OPPO Find X10 Pro Max review: an Ultra in all but name

• By Sanket Vijayasarathy
Published On: 10 November 2026 | 16:46 IST

OPPO officially opened the next flagship season in India with the Find X10 series, which includes the base Find X10 and the Find X10 Pro Max. This review covers the Pro Max, which is OPPO’s most expensive flagship phone yet at Rs 1,99,999. It isn’t a direct successor to the Find X9 Ultra (review) in the traditional sense, but it sits well above it, with a newer chipset, a bigger battery and an upgraded ultrawide camera. Honestly, OPPO might as well have called this the Ultra because it really behaves that way. I’ve used it as my primary phone for about two weeks now, and I’ve been blown away by what it can do.

Verdict

The Find X10 Pro Max is a camera-first flagship, with three 200MP sensors, a restrained imaging engine, and an optional teleconverter kit. But it also excels in almost everything else, including a segment-leading battery life, smooth ColorOS 17, stellar performance, and a solid build. 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.

Design and display: borderless, flat, and easy on the eyes

OPPO calls the Find X10 Pro Max’s look a borderless design. The back is one piece of sculpted glass that flows into the camera module, so the bump looks less like an afterthought. The phone comes in Titanium Grey and Luna White, and both look subtle and understated. But the latter is clearly the showpiece, with 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 for those who prefer not to turn heads.

We received the Luna White unit, and it looks exquisite. The two-tone back is clean, and the orange ring around the camera is subtle, only showing up at an angle. The matte finish feels soft but slippery, though you can rest your index finger just below the camera module for support. If you tend to drop your phone, use the silicone case that comes in the box for a better grip.

The phone measures 161.32 x 76.57 x 8.4mm and weighs 235g, and it’s rated IP68 and IP69 for dust and water resistance. The phone weighs less than the iPhone 18 Pro Max (250 grams), and I noticed the difference immediately after reviewing the iPhone. The OPPO flagship is relatively easier to hold and use one-handed, though wrist fatigue will happen from time to time, and one-handed use won’t be easy.

The Find X10 Pro Max has a flat 6.78-inch LTPO AMOLED display with a 1272 x 2772 resolution (450ppi) and symmetrical 1.15mm bezels. OPPO claims a local peak brightness of 3,600 nits (2,000 nits global) and supports Dolby Vision and HDR10+. For night-time reading, it dims to 1 nit and uses 3,840Hz PWM dimming. The refresh rate adapts up to 120Hz in everyday use, with 144Hz reserved for supported games, which suits me fine, since not many apps need more.

The Find X10 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. That’s a big number, but most of the content you’ll watch on a phone isn’t mastered anywhere near that range, so you’re unlikely to notice it often.

Cameras: how many 200MP cameras do you need? Yes.

The Find X10 Pro Max flexes its photography muscles with not one, not two, but three 200MP cameras on the back. OPPO is the first brand to do this, and that’s quite a flex. Three 200MP cameras theoretically mean consistent photo and video quality when switching between regular, ultrawide, and zoom levels. The main camera uses a new 1/1.28-inch ISOCELL HPC sensor that OPPO developed with Samsung, and its DeepPix technology gives up to 17 stops of dynamic range in video, according to OPPO. The ultrawide also gets a 200MP sensor that OPPO says captures twice as much light as last generation’s. The 200MP telephoto has an f/2.1 aperture and a 10cm minimum focus distance, so it doubles as a telemacro camera. An optional OPPO Hasselblad Teleconverter stretches it further, with OPPO claiming 3.28x optical magnification.

To keep file sizes manageable, the phone shoots 26MP by default in daylight and 12MP in low light, and you can switch to Hasselblad Hi-Res mode for 50MP or 200MP shots when you want.

What interests me more than the megapixels is the processing. OPPO’s new LUMO True Image Engine aims 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 in mixed lighting, Hasselblad Master Mode’s tonal approach now applies to the default Photo mode, and sharpening, noise reduction and AI-generated detail are dialled back. On paper, that’s the right call, since I’d rather a phone leave some shadow in a backlit portrait than flatten it. Though it sits a little awkwardly next to ColorOS 17’s AI Photo Agent, which edits photos from natural-language instructions on a camera that aims to offer true-to-life photos.

Between the regular Photo and Portrait modes, Master mode for professionally aligned shots, XPan for creative ultrawide panoramic shots, Hasselblad Hi-Res for ultra-crisp 50MP or 200MP shots, and the LUMO Colour Palette, the Find X10 Pro Max delivers a fun camera experience. Photos look sharp across all three lenses, giving you greater flexibility to shoot in any frame without worrying about sharpness taking a hit.

Daylight shots captured in default 26MP looked attractive, with impressive dynamic range and colour reproduction leaning towards warmer tones and pleasing saturation. Portraits look particularly stellar, with clean subject separation and true-to-life skin tones, especially in 2x (47mm) and 3x (70mm). 6x zoom shots are best used for macros in daylight, and I was quite impressed with how quickly it was able to focus on the subject and the level of steady shots I was able to capture.

Low-light photography looked equally impressive, with both the 200MP primary and telephoto cameras capturing excellent details and contrast. The sensor lets in plenty of light but does well at keeping ambient light and highlights from looking blown out. This is likely where the Lumo True Image Engine comes in. That said, I did find the OPPO flagship made the sky look brighter than reality, and this is where I felt the iPhone 18 Pro Max did better. The 200MP ultrawide camera, which would typically be the weakest of all in low-light conditions on any other phone, held up extremely well on the Find X10 Pro Max.

I compared the Find X10 Pro Max’s cameras with the iPhone 18 Pro Max’s, and the short version is that the OPPO is more versatile, while the iPhone has a more natural look. The OPPO’s 200MP ultrawide holds on to more detail, its telephoto focuses close enough to double as a macro, and it shoots brighter, more textured night photos with better control of bright lights. The iPhone is cooler and more contrasty in daylight, with warmer skin tones, and it handles night skies more cleanly. For the sample-by-sample comparisons across daylight, ultrawide, telephoto, portraits and low light, read my full OPPO Find X10 Pro Max vs iPhone 18 Pro Max camera comparison.

Overall, the Find X10 Pro Max delivers one of the best, most consistent cameras on a flagship this year. All three rear sensors capture stunning photos in both daylight and low-light scenes, and modes like XPan and Master offer plenty of creative freedom. This is easily the camera phone to beat this year and in the first half of 2027. And I haven’t even discussed the teleconverter kit yet!

Find X10 Pro Max with the teleconverter kit: extra reach, at a price

The Hasselblad Teleconverter Kit is optional and compatible only with the Pro Max, not the base Find X10. It costs Rs 24,999 and is sold separately. That’s Rs 5,000 less than last year’s kit for the Find X9 Pro, which cost Rs 29,999. In the box, you get the teleconverter lens, a MagSafe-enabled case, a lens mounting plate, a strap, a carrying pouch and a tripod collar. The lens adds 3.28x magnification to the 70mm telephoto, which works out to about 230mm, or roughly 10x against the main camera. It also supports 20x (460mm) lossless zoom and a 40x (920mm) preset, with the ability to go up to 200x digital zoom.

It isn’t a casual accessory. The mounting plate covers the main and ultrawide cameras, so the phone becomes a zoom-only camera while it’s on. The kit also runs as its own mode, which means you can’t use Pro mode with it. The complete case, plate, and lens assembly adds about 216g on top of the phone’s 235g. And while I like the case a lot with its textured finish, I found removing the plate every time I wanted to use all the cameras cumbersome. I wish the plate didn’t block all the cameras, so it could stay as is, requiring only the tele lens to be fixed when needed.

What it gives you is reach and subject isolation. The red flower shot shows what 230mm does best. The petals are sharp down to their fine hairs, a thin spider thread is visible, and the background melts into soft bokeh. The candle shots I captured at night on Diwali looked stunning, as the flames keep their shape and colour instead of blowing out, and the surrounding warm glow looks natural. What’s more impressive is that I captured these shots on my first attempt, thanks to the exceptional stability.

At Rs 24,999, the kit needs careful consideration, and it only suits specific uses. If you shoot concerts, distant portraits, wildlife or detail shots, it’s a real extension of what the phone can already do. If you rarely zoom past 3x, you’ll leave it in the pouch, if only OPPO actually gave a pouch for it.

Performance and software: fast and smooth from the get-go

The Find X10 Pro Max runs on MediaTek’s 2nm Dimensity 9600 Pro with vapour chamber cooling, and it comes in a single 12GB + 512GB configuration with UFS 4.1 storage. In our testing, it posted the highest AnTuTu score, which was expected from MediaTek’s newest flagship chipset.

Under sustained stress, the phone held up reasonably well. In our burnout test, it retained 43 percent of its performance, ahead of the Galaxy S26 Ultra (35.3 percent), the Xiaomi 17 Ultra (40.6 percent) and the Pixel 11 Pro XL (31.6 percent), but behind the Find X9 Ultra (49.9 percent) and the vivo X300 Ultra (52 percent).

On the software side, the phone ships with ColorOS 17 based on Android 17, and it’s one of the smoothest skins we’ve tested. My colleague Ramneek published an extensive deep-dive into ColorOS 17 on the OnePlus 15, which you should check out if you want to know about all the new features and customisations. On the Find X10 Pro Max, ColorOS 17 with the new Living Flow design looked great and felt extremely quick. From the Flux Clock, which seamlessly transitions in scale when switching from AOD to the home screen, to the bouncy animations and illuminated UI on every touch-based interaction, to the full-screen album artwork, everything feels more fluid, more attractive, and more responsive than before.

Our unit shipped with 61 pre-installed apps, six of them third-party, which is definitely a lot if you prefer a cleaner, bloat-free UI. Luckily, you can uninstall most of these apps, but you’ll need to spend some time doing it. OPPO promises five years of OS updates and six years of security patches, the same as the Find X9 Ultra but short of the seven years Google and Samsung offer.

Battery and charging: segment-leading endurance

The Find X10 Pro Max has an 8,000mAh silicon-carbon battery, bigger than the 7,050mAh cell in the Find X9 Ultra, with 80W wired and 50W wireless charging. In day-to-day use, battery life has been stellar from the first day. In my first few days with it as my primary phone, the battery dropped by around 40 percent through a full day, enough to carry it through almost the whole of the next one. Standby time is excellent, and you can expect around 9-10 hours of screen-on time with ease.

In our PCMark battery test, the phone lasted 20 hours and 43 minutes, the best result we’ve recorded for a flagship smartphone this year. The closest regular flagship, the Pixel 11 Pro, managed 17 hours and 48 minutes, followed by the Find X9 Ultra at 17 hours and 7 minutes. You can check out my in-depth battery review of the Find X10 Pro Max to learn more.

The bigger battery capacity explains much of that. The cell is about 13 percent bigger than the Find X9 Ultra’s, and the Find X10 Pro Max lasted 21 percent longer. But it also lasted 29 percent longer than the Find X9 Pro, whose battery is only about 7 percent smaller, so the power efficiency of the 2nm Dimensity chip and optimisation of ColorOS 17 seem to be helping too.

Charging is the weak spot. The phone took 82 minutes to go from 20 to 100 percent over 80W wired charging, which is slower than most phones in its bracket. The Find X9 Ultra, with 100W charging, took 50 minutes, and the Vivo X300 Ultra needed just 36. The Find X9 Pro, which also has 80W charging, took 73 minutes, so the slower time is reasonable given the bigger battery. I’d have liked OPPO to bring over the 100W charging, but it matters less when you’re plugging in far less often.

Final verdict

There’s absolutely no denying that the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max is a camera-first flagship, with three 200MP sensors, a restrained imaging engine, an optional teleconverter kit that takes long-distance photography to the next level, and serious video tools. But at Rs 2 lakh, it needs to fire on all cylinders, which it does. The bigger battery now makes this a two-day battery phone; its 2nm Dimensity 9600 Pro chip is both powerful and power-efficient, ensuring smooth performance and minimal battery drain; and ColorOS 17 is the cherry on top, adding stunning fluidity and responsiveness to an already fast phone. It really is an Ultra in all ways but the name.

That said, the charging speed isn’t as quick as OPPO’s own Find X9 Ultra, the software support is shorter than Google’s and Samsung’s, and it costs Rs 1,99,999, making it the most expensive regular smartphone in India right now, more expensive than the iPhone 18 Pro Max, which starts at Rs 1,79,900.

While the Find X10 Pro Max is a stellar flagship and sets the benchmark for what Android flagships need to achieve as we go into 2027, what makes it a tougher sell is that the base Find X10 is available at a comparatively lower cost, offering the same 8,000mAh battery, 200MP main and telephoto cameras, and a similar, albeit smaller ProXDR display. If you don’t particularly need a 200MP ultrawide camera and a 2nm chip, the Find X10 at Rs 1,39,999 might make financial sense for most people.

Editor’s rating: 8.7/10

Reasons to buy the Find X10 Pro Max:

• Excellent triple 200MP cameras for versatility and consistency, capturing stunning shots in any lighting conditions
• The optional teleconverter kit takes long-distance photography to the next level for professional photographers
• Stellar two-day battery life thanks to a bigger battery and power-efficient 2nm chip, currently the best in the flagship segment
• ColorOS 17 delivers a fluid and personalised experience with plenty of interesting features, one of the best skins out there

Reasons to skip the Find X10 Pro Max:

• Its Rs 2 lakh price tag makes it expensive for most buyers, especially since the iPhone 18 Pro Max costs less and the Find X10 offers similar specs.
• While the battery life removes anxiety, its 80W charging speed and charging time is slower than many rivals
• Five years of OS updates feels less for a Rs 2 lakh phone, especially given brands like Samsung and Google offer a seven-year commitment