OnePlus 9 Pro vs Oppo Find X3 Pro: The difference is BIGGER than you think! By Android Central

It's unlikely you'll come across any two phones this year that are as similar as the OnePlus 9 pro and the Oppo find x3 pro besides being owned by the same company. Opp and OnePlus flagships share a lot of common hardware. In fact, side by side. These could easily be two variants of the same device. Both run a snapdragon 888 chipsets both have equally excellent.120 hertz 6.7 inch displays with LPO technology to improve battery life. Both offer capable in-screen, fingerprint security alongside face unlock and both are fitted with the same dual cell 4 500 William power battery with 65 watt wire charging, plus a fast wireless option, and if you buy them in Europe, they'll both pack 5g connectivity and dual sim convenience.

Even the hand feel here is pretty similar, though the OnePlus phone is ever so slightly heavier. So it's the external hardware more than the internals. That sets these two phones apart. While I'm a fan of the OnePlus 9 pros gradient finish, which fades from opaque to a brilliant mirror shine. The technical win has to go to Oppo for the audacity of its curved camera hump, which is the first in any mainstream smartphone.

These are both great looking phones, though, and given the similarity in size, you'll find both equally easy or difficult to use with one hand, depending on your own personal preferences. Neither is unmanageably huge, but equally, these two are not small phones. Another long-standing OnePlus convenience that I appreciate is the iPhone style alert slider for quickly silencing the device, it's a rarity in the android world, but it's been with OnePlus since the OnePlus one. While the battery capacities and wired charging speeds are identical, OnePlus benefits from quicker wireless top-ups, the 9 pro is the first mainstream phone to shoot with 50 watt wireless charging, assuming you cough up the cash for OnePlus proprietary charging pad on the Oppo side, you're limited to 30 watts wirelessly, which, admittedly, is still faster than most phones can charge even over a cable while on paper both phones seem like they should have similar battery life. I have noticed more aggressive background battery depletion on the find x3 pro, especially when playing streaming media.

In the background that means you may find the upper device requires an earlier top-up if you're doing a lot of streaming. Some of these battery differences might also be explained by OnePlus screen being able to clock all the way down to one hertz when looking at still images versus 10 hertz on the find x3 pro in either case. Both phones offer around a day of longevity, but usually not much more than that. So, unless you're in China, where OnePlus phones now run opp's colors software, the biggest difference, you'll notice in everyday use between these two devices is the software and the UI both have dramatically different design languages with opp, focusing on more of an iPhone style, aesthetic and OnePlus. Staying much closer to vanilla, android opp's software is also arguably more feature rich with things like a fully fledged windowed mode built into its multitasking capabilities.

That's useful if you like to juggle a lot of apps at the same time and can even be used to force video apps without a picture in picture mode into a window. I've also enjoyed opp's, quick shortcut feature which lets you conjure. A wheel of favorite apps to jump straight into after unlocking OnePlus has been more conservative with its version of android. Despite the recent visual overhaul in oxygen OS 11, there's a lighter touch to OnePlus customization, though there are plenty of options for you to customize your own device with accent, colors, icon, cutouts and font options. However, OnePlus lacks opp's windowed multitasking, as well as a few other conveniences like the one-handed usability mode.

Both phones have pretty tight google integration into their software, though they go about this in different ways. Both Oppo and OnePlus now use Google's dialer and android messages. Apps out of the box, along with the Google, discover feed on the home screen and Oppo also offers direct access to google translate from within any app by either a three finger swipe or the slide-out shortcut menu. That's pinned to the edge of the screen, so the choice between the two software experiences in part comes down to aesthetics. Do you prefer the distinctive look of color OS or the cleaner appearance of oxygen OS? Also, how quick do you like your android updates, because OnePlus has the lead here and do you want all those extra color OS features? Photography is arguably where these two phones really start to diverge, though both offer a quad camera setup, though with different lenses and sensors and completely different approaches to image.

Processing Oppo has the same sensor behind its ultra-wide and wide cameras. Sony's new mix 766, while OnePlus has a larger custom, made mix 789 for its primary alongside the same IMAX 766 for the ultra-wide OnePlus advantage in sensor. Size means there's a noticeable difference in stills from those main cameras. OnePlus just captures more light, so shots look brighter and clearer in darker conditions in daylight, there's less of a difference in terms of clarity, but there you'll see the gulf in post-processing OnePlus new partnership with Hasselblad for image tuning means its phone produces more natural, looking colors with a less aggressive HDR effect, Oppo cranks up the saturation much more aggressively and its AI HDR feature pulls a lot of color out of the shadows, sometimes even giving pictures a slightly psychedelic quality. The larger sensor, combined with Hasselblad's color science, also gives OnePlus a small edge when it comes to pulling colors out of very dark night scenes opposed night.

Shots tend to be darker and more contrast, which some people might prefer, though, there's definitely more light being pulled out of darker areas with the OnePlus phone. Both brands are relatively weak in the telephoto department this year with Oppo having only a 13 megapixel, two times, zoom and OnePlus, with an 8 megapixel 3.3 times zoom with either lens you're, not going to get usable pictures at much beyond four or five times. Zoom, though that said, OnePlus processing seem to do a better job. In my nighttime zoom shots at around 10x, it's kind of a toss-up you get soft and blurry with OnePlus or sharp and noisy with opp. As for the fourth cameras, OnePlus fits the 9 pro with a largely useless 2 megapixel monochrome, that's supposed to add extra light information for black and white shots.

Meanwhile, Oppo offers a low resolution. Microscope camera that's hard to focus but fun once you get the hang of it. It's definitely a gimmick though, and something you'll likely forget is even there. After a few days, video performance is similarly strong across both phones with excellent stabilization from the white and ultrawide cameras of the OnePlus 9 pro and the find x3 pro and little difference outside very dark conditions where OnePlus pulls ahead slightly with that larger main sensor, bigger differences, you might see, will come from opp's AI HDR, which can compensate a bit more aggressively in backlit video conditions. There are a few other points of distinction, though OnePlus can shoot.8K video at 30 frames per second or 4k at up to 120 frames per second, both niche features which are lacking on the Oppo side, but Oppo does have a pretty fun manual film mode that gives you full control of ISO shutter speed and a manual slider focus plus Oppo actually uses its telephoto camera for zoomed video, unlike OnePlus, which gives you a digital crop when you zoom in not a huge deal given the relatively low quality of that telephoto, but on the Oppo side that could be useful for closer cropped, video in well-lit scenes. Finally, the starting price for both phones is also worth considering.

If you're in the UK, then the base model of the OnePlus 9 pro will sell for 100 pounds less than the find x3 pro, but you will have more carrier options with the Oppo phone if you're buying on a plan for an unlocked purchase, though there's no doubt in my mind that OnePlus gives you a bigger bang for your buck, but there is definitely something to be said for opp's, unique design and software features so which one would you pick the Oppo find x3 pro or the OnePlus 9 pro? Let us know down in the comments and subscribe to android central, so you don't miss all our future reviews and comparisons. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time, you.

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