The Find X2 Pro. You might remember the original Find X from 2018 – a pretty sweet looking
phone where the whole top half motored up to reveal the cameras. It was pretty phenomenal
right up until the end of the durability test when...well...it didn't exactly make it. Today
we're going to see if this vegan leather covered Oppo Find X2 Pro holds up any better than
it's predecessor. Inside the box we get the massive 65 watt flash charger, which is a
foreshadow of the power this thing contains. This Find X2 Pro is the exact opposite of
a budget phone.
Let's get started.
[Intro]
The Find X2 Pro is a premium smartphone – meaning both premium specs and premium price. It's
competing with the high-end Samsung's and flagship iPhones and costs well over $1000.
It even comes with a screen protector. This year, since nothing's motorized, the Oppo
Find X2 does have more room inside for the premium specs. I'm not sure why companies
are naming their smartphones after math equations. I thought I was all done with that after graduating
school.
The Find X2 Pro with it's Eye of Sauron-looking background scratches at a level 6, with deeper
grooves at a level 7. The front-facing 32 megapixels selfie camera is a hole-punch style
underneath the front glass. And the super thin earpiece grill up at the top isn't made
from plastic, but it's pretty secure and won't be falling out on it's own.
The real selling point of the Find X2 Pro is the screen. We'll get to that in a second.
The frame is made from metal. You can see the silver glinting underneath the gold paint,
along with the metal power button which has a little green inlaid strip down the center.
The top of the phone is uneventful – just the normal longitudinal folder groove with
a little hold for one of the three on-board microphones. The left side of the phone is
also metal and has individual volume buttons instead of a rocker. At the bottom of the
Find X2 we find a USB-C port, along with the metal SIM card tray which has room for two
SIM cards, and it's own ip68 water-resistant red rubber ring around the opening. All these
things are pretty standard so far. Oppo is definitely it more safe this year.
One unique thing this phone does have though is the back panel. It's not the normal glass
or metal that we always see, it's leather – vegan leather. Vegan leather is a fancy
way of saying that it's not actually leather. It's just a polyurethane imitation of leather.
But it's still pretty high quality stuff. Tesla even uses vegan leather for the seats
in their vehicles. Vegan leather is not as scratch-resistant as glass is though. And
it does not enjoy coming into contact with sharp objects. You can see the orangey-pink
color start to scratch off with my razor blade, exposing the white plasticy stuff underneath.
And I don't think a dbrand would stick to it very well either. But it still does look
rather peachy, don't you think? If the back panel comes into contact with normal everyday
objects that don't have super sharp points, it actually holds up very well. My keys leave
virtually no damage on the back and the metal plug from the charging brick doesn't cause
any game-changing abrasions either, which is good. Most objects commonly found in pockets,
like this torn down taptic linear actuator, won't cause permanent damage to the leather
unless they are sharp or abrasive.
The Find X2 Pro comes with two cameras on the back. The top camera is one of those cool
side mounted 13 megapixel 5x optical zoom periscope cameras. Then we have the 48 megapixel
ultra-wide camera in the center, and the 48 megapixel normal camera down at the bottom
– all protected with a scratch-resistant glass lens and a dual toned plastic flash
diffuser down at the bottom.
Like most flagships these days...well I guess most smartphones in general nowadays...there
is an underscreen fingerprint scanner. We know this one is an optical scanner since
we can see the display light up to illuminate my fingerprint as it scans. Once my fingerprint
is set, I can add an over the top amount of level 7 deeper grooves to the glass, and we
find that it's still able to read my fingerprint every single time even though all that carnage.
Thumbs up for that.
Now the main selling point of this phone, to me anyway, is the screen. Almost every
smartphone in existence right now only displays 17 million colors, which is all fine and very
normal. But this guy, just like the One Plus 8 Pro, can display over 1 billion colors.
And it doesn't stop there either, it's also a 3k resolution 1440p with 120 Hertz refresh
rate, which is better than most gaming phones, which now that I think about it, it's pretty
much the exact same specs as the OnePlus 8 Pro, but the One Plus 8 Pro is hundreds of
dollars cheaper than the Find X2 Pro. So I guess if you really need to buy a 10-bit phone
that's named after a math equation, OnePlus is currently the cheaper option.
The AMOLED display does last about 40 seconds under the heat from my lighter, which is rather
convenient since that's about how long it took me to explain the color thing. Nice.
Now for the bend test. If you remember from the original Find X durability test, that
phone just never stopped bending. There was no structural rigidity due to the independent
mechanical halves. This time around though, the solid metal frame does have a minor flex
right around the power button area, but there's no catastrophic damage or permanent kinks
to the frame. And most importantly, no cracks to the front glass. Oppo is playing it extremely
safe this year. Even with that vegan leather and the 10-bit screen though, I have a feeling
this phone is just going to blend in with the rest of the rectangles out there pretty
quick.
With Oppo being one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world, I was kind of
hoping they would keep this Find X lineup of phones filled with crazy unique designs,
but that doesn't appear to be the case. I'll keep my fingers crossed for the Find X3 next
year. I do have a question for you though. If the specs were identical, would you rather
own a unique mechanically complex smartphone like the Find X, or stay safe with a normal
rectangle like the Find X2 Pro? Let me know down in the comments.
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