Oppo Find X7 Ultra review

Design, build quality, handling

If you've seen the Find X6 Pro, this new Ultra here will certainly look familiar - the dual-tone back is Oppo's way of adding personality to a rear panel dominated by a chonker of a camera assembly, when everyone else has a chonker of a camera assembly on their backs anyway.

Oppo Find X7 Ultra (left) next to Find X6 Pro

There are changes, naturally. The extra telephoto has now forced a rearrangement of lenses and a rethinking of the branding - MariSilicon is gone, Hasselblad has turned into an H, and we now get some lens specs, though the single f/1.8 isn't quite true of the whole 14-135mm range, of course. The flash has been expelled outside of the camera bump too.

Unlike last year, when only the brown colorway of the X6 Pro had faux leather on its back, all three color options of the X7 Ultra feature both leatherette and glass, with the border between the two materials below the camera circle extending towards but not reaching the equator on the sides. The black version even has some pretend-stitching along the centerline and beneath the camera - making it look sort of like a suit jacket.

Our blue review unit is nicely soft and grippy and there are really no fingerprints to speak of on the leather part. There's little reason to be touching the top end, but when you do, the light-colored material doesn't advertise the smudges. The shiny frame is a bit more prone to getting greased up, but it's not too bad either.

Oppo Find X7 Ultra color options

The front of the Find has the 6.82-inch display protected by Gorilla Glass Victus 2 - there was no talk of Gorilla Armor when the Oppo got announced and it probably won't be until the next flagship crop that we'll be seeing a non-Galaxy with Corning's latest glass.

One other area where this Ultra isn't like that Ultra is the frame - there no titanium here, just aluminum.

It may be denied the Samsung treatment in the materials department, but the Find X7 Ultra is just as IP68-rated as the Galaxy S24 Ultra and most other premium handsets.

One new addition to the high-end Oppo is an element the designers borrowed from across the hallway - the OnePlus alert slider was seen on the Oppo Find N3 foldable, and it's here on the 'plain' Find too. Its click action is solid as usual, but what it operates is a bit unorthodox - other than the Ring and Silent mode positions, it also features a VIP mode, which disables the camera, microphones, and location access. Excuse us, Mr. Bond!

Speaking of security, the X7 Ultra unlocks with an under-display fingerprint reader, an optical one. It's placed nicely high up the screen, and its operation was uneventful in our experience - that is to say, it worked as expected at this point, without raising any speed or accuracy concerns.