Oppo Find X8 review: The Sweet Spot

Oppo’s flagship Find X series has returned to the global market after a few years of absence, and the brand is looking to make a splash. If you want the best of the best, you’ll want to look toward the Find X8 Pro, but if that’s too large (and pricey) for your tastes, the standard Find X8 could be the way to go.

This phone offers a more pocketable form factor but still keeps most of the same specs as its larger sibling. The list includes the powerful Dimensity 9400 processor, a massive battery and speedy 80W charging. The biggest difference is that you only get one periscope telephoto, rather than two.

For a lot of people, the Oppo Find X8 looks like the obvious choice, and its boxy, slimline design only serves to make it more appealing. The question is, what’s it like to live with? I used it as my main handset for the past week in an effort to find out.

Design & Build

• Flat, boxy design
• 193g, Gorilla Glass Victus 2
• IP68/IP69 rated

Despite being the smaller of the two models, the Find X8 is still a fairly large phone. It dwarves my iPhone 16 Pro, and is closer in size to the 16 Pro Max. It is nice and slim, though, with a very minimal camera bump and you’ll notice this every time you slip it in and out of your pocket. It’s significantly lighter than Apple’s top model, too.

Luke Baker

The reason for the iPhone comparison should be fairly obvious. This is Oppo’s most iPhone-like flagship to date, complete with boxy aluminium side rails, and a similar flat glass rear panel with a matte texture. The Apple influence runs more than skin deep, too, but we’ll explore the software features more later on.

This model has a notification slider on the left-hand side, so you can easily silence your phone at any time, and there’s the usual volume rocker and power button on the right. It doesn’t have the new capacitive-touch Quick Button (Oppo’s take on Apple’s Camera Control), you’ll need the Pro if you want to try that.

The phone continues Oppo’s recent trend of making the camera island large, circular, and in the centre of the rear panel. It’s clear that this phone is related to the Find X6 and X7 Ultra that came before, but this time, the bump is slimmer than ever, making it look much less outlandish.

It has the same symmetrical lens layout as its Pro sibling, but only three are actual lenses, and the fourth houses some kind of depth sensor.

This phone also carries the new IP69 rating for dust and water resistance, which means as well as being fully dust and watertight, it can handle sprays from jets of hot water. In reality, this extra layer of resistance is not something that will matter to most users, but it’s ready for whatever you can throw at it.

The haptic motors are strong and precise, which aids in typing and gives some subtle, helpful feedback when zooming in the camera app. They’re not the absolute best haptics I have ever come across, I think Samsung might still hold that honour, but they’re really not far off.

Screen & Speakers

• 120Hz 6.59-inch OLED display
• 4500 nits, 1256 x 2760 resolution
• Stereo speakers

The display of the Find X8 has very similar specifications to the X8 Pro. The main differences are that it’s a little smaller, and it’s completely flat, without the micro curves on the bezel.