OPPO Find X8s: The Comeback King of Compact Flagships, Redefining the Ultimate Experience

OPPO Find X8s: The Comeback King of Compact Flagships, Redefining the Ultimate ExperienceIn 2025, the compact flagship phone market is experiencing explosive growth. Domestic Chinese manufacturers are releasing their own compact flagships, and Apple's more affordable iPhone 16e has further ignited market enthusiasm

OPPO Find X8s: The Comeback King of Compact Flagships, Redefining the Ultimate Experience

In 2025, the compact flagship phone market is experiencing explosive growth. Domestic Chinese manufacturers are releasing their own compact flagships, and Apple's more affordable iPhone 16e has further ignited market enthusiasm. In this fiercely competitive environment, OPPO has followed suit, launching the Find X8s, the first compact flagship in the Find X8 series. Its aim is to provide users with a flagship-level product that balances exceptional performance with portability. While not the first compact flagship on the market, the Find X8s learns from its predecessors, striving to be the best in its class, and thus faces higher market expectations.

Hardware Refinement, Exceptional Imaging Capabilities

The Find X8s exemplifies the phrase "small but mighty," particularly in its impressive imaging system. Many people's first impression of compact flagships is often one of "compromise," especially concerning camera performance. It's true that high-end optical hardware requires more space, and the Find X8s' camera specs are slightly less powerful than the Find X8s+. Its main camera uses a LYT-700 sensor with 50-megapixels (1/1.56-inch); the ultrawide and periscope telephoto lenses both use JN5 sensors, also with 50-megapixels (1/2.75-inch).

Theoretically, the Find X8s' hardware doesn't have an advantage over conventional large-screen flagships. To compensate for this, OPPO has significantly optimized its imaging algorithms and shooting modes to create a compelling camera system. Actual shooting experiences reveal surprisingly impressive results, exceeding expectations.

In well-lit scenes, the Find X8s accurately reproduces light and shadow, particularly excelling in portrait photography. It ensures subjects are three-dimensional, exhibits artistic style, and avoids the unnatural look often caused by over-reliance on algorithms. The Find X8s' portrait capabilities were fully validated during OPPO's PhotoWalk event, showcasing natural skin tones, accurate detail reproduction, and impressive light and shadow handling. Even without excessive editing, the Find X8s produces pleasing photos. Furthermore, OPPO's newly introduced soft light feature provides more stylistic choices, adding a hazy beauty to subjects, likely appealing to many female users.

The Find X8s boasts high-spec LivePhoto video recording; even after changing the cover image, the ProXDR display effect is retained. In everyday landscape photography, the Find X8s leverages the advantages of Hasselblad color and lighting technology, accurately capturing high-saturation colors (such as red and blue) and showcasing three-dimensionality under sunlight. Food photography also benefits, producing mouthwatering images and significantly enhancing shooting enjoyment.

Even in low-light conditions, especially complex lighting environments, the Find X8s maintains excellent highlight suppression and color reproduction. Point light sources remain sharp, and different colored lights are accurately rendered. Image quality remains consistent across focal lengths, with the telephoto lens actively participating in shooting. Even when using Master Mode to photograph a watch in a shop window, the resulting image, while slightly dark, still boasts impressive light and shadow rendering and metal texture reproduction.

Of course, due to the smaller sensor, the Find X8s' native image information capture capability is inferior to that of larger sensors; and the periscope telephoto design means it lacks close-up macro capabilities. For those seeking greater cropping space and a more flexible shooting experience, the Find X8 Ultra would be a more suitable choice. In summary, the imaging system is not a weakness of the Find X8s; considering its compact size, its imaging performance is more than satisfactory.

OPPOMag Magnetic Ecosystem: Exquisite Cases Enhance User Experience

The Find X8s also comes with seven differently colored phone cases. These cases are not only stylish but also made of high-quality materials, offer a comfortable grip, and provide good protection. OPPO's OPPOMag magnetic ecosystem has attracted third-party accessory manufacturers, and the Find X8s' cases serve as a "showpiece" for this ecosystem.

These official cases use thick soft shell material, providing a comfortable feel and excellent protection. The back features a special coating with sweat-resistant properties. The cases fit the phone snugly, with meticulous attention to details such as the rounded corners, without compromising the phone's aesthetics. The magnetic ring aligns perfectly with the Find X8s' wireless charging coil, ensuring convenient use. Moreover, the fashionable color schemes further highlight the Find X8s' youthful target audience.

Compact Body, Ultimate Grip

The core advantage of the Find X8s lies in its compact body. A width of less than 72mm and a weight of less than 180g make one-handed operation and prolonged holding extremely comfortable. For users with smaller hands, this is a significant benefit.

The Find X8s' small size isn't limited to the body; its camera module has also been "slimmed down." Compared to the Find X8 and other standard-sized flagship phones, the Find X8s' camera module is smaller in both area and thickness, presenting a charming "reverse-cuteness" compared to its larger sibling. While this design might spark some debate, the compact camera module design is exquisite and provides an excellent grip.

Simple Appearance, Exquisite Craftsmanship

The Find X8s continues the minimalist design language of the Find X8 series. The "Moonlight White" color resembles a creamy white or light champagne gold; it may lack initial wow factor but is pleasingly understated. The high-gloss metal frame is refined and sophisticated but requires frequent cleaning and maintenance.

The Find X8s employs second-generation chip-level screen packaging technology, achieving the narrowest bezels currently available. The extremely narrow bezels on all four sides provide a larger display area and higher screen-to-body ratio, creating a "full-screen" visual effect. The pursuit of ultra-narrow bezels is not mere "showmanship" but aims to deliver the best visual experience within the limited body size. The Find X8s' design is not devoid of originality; it embodies the design philosophy of "the end of addition is subtraction," simple and pure.

Flagship Performance, Exceeding Expectations

The return of compact flagship phones isn't solely due to their small size; it's about the fact that a flagship-level experience can now be integrated into a more compact body. The Find X8s features a 5700mAh Glacial battery, a MediaTek Dimensity 9400+ processor, and a proprietary in-screen cooling system. These specifications indicate that compact phones now boast hardware comparable to large-screen flagships.

The Find X8s easily achieves an Antutu benchmark score exceeding 2.54 million, demonstrating performance on par with other compact flagships. In game tests, running "Echoes of the Siren" (highest settings) for 30 minutes yielded an average frame rate of 58fps with stable performance; running "Genshin Impact" (Super Frame Rate, Super HDR, Super Resolution) for 30 minutes resulted in an average frame rate of 90fps, exceeding the performance expectations of a compact flagship.

In a high-intensity load test (30 minutes "Echoes of the Siren" + 30 minutes "Genshin Impact" + 2 hours of HDR video playback), the Find X8s' battery dropped from 100% to 61%. Considering its 5700mAh battery, the battery life is quite impressive. The Find X8s supports bypass charging, reducing body temperature and benefiting prolonged high-intensity gaming. It supports 80W wired fast charging and 50W wireless fast charging, ensuring quick charging speeds.

System Optimization, Smooth Experience

The Find X8s continues OPPO's consistently "iOS-like" system experience. It uses a new shortcut scheme similar to the Action Button on the iPhone, allowing for customization of quick functions. The Find X8s also features OPPO's latest AI One-Click Flash Note function, quickly recording current page information and generating an AI summary. This function not only records the screen content but also pre-reads information from pages beyond the current screen.

The Find X8s also supports O+ interconnection, enabling quick file transfer with a Mac computer, phone screen mirroring, and remote computer control. A Windows version of O+ interconnection is also forthcoming. ColorOS 15 offers excellent fluidity, refined animation details, and a design style increasingly similar to iOS. System functions and optimization are exceptionally well-executed.

Conclusion

The OPPO Find X8s is a compact flagship phone that lives up to expectations. It boasts powerful performance, an excellent imaging system, superb battery life, and convenient AI features. While the short-focus optical in-display fingerprint sensor's position is slightly low, this doesn't overshadow its many strengths. The Find X8s achieves an experience comparable to large-screen flagships in a more compact body, making it a worthy alternative to the iPhone 16e.