Oppo Find X10 Pro Max Review

Introduction

The Oppo Find X10 Pro is a simply phenomenal camera phone. It boasts three 200MP rear cameras – a feat unmatched by any other phone on the market – as well as a fast processor, plenty of RAM and storage, and a ludicrously huge battery.

Chinese phone maker Oppo returned to global markets in 2024, and has since split its Find X flagships into three distinct tiers. Take last year’s lineup – the standard Find X9 offered a solid flagship experience, the Find X9 Pro stepped up camera specs and performance for enthusiasts, and the Find X9 Ultra added a near-1-inch sensor, 10x telephoto camera, and larger screen for power users.

This year’s new Find X10 Pro Max bridges the gap between the firm’s Pro and Ultra models. It boasts a 6.78-inch display, a powerful MediaTek 9600 Pro chipset, a stylish new aluminium and glass design, and a camera system that lacks a huge sensor but offers every other bell and/or whistle you could want. ColorOS remains my favourite implementation of Android, even though the phone comes with an inexcusable amount of bloatware (read: any whatsoever).

Paired with the optional Hasselblad teleconverter kit, the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max felt more like a camera than a phone. On a trip to Stockholm, I wandered through the Old Town with the phone hanging from my neck, ready to take snaps at any moment with the main, ultra-wide, and telephoto zoom lenses. This makes Oppo’s decision to remove the Find X9’s Quick Button – its take on Apple’s Camera Control – all the more confusing.

And the Find X10 Pro Max’s wallet-breaking price tag makes the removal of this genuinely useful feature even more painful. The phone retails at £1499, making it one of the most expensive phones on the market, though you do get the choice of the Hasselblad Teleconverter Kit, Oppo Watch X3, or Oppo Pad 5 at no extra cost.

So, is it worth the outlay? Let’s get into it.

Design

• Minimal, but beautiful
• Textured glass improves grip
• Top-heavy due to camera bump

I’ve been daily driving Oppo phones since the release of the Oppo Find X8 Pro in 2024, a phone I loved for its quirky design and material choices. The company toned things down with the Find X9 Pro last year, taking cues from sister brand OnePlus. The Find X10 Pro Max finds a happy medium – it’s understated, but still interesting, managing to feel simple and thoughtful all at once.

The phone comes in two design options, Luna White and Titanium Grey (the phone contains no titanium; this is just a rather misleading descriptor). These go a step further than typical colour choices by changing the shape and material the phone uses – the Luna White variant I tested comes with a textured glass back, separate camera and flash modules, and an orange accent on the camera housing, while the Titanium Grey variant has a matte glass rear panel and iPhone-like camera island.

I’m a real fan of the textured glass Oppo has used on the Luna White model’s rear panel. It adds a much-needed hit of visual interest compared to last year’s flat glass design, and improves your grip somewhat while taking photos (you’ll still want to use the included colour-matched silicone case when shooting outdoors, though).

The imposing black glass camera module, and combined Oppo / Hasselblad branding that runs along the left edge of the panel, cement the phone as one built for photography, though that camera system makes the phone feel quite top-heavy. It’s a big phone, with a 6.78-inch screen, but it never felt unwieldy or overly wide.

The rest of the phone’s construction is solid. The frame is all aluminium, with a USB-C port, power button, volume rocker, and Snap Key (Oppo’s answer to the Action Button). Oppo has had the phone separately certified at IP66, IP68, and IP69, so it’s as water- and dust-resistant as a phone can be.

The Find X10 Pro Max measures 8.4mm thick at its thinnest point, and weighs in at 233g for the Luna White colour option and 235g for the Titanium Grey colourway. That’s thinner and lighter than the iPhone 18 Pro Max and thinner than the Google Pixel 10 Pro XL, though the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra beats all three.

Screen

• 6.78-inch display
• 2772 x 1272 resolution at 450ppi
• 1-120hz LTPO OLED panel, boosted to 144hz for certain games

The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max comes equipped with a 6.78-inch display, boasting a sharp 2772 x 1272 resolution at 450 pixels per inch, and a tall 20:9 aspect ratio that helps this large phone feel manageable to hold and use. It also sports 1.15mm bezels on all edges that are barely noticeable in normal use, making this big screen feel even more massive.

The phone has a bright LTPO AMOLED panel, which Oppo says can reach up to 3,600 nits peak brightness when displaying HDR content or using the phone outdoors. Typical brightness averages 800 nits and peaks at 2,000 nits, falling all the way down to 1 nit for low-light use.

I will say that, side by side, the previous-generation Find X9 Pro looks brighter to my eye in pretty much all situations, but the Find X10 Pro Max offers deeper, warmer colours.

As for refresh rate, the Find X10 Pro Max has an adaptive 1-120Hz refresh rate that boosts to 144Hz when playing certain mobile games (Oppo gives PUBG Mobile as an example). In practice, the screen feels fluid and immersive – it’s a great pick for mobile gaming, and the 20:9 aspect ratio is just squat enough to make 16:9 videos look natural.

For better or worse, I listen to a lot of music and podcasts on my phone’s speaker. I’m happy to report that the Find X10 Pro Max boasts the best speakers of any Android phone I’ve used, coming close to the iPhone in terms of volume and frequency response. For headphone users, the phone boasts Bluetooth 6.2.

Cameras

• Three 200MP rear cameras, an industry-first
• Excellent photography capabilities
• 8K30 video shooting

As you might expect from the first smartphone to boast three 200MP rear cameras, the Oppo Find X10 Pro is a truly excellent camera phone. Of all the phones I’ve tested in my career, the Find X10 Pro Max offers the best parity between lenses, and pros can shoot in large-format JPG and RAW for extra editing options.

Its main sensor is a 1/1.3in Samsung ISOCELL HPC set to f/1.5, with a 24mm lens. It takes bright, colourful, detailed shots that hold up well to cropping and don’t exhibit too much AI tampering in the post-processing pipeline.

That wide aperture and large sensor make it a top performer in low-light environments, too, and a stock camera app full of different shooting modes, colour profiles, and film emulations adds a lot of character.

The other two cameras use 1/1.56in Samsung ISOCELL HP5 sensors. The ultra-wide camera is set to f/2.2, with a 13mm lens. The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max has the first mobile ultra-wide camera that I’ve actually enjoyed using. It’s a genuinely good camera – not usable, not fine in a pinch, actually good.

In the narrow streets of Stockholm’s Gamla Stan I found myself using the ultra-wide camera more than the main sensor, to take in as much of the scene as itsible, and it’s high resolution makes close-up macro shots really pop.

However, it’s the telephoto camera that really steals the show. This is a 3x periscope telephoto zoom camera with a f/2.1 aperture, optical image stabilisation, and the ability to take lossless cropped images at up to 13.2x zoom thanks to its high resolution. With digital zoom, you can push out all the way to 120x – but expect some serious artefacting past around 50x.

The introduction of the optional Hasselblad teleconverter kit is where things get really wild. This kit, consisting of a photography case with neck strap, 3.28x teleconverter zoom lens, and tripod mount, turns the Find X10 Pro Max into a serious long-range photography machine.

Avoid the tripod mount, though – my unit scuffed the side of the teleconverter lens itself, so I switched to a third-party brace. The teleconverter changes the default zoom of the telephoto camera to 10x, with lossless cropping up to 40x zoom. It’s a great pick for concerts, nature photography, or portraits (as long as you’re willing to back up a bit!).

The 50MP selfie camera is clear and bright, though not amazing in low light – it’s more than fine for video calls. Speaking of video, the Find X10 Pro Max offers 4K120fps, 4K60fps, and 8K30fps recording on all three of its main cameras. Videos come out stable, detailed, and colourful, with good audio thanks to an array of four microphones.

All of this points to the Find X10 Pro Max being the perfect camera phone, and I’d be inclined to agree were it not for Oppo’s mystifying decision to remove the Quick Button (read: shutter button) from this year’s model.

I used this touch-sensitive shutter control nearly every time I took a picture with the Find X9 Pro, and I lamented its absence every time I had to look down at the screen or reach around to the Snap Key when I wanted to take a photo. That doesn’t affect the quality of the cameras themselves, but it’s important to the overall photography experience.

Performance

• MediaTek 9600 Pro chipset with 16GB of RAM
• Never lagged once during testing
• Powers through gaming and photography with ease

If you still need proof that MediaTek chipsets can hang with Qualcomm Snapdragon and Apple A-series processors, the Find X10 Pro Max is it – this is a phenomenally performant phone that I couldn’t seem to trip up, no matter how hard I tried.

In my three weeks of testing, I never felt like I needed to close an app to speed up performance, never saw a dropped frame in UI animations, and never had an app stutter or crash. This thing runs like a bullet train at the Olympics.

In benchmark tests, the Find X10 Pro scores well, but not quite as high as competitors like the iPhone 18 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. It’s a testament to Oppo’s optimisation that the phone still feels as fluid as any of its rivals.

Part of this comes down to a generous RAM allowance. My review unit came with 16GB of RAM, though the EU variant of the phone comes with 12GB as standard. In either case, this is enough for serious multitasking, gaming, and on-device AI.

The phone comes with 512GB of storage, too – plenty of space for photos, videos, apps and games and twice the starting storage that competitors like Apple and Google offer.

As you’d expect, the Find X10 Pro Max comes with the latest and greatest connectivity components. You’ll have access to Bluetooth 6.2 and WiFi 7, and the phone’s sole USB-C port is a USB 3.2 Gen 1 connector offering transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps.

Software and AI

• ColorOS 17 is still one of the best Android wrappers
• Software experience takes liberal inspiration from Apple
• AI Mind Space is the rare AI feature that feels genuinely useful

I’ve long been a fan of ColorOS, Oppo’s implementation of Android, because it knows when to assist and when to get out of the user’s way. ColorOS 17, based on Android 17, continues this pattern by making it easy to access the essentials while providing some genuinely intelligent tools for those looking for convenience or customisation.

However, there’s no ignoring that ColorOS 17 is closer to iOS than ever before. Oppo has nabbed what seems like the majority of the software’s aesthetic cues from Cupertino, from the enlarged lock screen clock to Liquid Glass-like transparency effects. This is as shameless as ever, but could be an advantage if you’re someone who loves the look of Apple but wants the flexibility of Android.

Users can expect five years of OS updates and six years of security updates, which is honestly a little light considering how much the phone costs to begin with. Samsung and Google typically guarantee seven years of each, while Apple has been known to issue security patches to iPhones for a decade or more.

Judgements on originality aside, ColorOS 17 feels snappy and simple to use. Its Dynamic Cloud, centred on the punch-hole selfie camera, holds playing music, timers, and Google Maps directions amongst other dynamic notifications.

Settings for display calibration, battery saving, and sound are all easy to find and reasonably comprehensive. And the stock apps are fine, but I prefer the pre-installed alternatives from Google.

What absolutely isn’t fine is the inclusion of pre-installed bloatware on a phone that costs £1499. On setup, I found a bunch of apps I don’t use, like Facebook and Booking.com sitting in a pre-made folder on the home screen. This has been an issue with Oppo phones for years and needs to change if the company wants to be genuinely considered in the same league as the major flagships.

There’s plenty here for AI fans, too. Gemini is all over the Find X10 Pro Max’s software experience – you can chat to it with voice or text by holding the power button, or use Circle to Search to look up on-screen content.

By default, the Snap Key is assigned to AI Mind Space, which remains one of the very few AI features I think is actually useful. Found on Oppo and OnePlus phones, AI Mind Space is like an intelligent jumble drawer that sorts your digital notes, screenshots, and reminders into a usable, searchable database. In other stock apps, you’ll find AI text generation, audio transcription, and image generation tools.

Battery Life

• Battery capacity varies by region
• Battery life is outstanding
• Charging can take a while, even with the bundled 80W charger

Depending on where you buy it, the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max gets a battery upgrade or battery downgrade compared to last year’s Find X9 Pro.

The Asia-Pacific version of the Find X10 Pro Max – which is the model I tested – comes with an enormous 8,000mAh battery. That’s larger than the battery in the base-model iPad, and much larger than any phone made by US or European brands.

The EU version comes with a smaller, but still impressive, 7,150mAh battery, down from the X9 Pro’s 7500mAh cell – not exactly what we’d like to see from the ‘Max’-ed out version of the phone.

Oppo has continued to use silicon-carbon battery technology with the Find X10 Pro Max, which means its battery holds much more charge than a standard lithium-ion battery of equal volume.

It charges at 80W with the included SuperVOOC wired charger or at 50W with a compatible AirVOOC wireless charger – these are Oppo’s own charging standards, so don’t expect third-party chargers to offer this level of power delivery.

What this all means in practice is that the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max offers phenomenal stamina. It lasted me a full 18-hour day of travelling – complete with music and video streaming, plenty of photography, a few dozen Google Maps checks, and general messaging and calling – with 30% to spare, and with lighter use can feasibly last two days.

At 1% battery, the phone switches into super power saving mode, which gives around an hour of additional low-level usage, which gives some peace of mind for urgent calls and messages.

When it does come time to top up, that huge cell means charging the Find X10 Pro Max can take a little while. In my testing, it took around 1 hour 20 minutes to charge from empty to 100%, though reaching 50% only took about half an hour.

Should you buy it?