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The Oppo Find X3 Pro.
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The front.
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The microscope lens is here on the left, with a big silver ring around it.
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An exploded view of the camera.
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The back is very interesting. The camera bump is molded into the back and aside from the circular cutouts for the cameras, the back is a single piece of glass.
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The back glass panel, less colors and all the bits of the phone. It’s a piece!
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A complete shot of the back.
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The top and bottom.
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A teardown render.
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Modern smartphones have a ton of extra cameras. We’ve seen wide angle cameras, telephoto cameras, depth cameras, macro cameras, and now … a microscope camera? The new Oppo Find X3 Pro has an “up to 60x zoom micro lens sensor” that can take some interesting super close-up shots.
We loved the macro cameras that have appeared on some phones, mainly from Oppo’s sister company OnePlus. Oppo’s micro camera sounds like a next-gen version of the same idea. We’re not going to rely on sample images professionally taken by a manufacturer, but some third parties, like Android Police, have gotten their hands on the phone and delivered some really impressive images that haven’t been possible from a smartphone before.
Unsurprisingly, the sample images have a very shallow depth of field and it seems like focusing is challenging. However, that is also true for normal macro photography. Most people take handheld shots, and a full tripod-style setup would probably help a lot. The “Micro” camera sensor is only 3 MP, but unlike some of the useless 2 MP “decorative” cameras we see on cheaper phones, this seems to be sufficient for a close-up.
For specs, we’ll get a fairly standard 2021 flagship model: a 6.7-inch, 120Hz, 3216×1440 OLED display; a Snapdragon 888 SoC; 12 GB of RAM; 256 GB of storage; and a 4500 mAh battery. There’s 65W wired charging, 30W wireless charging, an in-display fingerprint reader, NFC, and a USB-C port. For software, there’s Android 11 with Oppo’s Android “Color OS” skin.
The other interesting design element of the phone is Oppo’s camera bump. Rather than hitting a large rectangle with 90-degree sides that create a step toward the camera module, Oppo has molded the glass to lean toward the camera’s bulge in a smooth, continuous fashion. Even the top of the camera bump is still the same piece of glass, with individual cutouts for each lens. Oppo says it takes 40 hours to make the glass panel.
Oppo generally doesn’t release phones in the US, so we’ll have to hope something like this makes its way to a OnePlus phone one day. The phone launches in Europe on March 30 for € 1,149 ($ 1,377).
