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00:00All right, look at this thing.
00:04This is the Oppo Find X6 Pro.
00:07Now I've talked about Oppo's Find X series smartphones
00:09before, they've made some pretty wild stuff in the past.
00:12This X6 Pro is not even coming to the US,
00:14it's apparently going to be China only.
00:16But I've gotten to actually use it for about a week
00:18and it's got me thinking, smartphone hardware
00:21has gotten so ridiculously capable
00:23and this being at the top of the heap is so capable
00:26that I think we might actually be taking it
00:29for granted a little bit.
00:30So okay, let's back up.
00:31Aesthetically, slab smartphones have all kind of started
00:34to look the same, we are all on the same page about that.
00:36This one actually kind of managed to spice it up
00:38a little bit with this half vegan leather on the bottom,
00:40which kind of has a little texture to it, which is nice.
00:42And then the top half and the rails are like
00:45this satin metal, so it is a bit different
00:47and I actually like it a lot.
00:48But you know, that's the Oppo Find series for you.
00:50They've been really good at spicing it up
00:51from the standard slab formula for a number of years
00:55and they try all sorts of interesting stuff.
00:56There are some solid colored versions
00:59of this phone as well, but this is the one
01:01that really makes a statement.
01:02But none of that is even really
01:02what I'm talking about in this video.
01:03What I am talking about is what's under the hood.
01:07Get it?
01:07Under the hood, because of the hood, hoodie, anyway.
01:12Yeah, under the hood here.
01:13So Chinese software aside, I can just tell
01:15that because this is a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
01:18with 16 gigs of RAM, with fast storage
01:21and great other supporting specs,
01:22I feel pretty comfortable saying that it's going to go well.
01:25But there are three main areas
01:27that I just want to appreciate
01:29with smartphone hardware capability right now.
01:31So the first one is the battery.
01:33Now, okay, here's the way we normally think
01:35of smartphone battery, right?
01:36Like what was a good smartphone battery life
01:39like eight, nine, 10 years ago?
01:41It's like, oh, all day.
01:43If it could last all for an entire day of battery life,
01:45that'd be pretty good.
01:47Now fast forward all the way to 2023
01:49and what is a good smartphone battery life?
01:51It's one day, all of a day, maybe two days if you're lucky.
01:55So it doesn't feel like it's advanced that much.
01:58But of course you need to consider the amount of stuff
02:00our smartphones is doing has gotten way more dramatic,
02:03much more powerful processing, bigger screens,
02:05way more radios.
02:06These things are way more power hungry.
02:08So for those older smartphones
02:09and all day battery life meant having like a 2000
02:12to 3000 milliamp hour battery.
02:14And then even as recently as like three years ago,
02:18you could either get like a 5000 milliamp hour battery
02:22with slower charging,
02:23or you could get like a 3000 milliamp hour battery
02:26and have blazing fast charging.
02:28But now it's 2023, we can have both.
02:30Now this one's got a 5000 milliamp hour battery
02:33that also charges at a 100 Watts wired
02:36or even 50 Watts wireless charging.
02:38So with a cable that 100 Watts will do zero to 100%
02:42in 30 minutes, but even through what they're calling
02:45AirVOOC wireless charging,
02:46cause they got to name everything.
02:47With the right accessory,
02:48you can get 50% charge in 22 minutes
02:51on the wireless charger.
02:52So it's kind of sick.
02:53Plus there's all the battery extras and modes
02:56to ideally help keep the battery healthy and optimized
02:59so that you can fast charge as much as you want
03:00without damaging a thing.
03:02It learns your schedule, does that whole dance.
03:03This one even has an ultra low temperature charging mode.
03:08I think any phone could probably have this mode
03:10if they programmed it.
03:10But basically what this phone is doing is if it detects
03:12you're in extreme cold, like zero to negative 25 degrees
03:17Celsius.
03:18So it's your freeze, it's Canada in the middle of the winter
03:22or something crazy.
03:22And so it's really cold.
03:23The battery is really cold,
03:25but batteries need to be in a certain temperature range
03:28to charge quickly, like somewhere around room temperature.
03:31So if you plug it in, in that extreme cold
03:33and it needs to rapidly charge,
03:35it will actually run an artificial load
03:37through the computer, through the processor,
03:39like basically benchmark itself over and over again
03:41to start to generate heat in the computer
03:43to warm up the phone,
03:45to get the battery to a better temperature
03:47to charge quickly.
03:48So even at the end of the day, if it's still,
03:51if it was 10 years ago, all day battery life,
03:53and now today it's still all day battery life.
03:56I still think it's way more impressive now
03:58than it was back then.
03:59So that's number one, the battery.
04:00Then number two is this display.
04:03So watching this through a compression,
04:07through a website on YouTube video
04:08and then on the screen of your phone,
04:09you won't be able to tell how awesome this screen is.
04:11Like you'll just see another phone with thin bezels
04:13and some slightly curved edges
04:15and a hole punch cut out for the selfie camera
04:17looking pretty normal.
04:19I remember not that long ago
04:21when we were first getting retina displays in smartphones,
04:24we were getting basically right over
04:26the 300 pixels per inch, 300 PPI limit
04:29where you can't really discern individual pixels anymore.
04:32That was back in the iPhone 4S days
04:34where it was like a 60 Hertz flat LCD,
04:36but it was like, oh, it's a retina display.
04:38But this screen, this display here in a smartphone,
04:40this is a 6.82 inch diagonal
04:43with a 3168 by 1440 resolution.
04:47That's 510 pixels per inch for anybody counting.
04:50Razor sharp, but you can turn it down to 1080P anytime.
04:52It's also an AMOLED display with LTPO.
04:56So it goes all the way up to 120 Hertz
04:58and all the way down to one Hertz
05:00when it doesn't need to be moving at all to be efficient.
05:02And it has a 240 Hertz touch sample rate.
05:04It's extremely responsive to the touch,
05:06whether it's scrolling or swiping around or gaming.
05:10It also has adjustable color settings
05:12to get it looking exactly dialed the way you want.
05:14And by the way, it has a max peak brightness of 2,500 nits.
05:20So there's pretty much no situation,
05:22whether it's in the dash of your car
05:24or outdoors in direct sunlight,
05:25there's no situation where it's not bright enough
05:27to be readable, which is dope.
05:28All while housing a pretty standard,
05:31really quick optical fingerprint sensor
05:33and the hole punch camera you saw with the cutout
05:35for the selfie camera at the top.
05:36Do I wish it was more flat?
05:38Yeah, if I was gonna daily this phone,
05:40I'd want a more flat display than this.
05:43But I mean, this is the Oppo Find X thing.
05:45That's what they always do.
05:46They try to go a little fancy,
05:47a little spicy with the hardware.
05:48So I almost give it a pass because I expected that.
05:50But this display is world-class.
05:53It's hard to appreciate on the camera.
05:54But if you show this display or those numbers to people
05:57eight, nine years ago, it would be nuts.
05:59So that's two.
06:00Then three is the camera.
06:04I mean, you look at a phone like this
06:05and it's pretty clear what the focus is.
06:08That's a pun.
06:08But the camera system on the backs of these phones
06:11has swelled up more and more over the years,
06:13especially on the flagships.
06:14At this point, it's damn near half the back of the phone.
06:17This one is a triple camera setup.
06:19So one standard, one ultra wide and one periscope zoom.
06:23Now those first two categories, display and battery
06:26are less software dependent.
06:28Like you can basically brute force your way
06:30into having a good one if you just buy a good enough part.
06:32Like you don't need good software to have a great display,
06:34just buy a good display.
06:36And optimization helps.
06:37But like if you'd buy a huge battery,
06:39you'll have a pretty good battery life.
06:41But cameras are a little different.
06:43Cameras as we talked about are mostly,
06:46I mean, it's a lot of software work
06:47that goes into determining the character
06:50of the photos and videos you get out of a smartphone camera.
06:53It's basically a computer.
06:54And so in order to separate yourself
06:56at the very top of smartphone cameras,
06:58something like this, like a flagship
07:00actually needs to combine the two.
07:02If you wanna give your software
07:04the best chance of succeeding,
07:05you need to give it the best information possible.
07:07And so this is trying to do both.
07:10So let's not even worry about the megapixel count,
07:11but just the sheer size of the sensors in here
07:14and their light gathering abilities,
07:15and then the quality of the lenses
07:17they're able to fit in front of them.
07:19This is a primary camera that is a 50 megapixel,
07:22one inch type sensor with optical stabilization
07:25and a 1.8 aperture.
07:26And so while it still has to be Oppo's software
07:28that does all the processing that is most of the work
07:30in creating a photo nowadays,
07:32it absolutely makes a big difference
07:33to give that computer as much light
07:35and as much information as possible.
07:37So that's what's going on.
07:39The biggest things that these huge sensors
07:40tend to struggle with is actually minimum focus distance
07:43and closeup subjects.
07:44So thankfully this system also has a massive
07:47one over 1.56 inch ultra wide sensor
07:50with an F 2.2 aperture.
07:52And it also happens to have
07:53a four centimeter minimum focus distance.
07:54So you can take closeup shots
07:56and it's got this built in macro mode
07:57to handle most of the weaknesses of the primary camera.
08:00And there's a matching, identical actually,
08:03large sensor behind the 3X periscope camera.
08:06And that one also has an F 2.6 aperture.
08:09So they are all 50 megapixel cameras.
08:11They can also all do a 2X crop and still be very detailed.
08:15So that kind of makes it feel like the 1X camera
08:17is now a 1X and a 2X.
08:18And then the 3X camera is both a 3X and a 6X.
08:22But then, you know,
08:23Samsung phones will go to the extra mile
08:25and also include a 10X camera,
08:27which can also crop if you want to.
08:28So they'll go like as much zoom versatility as possible.
08:32But the point is, yeah, we're throwing hardware at it now
08:35and it works, it's important still.
08:36Camera systems like this were just kind of not on the radar
08:39a few years ago,
08:41especially because designs wouldn't really allowed it.
08:43Like we just kind of got used to gigantic bumps
08:45on the back of phones.
08:47So the downside, or maybe upside,
08:49depending on how you see it,
08:50is phones today just have bigger and bigger camera bumps
08:54on the back to house all these massive sensors
08:56and big optics.
08:58But this one, I actually don't really mind.
08:59Maybe you feel the same way.
09:01They've embraced the Hasselblad branding, obviously.
09:03They also put this whole thing in a huge circle
09:06and then it has this nice knurled ring
09:08around the camera circle.
09:09That reminds me of those like nice,
09:11especially Hasselblad cameras.
09:12It's got the dot in the middle,
09:14which is typically where you'd line up a lens to put it on.
09:17So it kind of plays it well, it looks fine.
09:20Also, there's a couple of phones with like huge camera bumps
09:22where I like that the bottom of it is right in the spot
09:25that matches where my finger rests on the back of the phone.
09:28So I actually use the camera bump
09:30to hold up the back of the phone comfortably
09:32and this is one of them.
09:33This phone also happens to have the fastest storage
09:35we've seen in Android phones.
09:37It's UFS 4.0 storage, has the fastest RAM,
09:40has the fastest Wi-Fi, is Wi-Fi 7 capable.
09:43It also has fantastic haptics.
09:46All of that is enabled by hardware.
09:48And this isn't even really the most powerful smartphone out.
09:52Like let's be honest, it's gonna be the gaming phones again
09:54that level up this chipset, give it crazy cooling,
09:58like overclock it.
10:00They'll do nuts things.
10:01They'll prioritize different things.
10:03They'll have a higher refresh rate screen.
10:04They'll have big front facing speakers and things like that.
10:08Others might prioritize design in a way
10:10that's like extra thin.
10:12Different phones do different things.
10:13And that's not even touching the whole battle being fought
10:15over how folding phone form factors should work
10:18because there are a lot of options out there
10:20and that is all hardware
10:21and that is all still very interesting.
10:24But just as far as the standard slab smartphone,
10:27these pieces of hardware would be like unthinkable
10:31eight, seven, six years ago.
10:33So that's pretty cool.
10:35Thanks for watching.
10:36Catch you guys in the next one.
10:38Peace.