How's your user experience? So you order the china set? Would it have any impact? And would there be limitations?
Oppo Find X8 Pro is also another smooth AF phone. Compared to vivo X200 Pro, Find X8 Pro,
- feels nicer to hold
- fingerprint sensor (vivo one is higher on the screen due to diff hardware)
- volume control button a bit too high up on the right but on the left there is the volume switch (sound on, vibrate, slient)
- speakers are fuller
- oppo font is nicer too look at
- ColorOS really like iPhone (like 就是这样子咯). Clean, neat, smooth. OriginOS nicer to play with.
- ColorOS updates (official or beta) not as often as OriginOS.
- the shutter button is super duper nice to press than iPhone 16 Pro/Max, makes taking selfies easier.
- (difficult to see but) slightly brighter display (don't really like the auto-slight-dim for certain apps even when auto-brightness is deactivated. I think this applies only to local china apps)
- camera wise (each has it's own style both are relatively good - all photos once snapped will be AI'nized). for zoom and night scene, vivo is better. I personally feel for Find X8 Pro, shots taken above 26.6X (600mm) is for sure not very clear, post photo processing depends on how smart the AI is. Oppo's default camera mode already has proHDR filter that cannot be deactivated. depending on the environment lightings and weather conditions, shots taken on this mode can look quite nice and fresh while the darks areas are... dark with some details. for vivo, shots taken are also nice though not as bright and fresh (but can be edited within the photo album), darks areas in the photo are much more detailed. Oppo's movement capture (burst shot la) is something to highlight - clear and fun. Oppo has HEIC format like in iPhone but vivo don't have. HEIC takes up lesser bytes.
- post photo: all china phones now utilizes AI to make photos better like taken with 1" sensor, that's this year a lot of china phones the sensors are new but potong'ed version. In terms of image processing, I think both on par bah. Sometime Oppo's AI does a better job while some other times, Vivo's is better. However, Oppo has a 2 or 3 better photo editing features - like remove reflection, convert burst shots to GIF, etc.
- live photos: oppo one is better (like iOS one) and can apply filters whereas vivo's live photo is a package of 1-photo + 3s clip, but sharing Live Photos or uploading to apps is not fully supported, except for Xiao Hong Shu and certain versions of WeChat.
- Find X8 Pro can share stuff to iPhone directly via NFC - this one is "bull-sheet" (something they didn't really say in detail is iPhone need to install an app called O+ something. I think this one Oneplus last time have liao).
- poor office suite connectivity for Mac (vivo is better because also support usb-c cable transfer and has it's own OriginOS calendar plus can mirror phone on monitor, Oppo cannot) - this won't apply if you are using PC
- battery wise on par IMO (local phone reviews show on par results also)
Again, can use non local apps or not - my list of SG apps installed on both Vivo OriginOS/Oppo ColorOS and used with no issues:
- Google Play Store
- Chrome
- WhatsApp
- GitHub
- Medium
- X (Twitter)
- OSOME
- Facebook
- Instagram
- DBS Banking
- DBS PayLah
- Aspire
- Singpass
- Google Authenticator
- Google Cloud
- MS Office 365
- MS Authenticator
- My Simba
- Tapo
- YouTube
Tested and works smoothly:
- G-suite Apps (Keep, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, Gmail)
It has been announced that Find X8 Ultra will be launched during Spring (Mar/Apr) next year while X200 Ultra will be launched earlier than X100 Ultra this year (meaning possible also Mar/Apr).
My verdict:
I will switch my Oppo Find X8 Pro for Vivo X200 Ultra (but still keep my black Oppo Enco X3 earbuds - really AirPods Pro 2 ANC alternative) because I still prefer OriginOS and it's office connectivity for Mac. In terms of the photography, I myself also dunno - both really good. The times when I compare my Find X8 Pro shots with my bro's X200 Pro's shots (ermm... I traded my X200 Pro away), sometimes I like Oppo better, sometimes I like Vivo better. This one really have to see personal preference, my partner who is a pro-photographer, in his POV, he prefers Vivo most of the time, he says more original while Oppo one is like already got filter built-in.
For concert and lots of night photos, go for Vivo X200 Pro, 512GB at least (because they don't have HEIC format), and OriginOS. I don't recommend FuntouchOS (international version). I think Vivo will be bringing in X200 and/or Pro to Malaysia.
You can try Oppo Find X8 Pro when prefer:
- Fuji-style filters
- Better Live Photos
- iOS UI
- ColorOS is more international IMO
the USB port one in particular i really don't get. for a photography/videography focused series, why limit USB 3.2 to the X200 Pro only but not the other 2. Same like OPPO with their regular Find X8. Even Xiaomi also just give USB 3.2 Gen 1 to the regular Xiaomi 15. sigh...
