This Smartphone Hardware is Getting Crazy! 

The moment when the phone's so good, you start philosophical and nostalgic debates. That's a new

7:20 The Nokia 3310. My first cellphone I ever owned. Nokia was an absolute juggernaut back in those days! If you didn’t live through it, it’s hard to understate just how dominant they were.

really nice to see a video just stepping back and taking stock of how far we've come. nice thing to celebrate!

The real question is .. What's the point of Oppo sending review units to RU-vidrs while the phone is exclusive to the China market?

Flagship smartphones at this point are becoming more and more of a niche segment because of rising prices & features 80-90% of users can't really take advantage of. Mid-range & upper mid-range segment is where it's at.

The way they've retained a massive camera bump but still tried to integrate it into the back and also added a 2-tone back with vegan leather just makes it look classy as hell.

The light is very nice in the shots with marques - goood job

As a Software Engineer, we hired ARM CPUs in AWS cloud to process route optimizations, Perfect example that smartphone hardware got really crazy past theses years.

Never was a fan of Oppo, still not one, but damn, this design strikes right up my alley. The dual color, the symmetry, the nice beige colour, the contrast of materials, holy shit I'd be proud to carry something like that with me

Speaking as someone who recently moved to a nordic country the feature to clock/overclock the phone to keep it warm in winter to protect the battery is such a clever innovation. It's not a big deal but it honestly adds value to the experience if you live in colder parts of the world. Between this & the Oppo Find N2 Flip I feel like phones are getting creative again(since early 2000s) perhaps. Thanks for keeping us informed as always MKBHD! 😉

I've been a proud user of the Oppo Reno 10X Zoom - the fastest phone on the market when I bought it (well, faster than the Samsung equivalent and had a better camera). 4-years later it's still going strong but the battery is now barely a day so looking for an upgrade. Surprisingly the pop up cameras are still fully functional and used dozens of times a day. However, the Find X6 Pro has definitely piqued my curiosity 🙂

Thank you for the update

Amazing specs from top to bottom, the cameras alone are amazing. Hard to believe all that computing power is almost taken for granted now. Great review as always. TY

This phone looks so suprisenly good with that color design

Huge appreciation for using a metric unit! It shows that you recognise your international fan base. Amazing work as always 👏👏

I like how the upper edge of the leather/2nd backside color lines up with the matte glass! 😃👍 And yes, I know that cameras need bigger bumps, that's physics. If you want larger sensors, longer focal lengths, larger aperture and better quality you need bigger bumps (as long you don't find visible light with half of the wavelength😂).

MKBHD uploading at 6 AM is a vibe.

1:47 a fly went by

The first video I watched on your channel was the Oppo FIND X and I remember how my mind was blown by that pop up mechanism

Can't wait for iPhone to have all these neat features in the next 3 to 5 years

Argh, you lost me at 6.82 inch display! One thing that hasn't got bigger, more efficent or stronger in the last decade are my hands. I want a 6 inch or less flagship Android phone... and I want choice. The Zenfone 9 is very hard to source thus overpriced - The Galaxy S23 is still too big ;)

Dude I still remember the first Find X which has the full screen display and the crazy moving camera! 0:51

Looks like OPPO is still trending in the right direction, I have a Find X3 Pro that I daily drive and love, haven't really thought of upgrading since originally buying it but when I do, I think I'll stick with the OPPO line-up. So long as they don't keep up the China exclusivity going forward.

i like to watch your reviews cause you provide actual information ❤❤

Awesome video once again MKBHD. Always love them!! Thanks!

The camera bump immediately reminded me of Lumia 1020

What is the intro song/music? Couldn't find it on the spotify playlist.

I really like the design in the shown colorway, it's like a retro (hasselblad, fuji, nikon etc) camera. Very high end design and hardware.

2:45 they gotta name everything! 'DYNAMIC ISLAND' ahem ahem

Very interested to see how the camera/video compares against the other phones.

Love your videos the phone looks great hope it gets a global launch and those hoodies don’t get a lot of respect that it deserves!! Hoodies on ten!!!

Love your content, Marques!! Watching this from my Oneplus 11!

If you didn't come from tiktok raise your hand ✋🏻✋🏻

I used to have a Nokia Lumia 1020 and it was amazing. The huge camera bump on the back of the phone was great to rest your finger under it so you can better hold the phone one-handed.

Okay, enough about the smartphones the Logo intro is getting, even more, crazier loved it.

I appreciate the hard work you put in making these videos 🙌, even when i know i'm broke and cant even afford such a phone , i'll still watch just to update myself and get entertained .. SO ADDICTIVE😁.... keep up MKBHD 👌❤

smartphones have come a long way - it’s wild. the specs have increased in pace with computing tasks, which equates to the same user experience of 2011. truly mind blowing incredible progress and let’s not forget the hefty helping of meaningless novelty sprinkled in along the way!

I would like to see it's cameras vs other flagships

Always bring the best out 👍

4:39 I see MKBHQ as your Wi-Fi name 🤣. Congrats, you did it

It's amazing how far phone cameras have come hardware wise. Having several cameras available for wide angle up to (low) telephoto shots adds a lot of versatility and I love that a 1" sensor is no longer an extreme feature on a prototype, but something you can get with several regular flagship phones. At the same time, it feels like software has taken a wrong turn at some point. Just take a look at samples from the Nokia 808. That's a more than ten year old phone with not even a 1" sensor. Yet, in good conditions it produces an amount of detail and nuance that you just cannot get with any modern phone. It's like the Concorde, a technology from the past that was - in some aspects - more advanced than anything we have today. And I think reviewers are partly to blame for this development. Very early smartphones with tiny sensors had a lot of issues with dynamic range, where brighter parts of the images (like the sky) would just turn white if you wanted to expose the foreground correctly. So reviews often looked at how much detail was visible in both the darkest and the brightest parts of the image, which was a good measure for dynamic range. Nowadays, the larger and much more advanced sensors don't have that problem anymore, they have plenty of dynamic range for almost all situations. But reviewers are still fixated on this same issue, taking pictures of a black cat against the blazing sun and expecting to see detail of both the cat's fur and all the currents and flares on the sun's surface at the same time. Phone manufacturers have responded to that demand, making dark parts of the image brighter and bright parts darker by combining several differently exposed shots taken in short succession. This is sometimes (incorrectly) called HDR imaging or more accurately tone mapping. The immediate result of this process is a loss of contrast, it's the intended effect. This can be a good thing in situations with too much contrast, like the black cat in front of the sun. But there can also be too little contrast if the tone mapping is overdone. The sun will no longer look blazingly bright, it will be muted like on a slightly overcast day. And the shiny black fur of the cat will look greyish and dull. You need a few really white and a few really black parts in the image for it to look right, but some reviewers have repeatedly portrayed this as a fault because they could no longer make out all the details in these parts. The other reason why tone mapping is bad outside of a few high-contrast situations is that it's just not that refined yet, at least when left completely to software. We still get lots of really nasty artifacts like halos that you can't unsee once you start looking for them. Or look at samples with fine tree branches in front of a bright sky, many algorithms will produce all kind of weird spots and blotches there. And over all, there's a loss of nuances like different shades of blue, white and yellow in the evening sky. They tend to be all brought to the same level of uniform blue that often just looks fake. I really wish phone manufacturers would use the great hardware to its full potential, but right now over processing and badly implemented "computational photography" is ruining the image quality.

I've been using Oppo phones for 5 years now, and i have never been let down by their quality. Glad to see that they're becoming a top dog in the smart phone market ❤

the intro with that bg music , just smooth

Hasselblad set the gold standard for cameras with Zeiss lenses when film was a thing. They made primarily medium format twin lens (2 1/4 or 120 and 220). The camera bump is the size of the lens and the film (now its a sensor) was the size of a credit card. I doubt they make any part of this phone, just renting the name. Maybe consult.

Using a Find X5 pro for nearly a year now, still love it. Hope they can sell in Europe and US again soon

As an Oppo Find X3 Pro owner, I'm deeply saddened about this phone not being released worldwide, Oppo flagships have been killing it in all departments the last few years and I'd have loved to upgrade to this one.

That smart phone looks so cool and amazing video man :]

I just got me this phone a month ago and I've been in love.

10 years ago I did not think that phones will have 1 day battery backup as I was getting 1 week battery backup on my Nokia 1100.

I agree, the technology of phones has gotten so crazy good over the last few years. I am just amazed by the rate of innovation these manufacturers are coming up with.

You should do a video similar to this comparing a midrange phone from today that is great for the money with something from 10 years ago. It may make a great video idea 💡

hoodie joke was good, but i've laughed at the "focus" one 😂

Really love this design! Very clean and fingerprint free too!😂

7:27 the colors are soo good. Best I have seen

3:40 dude that's insane its like cars that preheat the battery before charging but for a phone pretty cool!

The 7String Aristides 070 looks sick! Well done!

My iPhone 8 has that Ultra low temperature charging mode…but I think it only works when I’m playing games and editing videos on IG because that’s when it gets warm

Love it's design. Brilliant rear camera set up but selfie 1080p for a flagship phone definitely not good enough 😁😎

Bro, that intro is strait 🔥!

Freezing temperatures - We have below 0 degrees Celsius in Norway all year except May -> September (never had any problems with any of my phones regardless of the temperature outside though)

Probably one of if not the best looking smartphone I've ever seen. Oppo really makes some of the best hardware around and this is as top of the line as it gets hands down right now.

1:21 so cute

This bumpy camera unit reminds me of the Nokia Lumia phones, I think those Nokia Lumia phones had an amazing camera and was way ahead of its time.

Such a classy, elegant looking phone. I'd love to get my hands on this.

A decade ago, Blackberries had integrated rubber ("vegan leather") cases and could last 2 maybe 3 days on a charge. That includes the BBOS and BB10 phones where BB10 was a more modern smartphone.

Shout-out to everyone who worked on this amazing intro 👏

Great as usual

It would have been cool if the ring around the camera on the back could act as a scroll wheel like the original iPod scroll.

I'm still rocking Find X2 Pro and still breezes through anything thrown at it.

6:08 Bro sounded like Peter Griffin😂

I love how you lost me completely halfway through talking about the camera specs 😂 📸

I think people are starting to accept large bumps in the backs of their phones because everyone uses covers/cases anyway which mitigate how much that bump sticks out. But in a phone like this, where they invested in leather for the back to improve feeling, I wonder why they wouldn't just raise everything to camera level (as a cover/case would anyway) and increase battery size.

Amazing design Premium+passionately different in a clean way with no exaggeration and useless features

I think the processors and the camera systems have come a really long way in the past 5 years. From something like the Galaxy S9 series to the current S23, it's come such a long way, it's barely recognizable.

Lol at Marques voice cracking at 1:21

Love the design definitely stands out

That's one beautifully designed phone.

Too bad this freaking amazing hardware was held down by its mediocre software, and the fact that it is only available in China doesn't help. Oh OPPO what are you thinking? 🤦🏻‍♂️

I absolutely love the leather back. The big circle up top kills it for me though

Is it just me? Or is the 2 Tone leather look just the most beautiful thing you have seen on a smartphone with such insane hardware?❤❤

MKBHD, you are among the pioneers of youtube and you are always getting better and better. One of the reasons we love you is because, unlike other youtube content producers, you are not heavily biased toward the sponsors. Lately, in some reviews, this unbiased attitude seems to be tipped toward the sponsers interests. No dought the Oppo model you are reviewed is a great phone, but it hasn't pushed any boundaries. The CPU, the RAM, the display, and the camera sensors where all spotted in previous manufacturers of other phones from Samsung, Xiaomi, and One Plus. Elaborating different sections of this phone, from hardware to software, and introducing it as the climax of mobile industry so far, are examples which are not in alignment with the videos we used to see from you. To me, you are still the most unbiassed, trustworthy, and honest producer on youtube. ❤

The battery temp ramping is cool

Just ordered the Chevron Hoodie as an early birthday gift for myself. Super excited for it to come in 😁

So Oppo is following how the charging station prepares a car battery... Oppo has taken the ideas from Tesla, which has been warming up its batteries this way for years now. What about the Samsung S23 Ultra does it have this preheat battery function before charging?

I actually think display is one area where things haven't come that far. Eight years ago back in 2015 the gallery s6 had a 1440p OLED display. It was a different aspect ratio but around the same ppi. I went with the LG G4 back then which also had 1440p although I think it was LCD and it still loocked incredible. That was my favorite phone ever. I miss LG.

No 4K60 for the front camera? Why? Only Samsung, Iphone and Google Pixel seem to offer it so far 🤷🏼

We've officially reached "Diminishing returns" peak of smartphone technology. A decade ago, every single new phone that came out was a massive upgrade over last year's model. But nowadays? You hear 16GB ram, 6000 mAh battery, 2TB storage and no one even blinks an eye. They're like "eh cool yeah".

It's a shame they're not bringing it to the Western Regions. I really liked my Oppo Find X2 Pro with the 5x periscope zoom

Definition of crazy to Marcus, 'Canada in the middle of winter'.... 😂

Yes Marques!!! Thank you for fighting for flat displays!!! The world needs more of them.

8:40 bro got the magic 5 pro

8:42, the OPPO cameras aligned like that is satisfying

3:20 "it's canada in the middle of the winter" i felt that as a canadian as our winters are indeed between 0 to -25 degrees celsius and freezing 😂

I remember in 2014 when the lg Optimus g pro came out and i thought it had really good battery life. I still have mine and its a good phone

From powerful processors to high-quality cameras to great display, there's so much to appreciate about the hardware

This is a serious contender for the most improved phone award. Apart from the massive jump in performance and battery that the new chip brings, the new camera just took it to another level. They went from having one of the worst telephoto sensors to arguably the best

0:47 I like the way you put camera on back which look like the camera on oppo

Back when L1020 came out with a juggernaut camera setup, we went in for small camera holes, neat looking backs without bumps. Now, after what seems like ages, we went from that to backs of phones looking like they've been infected with pox, and now back to a juggernaut camera setup, that bravely stands up.

The thing I hate the most on the newer phones, are the big camera bumps, I don't like them at all. I love how the photos look, but it bothers me a lot haha Thanks for the great video!

Good to see they’ve grasped the oppo-tunity to release a flagship