Oppo Find X9 Review: A Compact Phone With ‘Pro’ Power

But Oppo’s Find X8 was an easy recommendation, given that the compact flagship segment had not been well-developed in late 2024 and the first half of 2025. things a bit different in the second half,’ said . A year after year, we saw Google’s basic Pixel 10 model get a new telephoto camera and Apple’d iPhone got – both of which cost Rs. 79,999 and Rs. A 82,990 and a 90,991 respectively. Despite the Oppo Find X8 being already an enticing option in 2025, there are some fresh problems that can be addressed to this segment by the new Find. Oppo has offered this year it some cool upgrades to its to do so. A new design, a faster fingerprint reader, an increased battery and ‘new chip to keep track of the competition’. But do they still help keep track of the growing competition? Read on to know!

Oppo Find X9 Design: Slim, stylish and compact

• Dimensions – 157 x 73.9 x 8mm
• Weight – 203 grams
• Durability – IP69

The new Find X9 and the previous Find (X8) have not been significantly different in overall dimensions than the original, but has had little difference. Despite its slim, minimalist overall profile, Oppo has been polished in a few places with the sleeker face of it.

We received the Oppo Find X9 in the new Velvet Red finish

One of the biggest changes is that it has been replaced with a square camera module, which was previously used as ‘circle circular camera Module’. Like the sensors on the Find X8, it has its own footprint, but is smaller in a small footprint (tucked away into top left corner of rear panel and does not take up as much space as the circular one)?

The placement of the buttons and the design of that frame are still the same as on the Find X8, but it has now replaced the alert slider with what Oppo calls a ‘Snap Key’. Almost as much as an Action button on an iPhone, it works like the larger Find X9 Pro and is only preset functions. During the test period I only used it for switching sound profiles and nothing else, although Oppo wants you to use this technology as part of its AI feature called Snap to Mind Space (which is basically saving screen material) tag with recorded audio for recall.

The ‘Snap Key’ is a new button on the Oppo Find X9

The higher-capacity battery has made the Find X9 slightly heavier than its predecessor, but it’s not too heavy nor too light for a compact smartphone. Similarly, Fit and finish are near-perfect (as they should be) and Oppo has retained the IP69 rating of Find X8 but that company will not compensate for damage caused by water ingress.

Oppo Find X9 Display: As it should be!

• Display size – 6.59 inches, 1,256 x 2,760 pixels, 460PPI
• Display type – AMOLED (LTPS), 60-90-120Hz
• Display protection – Corning Gorilla Glass 7i

The display of the Oppo Find X9, which is perfectly flat and has an ultra-skinny border with its super skinning appearance, provides a distraction free view. Depending on the screen colour mode you choose, colours are accurate. The display also has a lot of light outside the window, giving you stress-free viewing whether you are replying to ‘an email or scroll through social media feeds or watching video.

The Oppo Find X9 retains the flat and distraction-free LTPS display from the older model

This displays are a panel of LTPS, and I wish Oppo had switched to LDPO for better power savings as the Find X9 is ‘a compact device’. It is also HDR10+ and Dolby Vision-certified panel which can display supported content. With the high-resolution panel, it’s a software interface in general or video content that makes visuals bright and sharp.

Oppo Find X9 Software: A tale of Liquid Glass and AI

• Android version – 16
• Software – ColorOS 16
• Software commitment – 5 years OS + 6 years SMR

I recently reviewed the Find X9 Pro, which is nearly identical to the software experience of Oppo See x9. This includes the new Liquid Glass inspired features and a number of other AI capabilities, all which I explained in detail at Find X9 Pro review.

The Liquid-Glassification of ColorOS

While it all seems to mimic Liquid Glass, this probably isn’t Oppo’s first attempt at copying Apple’ wildly popular iOS 26. I’m hoping it will be a step from mimicking Liquid Glass to working like LiQUIdglass at some point in the future. Which is better Either that, or Oppo does its own thing, Or goes down the flatter and whackier Material 3 Expressive path Google has chosen for its Pixel devices, which makes them unique in their own way of doing so.

Which Oppo’s ColorOS does pretty well in its current confusion is smoothness of color. It’s a fluid app that is very fluid, no matter what you are doing and which app you use in the ColorOS 16. The Flux icon set, which enables the entire collection of icons according to the system colour or to match the wallpaper, is another good visual detail that can be used when it comes to confusing UI elements. Like the theming engine for the icons, it is a good one-off of its own merits (in contrast to previous ones) painting all these icons with the same colour palette or accent.

The new swipe animations look cool, but are limited to the Settings app

Swipe Animations is another unique feature I noticed and loved on ColorOS. It is currently in beta, and allows you to preview or see the previous state of the app or menu before returning to it via a card-like interface. If you have Gesture navigation switched on (and then a restart for all apps) to see the animations, available under Settings > System & updates > Systems navigation > Swipe animation(beta), and are now required by settings >System navigation. It is a great app in supported apps, currently only with the Settings app but I hope Oppo can allow this for third-party and even other system apps when it comes to future updates.

Oppo Find X9 Performance: Meets expectations and some more

• Processor – MediaTek Dimensity 9500, 4.21GHz, 3nm
• RAM – 12/16GB (LPDDR5X)
• Storage – 256/512GB (UFS 4.1)

The larger Find X9 Pro uses the same processor as the Find, which is used in the Search x9Pro. The iQOO and Vivo handsets don’t have dual-chip setup, so the phone loses out on some gaming-focused features they provide. It is not a problem to perform software, . If it is multitasking, switching between apps and launching them or even scroll through them, the Find ‘X9’ manages all without sweating? Many apps and games are also remembered for a long time, as do apps or games.

The scores of the phone are similar to Find X9 Pro and consistent with the competing smartphones as well as those that compete. Hence, the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 isn’t inferior to the Elite chips on other premium handsets.

| Benchmarks | Oppo Find X9 | Vivo X300 | OnePlus 15 | Galaxy S25 |
| — | — | — | — | — |
| Display resolution | 1,256 x 2,760 pixels | 1.5K | 1.5K | 1,080 x 2,340 pixels |
| Chipset | Dimensity 9500 (3nm) | Dimensity 9500 (3nm) | Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (3nm) | Snapdragon 8 Elite (3nm) |
| AnTuTu v10 | 34,38,884 | 31,38,115 | 36,35,346 | 21,13,343 |
| PCMark Work Performance 3.0 | 12,900 | 16,031 | 15,527 | 20,833 |
| Geekbench 6 Single | 2,966 | 3,297 | 3,622 | 3,034 |
| Geekbench 6 Multi | 8,710 | 9,372 | 10,712 | 9,211 |
| Geekbench AI CPU (Quantized) | FTR | FTR | NA | NA |
| Geekbench AI GPU (Quantized) | 1,710 | 1,686 | NA | NA |
| 3DM Wild Life | Maxed Out | Maxed Out | Maxed Out | Maxed Out |
| 3DM Wild Life Unlimited | 26,128 | 25,925 | 27,327 | 24,983 |
| 3DM Steel Nomad Light | 3,033 | 2,858 | NA | NA |

Like the Find X9 Pro, it can play sustained Call of Duty Mobile at Very High and Max or Medium and Ultra graphics. When it is playing games, the phone warms up a bit but doesn’t get hot even after 45 minutes of continuous gaming (Max (60 fps) or Ultra (120 gp). The same can be said when using the camera app “the phone was hot, mainly during 4K video capture (which is 30, 60 and 120 fps) recording), but this phone will record at 30,60.

The touch sampling rate of the display is on point and works well for gaming once you crank it up in the slide-out Game Assistant console. You can’t enjoy 120 fps game frame interpolation with graphics settings maxed out, as you can on iQOO, Realme and Vivo flagships (as mentioned above), so there is no second AI chip.

Oppo Find X9 Cameras: Impressive!

• Primary camera – 50-megapixel, f/1.6, OIS, PDAF
• Telephoto camera – 50-megapixel, f/2.6, OIS, 3X optical
• Ultrawide camera – 50-megapixel, f/2.0, PDAF
• Selfie camera – 32-megapixel, f/2.4

In contrast to Samsung, which provides the same hardware with its base Galaxy S-series flagships year after year, Oppo has added a new primary camera this year. The sensor resolution of it is 50-megapixels, but you get a brighter f/1. 6 aperture . The most interesting is that Oppo has shifted away from sharing parts between the Find X9 and Find (Fix ) Pro camera hardware. There are a lot of differences between the camera hardware on both devices this year, which means different features at various price points (compared to last year’s models that had many parts shared by much of them).

Oppo’s Find X9 has a new primary camera this year

I have used samples of 12 megapixels for this review, instead of the default High resolution image format (which captures images in different resolutions) to ensure consistency.

Oppo Find X9 ultrawide camera samples (tap images to expand)

The ultrawide camera does a good job with daylight photos, but it is an acceptable work for the Ultrawide. It’s a good detail, noise is in control but the dynamic range may have been slightly better as I sometimes noticed some bright spots getting clipped. distortion of lenses barrels is also minimal. Photos may be a passable image in low-light conditions, such as . Most of the details are flat, with more of it in the centre of a picture and flatter textures near edges.

Oppo Find X9 primary camera samples (tap images to expand)

The primary camera is a fine job with detail and colour reproduction when shooting in daylight. Pictures emerge clean, quiet and dynamically ranging with enough detail in both bright and dark areas of contrasty scenes. Similarly to the camera’s portrait pictures of s, they reveal sharp and detailed images with accurate skin tones and edge detection.

Oppo Find X9 telephoto camera samples (tap images to expand)

It is a fine-quality 3x periscope telephoto camera, similar to the one on the Find X8, and does well with high quality images up to 6X beyond which AI algorithms begin to fix the image using some added processing. Stunningly, the photos taken at 3X show sharp and detailed in all lighting conditions (including dimly lit situations)

Oppo Find X9 selfie camera samples. Top: Portrait mode, bottom: Auto mode (tap images to expand)

In both daylight and in low light, the selfie camera is a good job for its self-employed photographer. It’s very detailed and accurate skin tones in daylight. Edge-detection is also true as well, too, and it’s a correct form of edge-destektion. In low light, edge detection can be slightly shaky (particularly in dim lighting) with minor blurring. samples above, but I did not use Portrait mode to sharpen the images – as can be seen from the samples below.

Video quality is very good. It can also shoot 4K video at 120 fps, as it has been mentioned above. Stunning 4K footage is sharp and with good detail, but also steady framerate. A great Dynamic range and there’s a lot of detail in the dark and bright areas when recording video in settings with mix of both sides. It is a good Stabilisation, but the frame is cropped slightly no matter what resolution one records at at any given time. Also, I noticed some weird purple fringing in the bright spots when shooting at 60 fps on the main camera. 120 fps footage looks beautiful, but comes with a catch. The interface displays the usual 1x, 2x and 3x zoom settings when shooting at 120 fps at 4K resolution but will crop into the main camera’s sensor during this setting (and not access to the 3X optical zoom lens) while it is shot at this location. And so if you want to zoom in, it is better off shooting at 4K 60 fps which allows you to access all three rear-facing cameras for the best optical quality.

Background exposure is a problem with selfie videos, which are not well-known. A 4K 30 fps video recording is sharp and detailed but for some odd reason it does not show the background well, even though this video record appears to be accurate. This is an interesting subject to be well exposed, but the background just seems white. Let’s Hopefully this is addressed in a future software update.

Oppo Find X9 Battery: Compact powerhouse

• Battery capacity – 7,025mAh, Si/C based, Li-ion
• Wired charging – 80W
• Wireless charging – 50W
• Charger in the box – Yes

But thanks to the silicon-carbon battery technology, we now have a compact smartphone with ‘the same battery as Pro model in capacity’. PCMark’s Work Battery Life test, which tests a series of everyday tasks on loop until the battery drains to 20 percent and took 24 hours and 17 minutes for the 7,025mAh in the Find X9. The Test X9 Pro (which is more powerful to power) was 23 hours and 52 minutes long, with a 7,500mAh battery.

The Oppo Find X9 comes with an 80W charger in the box

In comparison, in the same test, OnePlus 15 with a Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC was an impressive 32 hours and 27 minutes long for comparison. However, regardless of the synthetic tests, the phone was a long-lasting device that lasts for more than ‘one day’ even with heavy usage (including gaming and camera use). Usually I had about 30 percent battery life, given that it was so large (for a compact device) enough to power through the first half of next day as well as in the second half. A casual use of the phone can easily see the number for more than 1 hours. Paraphrasing 5 days ago.

The fastest charging speeds in this segment aren’t the fastest, but still fast enough for a premium device to be charged. Oppo Find X9, which was charged 40 percent in 15 minutes and 64 percent 30 minutes with the bundled charger, reached a full-charged state in 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Oppo Find X9 Verdict

The Oppo Find X9 will not give you any big-screen experience, even if it’s pure value and specs you are following. The OnePlus 15 or the Realme GT 8 Pro will be more suitable for you. While great overall gaming is certainly more fun on the GT 8 Pro, thanks to its game frame interpolation feature. Still, I like the Find X9’s cameras over that of the Realme GT 8 Pro’d camera system (it wasn’t good quality at all). In the same boat as the GT 8 Pro, it is also in the line of the new OnePlus 15.

But, you have to keep in mind that neither the OnePlus 15 nor the Realme GT 8 Pro is a real comparison; because Oppo Find (Although it’s part of the compact flagship segment) belongs to the newer-generational smartphone. Just like last year’s Find X8, the Find ‘X9’ should compete with Samsung’. The Galaxy S25 (and now the next GalaxyS26), which is an easy-to-defeated phone that has been far less performance and battery life than most of the years since not much has changed in terms of both performance or battery power. A similar league is the Vivo X300, which has the same chipset, a smaller and more power-efficient LTPO display, an 800 MP primary camera (200megapixels) and ’50-megapixel ultrawide with autofocus. It has a smaller battery between the two, but it is faster wired charging than s. While the X300 seems to be a winner, we did have some heating problems when reviewing our review. The decision to buy a Vivo X300 or an Oppo Find x8, in fact, comes with the choice of better camera hardware and fewer batteries.

The Apple iPhone 17 is the real threat that has been out of nowhere this year, according to . A number of improvements were made to it, including a 120Hz display and fast charging. It may look like the iPhone 16 but at Rs. It is a solid option for those who want to experience the real Liquid Glass (82,900) but are willing to compromise on the camera experience as the 17 still does not have telephoto camera. It’s not a universally needed telephoto camera, and considering what we have read in our review of the iPhone 17’S 2X lossless zoom performance for Portrait photos either isn’t too bad.