Key Takeaways

  • Oppo has released its latest Find X-series phone, the Find X6 Pro, but it's only available in China for now.
  • The Find X6 Pro has a unique design with a large circular camera unit on the back, resembling a dedicated digital camera.
  • The phone is all about photography, with a triple 50MP array on the rear and a 1-inch sensor on the main camera.

Smartphone season 2023 is well and truly upon us, and that means plenty of Android phone makers launching their next-gen flagships. Among them, tussling for a position at the front of the queue, Oppo is has announced its latest Find X-series phone. The key difference for the Find X6 Pro is that - currently - it's only launched in China. Here's everything you need to know about the phone.

Launch date and price?

  • Launched in March
  • 6499 Yuan (approx $942 or £760)

Oppo's latest phone landed at pretty much the time we expected it would, but didn't launch internationally. It launched in China in March, and it appears the company has no plans to launch it outside its home nation. This is a similar timeframe to the Find X5 Pro launched around February/March in 2022.

Just like those two phones before it, the Find X6 Pro sits at the top end of its smartphone range and is priced as such. In China, it costs around 6500 Yuan, which at the time of writing converts to $942 USD or £760 GBP. The previous models were around £1000/€1000/$1000 when they launched, but prices are typically more expensive in Western countries, and so that's not exactly a fair comparison. Were it to launch in Europe/UK, we'd expect it to be around the same price point as its predecessor.

Design and Display

  • 164.8 x 76.2 x 9.1mm/9.5mm - 216g or 218g
  • Gorilla Glass Victus 2 front - Gorilla Glass 5 or 'eco leather' back
  • Black, green or brown/white colours - IP68 water/dust resistant
  • 6.82-inch QHD+ display - up to 120Hz refresh LTPO3 AMOLED panel
  • 1 billion colour display - Dolby Vision and HDR10+ support - 2500 nits peak brightness

The Find X6 Pro looks radically different from its predecessors. Where the Find X3 Pro and Find X5 Pro went for quite a subtle and seamless camera housing design on the back, the Find X6 Pro is very much the opposite.

Oppo Find X6 Pro - 1
Oppo

The device has a massive circular camera unit, sticking out quite far from the back of the phone. Clearly, like the Xiaomi 13 Ultra, it's designed to look like a classic, dedicated digital camera.

It also features an attractive two-tone design if you opt for the brown option which features a brown 'eco leather' which reaches roughly 2/3rds of the way up the back of the phone, contrasting with a white glass upper. The other two colours are just glass on the back, featuring either a classic black finish or a dark green option.

From the front, it's very much your classic flagship Android phone where the screen dominates the space, curves a little at the edges and has skinny black bezels all the way around with a punch-hole camera at the top. On the durability side, it's IP68 water and dust resistant, ensuring it shouldn't be troubled by rain or being accidentally dropped in water.

Oppo has cranked the display specs up a notch from the previous model, delivering a new generation LTPO panel and more brightness. It's a large 6.82-inch AMOLED LTPO 3 panel, which means you get efficient adaptive refresh rates from 1-120Hz. It's designed to respond quickly and efficiently to changes in the displayed content's frame rates, saving power. At QHD+ (1440 x 3168) resolution, it's pin-sharp too.

It's up there with the best of them in terms of brightness, colours and contrast. It features a peak brightness of up to 2500 nits, for those times when you have really bright spots in HDR video. It's Dolby Vision and HDR10+ compatible too, plus has the ability to display over a billion colours.

Hardware, software and battery specs

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 - 12GB/16GB RAM - 256GB/512GB storage
  • 5000mAh battery - 100W wired charging - 50W wireless charging
  • ColorOS 13.1 built on Android 13

Oppo's 2023 flagship was one of the first Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered phones to market. We knew it would be; Oppo announced as much during the Snapdragon event at the end of 2022.

There are - perhaps confusingly - three variants of RAM/storage available for the Find X6 Pro. There's a 12GB/256GB entry-level model, a 16GB/256GB model and a 16GB/512GB variant.

Like the OnePlus 11, it has a big 5000mAh battery with support for Oppo's 100W SuperVOOC wired charging which means a full charge in under 25 minutes. Unlike the OnePlus 11, however, this phone features wireless charging. And it's fast wireless charging too, with up to 50W speeds available using a proprietary 50W charging stand.

As for software, that's ColorOS 13.1 based on Android 13. More important is that Oppo has promised to support these phones with four major updates, which means the Find X6 should be supported up to and including the Android 17 update, which we don't expect to arrive until late 2027.

Cameras

  • Triple 50MP system
  • 120x zoom feature
  • MariSilicon X 2 ISP - Hasselblad tuning

One big piece of news is the camera got a proper upgrade this year. All three of the cameras on the back of the Find X6 Pro feature a 50-megapixel sensor of some description.

The primary sensor is a huge 1-inch-type sensor similar to what we saw launch in the Xiaomi 12S Ultra. This certainly helps explain the new prominent design of the camera housing on the back.

There's also a 50-megapixel ultrawide camera and a 50-megapixel telephoto periscope zoom camera which offers 2.8x optical zoom, and can zoom digitally all the way up to 120x.

It can shoot up to 10-bit video, with 4K at 60fps and Dolby Vision support. The front camera is a 32MP module.

Oppo Find X6 Pro: The story so far

21 March 2023: Oppo Find X6 and X6 Pro are official with cameras galore

Oppo officially launched the Find X6 Pro, but it's only available in China for now.

15 February 2023: Find X6 Pro certification confirms 100W charging

A certification listing from China's 3C organisation confirms that the Find X6 Pro will feature 100W charging, just like the OnePlus 11.

5 February 2023: Leaked real-life photo confims big, round camera

Following on from the digital render leak, a real hands-on photo shows the prominent, round camera island

17 January 2023: Leaked render shows large, round camera

It seems the square camera model is the regular Find X6, because renders of the Pro feature a large, circular camera island

13 January 2023: Find X6 photos leak, show off mega camera bump

Real life, in-the-wild photos have leaked, and show a massive square camera protrusion on the back of what we think now is the regular Find X6.

3 January 2023: Find X6 Pro to feature 120x zoom?

A report claims the next Oppo flagship could follow Samsung's example and offer a huge 120x zoom.

20 December 2022: Oppo commits to four major software updates

Following its fastest Android rollout so far, Oppo committed to supporting its future flagships - including the Find X6 Pro - for 4-5 years.

23 November 2022: 50-megapixel triple camera system incoming?

A leak suggests that Oppo will stick a trio of 50-megapixel cameras on the back of the Find X6 Pro.

15 November 2022: Next Find X phone to run Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Oppo has announced its next Find X series will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor platform.