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BEST FOR… DESIGN Oppo Find X3 Pro 5G
Huawei’s dwindling popularity has left a flagship-sized void in the smartphone market and Oppo has done its best to fill it with its ultra-premium-oozing offering.
With a bright 6.7in QHD OLED display and 120Hz refresh rate, the Find X3 Pro 5G delivers on that sharp, smooth experience and certainly looks the part. We’re big fans of its bulge (ahem), which rises seamlessly from the rear and happens to house its triple camera system. That matte finish also makes it the only one here to really repel greasy fingerprints.
A couple of 50-megapixel main and ultra-wide lenses run the show, alongside a mostly impressive 13MP 2x telephoto lens for exceptional snaps with plenty of detail regardless of lighting conditions. For extreme close-ups, its zoomed-in 3-megapixel microlens captures detail you can’t see with the naked eye. Its 32-megapixel selfies and 4K video capture are also spectacular but while there’s plenty of photographic grunt, it’s let down by the lack of a good zoom.
Oppo puts its own stamp on Android 11 with ColorOS 11.2 for customisable gestures and navigation options. Elsewhere, powerful guts means the interface is snappy, apps are responsive and games are buttery smooth.
Chuck in HDR10+ content compatibility, long battery life, quick fingerprint scanning, 256GB of storage and fast 30-minute and reverse wireless charging, and you’re gawping at a phone that comfortably trades blows with top-tier Androids.