The Oppo Find X8 Ultra is official now: another déjà vu, but with a clever twist here and there

The new Oppo Find X8 Ultra – a device that you'll surely stumble upon when searching for the best camera phone in 2025 – is now official. If you care about having multiple dedicated cameras, big sensors and great lenses, you've come to the right place.

Like its predecessors, the Find X8 Ultra is developed in collaboration with the legendary photography company Hasselblad, and what one should get out of the newly announced Next-Gen Penta Camera System is:

• Great tones
• Accurate hues
• Sharp details
• Amazing night shots
• Consistent results

Based on the phone's specs from Oppo, the new flagship looks like a step ahead, but certainly not a giant leap. If you're getting a déjà vu and feel like the Find X8 Ultra is not the generational upgrade over the Find X7 Ultra some thought it would be, I feel you.

The phone is thinner (Oppo claims it's the thinnest camera phone in the world), with a flat screen now (in my book, that's great, but to each his own), packs some fancy quick-action buttons, a top-shelf Qualcomm chipset, a new, fifth camera (but it's not what you think it is), and more.

Here are the Find X8 Ultra specs at a glance:

• Display: a flat 6.82-inch AMOLED screen, 1-120HZ refresh rate, 3168 x 1440 pixels resolution, up to 2160 Hz dimming
• Battery: 6,100 mAh capacity, 100W fast charging wired, 50W wireless charging speeds
• Chipset: Snapdragon 8 Elite
• RAM and storage: up to 16 GB of RAM and up to 1 TB storage (UFS 4.1 ROM)
• Camera setup: Five cameras on the back (0.6x, 1x, 3x, and 6x plus a multispectral system unit)
• Notable features: 8.78 mm thin, IR blaster, dual SIM, Shortcut Button, Quick Button

We'll take a deeper dive in those specs later, but first, let's talk about the thing you (probably) came here for: let's talk about light, light gathering, pixels, and apertures. Let's talk about photography (and video, too!)

Find X8 Ultra camera(s): not four, but five!

Building on the already exciting and pretty respectable Oppo Find X7 Ultra, the new Find X8 Ultra keeps its main camera sensor, the mighty potent 1-inch Sony LYT-900. This is the same sensor found on its predecessor, as well as on the Xiaomi 15 Ultra – another mind-boggling camera phone.

However, the Find X8 Ultra packs an upgraded 8-element lens in front of the Sony LT-900 sensor, as well as a high refractive index glass element to minimize chromatic aberration.

The ultra-wide camera is also 50 MP, with an f/2 aperture and autofocus.

Then, there's the 3x periscope zoom camera. It packs an upgraded 1/1.56-inch Sony LYT-700 sensor, a brighter f/2.1 aperture and is said to minimize glare and ghosting.

You can focus at a minimum distance of 10 centimeters, which is why Oppo presents the 3x snapper as having telemacro capabilities – and the results can be stunning. Telemacro is, as the name suggests, a technique that uses a telephoto lens to capture close-up, detailed shots of small subjects from a distance, combining macro detail with telephoto reach.