After weeks of teasing, Oppo has lastly unveiled the brand new Discover X8 Professional — its first flagship in a number of years to launch in Europe.
The Discover X8 Professional is a little bit of a beast. Powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9400, it boasts a 6.78” 120Hz OLED panel, which the corporate says peaks at 4,500 nits’ brightness.
It’s not a flat panel, however as a substitute makes use of the ‘micro-curving’ that’s been common in Chinese language flagships as of late, with a refined rounding to every of the display’s 4 sides — sufficient to really feel clean when your scrolling finger hits the sting of the panel, however not so curved as to have an effect on app visibility or usability.
The Hasselblad-branded cameras are inevitably a focus, with a quadruple set of 50MP lenses: a foremost digital camera utilizing the 1/1.4” Sony LYT-808 sensor and a large f/1.6 aperture; an f/2.0 ultrawide; a 3x periscope lens with an f/2.6 aperture; and eventually a 6x periscope at f/4.3. Oppo says that is the primary dual-periscope cellphone to hit Western markets, versus different fashions that pair a periscope with a second common telephoto.
A 5,910mAh silicon-carbon battery guarantees first rate longevity, and 80W wired charging with 50W wi-fi means speedy top-ups too. Oppo is even promoting magnetic charging equipment, however the magnets are constructed into the separate instances, so do not mistake this for Qi2 assist.
It’s 2024, so Oppo goes arduous on AI too. There are the standard Google Gemini AI options and Circle to Search, some built-in photograph enhancing instruments, and an ‘AI Telescope Zoom’ that kicks in to sharpen long-range telephotography. There’s additionally Lightning Snap, a burst photograph mode that Oppo says is the perfect round at capturing fast-moving topics like athletes or pets, and a brand new app for one-touch file-sharing with any cellphone… as long as that different cellphone additionally has the suitable Oppo app put in.
In all probability extra importantly, Oppo can also be attempting to maintain up with Google and Samsung on software program assist, promising a decent 5 OS updates, via to Android 20, and safety patches till 2030.
There are some attention-grabbing {hardware} touches on the surface too. For one, the cellphone boasts an IP68/69 score, that means it’s rated for cover in opposition to each immersion in water and high-pressure, high-temperature jets. Lastly, a cellphone constructed to outlive a jacuzzi.
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It’s launching in black and white, with the latter a bit of extra attention-grabbing — its pearlescent end is seemingly constructed utilizing a multi-layered course of that makes each cellphone distinctive, so none could have fairly the identical remaining impact.
You’ll additionally spot a brand new digital camera button. It is a touch-sensitive haptic button that can be utilized to launch the digital camera app, take photographs, and zoom out and in. Can’t suppose the place we’ve seen something like that earlier than. You’ll spot a equally distinctive alert slider on the opposite facet of the system, which is not any enormous shock on condition that this shares fairly a couple of specs with the OnePlus 13, launched in China a couple of weeks in the past, together with many of the rear cameras and that IP68/69 score.
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Oppo watchers could need to notice that that is the Discover X8 Professional, not Extremely. When requested, Oppo confirmed to us that that is not the sequel to the Discover X7 Extremely, which launched in January this yr, leaving open the potential for an much more highly effective cellphone nonetheless on the best way — although we wouldn’t be stunned to see any Extremely mannequin keep China-only.
That appears seemingly partly as a result of even this launch isn’t all about Europe. Alongside the Professional, Oppo additionally unveiled a daily Discover X8. It is a remarkably comparable cellphone, with only some adjustments: it has blocky, slightly than rounded, edges; there’s no devoted digital camera shutter button; the entire cellphone is smaller and lighter; and there are solely three rear cameras, dropping the 6x periscope and utilizing a smaller sensor for the primary shooter.
The bottom Discover X8 isn’t launching in Europe nonetheless, and can as a substitute be centered on Asian markets. The Professional mannequin is out from at the moment, priced at £1,049 (round $1,325) within the UK. Unsurprisingly, neither cellphone will launch within the US.
