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hey i'm dan from the verge and check this thing out so you're probably wondering what just happened there so let's talk about it this is opos new phone to find X now you may not be familiar with Oppo but they're a big smartphone brand in China and they're actually owned by the same company that owns oneplus which you probably are familiar with if you've seen this channel before and this phone is their new flagship phone which is gonna be launched globally for the first time and yes it'll be available here in North America which I'll talk about in a bit but let's talk about this phone here so what you're seeing is a big six point four inch OLED display and it's going edge to edge with no bezel or almost no bezels no not and basically no chin so in order to build this phone and accommodate the camera opal put the camera and a motorized slide-out tray that pops up when you open the camera app and disappears when you close it it's pretty trick now in this camera tray are both the front camera and rear cameras and there's some interesting things going on here now the rear camera is a 16 megapixel and 20 megapixel dual camera system pretty similar to what we've seen with a bunch of dual cameras on phones before it does portrait mode effects and all that kind of stuff but the front camera is a 25 megapixel sensor and it's got 3d face scanning sensors in here not unlike what you get on the iPhone 10 now those 3d scanners can do things like automatically beautify your image which is very popular on a lot of phones from China or it also works through blog you in so that when you turn on the phone and unlock it the camera pops up sees your face and it locks you in now the find exit does not have a fingerprint scanner on it as you can see on the back here there's no fingerprint scanner there's no fingerprint scanner under the screen either so it's basically relying on the camera to log you in but it does it all pretty quickly Oppo says that the camera can launch in as little as point 5 seconds which is pretty fast as you can see I'm doing it a bunch of times here so then the screen itself it's an OLED panel it's got curved sides which you can see here it looks a lot like what you get on a samsung s 9 or s 9 plus it's 1080 pixels of resolution basically the phone itself kind of looks to me like an S 9 with slimmer bezels which is pretty cool and then inside come all the high-end specs you'd expect from a 20-18 android smartphone it's got snapdragon 845 eight gigabytes of ram - up to 256 gigabytes of storage its global LTE compatible and it's got dual SIM support I've got a t-mobile SIM in here and it's pulling an LTE signal here in New York so it works here in the US which is pretty cool to see now for software it's running opos color OS software which runs on Android 8.1 it basically looks like a mix of iOS and Samsung's Android software it's not the nicest Android software I've ever seen it definitely doesn't look like a pixel but it's not the worst either and you'll probably get used to it pretty quickly and it seems to have all of the main features that we look for on an Android phone at this point even including a gesture navigation system which is pretty cool no other hardware features it's got a big 3700 milliamp hour battery and it's got oboz vio OC fast charging which is basically the same thing as one plus as - charge so it can recharge really quickly over a wire but there's no wireless charging here so what are you gonna do the other big thing that's missing is there's no headphone jack which isn't a huge surprise in 2018 but it's unfortunate all this engineering and I couldn't put in a headphone jack in it now OBO says they're gonna be bringing this to North America the pricing is still a little bit up in the air at least here for here in the US but they're saying it's gonna be priced less than other major smart phones from Samsung and LG so I'd expect to see it probably under $700 and even more interesting they're gonna be selling it with a carrier at least so they claim we don't have any information on that yet so you'll have to stay tuned but that should be pretty interesting now is this the future of smartphones I don't know I think it's really interesting it gives me a lot of screen without a lot of bezel and it's an interesting compromise to you know making sure that it has the things like front facing cameras and sensors and things like that that we all expect on a smartphone I do have a little bit of concerns I'm not sure how you put a case on this thing I guess it could only wrap around the side you can't really put a case on top and what happens if you drop it or it get you go to the beach you get sand in it or whatever there might be some reliability concerns with it but otherwise I think it's really neat and I'm eager to spend more time with this and play with it more for more on the Oppo find X be sure to check out the verge comm be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel at youtube.com slash the verge and if you haven't seen it yet we've got a brand new science channel check it out youtube.com slash verge science