Review | Oppo Find X7 Ultra review: first phone with 2 periscope lenses takes zoom photos that leave iPhone 15 Pro Max and Google Pixel 8 Pro in the dust
- Oppo’s Find X7 Ultra, with two periscope zoom lenses and a new 1-inch Sony main camera sensor, is the best phone camera on the market in terms of hardware
- It takes better zoom photos than Apple or Android rivals, at a time when other phone makers have slowed camera hardware innovation to focus on AI and software
Huawei launched it in 2019, and Samsung is better known for it worldwide. Yet the periscope zoom lens – an L-shaped camera placed sideways inside a phone’s casing to allow more room for light to travel – is, in fact, an Oppo innovation.
The company, headquartered in Dongguan, southern China, first teased the technology with a prototype back in 2017, more than two years before Huawei and Samsung launched phones with periscope zoom cameras.
Oppo is back to show that it is, indeed, the zoom lens king. The Chinese brand’s new flagship handset, the Find X7 Ultra, features two periscope zoom lenses – a world first – that cover the 72mm and 135mm focal lengths, paired with a brand new Sony LYT-900 1-inch wide main camera sensor.
This means the Find X7 Ultra has the best phone camera hardware on the market right now by some distance.
