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The Oppo Find X9 Pro comes with a simply ridiculous battery that last at least three days. Add to that a great camera system and highly premium look, you get yet another top quality flagship experience. It is expensive though, matching the iPhone 17 Pro for price.
The Good
- Pioneering battery life tech
- Smart build and design
- Great camera system with loads of zoom
The Not So Good
- Tops £1000 in the UK
- AI features are fine, but mostly to be ignored
Need-to-knows
- Huge battery lasts at least three days
- Camera is solid with heaps of zoom
- Highly premium build quality
- Expensive, nearing iPhone 17 Pro prices
I’ve often said that reviewing Android smartphones is both the best and worst job in the world. The reason is simple: it’s incredibly hard to buy a rubbish Android phone nowadays.
If you have, by the way, let me know in the comments. I’m fascinated.
The brand-new OPPO Find X9 Pro is the perfect example of this. It is a brilliant smartphone – one of the best I’ve ever used. In fact, I’m finding it hard to find anything negative to say about it. Not that I like to do that on purpose, of course.
To make matters worse, the X9 Pro has two features which make it stand out even further from the already-great competition. And one of them is simply mind-blowing.
How I reviewed the Oppo Find X9 Pro
If you’ve read my reviews before, you know the score. I have two SIM cards. One is permanently wedged inside my current iPhone of choice (at the time of writing, that’s the brilliantly weird iPhone Air). The other one makes its way between a variety of phones.
For the last couple of weeks, the latter SIM card has been inside the X9 Pro. I received the phone about a month ago under embargo (it’s a rare treat to get that long with a device, pre-release – trust me) and have used it as my main phone as much as possible ever since.
Last year’s model: Oppo Find X8 Pro review
My phone usage is what I’ve always considered to be ‘normal’. I communicate via WhatsApp, manage my email, scroll social media, take photos and videos, and indulge in the odd YouTube binge session. I don’t game or do anything remotely ‘intensive’ on my smartphone. That’s the perspective from which I write every review.
At A Glance
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Colours | Titanium Charcoal, Silk White |
| Dimensions | 161.26 × 76.46 × 8.25 mm |
| Weight | 224 g |
| Display | 6.78″ AMOLED, 2772×1272, 120Hz, 1800 nits peak, Gorilla Glass Victus 2 |
| Processor | MediaTek Dimensity 9500, 8-core, Mali Drage MC12 GPU |
| Memory | 16GB LPDDR5X RAM + 512GB UFS 4.1 storage |
| Rear Cameras | 50MP (wide, OIS) + 50MP (ultra-wide) + 200MP (telephoto, OIS) + 2MP (mono) |
| Front Camera | 50MP, f/2.0, autofocus |
| Video | Up to 4K@120fps, HDR, OIS, Pro Video, Dual-view |
| Battery | 7500mAh (typical) |
| Charging | 80W SUPERVOOC wired, 50W AIRVOOC wireless |
| OS | ColorOS 16 (Android) |
| Biometrics | In-display ultrasonic fingerprint, Face unlock |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, NFC, USB-C (3.2 Gen 1), eSIM |
| Network | 5G / 4G / 3G / 2G, Dual SIM |
| Audio | Type-C only, supports SBC, AAC, LDAC, aptX, LHDC |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, BDS, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC |
| Price | £1099 |
Specs and pricing
The X9 Pro is packed with impressive numbers. Powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9500, it has 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage (there’s only one tier for the latter at the time of writing), and a 6.78-inch 120Hz AMOLED display with 3,600 nits of peak brightness.
The matte aluminium frame is treated to IP66, IP68, and IP69 water and dust resistance. The latter, if you’re wondering, means it can withstand being attacked by high-pressure water jets – a scenario I’m yet to encounter with my phone, but it’s nice to know it’ll be ok.
Inside the X9 Pro, there’s a simply colossal 7,500mAh battery, which is the largest OPPO has ever placed inside a flagship device. I’ll get to that later.
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Camera-wise, we have nothing below 50MP on the rear of the phone. I’ll confirm the exact specs in the camera section of this review, but the 200MP lossless zoom lens is a stand-out, as is the whacky and entirely optional teleconverter kit.
Powering everything is ColorOS 16 – OPPO’s latest take on Android.
The X9 Pro is available in the UK from 28th October, and will cost £1,099. There’s a non-Pro version, too, which weighs in at £899 with a smaller display, slightly smaller battery (although, at 7,025mAh, it’s still huge), and a slightly lesser camera system.
Design
The X9 Pro is a handsome-looking device, and it’s a considerable change in direction from last year’s model. I prefer it. The circular camera module has been swapped for a square unit housing the lenses and the obligatory Hasselblad logo.
OPPO has also continued to favour a matte finish all-round, and a decidedly squared-off frame. The result is a smartphone which is purposeful, solid, and looks and feels every bit the flagship device.
There isn’t much more I can say about Android device displays. The X9 Pro has ultra-thin bezels surrounding the AMOLED panel, and, of course, benefits from a 120Hz refresh rate. The 3,600 nits of peak brightness will be enough to satisfy the sunniest of sunny days (we have absolutely reached the land of diminishing returns in that area), and there’s the usual eye care feature set baked into ColorOS 16, including high-frequency PWM dimming.
Related: iPhone 17 review
The only slight downside for the X9 Pro is the lacklustre colour selection. We get to choose from Silk White or the Titanium Charcoal shade that my review unit came in. Both are smart and sophisticated, but against the backdrop of the long-overdue injection of colour into Apple’s flagship iPhone lineup, OPPO’s limited offerings feel rather straitlaced.
That’s nitpicking, though; the X9 Pro (and, indeed, the regular X9) is a superb-looking device.
Camera
The X9 Pro features a 50MP main camera powered by a 1/1.28″ Sony LYT-828 sensor and offering triple exposure HDR. The ultra-wide is also a 50MP unit and doubles as a macro lens. But OPPO appears to be most proud of the 200MP telephoto lens, which is capable of 13.2x lossless zoom and up to 120x digital zoom.
All of OPPO’s cameras have had their colour profiles tuned by Hasselblad, and benefit from the LUMO Image Engine, which has a new AI photo pipeline for sharper detail, better low light performance, and faster processing.
Video-wise, the X9 Pro is capable of up to 4K at 120fps in Dolby Vision HDR. Oh, and it can also shoot in LOG with ACES certification for anyone who fancies getting their hands dirty with colour grading.
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The X9 Pro’s camera system is the beast it should be, given those specs. I’m an incredibly simple smartphone shooter; I never delve into RAW capture, and rarely venture beyond the optical zoom ranges. This means that out-of-the-box camera capabilities are all I’m interested in, and the X9 Pro has one of the best camera systems I’ve experienced in that regard. Every image is sharp, detailed, not over-saturated, and accurate.
Portraits are beautiful, thanks in no small part to the influence of Hasselblad. The optical zoom ranges are fantastic, too, although if you extend beyond them, we are, once again, into the realm of incredibly hit-and-miss AI photography. It’s still not for me, I’m afraid.
At the time of writing, I don’t have access to the teleconverter kit (it’s on the way to my house, I’m told), so I can’t comment on it other than to say I had a brief play with it in London a few weeks ago and it delivers pretty stunning results. I’m just not entirely sure who it’s for.
Battery life
If you hadn’t guessed, the first stand-out feature offered by the X9 Pro is the camera system. The second one is the battery life.
During the press briefing for the X9 series, one of my fellow tech YouTubers asked the entirely valid question, “is that legal?” when an OPPO presenter revealed the colossal 7,500mAh battery size.
It is, obviously. Although it feels exceedingly naughty. In the best possible way, of course.
This mahoosive battery is capable of 80W wired charging, 50W wireless charging, and 10W reverse charging. OPPO also suggests that it’s able to retain 80% of its capacity after five years. It’s made from silicon kryptonite (or whatever it’s called), which means it’s mercifully thin, enabling the X9 Pro to remain under 8mm thick.
I’m not into extreme battery testing. I’d much rather see what a smartphone can do once it’s up and running and I’ve given it a fair amount of time to do all of its initial updating and indexing.
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My first experience of the X9 Pro’s battery left me with 17% remaining after three days, 18 hours, and 53 minutes of use. And, according to ColorOS, there was still nearly six hours left in the tank if I took it steady.
That’s insane. It means I can confidently say that the X9 Pro will offer most regular users about four days of battery life without power saving turned on. Your mileage may vary, of course, but even if you experience a day less than that, it’ll still be transformative. I’ve never reviewed a phone that lasts this long.
Performance
My least favourite part of any smartphone review is the performance section. I just don’t know what to say anymore.
The X9 Pro is powered by the latest MediaTek chip – the Dimensity 9500. This 3-nanometer piece of silicon offers some decent upgrades over the previous generation – namely, 33% faster graphics and 32% better CPU performance. What’s more telling, though, is that both the CPU and the GPU draw far less power than before, which will in no doubt be contributing significantly to that crazy battery performance.
OPPO tells us there will also be smoother gaming performance thanks to a new custom vapour chamber, which enables the X9 Pro to run at cooler temperatures under load.
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As for ColorOS 16, it’s fast, easy to use, and not too bloatware-heavy. The AI stuff is there in abundance, and I still have little cause to use it and, consequently, limited interest in testing it for you. Sorry. I’d rather be honest. Mind Space is the only feature I’d like to briefly call out, because it’s a useful way to capture notes, screenshots, and webpages and chuck them all into one app that uses AI to provide summaries of your gatherings. And if you think that sounds like the Nothing Essential Space, that’s because it’s nigh-on identical.
Conclusion
Despite the myriad of AI-infused features we’re bombarded with these days on smartphones, I’m acutely aware that most people still only really care about three things: price, battery life, and the camera system.
The OPPO Find X9 Pro isn’t a cheap phone (it’s slightly more expensive in the UK than last year’s model, too), but it looks and feels every bit the flagship, so I’m willing to let that slide. It’s still ‘cheaper’ than some of the other flagships out there, after all.
The stonking battery performance will genuinely alter the expectations of X9 Pro owners. Anything less than at least three days of stamina from a smartphone in the future will feel like a serious downgrade. Both Apple and Samsung need to make serious strides in this area; OPPO is absolutely leading the way.
I’d challenge anyone not to like the photos the X9 Pro spits out. And, even if you don’t, you can tweak them to your liking.
OPPO has, to put it mildly, nailed it.
If you’re looking for a new Android smartphone in 2025, the Find X9 Pro should be right at the top of your list. It’s another masterpiece.
7 Comments
Great battery, great camera system, great build, high price as others flaghsips and score 80%?? weird grading system… it’s your opinion, of course, but it seems unfair.
No cases available for it. The earliest magnet case (10-14th November)
Wallet case 18-21st November)
I’ve got the phone, played about with it. But knowing my clumsiness, I’ll wait for the cases. UK
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Wow, a phone that can actually last three days? That’s a game-changer. I’ve been on the fence about upgrading, but the combination of that massive battery and a killer camera system makes the X9 Pro incredibly tempting. Thanks for the deep dive, Mark—this review is seriously helpful!