Oppo Find X10 Pro Max Review: They Keep Doing It – Mark Ellis Reviews

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Every time I review a new OPPO flagship phone I ask the same question: how on earth can they improve on this next year?

OPPO doesn’t hold back, you see. If they can squeeze a bigger battery in there, they’ll do so. If there’s more nits and Hz to be had from a display, they’ll find them. If no one has done that with a phone camera before, you can bet your bottom dollar they will.

Yet, each year, they somehow find new ways to impress us reviewers.

Enter the Find X10 series. This year, there’s a regular X10 and an X10 Pro Max – the first OPPO smartphone to be given that moniker. Make of it what you will.

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been testing the X10 Pro Max and, once again, I’m mightily impressed. I’m also left wondering what on earth this means for smartphones in general, whether or not regular folk are fussed about this wizardry, and if the choice between the X10 and the X10 Pro is rather confusing.

What a wonderful world we live in, eh?

Find X10 Pro Max quick specs and pricing

The Find X10 Pro Max is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro, which was one of the first 2nm chips to hit the market (although that’s old news now that everyone has jumped aboard the 2nm Mega Bus). In the UK, it features 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, although specs on that front may differ in certain regions.

The display is 6.78 inches, the phone weighs 235g, and measures in at 8.4mm thick/thin (delete as you see appropriate).

Then, things get typically OPPO silly. The battery is an 8,000mAh single-cell unit. Which is a metric you-know-what-tonne of millamp hours. Unfortunately, the X10 Pro Max is only available in certain countries with that collosal battery. If you live in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, or Europe, it drops down to ‘just’ 7,150mAh. Which is still mahosive.

And, yeah, it’s made from silicon kryptonite. It’s also capable of 80W wired charging and 50W wireless charging with OPPO’s case and charger.

There are three 200MP cameras (I’ll get to that), and running the show is ColorOS 17 with all of the AI gubbins you’d expect in 2026.

The X10 Pro Max costs £1,499 in the UK. Which certainly makes it a flagship device.

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Find X10: same phone(ish), but smaller

Alongside the X10 Pro Max we have the regular X10. It looks markedly different to its bigger brother and has some key differences.

The X10 is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9600M, rather than the Pro, which is a 3nm chip. It has the same display specs, althought the screen itself is smaller at 6.59 inches. Battery size, charging, IP ratings, and the ColorOS version are all identical to the Pro Max.

The only other difference lies within the camera system which offers ‘just’ two 200MP cameras (the regular and the telephoto) on the X10 and a slightly smaller main sensor.

The X10 looks more like the X9 Pro than it does the X10 Pro Max. That means its still a handsome, interesting phone in the hand, but the X10 Pro Max is, clearly, the flagship of the two. I think OPPO has done a nice job with the differentiation here.

The X10 costs £1,099 in the UK and comes with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.

Wondering how the X10 Pro Max stacks up against OPPO’s previous flagship? Check out our OPPO Find X9 Ultra review for a full breakdown.

Design

I was sent the Luna White X10 Pro Max to review, and my word is it a lovely device. There are two versions – this one and the Titanium Grey. In my opinion, the white edition is the one to go for, not least because, in white, it just looks… better, but also because it features a ‘Hasselblad-inspired’ design.

That means you get the Hasselblad logo, a knurled ring around the camera module (it’s basically perforated metal, a little bit like you get on certain design elements of a Hasselblad camera), and what looks like a textured rear surface. The latter isn’t actually textured, but gives the appearance of being so and is very nice indeed.

Both phones are IP66, IP68, and IP69 rated for water and dust resistance, and have a five-star SGS drop rating, so should take a beating. The X10 Pro Max is also not particularly cumbersome. At 235g and with a relatively modest display size, it doesn’t trouble many pockets and can be used one-handed with relative ease.

The Quick Button has gone, but there’s still a Snap Key that you can assign to a number of tasks (the most useful, in my opinion, being mute).

Like most Android phones, the X10 Pro Max doesn’t have built-in magnets for charging – you’ll need to grab a compatible case to make use of its Qi2 abilities, but at least it has them.

The display, predictably, is superb. It’s a BT 2020 panel, which might interest you (although, apparently, there ain’t much content that has been mastered for that yet), and features a 144Hz refresh rate for gaming which will please a good number of people.

I’m still not sure what more you can do with a slab of metal and glass, but OPPO has, once again, made an incredibly nice looking and relatively unique flagship smartphone.

Let’s not beat around the bush, though – this phone is all about one thing.

Find X10 Pro Max performance

If you’re buying an OPPO Find X phone, there’s a strong chance the camera system is one of the main reasons you were drawn to it.

Just to reiterate: the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max features three 200MP cameras. Not one – three. To put this in context, manufacturers like Samsung usually only grant the main camera such a large sensor. Questions as to whether anyone needs that many megapixels in a phone (or, indeed, if there is any overriding benefit) aside, stuffing three gaping 200MP sensors into a little smartphone is very OPPO. And very impressive.

You have to turn the 200MP mode on, of course. By default, the X10 Pro Max shoots at 26MP in normal lighting conditions and drops automatically to 12MP in low light.

How does it perform? Brilliantly. I am resolutely not someone who deep dives photography specs and performance on smartphones because I don’t have the time or inlincation to. What I’m far more interested in is whether or not such devices can nail everyday shots every single time. That’s a much harder thing to do than switch on 36 settings to achieve a wall-sized print that looks like it came out of a DSLR (as impressive as that might be).

Good news – the X10 Pro Max, just like the devices it follows in OPPO’s lineup, is an incredible photography device, right out of the box. It nails every photo pretty much instantly, and does so with processing that is pleasing rather than in-your-face. Indeed, OPPO tells us that its teams have focused on producing photos that rely less on sharpening, HDR, and face brightening to look great. You can tell.

The great thing about OPPO phones when it comes to photography is that there is so much headroom. This one has 200MP across all lenses, and has one of the most usable zoom ranges I’ve ever come across on a smartphone (even if, optically, it maxes out at 3x). But if you never need to approach that headroom, the sheer amount of engineering and Hasselbad knowledge that has gone into this thing means regular shots will always be utterly lovely.

When it comes to video capabilities, OPPO hasn’t held back there, either. The X10 Pro Max is capable of up to 8K at 30fps, but also includes support for Dolby Vision, O-Log2 with LUT preview and open gate on all three lenses. If any of that means anything to you, you’re in for a treat. If it doesn’t, once again, the fact that such headroom exists means it’s going to shoot regular 4K family videos very well indeed.

The crazy teleconverter

If you want to take your OPPO photography even further, you can buy a teleconverter kit for the X10 Pro Max.

This is essentially a huge mountable lens which attaches via a metal plate to an included case. It sits over the built-in telephoto lens and offers “true 10x optical”, according to OPPO.

Inside, there are 13 glass elements which work together to produce stunning results that start at 10x (230mm) in the photo app, and go right up to 200x, if you fancy it.

To use the telephoto lens, you also have to switch to a specific Hasselblad Teleconverter mode in the camera app. There’s work invovled, basically; you have to slide on the metal plate, attach the lens, and then choose that shooting mode before snapping anything. Because of this, the teleconverter is absolutely for people who want to hone their photography skills and explore the stratospheric reaches of smartphone photography. It’s not for quick snaps.

I’ve used a few of these OPPO teleconverters and the results are genuinely very impressive. You need a steady hand, but the digital stabilisation does a good job of correcting any looseness. The images returned by the teleconverter are sharp and include all of the compression and background and foreground blurring you could ever want.

The kit also comes with a case, strap, and pouch for keeping that teleconverter lens safe.

It’s not for everyone but it remains a relatively unique offering (Vivo is the other notable brand that has got involved in such big lens shenanigans), and the photos you can achieve with it are unlike anything else you’ll see on a smartphone.

If you’re cross-shopping OPPO’s flagships, our Oppo Find X9 Pro review is worth a read before you decide.

Shop the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max below!

Wrap-up

The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted that I’ve not mentioned performance or battery stamina in this review, bar the specs. This is because you can rightfully assume that both are as flagship as they should be, but also because I don’t do that kind of testing. If you’re concerned about any aspects of the MediaTek chip’s performance, please check out the reviews that do that kind of analysis.

Although when it comes to the battery, trust me – you have nothing to worry about. Ever.

OPPO keeps doing it. Every year, I wonder how on earth its flagships can get any better and every year they do. The difference these days is that those improvements are at the very top end of what you can expect from a smartphone – particularly when it comes to the camera system.

This is no bad thing, mark my words, and the OPPO Find X10 series should absolutely be on anyone’s Android smartphone shopping list.