rAlmost every phone these days is huge. You go to a store and pick up a Samsung or a Pixel or an iPhone and they are all like holding a small tablet. They do not fit in your pocket right. They fall out when you sit down. You need two hands to type. And nobody asked for this. Companies just started making them bigger and everyone followed along.
So the X9s Pro has a 6.3 inch screen. That is not tiny like phones from ten years ago. But compared to what is out there now, it feels small. You can wrap your hand around it. Your thumb reaches everything. People who miss that feeling are going to like this phone right away just for that.
But here is the thing that surprised me. Usually when a company makes a smaller phone, they cut corners. Smaller phone means smaller battery. Smaller phone means worse cameras because the big camera parts do not fit. That is how it has always been.
Oppo did not do that. Somehow they put a 7025 mAh battery in this thing. That is a massive battery. My friend has a giant gaming phone with a 6000 mAh battery. This is bigger than that. I do not know how they fit it. Nobody online seems to know either. But the battery life is supposedly really good. People who have tested it say it easily lasts a full day of heavy use and sometimes goes into a second day if you are just doing normal stuff.
And the cameras. There are two cameras on the back and both of them are 200 megapixels. That sounds like marketing nonsense until you understand what it actually does for you. Most phones have one high resolution camera and then the other cameras are lower quality. Not here. Both the main camera and the zoom camera are high resolution. So when you zoom in, you are not losing as much detail as you would on a normal phone.
I saw a sample photo somewhere of a person standing in front of a building. And then someone zoomed in on a small sign on that building from far away and you could read the words on the sign clearly. That is the kind of thing that makes regular people say wow. Not because they care about specs but because it lets them do something their current phone cannot do.
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The colors are handled by Hasselblad. That is a real camera company from Sweden. They make those expensive medium format cameras that professional photographers use. Oppo has been working with them for a few years now. What that means for you is the photos do not look overdone. Samsung tends to make everything bright and punchy. iPhone tends to make everything a little flat and true to life. Oppo with Hasselblad sits somewhere in the middle. Warm but not fake. Detailed but not harsh.
There are also nine filters built in that copy old film looks. Not the weird Instagram filters from 2014 that turn everything purple. These are more subtle. One makes the photo a little softer and warmer like an old family photo from the 90s. Another adds a bit of cool blue tone like movie film. People who like taking photos for fun will spend time playing with these.
The screen is 6.3 inches like I said. It is AMOLED so blacks look truly black and colors pop. It gets bright enough to see outside which is really the only test that matters. And it gets very dim at night so you are not blinding yourself if you check the time at 2am. That is a small thing but I notice when phones do not have it.
It runs on a MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chip. I know some people hear MediaTek and think cheap phones from a few years ago. That is not true anymore. This chip is as fast as anything Qualcomm makes right now. You are not losing performance by going with Oppo instead of Samsung or something.
The software is ColorOS 16 which is just Oppo’s version of Android. It has some AI stuff now. You can circle something on the screen and ask the phone what it is. You can record a conversation and it will write a summary for you. You can remove people or objects from photos like the Pixel phones do. None of it is revolutionary but it all works fine. The software is smooth and I have not heard anyone complain about bugs or crashes.
Now here is the part you need to know before getting excited.
Oppo does not really sell this phone in America or Europe. Their main market is China. So if you live in the US, you cannot just go to Best Buy or your carrier store and pick one up. You have to buy it from an import website. There are sites like Giztop and TradingShenzhen that specialize in this. They buy phones in China and ship them to other countries.
The price in China is 5299 yuan for the base model. That comes out to about 730 dollars. But import sites usually charge more. Maybe 800 or 850 dollars after you add shipping. So you are paying a premium.
Then you have to worry about network bands. Different countries use different frequencies for cell service. The Chinese version of this phone supports most of the bands that T-Mobile uses in the US. So T-Mobile customers are usually fine. AT&T works but maybe not perfectly everywhere. Verizon is the hardest because they use a different technology for some of their network. Verizon customers should probably skip this phone unless you really know what you are doing.
Also there is no warranty. If something breaks, Oppo will not fix it in your country. You would have to send it back to China or find a local repair shop that is willing to work on it. Some people are fine with that risk. Some are not.
So who is this phone for? It is for people who are tired of big phones and willing to deal with import hassles. There are almost no good small Android phones left. Asus stopped making the Zenfone line. Sony still makes the Xperia but it is expensive and hard to find. The base Samsung S24 is small but the battery life is just okay and the cameras are not special. The base Pixel 8 is small but again the battery is nothing to write home about.
The Oppo Find X9s Pro gives you a small body with none of the usual small phone compromises. You get a huge battery. You get two excellent cameras. You get fast charging. You get a good screen. The only compromise is on your end. You have to import it and you have to check your carrier and you have to accept that repairs will be harder.
Is that worth it? For some people yes. For most people probably not. Most people just want to walk into a store and buy a phone that works. That is completely fair. But for the person who has been waiting and waiting for someone to make a small phone that does not suck, this might be the one.
I will put it this way. If Samsung or Google made this exact phone and sold it in every store for 730 dollars, it would sell very well. People would be happy. But Oppo is not Samsung or Google. So you have to want it badly enough to go get it yourself.
Almost every phone these days is huge. You go to a store and pick up a Samsung or a Pixel or an iPhone and they are all like holding a small tablet. They do not fit in your pocket right. They fall out when you sit down. You need two hands to type. And nobody asked for this. Companies just started making them bigger and everyone followed along.
So the X9s Pro has a 6.3 inch screen. That is not tiny like phones from ten years ago. But compared to what is out there now, it feels small. You can wrap your hand around it. Your thumb reaches everything. People who miss that feeling are going to like this phone right away just for that.
But here is the thing that surprised me. Usually when a company makes a smaller phone, they cut corners. Smaller phone means smaller battery. Smaller phone means worse cameras because the big camera parts do not fit. That is how it has always been.
Oppo did not do that. Somehow they put a 7025 mAh battery in this thing. That is a massive battery. My friend has a giant gaming phone with a 6000 mAh battery. This is bigger than that. I do not know how they fit it. Nobody online seems to know either. But the battery life is supposedly really good. People who have tested it say it easily lasts a full day of heavy use and sometimes goes into a second day if you are just doing normal stuff.
And the cameras. There are two cameras on the back and both of them are 200 megapixels. That sounds like marketing nonsense until you understand what it actually does for you. Most phones have one high resolution camera and then the other cameras are lower quality. Not here. Both the main camera and the zoom camera are high resolution. So when you zoom in, you are not losing as much detail as you would on a normal phone.
I saw a sample photo somewhere of a person standing in front of a building. And then someone zoomed in on a small sign on that building from far away and you could read the words on the sign clearly. That is the kind of thing that makes regular people say wow. Not because they care about specs but because it lets them do something their current phone cannot do.
The colors are handled by Hasselblad. That is a real camera company from Sweden. They make those expensive medium format cameras that professional photographers use. Oppo has been working with them for a few years now. What that means for you is the photos do not look overdone. Samsung tends to make everything bright and punchy. iPhone tends to make everything a little flat and true to life. Oppo with Hasselblad sits somewhere in the middle. Warm but not fake. Detailed but not harsh.
There are also nine filters built in that copy old film looks. Not the weird Instagram filters from 2014 that turn everything purple. These are more subtle. One makes the photo a little softer and warmer like an old family photo from the 90s. Another adds a bit of cool blue tone like movie film. People who like taking photos for fun will spend time playing with these.
The screen is 6.3 inches like I said. It is AMOLED so blacks look truly black and colors pop. It gets bright enough to see outside which is really the only test that matters. And it gets very dim at night so you are not blinding yourself if you check the time at 2am. That is a small thing but I notice when phones do not have it.
It runs on a MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chip. I know some people hear MediaTek and think cheap phones from a few years ago. That is not true anymore. This chip is as fast as anything Qualcomm makes right now. You are not losing performance by going with Oppo instead of Samsung or something.
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The software is ColorOS 16 which is just Oppo’s version of Android. It has some AI stuff now. You can circle something on the screen and ask the phone what it is. You can record a conversation and it will write a summary for you. You can remove people or objects from photos like the Pixel phones do. None of it is revolutionary but it all works fine. The software is smooth and I have not heard anyone complain about bugs or crashes.
Now here is the part you need to know before getting excited.
Oppo does not really sell this phone in America or Europe. Their main market is China. So if you live in the US, you cannot just go to Best Buy or your carrier store and pick one up. You have to buy it from an import website. There are sites like Giztop and TradingShenzhen that specialize in this. They buy phones in China and ship them to other countries.
The price in China is 5299 yuan for the base model. That comes out to about 730 dollars. But import sites usually charge more. Maybe 800 or 850 dollars after you add shipping. So you are paying a premium.
Then you have to worry about network bands. Different countries use different frequencies for cell service. The Chinese version of this phone supports most of the bands that T-Mobile uses in the US. So T-Mobile customers are usually fine. AT&T works but maybe not perfectly everywhere. Verizon is the hardest because they use a different technology for some of their network. Verizon customers should probably skip this phone unless you really know what you are doing.
Also there is no warranty. If something breaks, Oppo will not fix it in your country. You would have to send it back to China or find a local repair shop that is willing to work on it. Some people are fine with that risk. Some are not.
So who is this phone for? It is for people who are tired of big phones and willing to deal with import hassles. There are almost no good small Android phones left. Asus stopped making the Zenfone line. Sony still makes the Xperia but it is expensive and hard to find. The base Samsung S24 is small but the battery life is just okay and the cameras are not special. The base Pixel 8 is small but again the battery is nothing to write home about.
The Oppo Find X9s Pro gives you a small body with none of the usual small phone compromises. You get a huge battery. You get two excellent cameras. You get fast charging. You get a good screen. The only compromise is on your end. You have to import it and you have to check your carrier and you have to accept that repairs will be harder.
Is that worth it.Some people yes For most people probably not. Most people just want to walk into a store and buy a phone that works. That is completely fair. But for the person who has been waiting for someone to make a small phone that does not suck, this might be the one.
I will put it this way. If Samsung or Google made this exact phone and sold it in every store for 730 dollars, it would sell very well. People would be happy. But Oppo is not Samsung or Google. So you have to want it badly enough to go get it yourself.
