The Oppo Find X5 was launched in the spring of 2022, which means the launch of the next generation – the Find X6 and Find X6 Pro – is likely just around the corner.
The leaks have already started, as have the first official announcements, and we expect to know a bit more about the chipsets, cameras and displays of the two flagship phones expected next year.
Here’s everything we know so far about the Oppo Find X6 series.
When will the Oppo Find X6 be released?
There is no confirmed date yet when we will see the Find X6.
Leaker Digital Chat Station posted on Weibo that the launch will take place after the Spring Festival – aka Chinese New Year – and likely closer to late February or March.
Of course, we can also use previous patterns to give us an idea of when this might happen. Here’s how they lined up:
- Oppo Find X5 – March 2022
- Oppo Find X3 – March 2021
As you can see from the model above, March is Oppo’s window to launch new generations of Find X models, so it seems quite likely that the Oppo Find X6 will arrive in the same window. Based on Oppo’s track record, it will be a global launch, but won’t include the US.
You might be wondering what happened to the Find X4 – well, number 4 is considered unlucky in China, where Oppo is based, so the choice was made to just skip it and go straight to the X5 range in place.
How much will the Oppo Find X6 cost?
Again, there’s no confirmed price on the Find X6 range, so we’ll have to go back to previous models to give us a hint. For convenience, we break them down by model. First there is the normal model:
- Oppo Find X5 – £749 / $999
- Oppo Find X3 – CNY 4,499 (China only)
Then we get the Pro:
Next, the more affordable Lite:
And finally the Neo, although we’ve never had a Find X5 Neo, so that line might just be done.
We don’t expect Oppo to stray too far in price from the Find X5 range, which is already in direct competition with Samsung and Xiaomi, but if current inflation trends continue, the price may well rise a little. little.
What will the specifications and design of the Oppo Find X6 be?
As the planned launch of the Oppo Find X6 is still quite a ways off, there have been few specs leaks so far, but details are starting to trickle out – and Oppo has even started its own official announcements.
Let’s start with the design, where it looks like Oppo is reinventing the line’s design language. That’s according to leaker EvLeaks at least, who is share this image of a phone he doesn’t name, but which is presumably part of the Find X6 range – and most likely the Pro model, given what appears to be a periscope lens on the bottom left of the camera module.
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If so, it’s a big departure from the molded look of the previous two generations, to something much more conservative – albeit with an oversized camera and prominent Hasselblad logo.
We got a partial glimpse of a similar design in images of what is allegedly a prototype Find X6 series device spotted in China. GSMArena has the photos of the phone, which we can pretty much see with an oversized camera module, big enough to flip the whole phone when it’s put down.
In fact, the camera here looks even wider than the one in the render above, spanning the entire top of the phone. This either suggests it’s the Pro and renders the regular model, or one of those models isn’t quite right.
When it comes to actual specs, we’ve heard a bit about chipsets. Oppo itself has confirmed that it will use the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip in its upcoming Find X series phones, i.e. the Find X6.
This doesn’t necessarily mean 8 Gen 2 will appear in every Find X6 handset. Weibo leaker Digital Agent 007 claims that while the Find X6 Pro will use 8 Gen 2, the regular Find X6 will use the older 8+ Gen 1. Sounds plausible, but take it with a pinch of salt, because it doesn’t isn’t a leaker that we’ve seen a lot in the past.
We may see even more variations. The Find X5 Pro also launched in a separate version with the MediaTek Dimensity 9000, at least in China, and we might see the same again with its successor, the Dimensity 9200.
In a brief report, the best-known leaker Digital Chat Station also hinted at displays, suggesting that we’ll see a 2K panel on the X6 Pro and a 1.5K panel on the X6 – a term we’re starting to see for itself. refer to a horizontal resolution of 1220 pixels. There’s no word on the actual display tech, but expect at least 120Hz AMOLED panels.
Then there are the cameras. Again, Digital Chat Station is our source, reporting that we’ll see a trio of 50Mp sensors on the back of the Find X6 Pro: the 1in Sony IMX989 for the main camera with OIS (the same sensor found in the Xiaomi 12S Ultra, and is expected to feature in the Xiaomi 13 Pro), with the IMX890 used for both ultra-wide and 2.7x optical zoom with OIS – although he has since added that there’s a chance the IMX766 is rather used for the telephoto lens. As for selfies, there will apparently be a 32Mp camera using the IMX709.
Impressively, Digital Chat Station adds that the Find X6 Pro will be able to record 4K HDR video in night mode when using the 1-inch IMX989 sensor, thanks in part to the MariSilicon X image processing chip in the telephone. That could make it the best phone for low-light video when it launches.
We’ll supposedly see a similar setup on the standard Find X6. Early reports suggested it would use two 50Mp sensors and one 32Mp sensor – probably the lowest resolution for telephoto – but more recently Digital Chat Station claimed that the three rear cameras would be 50Mp. Here, the IMX890 will feature on the main camera, with as-yet-unknown sensors for ultrawide and telephoto.
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