The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max is a flagship phone designed around its three 200-megapixel cameras. Oppo’s continued focus on photography through its partnership with Hasselblad is clearer than ever in this device.
It also packs a 7150mAh battery, MediaTek’s new Dimensity 9600 Pro chipset, and a bright 6.78-inch display, making it one of the best Android slab-style phones on the market.
It follows last year’s Oppo Find X9 Pro, carrying over the features that made that phone so fun to shoot with, like XPAN panoramas and film simulations.
The phone isn’t flawless; Oppo’s AI processing is heavy-handed even in photos that don’t need it, and there’s no obvious way to switch it off. ColorOS also nags for permissions more often than I’d like.
The price stings too. At $2699, the Find X10 Pro Max costs $400 more than the Find X9 Pro did at launch.
Overall Rating: 4.5 / 5
Pros
- Excellent photos from all three rear cameras
- Outstanding battery life
- Fun extras like XPAN, film simulations, and an IR remote
Cons
- Heavy-handed AI postprocessing
- Constant permission prompts
- Top-heavy without a case
Price: $2699 | For anyone seeking one of the best Android slab phones
Setup & First Impressions
Oppo’s partnership with Hasselblad carries across to the unboxing experience, where there are many camera-inspired textures and details.
In the box you get an 80-watt SuperVOOC GaN charger, a USB-C cable, a SIM tool, and documentation. There’s no included case, which is a little surprising, but it’s better that Oppo saves the plastic instead of shipping a flimsy transparent bumper.
Setup is as easy as usual: sign in with a Google account, choose whether to bring your apps across, and you’re ready to go. Oppo adds several permission nags for its own services and there are plenty of preinstalled apps.
In the hand, the Find X10 Pro Max feels substantial. The large camera bump shifts the weight away from your palm, which makes the phone feel easy to drop.
Design & Aesthetics
The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max comes in Titanium Grey or Luna White (the one we have). Luna White is the more interesting of the two, with a split dual-texture design plus lens markings and an orange accent around the camera island.
Otherwise, it’s a familiar slab device at 8.4 millimetres thick and 226 grams with slim bezels. It’s a little too big for comfortable one-handed use.
Oppo has dropped the touch-sensitive Quick Button, but the programmable Snap Key remains. An in-screen fingerprint reader helps to keep the exterior clean.
Life With the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max
I’ve been testing the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max throughout an accelerated review cycle, concentrating on its hardware performance and camera quality. Overall, it’s been a great experience.
Positives
Battery life is one of the standout features. The phone lasts a very long time on standby, and across a day of on-and-off testing and a night off the charger, it only dropped around 30 percent. Even heavy users should comfortably see two days of battery life.
The camera suite is fun. We’ll go over it in detail in the next section, but XPAN mode and film simulations are a delight to shoot with, and they give you a reason to go out and snap photos in a way many phones don’t.
The IR remote is a welcome quirk that works great with the appliances I tested, including an air conditioner, TV, AV receiver, and Blu-ray player. It’s far from essential, but I wish more manufacturers would include one.
The display feels smooth, bright, and responsive, with excellent viewing angles and no colour shift even when viewed nearly side-on. It competes decently well with sunlight. The under-screen fingerprint reader is fast and unlocked reliably every time.
Negatives
The biggest negative is the AI postprocessing evident in the camera results. With such good hardware, it feels like a shame that Oppo doesn’t let the lens and sensor do the work on their own.
The permission nagging doesn’t stop after you’ve set up the phone. Prompts kept appearing every time I would open an app and it wears thin quickly.
There are plenty of preinstalled apps. My unit arrived with a bunch of preinstalled shopping and social media apps that I would rather not have to deal with.
Camera Performance
All three rear cameras use 200-megapixel sensors. There’s a 24mm main lens, a 13mm ultra-wide, and a 70mm telephoto with 3x optical zoom.
Stills quality is excellent in bright and low light. During my time with the phone, it was quite overcast, so I didn’t come away with outstanding daylight shots, but the experience was consistent throughout. Video is great too with 4K60 and Dolby Vision compatibility.
In high-contrast scenes, shadows hold their detail while highlights are prone to blowing out. Indoors and in low light, the camera leans on slower shutter speeds, which can blur moving subjects.
Zoom and close focus results are good, but this is where AI processing is most evident. It also shows up in shots that really don’t need it: text comes out garbled and fine details look unnatural.
Oppo provides several shooting modes, and I found myself gravitating towards Master Mode most of the time. It appeared to deliver better results than the regular automatic mode.
With such good hardware on the camera, it feels like a missed opportunity that Oppo doesn’t allow you to opt out of the AI and let the sensors and lenses shine.
Oppo also sells a Hasselblad Teleconverter Kit for longer zoom, but I didn’t get to try it out.
Performance & Reliability
The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max runs a MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro chipset with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, and it’s quite fast in day-to-day use.
Gaming performance is solid, and the phone is capable of high framerates without much slowdown in typical games. Like many other high-end phones it maxes out 3DMark’s Wild Life test and runs solidly in the Solar Bay test.
Back-to-back testing in the tougher Wild Life Extreme benchmark shows thermal throttling by about 20 percent after a couple of cycles, but the phone holds steady after that and wasn’t too hot to touch.
Battery life is exceptional. Oppo claims 18 hours of streaming time, and through my testing I found no reason to doubt it.
The speakers sound pretty good, with decent stereo separation and no noticeable distortion. Bass is a bit lacking, and loudness is fine.
Practical Considerations
Oppo promises five major Android updates and six years of security updates for the Find X10 Pro Max. That’s longer than most people keep their phones these days, but falls short of the seven years Samsung offers on its flagships.
Durability is strong on paper, with IP66, IP68, and IP69 ratings for dust and water resistance. Oppo’s fine print adds that this covers fresh water only.
The Find X10 Pro Max supports 50-watt wireless charging, but only through Oppo’s own AirVOOC standard, so you’ll need an AirVOOC pat for full speed.
It comes in a single configuration with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, and there’s no memory card slot for expanded storage.
Value & Alternatives
At $2699, the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max sits at the very top of the slab phone market. It’s a little on the expensive side, but given today’s rising technology prices, it’s not unreasonable.
The price matches the 512GB iPhone 18 Pro Max and lands $100 above the 512GB Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra at $2599.
If the price is a stretch, the Oppo Find X10 costs $2299. Its screen is a little smaller at 6.59 inches, and the ultra-wide sensor steps down to 50 megapixels, but it’s otherwise comparable.
If you’re on a tighter budget, the Xiaomi 17 Ultra launched in March at $1799 with 512GB of storage and a 1-inch main camera sensor.
The choice between these phones isn’t clear cut. It comes down to how much you value the camera suite, the battery life, and the Android experience.
Would I Buy It With My Own Money?
Yes, if photography is the priority. The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max is a solid phone with a great photo experience, exceptional battery life, and plenty of performance. The drawbacks don’t detract too much from the overall experience.
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