OPPO may continue to stand apart in the Android flagship camera race with its OPPO dual periscope camera strategy. According to a fresh claim from Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station, OPPO is still likely to be the only brand using a dual-periscope setup with a 10x telephoto lens in its next-generation Ultra-class Android phone.
The tipster says another Android manufacturer had been evaluating a 10x approach, but the latest prototype has reportedly dropped that plan. Instead, that rival device is said to be moving toward a single 200-megapixel periscope camera combined with ISZ-style zoom processing.
For context, OPPO’s current Find X9 Ultra, released in April, already pushed hard on imaging hardware. That model uses Qualcomm’s fifth-generation Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition platform, includes a 7,050mAh Glacier battery, and starts at 7,499 yuan in China.
The camera system on the Find X9 Ultra is especially stacked. It includes a Hasselblad-branded 200-megapixel main camera with a large 1/1.12-inch sensor, a Hasselblad 10x optical telephoto camera with 50 megapixels, 20x optical-quality zoom, and up to 120x digital zoom, plus another Hasselblad 200-megapixel large-sensor telephoto camera with a 1/1.28-inch sensor.
OPPO also adds a 50-megapixel large-sensor ultrawide camera and a second-generation Danxia color restoration lens. Taken together, that hardware shows why the company may want to keep the 10x telephoto lens and dual-periscope direction as a signature feature.
There is one timing caveat: OPPO Find series product lead Zhou Shijie has already confirmed that the OPPO Find X10 Ultra will not launch this year. So even if OPPO keeps upgrading this camera formula, the next major Ultra model is not expected to arrive immediately.
