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you know how your math teacher always said go find X well I finally found it this is one of the coolest phones I've ever seen and it's actually also the first Oppo phone I've ever tested so I'd like to officially welcome Bob Lowe to my desk and my durability test I perform these tests on over 100 different phones mostly flagships I'm not sure the exact number it's just probably bordering insanity at this point but here we all are let's get started the cool thing about this phone is the motorized cameras not just the front camera like the vivo next phone I reviewed and made clear this app will find X has a whole motorized top section that contains all the front sensors earpiece and front and rear cameras it's a pretty hefty load up top banking on that motor never failing or getting stuck if that motor ever jams or stops working no more cameras for you the motor itself seems okay so far if I pull the top out of the phone body while the camera app is not open it'll just pull itself right back inside kind of fights with you for a little bit when the camera app is open though and the top is fully extended the whole contraption has a little bit more play than I expected jiggling back and forth front and back just kind of moving all over not near as solid as the vivo necks wiggle room is a bad thing wiggle room means there is space for stuff to get caught down inside the moving parts Pocket lint is called Pocket lint because every pocket has it and gunk accumulates in your pockets it's not a good thing for a phone with moving parts the find X does come with a high-quality screen protector which is nicely any protection is good protection especially when the phone is so expensive the back glass has no protective layer but that's pretty normal let's jump into the scratch test as always this most scale of hardness has different materials on the tip of each tool to tell the difference between different minerals plastic would be a level-3 glass of level six and sapphire would be an eight or nine with diamonds following at a level ten here we see marks at a six with deeper grooves at a level seven pretty normal for a flagship this find X is using Gorilla Glass v Gorilla Glass six just got announced and we fun to check out in the future there's not a whole lot more to test here on the front of the phone it's pretty much all screen with no visible cameras or sensors or even buttons on the glass just one super good looking wall-to-wall no notch display thumbs up for that besides the phone our middle which does provide a sense of solidity metal is included on the power button as well the top chunk of this phone the portion lift up is also metal nothing up here to look at except for the little microphone hole the far side of the phone has the volume buttons both metal but is otherwise bare the bottom of phone has our USB C port and no headphone jack it might be a good thing or a bad thing depending on who you ask I prefer my phones to have one though with a motorized opening on a phone like this obviously there's no hope for water resistance but this dual SIM card trade does have its own little rubber ring around the edge so it looks like Oppo has put some thought into liquid protection hopefully we'll find some more protection inside when we do the teardown as expected the back is glass and unscratched will buy my razor the Oppo and find X logos are printed on the underside of the glass and won't be rubbing off but I'm sure we can make it clear if we need to let's get a closer look at the motorized bits the whole area covering the front of the mechanical lift is glass which means the 25 megapixel front facing camera and all the high-tech sensors for the face scanning feature are protected against scratching as the mechanism actuates up and down so far so good interestingly enough this exterior earpiece lock is just a hollow hallway for sound to pass through from the actual earpiece in the race bit behind it so if that actuated motor does break and stays closed you'll still be able to make and hear your phone calls which is kind of important for a cell phone flipping over the phone for the rear dual cameras we get 16 and 20 megapixel cameras but no telephoto or wide-angle and that's rather unfortunate having two cameras that do the exact same thing is like buying a Swiss Army knife where every single blade is the same if you have a spot for multiple cameras they should accomplish different things that's my opinion you might be thinking to yourself hey yo Jerry you didn't scratch the fingerprint scanner and you're right there is no fingerprint scanner on this phone which feels kind of strange on a 2018 flagship but Oppo has some major confidence in their facial recognition system and did not include the fingerprint scanner this time around now for the burn test seems only fitting to start this fire right on the weather app since it's so hot outside and only getting hotter the six point four inch 1080p display his AMOLED and after 14 seconds we got proof of that with the rather nice white burn mark in the center of the screen that never recovers LCDs usually recover but amyloids burn white and stay that way now for the bin test bin tests are important because they show how structurally sound iPhone is and gives us a general idea of how well it'll hold up over time with accidental abuse remember I've tested over a hundred phones and the vast majority of the phones I test survived even the previous motorised vivo necks commencing the bend on the Oppo find X I instantly knew something was wrong with this phone it bent way too far and never locked out or stopped bending like most phones do some parts of the phone can handle the Flex like the metal frame but one thing that can't handle the flexing is the rigid and brittle AMOLED display panel that display underneath the glass cracks rendering the screen pretty useless since the colors now have a mind of their own the back panel starts lifting off and both the front and rear glass shatter into oblivion you might be thinking yeah of course it broke you just bent it in half but keep in mind that over 90% of the phones I get my hands on are strong enough to withstand this exact same abuse and go on to live long happy lives until I harvest their organs for parts you know it is this Apple find X is dead it's important to never sit on a phone like this or accidentally step on it after a drop or even drop it at all cell phones are probably the most abused pieces of technology on the planet and the find X cannot handle abuse as well as other smartphones it's going on the shelf of shame I love the innovation and direction that Oppo is taking this phone is a winner on so many levels just not with durability let's take a closer look at the inside of that camera mechanism it looks like the glass layer has laminate backing so it'll all come off in one piece a clear addition would have been awesome bending back the fractured glass you get our first look inside of the phone one singular stepper motor with the same lead screw technology we saw only find X except for this lead screw is pushing up way more wait and is not as stable and also has a much more valuable payload since literally every sensor in the phone depends on that little motor lasting for years I have my doubts it's putting a lot of trust in something that's Wiggly and jiggly my intention here is to not crush Oppel into oblivion innovation like this is pretty much the coolest thing ever and apples doing a fantastic job of leading the market in the direction it should be headed the phone looks awesome but hopefully their next phone is just a bit more durable I'll be pulling glass out of my fingers for the next week pulling off the rest of the back glass reveals our weak point in the frame there's not a whole lot of metal in here keeping things together and pretty much nothing structural all between the battery and the motherboard which is the weakest point in the phone it's pretty much the same thing we saw in the Nexus 6p back in the day now Oppo does include a case in the box so if you do own this phone slap that on as soon as possible any protection helps the phone's released this year have been awesome the bezel is high-tech motorized phones like the find X are great but in the mathematical quest for the perfect durable smartphone the find X is the equivalent of texting your ex just don't hit that subscribe button to be notified about future durability tests and come hang out with me on Instagram and Twitter thanks dumb for watching and I'll see you around