After a month with the Oppo Find X9 Pro, I’m convinced that we’re approaching peak smartphone

TechRadar Verdict The Oppo Find X9 Pro isn't a perfect smartphone, but it comes pretty close. This is a powerful, sleek, and long-lasting phone that really earns its 'Pro' title, thanks to a powerful chipset, big and beautiful display, versatile camera system, and class-leading battery capacity. Poor availability and a few strange software choices hinder an otherwise great Android experience, but if you can get it, this is a top option for any Android power user. The Oppo Find X9 Pro in the Oppo Aramid Fiber Case (sold separately)(Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) Shooting on the Find X9 Pro is a joy, but aggressive post-processing can make it hard to predict how the final image will look.(Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) (Image credit: Jamie Richards / Future) Pros + Fantastic cameras + Great performance + Class-leading battery + Excellent display Cons - Gets a bit warm - Some software issues - Aggressive photo processing Why you can trust TechRadar Find out more about how we test. Oppo Find X9 Pro review: Two-minute review What makes a great sequel? Across film, gaming, and indeed smartphones, the best follow-ups carry forward and amplify the good things while dialing down any pretension. In the phone world, this means zeroing in on the features and functions that give a phone its purpose. That’s exactly what Oppo has done with the Find X9 Pro. It takes everything great about last year’s Oppo Find X8 Pro and dials it up to 11, while ditching the idea that this is anything other than an iPhone 17 Pro Max for Android lovers. It's both simpler and somehow more obscenely powerful than its predecessor, and I, for one, love it. Now sporting a drastically simplified flat-edged design, flat display, and top-left-mounted square camera housing, the Find X9 Pro resembles an iPhone more than any other Oppo phone before it, but the Chinese tech giant is banking on the idea that if you’re willing to spend pro-flagship prices on an Android phone, that’s not too big a deal. For all its cool designs over the years, the Find X series has always been defined by hardware power - and more recently, extremely powerful camera systems - so it’s quite something that the Find X9 Pro still managed to surprise me with its specs sheet. The phone is one of the first to ship with the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chipset, alongside a healthy 16GB of RAM, and a ludicrously...

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