Oppo Find X8 review
Display
The Oppo Find X8 has a 6.59-inch display - a bit smaller than the 6.78 inches of the Find X8 Pro. It is still a pretty sizeable display. It is an AMOLED panel, but unlike the Oppo Find X8 Pro, it uses regular LTPS tech rather than LTPO. It has a 10-bit color depth. Oppo calls it a "ProXDR Display" and says it also features "Adaptive Eye Care". The display also has 3840Hz PWM dimming under 70 nits and DC dimming above 70 nits.
The display on the Find X8 gets pretty bright, though not quite on par with its competitors. Oppo claims that it should have around 800 nits of typical brightness, with 1,600 nits of max whole display brightness and a whopping peak of 4,500 nits.
In our standardized testing set up, we measured 878 nits by maxing out the slider and 1,364 nits of max auto brightness.
Brightness is just 2.2 nits at point while at a minimum on the brightness slider, which is low enough.
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As mentioned, the Find X8 lacks the advanced LTPO tech of the Find X8 Pro. Still, it has a 120Hz display refresh rate and supports the refresh rate modes in total - 60Hz, 90Hz and 120Hz. In terms of refresh rate settings, the Find X8 is really versatile. There is an "Auto" mode, which does a great job of automatically adjusting the refresh rate. The general logic is that the refresh rate jumps up to 120Hz as you interact with the phone but then dials back to 60Hz when it is not doing anything. There is automatic video playback detection as well, that triggers 60Hz.
Beyond that, you can also set the refresh rate to a fixed 60Hz or a "fixed" 120Hz. The latter option includes a very handy per-app settings menu that you can use to set the desired refresh rate for each of your apps. This is great behavior for most use cases, including high refresh-rate gaming. We tried a few titles known to be able to push past 60fps and managed to get a high refresh rate to work on all of them either through the automatic mode or by manually setting 120Hz for them in settings.
As mentioned, the display on the Find X8 is quite bright and not only perfectly usable outdoors but also quite capable of a good HDR experience. The display has both Dolby Vision and HDR10+ certifications, while the phone can decode pretty much every HDR format out there: Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG. The Find X8 also has the highest possible Widevine L1 DRM certification, allowing apps like Netflix to offer up FullHD streams.
Battery life
Thanks to silicon carbon (Si/C) battery technology, Oppo managed to cram a large capacity battery inside the Find X8 - it's 5630 mAh, which is impressively large for the size of the phone. Thanks to its chemistry, the battery should also be more resilient to cold and potentially last more recharge cycles.
In our standardized testing, the Oppo Find X8 managed a solid 13:58 hours of Active Use Score. The phone did particularly well with video streaming.
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Charging speed
The Find X8's spec sheet lists an 80W charging capability, and that's also what the bundled adapter is specced for. In our testing, it maxed at 72W at the very start of the charging process (from an empty battery) and quickly tapered off to lower power values - a common behavior that's gotten all the more noticeable with the silicon carbon batteries we've been getting as of late.
Charging speed is not among the fastest - we clocked an empty-to-full time of 52 minutes, but we like that we were looking at 70% at the half-hour checkpoint.
We should probably start adjusting expectations going forward - the sub-20 minute charging times we got from dual-cell graphite anode batteries of yesteryear don't go well with today's push for higher energy density. It's probably not the worst of tradeoffs, though.
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The above speeds are for the bundled proprietary charger, but the Find X8 also supports regular USB Power Delivery at up to 55W - or so Oppo says. In our experience with half a dozen other makers' and aftermarket PD adapters, we only got up to 26W. The total charging time was around 60 minutes, and we got 54% in half an hour.
The X8 also supports wireless charging at up to 50W when using an in-house AirVOOC pad. Reverse wireless charging is also on the menu at up to 10W.
Color OS has a reasonable set of battery saver and battery health options. It has the Smart charging toggle that attempts to learn your charging habits and does the final top-off before it predicts you'll need the phone. It also has the option to limit the charge to 80% when it detects you've got the phone plugged in for prolonged amounts of time. You can also turn off the Smart rapid charging and have the Find X8 charge slower than its maximum capability - the difference was minimal in our experience.
Speakers - loudness and quality
The Find X8 employs a hybrid speaker system with one bottom-firing unit and another one above the display that directs sound toward the front and serves as an earpiece for voice calls. As Oppo normally goes about this, both speakers will also output the opposite channel's track at a lower volume in addition to their own. The channels are otherwise assigned based on the phone's orientation when in landscape, while the top speaker gets the left channel when the handset is held vertically.
The Find X8 Pro got a 'Very Good' rating for loudness in our test - on par with last year's Ultra and pretty much any potential competitor. The output is pretty clean, with crisp mids and well-defined highs. There is even some bass. Though, don't expect anything spectacular. It's a solid speaker system, even if not quite on the level of something like the iPhone 16 Pro Max or the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra.
Use the Playback controls to listen to the phone sample recordings (best use headphones). We measure the average loudness of the speakers in LUFS. A lower absolute value means a louder sound. A look at the frequency response chart will tell you how far off the ideal "0db" flat line is the reproduction of the bass, treble, and mid frequencies. You can add more phones to compare how they differ. The scores and ratings are not comparable with our older loudspeaker test. Learn more about how we test here.
Connectivity
The Find X8 is a dual Nano-SIM 5G device. It supports SA/NSA Sub-6 connectivity concurrently on both SIM slots. There is also eSIM support.
The Dimensity 9400 is pretty stacked when it comes to location services. It supports dual-band GPS (L1+L5), BDS (B1I+B1c+B2a+B2b), GALILEO (E1+E5a+E5b), QZSS (L1+L5), GLONASS and NavIC (L5).
There is modern Wi-Fi 7 support for local connectivity, though, unfortunately, just dual-band, so no 6 GHz is available.
You also get Bluetooth 5.4 with LE and support for aptX HD and LHDC 5. There is NFC as well, with NFC-SIM, HCE, eSE, and eID. Plus, you get an Infrared blaster. There is no FM radio and no 3.5mm audio jack.
The Type-C port on the Find X8 is backed by a relatively fast SuperSpeed 5 Gbps USB 3.0 or 3.2 Gen 1x1 data connection. It supports USB Host/OTG but does not have any additional extras like video output.
There is a sizeable collection of onboard sensors, including a BOSCH bmi2xy accelerometer and gyroscope combo, AKM akm09910 magnetometer and compass combo, an OPLUS Fusion Light Sensor Next Gen and an AMS tcs3743 hardware proximity sensor. There is no barometer onboard.
Reader comments
- Raz
- 03 Dec 2024
- xjH
Global version can translate display from usb? Usb version 3.0 for global ver looks suspect
- Oppobiu
- 29 Nov 2024
- 0WJ
The phone would retail at $2k+ for those specs. The manufacturers have to make compromises relative to how much consumers are prepared to pay. Likely 2 cameras share a 1" sensor, the other two will have the same sensor as the X8 Pro. I...
- Anonymous
- 27 Nov 2024
- 1Gr
We have both the standard Find X8 and Find X8 Pro in Indonesia.