can read our first impressions of OPPO’s most expensive flagship phone yet.

Design

OPPO has gone for what it calls a borderless design, with one-piece sculpted glass that flows into the camera module so the bump looks less like an afterthought. The Pro Max comes in Titanium Grey and Luna White, and Luna White is clearly the showpiece: a silver camera island, a matte orange accent ring that OPPO calls a Hasselblad signature, and a two-tone back that mixes smooth matte glass with a fabric-inspired pattern. Titanium Grey is the quieter option.

We received the Luna White variant for review, and it looks exquisite. The dual-tone back is clean, and the orange accent around the camera module is subtle, showing up only at an angle. The matte finish is soft and slippery to the touch, but you can rest your index finger just below the camera module for support when holding the phone. If you tend to drop your phone easily, slap on the silicone cover that comes in the box for a better grip.

Display

The 6.78-inch LTPO panel is flat, with symmetrical 1.15mm bezels. OPPO claims 3,600 nits of local peak brightness (2,000 nits global), Dolby Vision support, and dimming down to 1 nit with 3,840Hz PWM for night-time reading. The refresh rate adapts up to 120Hz in everyday use, with 144Hz reserved for supported games, which is fine by me – not many apps need more.

The headline claim is colour. OPPO says the Pro Max is among the first phones to support the BT.2020 colour gamut, which covers around 40 percent more colour space than DCI-P3, though its own spec sheet puts coverage at 95 percent. That’s a big number, but most of the content you’ll watch on a phone isn’t mastered anywhere near that range, so I’m curious how often it will actually show. My initial impressions of the display are mostly positive: it looks attractive and stays legible in direct sunlight.

Cameras

Let me start with the hardware. The 200MP main camera uses a new 1/1.28-inch ISOCELL HPC sensor that OPPO developed with Samsung, with DeepPix technology that OPPO says gives up to 17 stops of dynamic range in video. The 200MP ultrawide has a 1/1.56-inch sensor, which OPPO says captures twice as much light as the previous generation, and a 124-degree autofocus lens. The 200MP telephoto has an f/2.1 aperture and a 10cm minimum focus distance, so it doubles as a telemacro camera. An OPPO Hasselblad Teleconverter accessory stretches the telephoto further, with OPPO claiming 3.28x optical magnification.

To make all that resolution usable, OPPO shoots 26MP by default from the ultrawide through 9.9x, with the option for Hasselblad Hi-Res mode for 50MP or 200MP shots available when you want them. Below are some early samples I was able to capture on the Find X10 Pro Max. I’ll have more to share in my full review.

What interests me more than the megapixels is the processing. OPPO’s new LUMO True Image Engine promises to keep colour, tone and detail closer to what you actually saw. A new-generation True Color Camera reads multispectral colour data to improve accuracy under mixed lighting, Hasselblad Master Mode’s tonal approach comes to the default Photo mode, and sharpening, noise reduction and AI-generated detail are dialled back. On paper, that’s the right call – I’d rather a phone leave some shadow in a backlit portrait than flatten it. It’s a slightly awkward neighbour for the AI Photo Agent in ColorOS 17, which edits photos from natural-language instructions, on a camera pitched as true-to-life.

Performance and software

The Find X10 Pro Max runs on the 2nm MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro with vapour chamber cooling, and comes in a single 12GB + 512GB configuration. Since this is a brand-new chipset, we don’t have historical data to share as a reference. In my full review, I’ll break down how the chip performs in our synthetic benchmarks and real-world stress tests.

ColorOS 17 ships out of the box, and it is one of the smoothest skins we have tested so far. While I’ll save my experience with the Find X10 Pro Max for my full review, you can read my colleague Ramneek’s in-depth ColorOS 17 hands-on, which explores all the new features and changes you can expect.

Battery and charging

OPPO has fitted an 8,000mAh silicon-carbon battery with 80W wired and 50W wireless charging and calls it a substantial battery-life upgrade. While it’s a big cell, I wish the charging speed could have been better. That said, I will share the exact charging speed in my detailed review. As for the battery, my initial thoughts are extremely positive. Over the past couple of days using the Find X10 Pro Max as my primary device, the battery life has been stellar out of the box, dropping only around 40 percent through the day, giving me enough to go almost the entire next day.

Early thoughts

On paper, the Find X10 Pro Max is a very camera-first flagship: three 200MP sensors, a restrained imaging engine, serious video tools and a big battery in a body that still looks like it was designed around the camera. Whether that’s worth Rs 2 lakh depends on how much of it you’ll actually use, and on how it compares with the cheaper Find X10, which shares the 8,000mAh battery, the 80W charging and the 200MP main and telephoto cameras, but gives up the 200MP ultrawide, the 2nm chip and the bigger display.

Stay tuned for my full review, where I’ll go deeper into how good the camera system really is, with and without the teleconverter kit, whether the performance gains are noticeable, whether it is a genuinely two-day battery phone, and more.