OPPO Find X hands-on: The lifting and landing mechanical structure can be so beautiful

The mobile phone industry can be said to be an absolutely fast-changing consumer industry, with nearly ten new products released almost every month. Such a fast pace has also caused many products to be slowly erased from people's minds, as if they had never appeared. However, in the history of mobile phones in China, there is a product series that has not been updated since 2014, but countless users are still eagerly looking forward to it.

This product series, which was updated after a lapse of four years, is the familiar OPPO Find series; and OPPO Find X is another orthodox flagship product of OPPO after Find 7 in 2014, and Find X is also an answer sheet for the future handed over by OPPO to users.

Appearance: I bet this is definitely the best-looking true full-screen phone in 2018

Although Find X has been unveiled overseas before, I was still shocked by its exquisite and artistic beauty the moment I got the real phone.

Unlike the fashionable and slim design of previous OPPO mobile phones, OPPO designed Find X to be a work of art this time, and the final result is just as mentioned in the preheating stage of Find X: a perfect combination of modern technology and art.

The front of OPPO Find X uses a 6.42-inch flexible OLED screen exclusively customized by Samsung, with a screen ratio of 19.5:9. This is also the "longest" product on the current mobile phone market.

Moreover, with the flexible bending of the screen, OPPO Find X is also the first mobile phone product in China to adopt COP packaging technology. The bottom screen part is folded and the touch IC is packaged on the bent substrate, which also solves the problem of the wide chin of the mobile phone.

Thanks to the COP screen packaging process, OPPO Find X has achieved the world's narrowest 3.4mm bottom frame in the mobile phone industry. Combined with the 1.65mm left and right frames and the 1.91mm top frame, it brings users a very good screen immersive experience and takes another step towards a true full screen.

The back of the phone also has the same curved design. The left and right sides of the glass on the back of the phone have also been 3D hot-pressed to form a very comfortable arc that is suitable for hand holding. The front and back sides are connected together by the middle frame of the phone, which has a very smooth transition touch and makes the phone feel slimmer when held.

OPPO has always been good at matching mobile phone colors. This time, Find X also uses Bordeaux Red and Ice Blue in a unique way.

Unlike the previous gradient color scheme, the gradient color of Find X is condensed around the back of the phone, perfectly combining the gradient color with the 3D arc of the north. The color flow presented by changing at different angles adds an artistic texture to Find X.

This color technology is called 3D stacked streamer dots. Each flowing color is composed of 7 layers of color, and then covered with a textured coating. This design also makes the body reflect the texture of gemstones, and at the same time, it can present a sense of flow when the angle changes. Whether it is the passionate Bordeaux red or the smart ice amber blue, they all exude a unique charm.

When you get the OPPO Find X to play with it, I believe you will notice that this product has a full range of hole-free design on both sides of the front.

Coupled with the curved full screen on the front and the narrow bezel design on all sides, the OPPO Find X's front screen-to-body ratio reaches 93.8%, which can be said to be the mobile phone with the highest screen-to-body ratio on the market, and it is also one of the few true full-screen mobile phones.

Double-track periscope structure--the mechanical mystery between ups and downs

In order to achieve a hole-free design on both sides of the front of Find X, the familiar sensors and the newly added 3D structured light system of Find X are integrated into a lifting structure, which OPPO calls a dual-track periscope structure.

In this periscope structure, OPPO integrates front and rear cameras, 3D structured light modules and most of the sensors.

A set of small and lower-noise motors were placed inside the phone, and by reducing the damping of the slide rails, softening the connecting wires and other details, it was finally possible to quickly raise the dual-track periscope structure in just 0.6 seconds with relatively little mechanical noise.

In order to ensure the service life of this lifting structure, OPPO has also designed two protection mechanisms to protect this precision structure both actively and passively.

The first is active protection. OPPO has designed a speed gradient process in the motor structure. Simply put, it is a buffered rise mode from slow to fast and then to slow again. This also avoids the loss of precision parts caused by the long-term rapid ups and downs of the motor structure, and increases the service life through a buffering method.

Another is passive protection. There are always some accidental falls during use. When the gravity sensor inside the phone detects an abnormal free fall of the phone, it will transmit the signal directly to the system. When the system receives the abnormal signal, the periscope structure will be quickly retracted.

Such a recovery mechanism also protects users from accidentally dropping the camera or 3D structured light module when calling it, and protects the periscope structure so that it can be recovered as quickly as possible when it falls without causing damage to the internal structure due to the impact of the fall.

OPPO FaceKey--Safe and Convenient

OPPO FaceKey is the only biometric recognition method of OPPO Find X this time. Many friends may not be familiar with this term, but if it is described as a 3D structured light system, wouldn’t it make sense?

That’s right, OPPO officially demonstrated its 3D structured light technology in early May this year, and applied it to its flagship product Find X a month later. Such a coherent operation also makes us sigh at OPPO’s accumulation of technology and strong supply chain operations.

Find X's 3D structured light technology projects 15,000 recognition points on the face through a dot matrix projector during recognition, and builds a 3D model of the user's face through the feedback of these recognition points.

During recognition, the model data fed back by the projection points is matched with the previously recorded facial contour data to complete the recognition process. In addition, the 3D structured light technology has a built-in infrared fill light, which can be used with the dot matrix projector to perform laser emission and dot matrix feedback of the facial contour even in a completely dark environment, allowing for perfect unlocking in the dark.

In actual experience, the 3D structured light system recording process of OPPO Find X is slightly different from that of iPhone X we have used before. Find X does not prompt users to turn their heads to collect facial information.

I guess it may be because the iPhone X has 30,000 recognition dots, while the Find X has only 15,000, so there are not enough dots to collect data around the face. So when unlocking, the unlocking operation will not be completed when the face is tilted at 45 degrees.

When 3D structured light is used as the only biometric identification method, password verification methods that users are familiar with, such as fingerprint recognition, become invalid. In order to solve this problem, OPPO has also cooperated with Alipay to use 3D structured light technology instead of password payment, so that payment can be made just by scanning the face.

Functional expansion of structured light technology--3D personalized beauty

If 3D structured light technology is only used for unlocking and payment, it would be a bit of a waste of talent. Therefore, OPPO also uses 3D structured light technology to enhance its selfie function - the 3D personalized beauty function came into being.

For a long time, the beauty functions we have come into contact with are all "modular" beauty effects formed by manufacturers through research on user big data, but just as there are no two leaves in the world that are exactly the same.

As individuals, each of us has completely different facial contours. Even twins have completely different bone contours. Therefore, how to set beauty effects for a single user has become a big problem for manufacturers. So who knows your face best?

It's not the plastic surgeon, it's not your parents, it's you! Therefore, OPPO uses 3D structured light technology to scan the user's facial data to form a 3D facial model. Users can make fine adjustments based on the bone features of their cheekbones, nose bones, and chin to achieve a beauty effect tailored to their needs.

OPPO also has four built-in beauty modes, corresponding to four styles of filter effects. Users can choose the style mode they use most often to save.

When taking photos with beautification in the future, we just need to adjust the beauty mode to the "Custom" position, and the system will match the previously entered and adjusted facial data to achieve exclusive beautification effects.

Photography: Worthy of the flagship title

Next, let's move on to the camera part. Let's first take a look at the selfie aspect that users care about the most. In addition to the 3D personalized beauty function mentioned above, the appearance of contour light has also been sought after by many users. After all, this "light compensation technology" is better than many filters to produce blockbuster-like effects.

After testing, I found that the edge recognition effect and the actual lighting effect of the contour light effect can indeed create a feeling different from other filters, especially the two-color light scene. The transition from the face to the neck gradually disappears and appears very natural. If you are skilled in the operation, it is definitely not a problem to take portrait photos with artistic texture in certain scenes.

Let's take a look at the camera hardware of OPPO Find X. It has a 25-megapixel IMX576 sensor on the front, which has excellent dark light noise control and strong color reproduction. This is also in line with the camera characteristics of Find X this time, so it can be said that the meeting between IMX576 and Find X this time is destined.

The rear camera of Find X uses a zoom dual-camera, a 16-megapixel + 20-megapixel dual-camera combination. The main camera sensor is IMX519, which features an ultra-high sampling rate, more accurate and faster dynamic photography. It also supports OIS optical image stabilization, which allows for more light intake in low-light shooting, significantly improving the brightness of the picture.

Find X is equipped with RAW HDR function. Compared with other HDR functions that capture images in RAW format and then compress them, RAW HDR can produce the original RAW format after the image is captured, avoiding the loss of image information caused by data compression. When taking HDR portrait photos, the depth of field level information of the picture is also clearer and more specific.

At the same time, Find X also supports the scene camera function, 21 types of independent scenes, and up to 800 scenes of combined effect gain. When users hold Find X to take pictures, they can make appropriate photo effect gains according to different scenes to get better photo effects. Let's use some sample photos to actually feel the photo effect of OPPO Find X:

From the sample photos above, we can see that Find X has a brighter color reproduction effect, which is more pleasing to users and can provide a good visual experience when sharing on social networks.

In terms of backlit photography, the brightness gain of Find X in the dark is also maintained within a reasonable range. At the same time, it also has good light adjustment for the highlight part, making the look and feel of the two parts more unified without a noticeable sense of difference.

The brightness of the night scene is much brighter than what the naked eye sees, the noise of the picture is also well controlled, and there is no excessive smearing feeling in the details. The overall viewing experience is still satisfactory.

Playing games - powerful hardware alone is not enough

As a flagship product, top-level hardware is also essential, so this time Find X is also equipped with Snapdragon 845 platform and 8GB of RAM space.

But as a flagship mobile phone product in 2018, is powerful hardware enough? The answer is NO! In addition to powerful hardware standards, OPPO also has its own exclusive game mode for games, which is the favorite field of young people, to help users achieve the ultimate gaming experience.

There is an APP called "Game Space" on the desktop of the mobile phone. After clicking on it, the system will automatically include the game APPs in the mobile phone, and you can also adjust the function of the game mode in the space. For example, whether the performance is balanced or high-efficiency, and whether notification messages are blocked can be easily set here.

Moreover, when the phone is used in landscape mode, you can swipe inward from the upper border when holding the phone in landscape mode to call out some quick operation buttons, including screenshot, screen recording and quick opening of WeChat, which greatly improves the convenience of use for daily operations.

Find X--Worthy of the four-year wait

Although I haven’t had contact with Find X for a long time, I like this product very much. Both its excellent appearance design and grip feel are absolutely excellent; the powerful hardware also allows me, a gamer, to have both extreme performance and visual experience when playing PUBG.

The lifting dual-track periscope structure is a kind of mechanical beauty for technology enthusiasts; for ordinary white users, the lifting and lowering of the camera part is also an unprecedented new technological shock. Coupled with such an appearance design, I really can’t think of a reason not to choose Find X.

After four years of waiting, from Find 7 to the current Find X, I have also seen OPPO's efforts in technological exploration.

The Find 7 four years ago can be said to be a flagship milestone in the history of Chinese mobile phones, and the Find X four years later can be said to be a new symbol of the global mobile phone evolution towards full-screen. Regardless of whether the dual-track periscope structure will be the final solution for the full-screen era in the future, at least for now, Find X is the future, and I am willing to embrace this future.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.