The mobile phone brands that are still active on the stage today have their own top-level flagship series. For example, Samsung's S-series, Huawei's Mate series, Xiaomi's digital series, Vivo's X-series, and OPPO's Find X series.
Take the new OPPO Find X7 Ultra as an example, the reason why it can be defined as a top-of-the-line flagship is not because it is expensive, but because it represents the current OPPO's top hardware and software capabilities and craftsmanship.
I've been using this phone for almost half a month since I got the OPPO Find X7 Ultra. This article will talk to you about how good it is, and at the same time share some of my feelings during this time.
In the automotive sector there is a special kind of existence: supercars. They boast unrivalled power output, but extreme speed has never been the only thing supercars are looking for. Historically, many of the most iconic cars, including the Ferrari Enzo, have been built to the highest level of exterior design and craftsmanship.
The same goes for top-of-the-line flagship phones. For this type of product, top-level performance is the most basic element, perhaps due to different tuning strategies, there will be some absolute performance gap between flagship phones launched in the same period, but this gap is generally small. What really reflects the differences between the top flagships is mainly in the presentation of CMF design and functional experience.
This time, OPPO Find X7 Ultra has made a total of three colors, which are called the sea and the sky, the desert silver moon, and the pine shadow ink rhyme, all of which are designed in a double way. Unlike many other phones, the Find X7 Ultra back cover isn't a simple two-color build, but a blend of two different materials.
For example, the back cover of the Sea and Sky version in my hand is made of white glass on the top half and plain leather on the bottom half. The ingenuity of this generation is that the junction of the two materials is semi-circled, and it always feels like it is smiling at you. Compared to the Find X6 Pro's Desert Silver Moon version, it looks much more natural.
In a low-light or backlit scene, the bottom half of the Find X7 Ultra looks like black with a certain amount of grayscale, but when the light hits, you will find that it is actually a light blue, which is very special.
I've also said in the unbox** before,This version of the color is the color that I think is the most in line with the top flagship tone so far,It has found an excellent balance between personality and calmness,No matter what kind of social identity you are,There will be no sense of disobedience in your hand。
What better reflects the Find X7 Ultra's top-of-the-line flagship is the detailing. Let's take a look at the rear camera area, for which OPPO has made two completely different rings . The inner ring engraved with the words Hypertone Camera System is made up of multiple layers of circular textures, while the inner core area is heavily highlighted.
When you turn the phone a little side, you'll notice that the outermost part of the Find X7 Ultra camera area is not a simple high-gloss metal collar, but in addition to the small yellow dots of the Hasselblad, a lot of longitudinal cut textures like clock scales have been added. In this way, whether you look at it from the front or from the side, its camera area presents an extremely refined and high-end visual experience.
In terms of grip, the body thickness of the Find X Ultra is the same as that of the Find X6 Pro, which is 95 mm, and even narrower by 01 mm. At the same time, the overall appearance will appear thinner due to the slight increase in the width of the high-gloss middle frame.
However, including the camera, the Find X7 Ultra is 5 grams more powerful than the Find X6 Pro in absolute weight, coming to 221 grams, thanks to more electronics crammed into the body.
In a side-by-side comparison, the Find X Ultra weighs the same as the Vivo X100 Pro Sunset Orange version, and is a bit lighter than the Xiaomi Mi 14 Pro Glass version (223 grams). Although it has a slight sense of weight in the actual hand, it is still acceptable.
There was a comment in the comment section of the previous OPPO Find X6 Pro review article: Is this a phone, or a camera? Regarding the issue of mobile phone roll image capabilities, I think there are quite a few people who have a similar view and feel that it is not very necessary.
This can be understood in this way. Human beings' pursuit of good is always on the way, and when a mobile phone can meet all your daily basic needs, we hope to use it to do more meaningful things.
The significance of mobile imaging lies precisely in the flexible use characteristics of mobile phones, which allow you to record those important moments anytime and anywhere. The value of the roll image is that through the software and hardware capabilities of the mobile phone itself, ordinary people can easily shoot satisfactory images even without any photography skills, so as to achieve the purpose that everyone can take pictures and everyone is willing to shoot.
Compared to the previous generation, the Find X7 Ultra camera has some obvious upgrades. The rear camera has been increased to 4 lenses, all of which are 50 million pixels, including a wide-angle main camera, 2 periscope telephoto lenses, and 1 ultra-wide-angle lens.
Among them, the main camera uses a new 1-inch outsole sensor with an equivalent focal length of 23 mm8-aperture, OIS optical focus; Ultra-wide-angle lens equivalent focal length 14 mm, 20 aperture, 123° field of view.
The most special thing is the telephoto lens. Other flagship phones may also have periscope telephoto lenses, but only the Oppo Find X7 Ultra currently has two periscope telephoto lenses crammed into one device at the same time.
Both periscope telephoto lenses support OIS optical image stabilization, one with a 65mm-equivalent focal length and the other with a 135mm-equivalent focal length, providing up to 6x optical zoom and 120x digital zoom shooting.
Before I got the real thing, I didn't really understand the fact that the Find X7 Ultra uses 2 periscope telephoto lenses. After all, the 6x ** effect obtained by the previous generation by cutting was also good, but after actually using it, I completely changed my previous opinion.
Take photographing small pets, for example. In fact, if you want to easily capture the details of their facial expressions, especially if you are not familiar with them, you may run away once you get close to the phone to photograph the cat. That's where the Find X7 Ultra ultra telephoto lens comes in, making it easy to capture close-ups of detail from a distance.
When a phone has a wider zoom range, it also means that it gives you more freedom to create. For example, in the picture above, in fact, the background of it is that I put a fawn on a tree branch. It's easy to get all the branches in the mess if you shoot with 1x, but with the 6x telephoto shoots it's very clean, and the overall feel is better.
If you have a 6x optical zoom, why keep a 3x? This question is actually quite easy to answer. Switching to 6x zoom does allow you to capture details further away, but it also means that more of the subject is discarded. For example, in the image above, if I shoot with 6x, only the tail of the plane remains, but with the 3x zoom, I can keep the cute livery of Sichuan Airlines.
In addition, the Find X7 Ultra, a 3X periscope telephoto lens, can be used as a workhorse for everyday shooting. As you can see in the picture above, even in an indoor scene with complex light such as the airport hall, it can still accurately present all the details of the building, the metal frame in the dark area is clearly visible, and the highlight area of the top glass skylight is not overexposed, and the texture is great.
Let's go back to the portraits. One of the reasons why the Find X6 series is so well received is that it has excellent portrait capability, and this advantage carries over to the Find X7 Ultra, and the results and experience are even better. As you can see, in 3x portrait mode, the overall bokeh effect is extremely natural due to the fact that the details of the hair are well preserved.
And unlike other phones, the Find X7 Ultra's beauty is relatively more realistic and natural. You can feel that it has undergone a series of treatments such as dermabrasion, whitening, etc., but each one is kept at just the right level. Another thing that I think is an important improvement is that this generation is faster in portrait mode, making it easy to record every moment when your child is playing.
For today's smartphones, the difference in individual imaging ability is better reflected in the night when the light conditions are poor. Thanks to the new 1-inch outsole sensor on the Find X7 Ultra's main camera, combined with sophisticated algorithms, it performs perfectly at night, with complex elements such as platform signage, vehicles, and pedestrians clearly visible, and the overall look is clean.
In addition to the main camera, the Oppo Find X7 Ultra's two periscope telephoto lenses also support Night mode. I was very impressed with the Find X6 Pro's 3X night view before, and this generation still maintains the same high level. Not only the paper airplane as the subject of the subject, but also the details of the glass frame in the distant background are well preserved.
The Find X7 Ultra main camera and the 3x ultra-sensitive periscope telephoto lens work well at night, but I was a little surprised by the night results of the 6x ultra-telephoto lens. Because the aperture of this lens is relatively small, I originally thought that the noise would be higher when shooting at night, but the actual quality is far better than I imagined, which can be said to be a concert shooting artifact.
In addition to the familiar shooting modes such as photo, portrait, and night scenes, the Find X7 Ultra also has a special Hasselblad Master mode, which you can think of as an advanced version of the Pro mode.
Unlike traditional Pro mode, it offers both Auto and Pro options. In Auto mode, you can manually set parameters such as saturation, contrast, sharpness, vignetting, and more, so you can easily shoot with the characteristics of Hasselblad tones**.
If you have a basic knowledge of photography and want to use your mobile phone to create freely, it is recommended to use the Pro mode. Not only does this mode allow you to freely adjust all the important camera parameters, but it also allows you to shoot in RAW format**, so you have a lot of room for post-production.
As for the image part of the Oppo Find X7 Ultra, I think it would be more appropriate to describe it as "making it easier for everyone to capture what is in front of them and more freely".
Smartphones have been around for more than 30 years, since IBM Simon was born in 1993. In the past few years, the development of mobile phones in terms of intelligence can be roughly divided into three major stages:
The first stage is the definition of a smartphone in a broad sense, with an independent operating system and running space, allowing everyone to freely install various third-party applications, which greatly improves the application scenarios of mobile phones.
The second stage is the introduction of voice assistants, which can be understood as manufacturers put a virtual character in the mobile phone, and you can control the mobile phone to complete relevant instructions through your voice, which is more natural than traditional buttons or touch methods;
The third stage is to combine with large models to make mobile phones smarter, more versatile, and more aware of your needs. Compared with the application of AI on mobile phones in the era of voice assistants, it is now more in line with people's general understanding of intelligence.
In fact, although mobile phone voice assistants have been around for many years, and manufacturers are constantly improving and upgrading, because many times voice assistants can't understand what I'm saying, it's not as convenient as direct manual operation. Unexpectedly, after switching to the Find X7 Ultra as the main machine, the voice assistant has become my preferred way of human-computer interaction.
With the support of AI large models, the new Xiaobu Assistant has strong comprehension capabilities. For example, when it comes to eating, every day when it is almost time to eat, I feel worried about not knowing what to eat. If you have similar troubles, you can directly ask Xiaobu assistant: What should I eat at noon? It will then quickly understand your intentions and give you a series of healthy eating recommendations.
While being able to understand what you say, the new Cloth Assistant also has powerful creative abilities. For example, if you are invited to speak as a parent representative but do not know how to write a speech, you can ask Xiaobu for help, and it only takes a few seconds to get it done. In addition, other needs such as writing couplets, drawing, etc., it can also help you easily complete, which can be said to be an all-round assistant.
Xiaobu Assistant can also help you solve a lot of daily machine problems. For example, after using it for a while, you want to clean up your phone. If you put it in the past, you may have to check the Internet yourself to find out what to do, especially for the elderly, even if there is a tutorial, you may still not know how to operate. After you have a little cloth assistant, just tell it to clean up the garbage.
In addition to the intelligent voice assistant, there is another aspect of the AI large model on the Find X7 Ultra that I think is very useful: AIGC elimination. This function is located in the album editing interface, if there are other irrelevant people or objects in the shooting, you only need to simply circle them, and the phone can help you clear them and fill in the background intelligently.
As you can see, the newly obtained ** not only perfectly retains the main body of the character you want, but also after eliminating the irrelevant subject, the background of the left position is highly consistent with the original picture, and there is no trace of post-processing at all, which is very real and natural. With this feature, you don't need to ask someone to help you with the p picture on Xiaohongshu when you go out to take pictures.
In fact, the above is just a few of the many AI features of Find X7 Ultra, for example, it also supports the AI call summary function demonstrated at the previous press conference, which can quickly organize key call content, which is very suitable for business people who usually have a lot of contacts, and looks forward to adapting to other third-party applications such as WeChat in the future.
Let's take a look at what is probably the most boring part of the hardware configuration. The OPPO Find X7 Ultra is equipped with a 682-inch AMOLED LTPO 2K diamond screen, 3168 1440 resolution, 510ppi, maximum brightness can reach 4500 nits, support P3 wide color gamut, 10700 million color display, 120Hz refresh rate, and up to 240Hz touch sampling rate.
After booting up, the system defaults to FHD+ HD image quality, which will better take into account the battery life. If you use it on a daily basis, I personally recommend manually adjusting the display settings to QHD+ ultra-HD image quality, and the picture will be significantly more detailed after switching. Of course, you can also choose to switch intelligently, at which time the phone will automatically switch the resolution according to the scene.
In fact, the Find X7 Ultra screen not only has an extremely detailed picture, but also has a top-notch color performance. At the same time, thanks to its very high screen brightness, it's very cool to watch HDR**. During use, I also noticed that although it is also a curved screen, the small curvature is handled with a mature algorithm, and the problem of false touch rarely occurs, which can be assured.
The core hardware configuration is of course the best level you can buy now, equipped with the third-generation Snapdragon 8 flagship chip, using OPPO's self-developed tidal architecture and aerospace-grade cooling system, and a large area of dual-cycle VC heat dissipation is stuffed inside the fuselage, and the system scheduling ability is further improved, which can fully release the SOC performance, whether it is daily use or playing games, it is very smooth.
Speaking of which, it is important to note that the Oppo Find X7 Ultra is currently only available in three storage variants: 12GB+256GB, 16GB+256GB and 16GB+512GB, and the 1TB version is expected to be released on the satellite version after the holiday. Normal use of 512GB is sufficient, and if you are looking for more storage, you can wait a few more days.
In terms of battery life, the battery capacity of the OPPO Find X7 Ultra remains the same as that of the Find X6 Pro, which is also 5000mAh, matched with 100W wired fast charging, 50W wireless fast charging, and supports 10W reverse charging. Judging from my personal usage habits, one charge a day is not a big problem, and because it is relatively fast, there is nothing to worry about heavy use.
It has been measured that with the original wired charger, it can be charged from 1% to minutes in 5 minutes, and it can be charged to 88% in minutes, and it only takes 26 minutes to charge to 100%. As you can see from the line chart, the first 15 minutes of charging are ideal, and you can quickly restore your phone to a healthy battery.
Whether it is a mobile phone or a PC, as a mass consumer electronic product, the functional features are more comprehensive, which determines whether it can be liked by more people. Having said that, when doing product planning, many times you still have to consider the cost, so most products on the market can't do this, so there are subdivided product lines like gaming phones.
But for a flagship like the top, cost is not the core issue, the difficulty lies in how to achieve a wider coverage of functional features in the face of different people, different needs, and different scenarios, and this is precisely the advantage of the OPPO Find X7 Ultra. Thanks to its powerful hardware and software capabilities, it can provide a great experience whether you like to take pictures, play games, or catch up on dramas for entertainment.
At the same time, the access of AI large models not only greatly reduces the threshold for the use of mobile phones, but also makes mobile phones become your personal assistants, helping you solve various large and small problems in work and life. In addition, the VIP mode, together with a series of features such as multi-device collaboration and file opening, make the Find X7 Ultra better serve business people.
Previously, our comprehensive understanding of mobile phones stayed at the hardware level, such as whether there is an X-axis linear motor, NFC, and so on. The emergence of the OPPO Find X7 Ultra allows us to see that the real comprehensiveness should be the comprehensiveness of the scene application, providing the best service for those who use it anytime, anywhere. Maybe there will be a new flagship in the future, but you won't regret buying it.