Oppo Find X2 Pro hands-on review

Display

The Oppo Find X2 Pro has one very impressive display. It's an AMOLED, meaning infinite contrast and all that - Oppo claims 5,000,000:1 which is essentially the same. That's par for the course, however, and this AMOLED isn't like most AMOLEDs.

The phone's panel has a native resolution of 1440:3168px in a somewhat weird 19.8:9 aspect ratio (2.2:1 makes it sound a bit more normal), which has resulted in a 513ppi density when stretched across the 6.7-inch diagonal.

Most importatly, however, the display is capable of a 120Hz refresh rate and has a 240Hz touch sampling rate.

It's worth noting, that it's up to you to pick a resolution/refresh rate combo - 1080p or 1440p for the resolution and 60Hz or 120Hz for the refresh rate plus Auto settings for each, in case you'd rather let the phone do the deciding for you. Certain Galaxies can learn a thing or two from this setup.

Oppo says the Find X2 Pro's display is capable of covering the DCI-P3 color gamut to a full 100% and will do so with nearly impeccable accuracy. The display settings aren't entirely clear with both Vivid and Cinematic promising P3 in some form, yet delivering very different output from one another. We'll see what they're all about when we delve deeper into testing.

Display settings

The press materials promise a maximum brightness of 500nits, which goes up to 800nits under bright ambient light. Small areas of the screen will even be able to go as high as 1200nits when displaying HDR content. Oh, yes, the panel is HDR10+ compliant, too, if we forgot to mention that so far.

Software

The Find X2 Pro runs the company's thoroughly customized ColorOS overlay, now in version 7.1, based on Android 10. Certain features that come with the latest OS release will help you know it's 10 and not Pie - like the system-wide dark mode and the more granular location permissions.

Other things are entirely Oppo's own. Gesture navigation, for one, may look like it's basically the same as is natively implemented in the latest Android, but ColorOS actually does it one better. Swipe in from the edges works as 'back' alright, but swipe in and hold, and you get to switch back and forth between the two last used apps - stock Android has no solution for that.

ColorOS 7.1

Oppo points out it's opted for more subdued color saturation for system icons and menus, while the UI now offers a choice between three different iconography types. There's a fine set of picturesque wallpapers preloaded too.

ColorOS 7.1

A huge part of the software experience on the Find X2 Pro stems from the fluidity of the 120Hz display and the speedy animations. It's always super snappy, and it's something that you can get used to quickly and not want to switch away from.

Wrap-up

There's a lot of ways in which the Oppo Find X2 Pro is unique, but we barely had enough time with it to say 'hi'. The phone is here to stay though, so we'll be spending the coming days exploring that camera system in more detail, testing battery life, putting the spec-heavy display under scrutiny - the usual stuff. Stay tuned.