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this is the Oppo find X and it represents a new era for the company one where bezels are not part of the equation before I talk about any of that performance stuff we need to address the elephant in the room if ninety 2.25 percent of this face is screen where do you put the front-facing camera we just saw vivos for a similar look with the vivo necks where a small little module came out of the top of the phone to reveal the front-facing camera vivo still kept those rear cameras on the back of the phone though with the Oppo find X there are no cameras to be found in its default state instead Oppo has employed a mechanical mechanism which raises out of the top of the phone to reveal both the front and back cameras this mechanism has some pretty solid feedback though it does get a little loud I would avoid using this in quiet rooms or when other people are sleeping the front-facing camera is 25 megapixels and it employs an IR blaster to scan your face and create a 3d depth map this is used kind of like face ID to help unlock your phone and surprisingly they decided to get rid of the fingerprint scanner here opposites that this 3d face unlock mechanism is about twice as fast as a generic fingerprint reader so they decided they really didn't eat it here I was pretty hesitant to use the face unlock at first because need to open and close a part of your phone physically every single time you unlock it seems a little redundant I'm also not really a fan of moving parts but I was actually surprised at how well this worked it only took about half a second to raise and close that mechanism on the device and my phone was just instantly unlocked I still would have preferred a fingerprint reader on the back because I'd rather use that instead of having to use moving parts every single time I want to unlock my phone since we're talking about the cameras the rear facing camera has actually performed a lot better than I thought they would it's not gonna compete with the pixel 2 in the Walia p20 but it had a lot of dynamic range this phone does tend to overexpose images quite a bit but if you just lower the exposure and then shoot the photo it can produce some pretty solid images there's also a portrait mode on this phone and I was pretty surprised at how well it worked now the live view would lead you to believe that it was going to be really bad but after you actually take the and it does all the processing it ends up looking really good the biggest downside I found what that moving part is just how easily it gets dirty just keeping it your pocket and pulling it out every now and then leaves a lot of dirt and lint so you're probably gonna have to keep a cloth with you if you want to take photos on the regular oh and one other thing if you want to use the rear facing cameras they take a while to boot up when you actually open the camera module if you just swipe open the camera app it will take a few seconds for you to actually get to the live view of what you're trying to shoot and that can be pretty annoying when you're just trying to take a picture on the fly now that we're done talking about those cameras let's take a look at the rest of the phone the Oppo find X is a really beautiful device he uses curved glass on both the back and front of the phone and I honestly reminded me a lot of the Samsung Galaxy S 9 the thing that really stood out to me was just how symmetrical this phone is yeah the volume rockers and the power button are not exactly symmetrically placed but even the SIM tray was symmetrical with the bottom firing speakers they've also switched out the microUSB port with USB sea which is symmetrical within itself heck even the Oppo logo is symmetrical okay so this phone is pretty but how does it actually perform surprisingly really well this is a huge step up from that Oppo r15 Pro that I reviewed a couple of months ago though color OS does need some work in my opinion it's still very iPhone esque and there's no app drawer but this phone wasn't exactly designed for the US market with the Oppo find X these phones are no longer using mid-range parts to drive them this thing is running a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 a gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of storage that's pretty much becoming the new standard for these flagship killer phones and I'm really excited to see Oppo stepping up their game the mania show I found with the performance of this phone was the poor RAM management this thing is almost four-and-a-half gigs just by having a few apps open and just because you have a lot of RAM doesn't mean you should manage it badly it's packing a 3730 milliamp hour cell and it lasted me a really really long time about a solid day and a half now color OS still doesn't report screen on time and that's still pretty frustrating but you can expect to get a lot of time out of this phone they're still using vogue fast-charging but they have switched to USB type-c which I am really really happy to see here unfortunately this phone doesn't have wireless charging or an IP rating which is kind of disappointing to see especially since it's an all-glass phone I'm not really sure how they would put an IP rating in this phone though because it has a moving part which physically opens so I'm hoping they might tackle that in the next generation that battery is also powering that six point four two inch 2340 by 1080 display and it looks beautiful colors are punchy and vibrant and I'm actually really happy to see how dim this display can get I'll often sit up in my bed and read Reddit and Twitter and I know I probably shouldn't be doing that but I'm happy to see that this thing isn't gonna burn my eyes out when I do the mania show I had with this display was the palm rejection sometimes they won't activate commands if your palm is slightly touching the side of the curved display and this can cause a lot of issues when you're using certain apps a good example is when you're using the camera to shoot a photo and your palm is slightly touching the side of the screen this could cause the shutter button to not actually activate and that can be a huge problem when you're trying to catch a photo on the fly there's also a little disappointing to see because I heard that the vivo next has a really great palm rejection so I hope that Oppo updates this in a future software update the Oppo find X is a first generation product but it doesn't really feel like one this is honestly a super solid phone overall but I would really like to see how that moving mechanism holds up over time if this is what's necessary to get a bezel as phone before we get that front-facing camera under the screen then I am all for it the Oppo find X will come in glacier blue and Bordeaux red like the wine because this is definitely purple pricing and availability still hasn't been announced yet but stay tuned because we will let you know as soon as we find out what do you think of the Oppo find X now just a quick little thing to know here but the company BBK actually owns Oppo vivo and oneplus so it kind of seems like they're a be testing different mechanisms to see what consumers like for hiding the cameras I'm actually pretty interested to know which mechanism do you like better would you rather just hide the selfie camera or do you like hiding both of them to have nothing on the back of the phone either let me know in the comment section below and please stay tuned to android authority and our socials because of course we your source for all things Android