The Oppo Find X10 packs a huge battery, a superb LTPO display with tiny bezels and a versatile triple camera, all in a more palm-friendly body than the Pro Max. Games can’t hold peak performance for long and the software borrows heavily from iOS, but at £1,099 it’s the Find X10 model most people should buy.
- Great battery life with conveniently speedy charging
- Display takes up nearly all of the available space
- Strong triple camera system on the back
- Lots of power
- It’s pretty expensive
- Can’t sustain games at highest graphical levels for long periods
- Software is a mixed bag
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Huge battery: An 8,000mAh battery (7,150mAh in Europe) comfortably lasts two days, and charges to 50% in around 30 minutes.
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The 6.6-inch screen has bezels under 1mm thick and an adaptive refresh rate that reaches 144Hz in supported games.
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Triple camera system: Primary, ultra-wide and 2.8x telephoto cameras deliver consistent results, with Master Mode for more natural-looking shots.
The Oppo Find X10 is the standard model in Oppo’s latest flagship series, and it might just be the one to buy.
On paper, it’s a sensible update on last year’s Find X9. There’s a new LTPO display, a revamped triple camera system with a larger telephoto sensor, and a bigger battery, all in a body that’s noticeably more palm-friendly than the Find X10 Pro Max.
That last point matters more than ever this year. With the Pro Max costing £1,499, the £1,099 Find X10 is still a lot of money, but it no longer feels like you’re giving up much to save £400. Last year, opting for the cheaper model meant a less efficient display. This time, you get the same LTPO tech as its bigger sibling.
There are still compromises. The telephoto camera’s 2.8x zoom is an odd choice, the Snap Key is frustratingly limited, and the phone can’t sustain peak performance in demanding games for long. But after testing it as my main phone, I think this is the Find X10 Pro in all but name.
- Slim, palm-friendly build
There’s not a huge amount to say on the design front. Not if we’re talking purely about new features and elements, or updates from the Find X9. It’s a very similar-looking phone, with flat aluminium edges and flat glass on the front and back. It’s got those same rounded corners too. It is a bit smaller and more palm-friendly than the larger Pro Max though.
The camera island has had a bit of a refresh, by sticking that square camera hump inside a larger rectangular island that ramps seamlessly up from the back glass panel. Oppo has moved the round LED ring light from that hump, and replaced it with a larger, full LED flash inside the rectangular island, just off to the right side.
It is a very good-looking phone though. Especially in this new pinkish colour which Oppo calls Glow Coral. It’s delightful. It has this purposeful, understated elegance to it that’s not too busy and not so minimalist it’s boring.
I’ll talk more about the display in a second, but from a design and hardware engineering standpoint, I’m also impressed by the skinny bezels around the display. They’re less than 1mm thick all the way around, which really helps that panel’s immersive qualities. That black frame just feels impossibly slim.
As before, it’s protected against water and dust about as well as it can be. An IP68 and 69 dual rating means it’s protected against being dropped in water or being sprayed with jets of the stuff. And where Oppo sought to cut costs a little last year with the use of Gorilla Glass 7i on the front, the Find X10 has Gorilla Glass Victus 2, improving its scratch and impact resistance.
Apart from that, it’s got the same button makeup as before too. There’s no touch-sensitive camera control area on this one like you get on the Find X9 Ultra, but you do get that Snap key on the side which can be programmed to perform a handful of preset functions.
The idea is good, but again I’m left with a feeling it could and should be more versatile. You can’t set it to launch an app of your choosing, or even choose a specific shortcut function inside an app. It’s nowhere near as flexible as the shortcut button on the Vivo phones, or on the last few generations of iPhone.
Still, on the whole, it’s a phone that gets the balance right between being slim, comfortable to use and not compromising to get there. Sure, it could be thinner and lighter, but then there’d be a compromise on performance, particularly the battery life. In short, Oppo has made really good use of the space inside and outside of this phone.
- Smooth, efficient LTPO panel
- Near-invisible sub-1mm bezels
- Natural, true-to-life colours
In recent years, Oppo has been putting some of the best displays available on its flagship series phones, and the Find X10 is no different. Glancing over specs like brightness, pixel density and refresh rates, you’d think this one isn’t much of an upgrade on the Find X9.
But there is one crucial difference: this one has an LTPO panel. What that means is that its refresh rate can adjust up and down in small increments. So let’s say, for instance, you’re watching a video that only needs to refresh 25-30 times per second, that’s what it will do. If you’re reading a static page, it’ll drop to refreshing at a much lower rate, in turn saving battery.
That’s not something you can necessarily see with your naked eye, but you can tell when a display can move smoothly from one refresh rate to a higher one quickly and easily. You won’t see that telltale stutter when you jump from one to the next like you maybe would have sometimes on the older one as it switches between 60 and 120Hz. What’s more, this one can even hit up to 144Hz in game titles that support the super smooth, fast refresh.
Resolution-wise, it sits between 1080p and 1440p, with 1272 pixels across the shorter side. By default it’s set to a mode where it auto-selects depending on what’s on the screen, but if you want the most pin-sharp resolution available you can force it to display its maximum resolution. For optimal scaling and font sizing, I found it the best, even if it did mean a little hit to the battery life.
Oppo’s colour tuning is veering more towards the natural, realistic side of things, which, to me, is a very good thing. There are three main colour modes to pick from, and none of them are particularly aggressive in terms of saturation. To my eyes, it was effectively a choice between a muted, natural mode, one with slightly more saturation but cooler, and one that had slightly more saturation but was warmer.
After years of using Android phones where colours are so vibrant they’re hyperreal, it’s refreshing to have a phone with realistic tones and textures whatever you’re watching on it. It might mean slightly less eye-popping candy in gaming, but I’d take that hit for the way it deals with videos, and for how it acts as a monitor for photography and videography in the camera app.
- Consistent quality across all three lenses
- Natural-looking shots in Master Mode
- Underwhelming 2.8x telephoto
Oppo’s camera system is typically one of its biggest strengths, and the same is true here, even if I do find the exact makeup a little puzzling.
There are three cameras, as usual: the primary, the ultrawide and the telephoto zoom. Except that the zoom lens’ optical equivalent zoom length is 2.8x zoom, not 3x or higher. And given that the primary lens is so pixel dense and has a pretty sharp 2x digital or crop-zoom level, that extra 0.8x doesn’t really push the needle all that far. At least, not until you start pushing further to around 6x or 10x zoom.
To give Oppo credit where it’s due, despite the lower optical equivalent zoom on this new model, the new sensor and lens makeup is a significant improvement on the Find X9 from last year. It’s a larger sensor with bigger pixels, and that means that if you do push to above 5.6x zoom (as an example) you’ll still get a strong, sharp picture.
It’s not the strongest zoom camera in Oppo’s family of phones, however. At least not when it comes to doubling as a close-up tele macro lens. You start trying to use it to shoot objects that are closer to the lens, and you’ll find it’s weaker than the zoom lens on the Find X10 Pro Max, and so you’ll need to rely on the macro mode which relies on one of the other lenses and requires digital cropping and artificial sharpening to take those photos.
Generally though, I’ve been pretty happy with the photography results from the camera system during the daytime, and even indoors away from bright sunny skies. You’ll get clean shots with good levels of sharpness and a fairly noise-free image, regardless of which lens you shoot with.
Despite being the weakest of the three lenses and sensors, even the ultrawide camera takes consistent, clean images which, for the most part, match the colouring and contrast of the other two cameras. There’s no significant increase in distortion or warping at the edges and corners either.
Oppo’s camera app gives you a lot of flexibility to tweak and change your desired look as well. Ripping a page out of Apple’s homework book and stuffing it into its own, the new adjustment tool lets you pick a look, and then tweak aspects of that preset by dragging a dot to a coordinate in a square grid with four axes.
More important I think is that you get two options, effectively, as to how you want to take photos. Either use the standard, fully automatic Photo mode, and get results with some pretty high levels of artificial processing and machine learning, particularly when using the zoom camera.
Or, switch to the Master Mode. Here you can use manual controls if you want, or use it in automatic mode to get results far more like a traditional camera with nowhere near as much HDR or AI processing going on. It does restrict how far you can digitally zoom, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
I almost always preferred the results from that Master Mode setting. They seemed more lifelike and realistic in terms of the textures in the photos, and made the scenes and objects feel more real, rather than loading the photos with tonnes of over-sharpening and smoothing.
For low light situations there is a night mode algorithm which can kick in automatically, or you can choose the dedicated night mode.
The results from this are the biggest indicators that the ultrawide camera is the weakest in the trio. Its results are generally just a little fuzzier and darker than the other two cameras.
Overall though, I admire Oppo’s restraint. For a lot of companies, the night mode is used to make night time scenes as bright and vibrant as they can be, somehow losing that essence of night time by making colours saturated and making the scene really bright.
That’s not the case here. There’s no over-correction of colours, white balance, highlights or dark parts of the image, so the scene ends up looking very close to what I saw with my eye – except it’s sharp and in focus.
There’s still some processing of the textures that look a little artificial, likely down to the correction required for reducing noise and motion blur. Plus, the three cameras match each other pretty consistently.
Videographers are well catered for with the Find X10 as well. You can shoot in auto mode up to 8K resolution, or 4K at 120fps. Or, if you use the professional video camera, you can even shoot in Open Gate, using the entire width and height of the sensor rather than cropping into it. This gives you quite a lot of flexibility, especially if you want to re-use the same footage for both vertical and horizontal clips.
- Plenty of power for everyday use and gaming
- Up to 144fps in supported games
- Throttles under sustained load
We run all of our review phones through some graphics benchmark tests. They run a game scene with rich graphics at as high a frame rate as the phone can cope with.
In these tests, I found the Find X10 was generally good at hitting frame rates around the 40fps mark, which isn’t too far off the top-performing phones. The only ones that beat it by a significant margin are dedicated gaming phones with lower-resolution displays.
Where it struggled was in the stress tests where that scene is run on repeat twenty times. It couldn’t hit that high peak more than a handful of times before it had to throttle and reduce the frame rate.
If I had to make an educated guess, I’d point to the fact that the phone is relatively compact for a phone with a beefy battery. That huge battery leaves little space for the most effective cooling, and so it can’t hit the same peaks as the top-performing phones.
Still, the Dimensity 9600M-powered phone is more than adequately powered for pretty much anything. There are very few games with the graphics scenarios required to push it beyond its comfort zone. I played Destiny: Rising for a solid 15-20 minutes and didn’t see any stuttering or lag, or even a drop in resolution.
I did run it in its automatic setting, so I didn’t purposefully push the graphics rendering or frame rates to the max, but the game was sharp and smooth. In some games (if it’s supported), it can even hit 144 frames per second if needed. So, clearly, not a phone that’s short on power.
- Plenty of customisation options
Software is ColorOS based on Android 17, with a healthy smattering of elements which are quite clearly inspired by Apple’s efforts in recent versions of iOS.
Whether it’s the liquid glass-like layers in the settings tiles, the menu for changing the snap key function or the revamped colour styles picker in the camera app, it’s very similar to what you’d find on an iPhone.
Still, Oppo’s software is among the best when it comes to customisation. Changing icon shape and style, Lock Screen depth, fonts, always-on displays, and fingerprint animations is all achievable from the default launcher.
It does still bug me that so many of the widgets can only be properly scaled and positioned if you have your Home Screen set to an arrangement with 4 columns of apps, and can’t adjust size to fit a 5x grid. At least when it comes to the built-in Oppo-made widgets for its preinstalled apps and services.
The only disappointment is that it’s only getting four OS upgrades and five years of security patches. Most phones at this price point offer around seven years of both.
Battery life
- Up to 8,000mAh battery (7,150mAh in Europe)
- Comfortably lasts two days
- Half charge in 30 minutes
Just as it’s impressive that Oppo managed to stuff a 6.6-inch display with such skinny bezels on the front, I was very excited to see an 8,000mAh battery in a phone which doesn’t look or feel gargantuan.
There’s something of a caveat here in that this capacity is only available on the global unit typically sold in Asian markets outside of China. European markets are getting a version with a smaller, but still admirable, 7150mAh cell.
Either way, I suspect battery anxiety will be the least of your concerns if you decide to pony up and buy one of these. Along with an uplift in battery, that aforementioned efficiency of the display refresh and power management means an upgrade on its predecessor’s battery life. Not that the Find X9 struggled for battery life in the slightest, but this one eeks out just a bit more.
I’m a pretty light user, and this phone handles that standby time between leaving my phone and picking it up really well, barely dropping any battery overnight on my bedside. It’s also efficient under load, to the point where I think even the heavier users with non-stop usage of battery draining tasks like GPS navigation could make it through a full day without too much trouble.
Personally, I comfortably got it to the end of a second day without any effort. For a typical person, I’d suggest that where the Find X9 was a 1.5-2 day phone at a push, the Find X10 is a solid 2 days.
And when you want to refill it again afterwards, our testing reveals it’s surprisingly quick despite its huge size. You can half fill it in 30 minutes, with a full 1-100% refill taking about 70 minutes. There are Samsung and Google Pixel devices with much smaller batteries that take longer to refill than that.
Should you buy it?
You want flagship power without the Pro Max price
It has a huge battery, a superb display and a versatile camera system for £400 less than the Find X10 Pro Max.
You play demanding games for long sessions
The Find X10 can’t hold its peak performance for long, and dedicated gaming phones will sustain higher frame rates.
With the increase in prices – at least looking at the full retail price gap between this at £1099 and the Pro Max at £1499 – I find it hard not to recommend this one over the bigger, more expensive sibling.
It might not have the more souped-up processor, or the better ultrawide camera, but it’s got everything you’d want from a proper flagship phone.
Its huge battery makes light work of heavy use (at least with the global model) and it has a strong, versatile camera system. It even has the option of that clip-on teleconverter lens to extend its zoom range further. And unlike last year, you’re not downgrading to a less efficient display when you save money by buying this year’s smaller model.
And even if that display is smaller than the Pro Max, it’s not that much smaller, but it’s just as good. In my mind, this is the Find X10 Pro in all but name, and if I was wanting a bigger phone with better cameras, I’d be buying the Find X9 Ultra, not the Find X10 Pro Max, but that’s a story for another day.
If you’re curious, take a look at how the Find X10 stacks up against the best smartphones around.
We test every mobile phone we review thoroughly. We use industry-standard tests to compare features properly and we use the phone as our main device over the review period. We’ll always tell you what we find and we never, ever, accept money to review a product.
- Used as a main phone for over a week
- Thorough camera testing in a variety of conditions
It has an IP68 and IP69 dual rating, so it’s protected against being submerged in water and against high-pressure water jets.
The Find X10 is smaller and £400 cheaper. The Pro Max has a more powerful processor and a better ultra-wide camera, but the Find X10 has the same efficient LTPO display technology.
No. The global model sold in Asian markets outside China has an 8,000mAh battery, while the European version has a smaller 7,150mAh cell.
In our testing, it charged to 50% in 30 minutes and from 1% to 100% in about 70 minutes.
| Oppo Find X10 | |
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| Geekbench 7 single core | 2702 |
| Geekbench 7 multi core | 7990 |
| Geekbench 7 GPU | 18205 |
| 3DMark Solar Bay | 50.4 fps |
| AI performance | 3727 |
| Time from 0-100% charge | 70 min |
| Time from 0-50% charge | 30 Min |
| 30-min recharge (included charger) | 50 % |
| 15-min recharge (included charger) | 27 % |
| 3D Mark – Wild Life | 6584 |
| 3D Mark – Wild Life Stress Test | 37.9 % |
| Oppo Find X10 Review | |
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| Manufacturer | Oppo |
| Screen Size | 6.59 inches |
| Rear Camera | 200MP + 50MP + 200MP |
| Front Camera | 50MP |
| Video Recording | Yes |
| IP rating | IP69 |
| Battery | 7150 mAh |
| Wireless charging | Yes |
| Fast Charging | Yes |
| Size (Dimensions) | 74.29 x 8.35 x 156.51 MM |
| Weight | 216 G |
| Operating System | ColorOS 17 (Android 17) |
| Release Date | 2026 |
| First Reviewed Date | 20/10/2026 |
| Resolution | 2768 x 1272 |
| HDR | Yes |
| Refresh Rate | 120 Hz |
| Ports | USB-C |
| Chipset | MediaTek Dimensity 9600M |
| RAM | 12GB, 16GB |
| Stated Power | 80 W |
| UK RRP | £1099 |
| USA RRP | TBC |