OPPO Find X9 Review: A Premium Phone With a Practical Mindset

The OPPO Find X9 might not wear a “Pro” badge, but it certainly doesn’t behave like the junior sibling. It packs the same MediaTek Dimensity 9500 found in the Find X9 Pro, and while OnePlus was gently escorted away from the Hasselblad table, the Find X9 continues to enjoy the colour tuning perks.

And, despite its relatively compact footprint, the Find X9 joins the slew of flagship phones right now that provide crazy battery life. So, yes, the ingredients are all here. Whether they mix into something genuinely great or just another “almost-there flagship” is what we’re about to find out in this review.

PROS

• Premium build with a relatively compact form factor
• Excellent battery life
• Reliable main, ultra-wide, and telephoto cameras
• Bright, punchy AMOLED display
• Decent performance
• ColorOS 16 is vibrant and has good customisation options
• Stable 4K 60/120fps video with good stabilisation
• IP66/68/69 ratings

CONS

• Dimensity 9500 struggles with sustained performance and gaming
• No LTPO panel
• Slight oversaturation in photos
• Only 90fps output in BGMI

OPPO Find X9 Price and Availability in India

The OPPO Find X9 is available in two RAM and storage variants. You can get the phone from OPPO’s eStore or Flipkart.

Design and Display

The Find X9 looks more put-together than last year’s Find X8. I’ve actually started liking the new camera module, even though my first reaction was mixed. The problem is that it now looks a lot like the OnePlus 15, so it loses the unique look it had going for it earlier. That’s a bit of a shame, but beyond that, there isn’t much to nitpick here. And honestly, you stop caring about the back panel 2 weeks into using the phone.

It still feels compact next to the Find X9 Pro, though it isn’t as small as the Vivo X300. The materials feel premium, it doesn’t weigh like a brick, and overall, it’s easy enough to live with. You get three colour options — Titanium Grey, Space Black, and Velvet Red. The black is the safest, cleanest pick; the red is loud in a good way if you like your phone to stand out.

The back doesn’t collect fingerprints, which I appreciate, because nothing kills a good design faster than smudges all over it. That said, it’s still an all-glass panel, so you’re better off using the case that comes in the box unless you enjoy living dangerously. The aluminium frame feels solid and is painted black too, which helps give the whole thing a more unified, single-piece look.

There’s also the Snap Key on the left side, basically the same idea as the Plus Key on OnePlus phones. You can set it to trigger the camera, flashlight, ringer, etc., and it works as advertised.

The phone carries IP66, IP68, and IP69 ratings, so it’s more than ready for accidental drops, questionable weather, or whatever chaos it (and you) ends up in.

The 6.59-inch AMOLED display on the Find X9 is a 1.5K flat panel with a 120Hz refresh rate. You can switch between colour modes in the settings based on how you like things to look, and you can also drop the resolution if you want to save battery instead of chasing sharper visuals all the time.

The panel itself has good blacks, punchy colours, and is generally great for watching anything from Bojack Horseman to the latest season of Stranger Things. Touch response is solid, and the screen gets plenty bright outdoors. In my tests, it hit around 1570 nits with HDR content, and the lowest brightness dips to about 05 nits, which is good for late-night doom scrolling reels without burning your retinas.

The annoying bit is that Oppo didn’t go with an LTPO panel here. For a phone that carries flagship pricing and positioning, that feels like a miss. Because of that, the screen basically sticks to 60Hz or 120Hz, and it can’t drop to 1Hz the way the Find X9 Pro can. The difference in battery life isn’t massive, but it’s still one of those basic flagship features you expect in 2025.

The Find X9 also comes with a 3D ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, and it’s genuinely excellent. It works consistently, even if your fingers have a bit of sweat or moisture on them, and it’s noticeably faster and reliable.

Cameras

The Find X9 has a triple-camera setup at the back, and all three are 50-megapixel sensors. The primary uses the Sony LYT-808, the ultra-wide gets a Samsung JN5, and the 3x periscope telephoto is running the Sony LYT-600. On the front, there’s a 32-megapixel selfie camera powered by the Sony IMX615.

Daylight shots come out detailed with a good balance of dynamic range, but the colour processing tends to push saturation a bit more than needed. You’ll see a red tint sneak into most photos. It’s not a problem when shooting landscapes, but it can look odd when you’re capturing people. At 10x digital zoom, the Find X9 still holds up surprisingly well — even with faces — and it can go all the way to 120x, where AI takes over. At that point, you’re better off shooting buildings, signs, or anything that doesn’t move.

In low light, the images still carry a decent amount of detail as long as there’s some artificial light around. Highlights are handled well, there’s not a lot of flare, and noise control is solid. Overall, the primary camera is reliable in both good and not-so-good lighting. The ultra-wide matches the primary’s colour science, which is good, and edge distortion is minimal.

XPan is genuinely enjoyable if you’re into storytelling-style shots. It basically mimics the original Hasselblad XPan and completely changes how a frame feels. There’s also Hasselblad Hi-Res, which lets you shoot at 50MP instead of the usual pixel-binned shots.

The 3x periscope telephoto is where things get interesting. It’s great for portraits because it keeps colours and white balance consistent with the main camera, although, again, the red tint shows up. Edge detection is clean, shutter speed is fast, and low-light portraits hold up well, too.

The selfie camera is mostly unchanged from last year. Results are fine for social media and, for once, skin tones are actually handled properly.

On video, the Find X9 can shoot up to 4K 120fps, which is great. It also supports Dolby Vision, but there’s no LOG profile, and weirdly, no 8K recording at all. That applies to the Find X9 Pro as well. The OnePlus 15 and iQOO 15 can do 8K, but neither the Vivo X300 nor the Find X9 series supports it, which makes me think it’s a limitation of the MediaTek Dimensity 9500. It’s not a dealbreaker by a margin, just something to be aware of. Video quality at 4K 120fps and 60fps is solid, with good stabilisation. We also did an in-depth camera comparison of the Find X9 against the Vivo X300, Realme GT 8 Pro, and the OnePlus 15. You can watch that for a full breakdown of how it stacks up.

Performance and Gaming

Inside the Find X9 sits the Dimensity 9500, MediaTek’s latest and greatest. And yes, it handles everyday tasks, multitasking, and general productivity without breaking a sweat. But once you start pushing it for longer stretches, you can tell this chip still needs work when it comes to sustained performance.

In synthetic tests, it pulls around 3.5 million points, and in Geekbench 6 it puts out solid single-core and multi-core numbers. The scores aren’t bad at all, but they’re just a shade below what some Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 phones are doing,a nd that’s completely fine. In the CPU throttling test, the X9 dropped to about 50% of its performance. For context, the same test on the iQOO 15 throttled to just 27%. Sure, there are variables at play like form factor, thermal solution, tuning — but it still shows how the chip behaves under long, consistent load.

Gaming paints a similar picture. In BGMI, the Find X9 supports Smooth + Ultra Extreme, so you should theoretically be getting 120fps gameplay. That didn’t happen. The game was stuck at 90fps through most of the match, and dropped to around 73fps during the landing chaos in Pochinki. Power draw stayed under 6W, which is actually good, but again, performance headroom is getting left on the table.

In the Steel Nomad Light Stress Test, it came back with a loop score of 3208 and 51.7% stability, which basically reinforces the same story: the Dimensity 9500 inside the Find X9 does well in short bursts, but under long stress, it starts to shake.

The Find X9 runs Android 16 with ColorOS 16 on top. The UI is smooth, colourful, and packed with customisation options. You can tweak a lot on the home screen, including the new elongated icons that give it a fresher, more modern look. The lock screen also gets multiple Flux themes and widgets to mess around with. The Find X9 also gets 5 years of OS updates and 6 years of security patches.

Battery and Charging

This is where the Find X9 really holds its ground. The 7025mAh silicon-carbon battery easily lasts more than a day and a half with moderate to heavy usage, which for me included a lot of video recording and a bit of gaming. With light to moderate use, it will comfortably push two days. So yeah, the Find X9 is a reliable battery phone.

In the PCMark battery test, it lasted 22 hours and 12 minutes, which pretty much lines up with real-world results.

Charging is handled by an 80W brick in the box, which is lower than what you get on the iQOO 15 or even the OnePlus 15, but still fast enough to take you from 0 to 100 in around 1 hour and 10 minutes. The Find X9 also supports 50W wireless charging, which is always nice to have.

Verdict

At ₹74,999, the Find X9 is a very capable flagship that nails most of the everyday essentials. The cameras are reliable across lighting conditions, the display is great even without LTPO, and the battery life is genuinely excellent. On top of that, you get a well-built phone with premium materials and a relatively compact form factor that’s easy to live with, rather than another oversized slab vying for attention.

Where it slips is mainly on the performance side. The Dimensity 9500 is fast in bursts but still needs work for sustained loads and gaming, especially when rivals in the same price bracket handle heavy workloads better. The lack of an LTPO panel and slightly slower wired charging also takes away a bit of the “premium edge” you’d expect at this price.

But none of this makes it a bad choice.

The Find X9 is a dependable, well-rounded flagship that prioritises practicality over chasing records. If you care more about battery life, cameras, and everyday smoothness than benchmark wins, it’s easy to recommend — just know it’s not without compromises, and the competition around ₹75K is fierce.