u/Legitimate-While6796

I got the device on launch day here in Taiwan (16GB/1TB global variant). Since then, the days have been filled with fairly heavy usage from device setup (didn't clone anything from my old Samsung), camera tests, and tweaking (disabling all the bloat/apps I don't need). After 10 days, the device is pretty much "settled in" and reporting an average of 14+ hours SOT. 🤯

A few things of note:

1. My previous Samsung S23 Ultra was getting anywhere from 6-8 hours SOT depending on camera usage. So, I've effectively double my SOT.

2. The Find X9 Ultra is consistently charging to the typical value of 7050 mAh vs all other previous devices I've owned, which generally only achieve the rated minimum capacity out of the box. This is a very nice "extra" from Oppo.

3. The battery life is so good, I'm not even bothering to charge overnight now. I'm basically getting 1.5-2 days per charge, and when the device gets down to 15-20%, I do a full charge and unplug with the included 100W SuperVOOC charger.

Anyway, screenshots for reference.

Took a drive out to Maokong today in hopes of taking some sunny shots of my car, but fate would grant me a cloudy day instead. Everything was shot in Master Mode in either Hasselblad or Vintage mode.

I'll let the pics do the talking, but I'm not seeing any pronounced "softness" or anything I would call worse than my previous flagship. In fact, pictures are just the right amount of sharpness (which can be adjusted btw), and the colors are crazy accurate vs my Samsung. My S23 Ultra, for whatever reason, always made my car's wrap come out with a weird reddish tint, which was nearly impossible to adjust. Even the landscape shot with the faint coloration of the city background is on point and way truer to life vs my partner's iPhone.

(And, before the next person chimes in "pictures look soft zoomed in" as they don't understand that Reddit compresses uploads to the great beyond: I'm zooming and comparing on on my device vs my S23 Ultra and my partner's iPhone. The Master mode shots are just as crisp, and I prefer the overall look and coloration more.)

The top graph shows a charge to 100% yesterday, but the battery capacity reported was an abysmal 6,847 mAh vs something closer to 7,050 mAh design capacity. I realized today that the phone charges an additional 10 minutes or so after 100% is initially reached, and it's not fully charged until then. The bottom graph is today's charge to "Fully Charged" being displayed, and the capacity increased over 200 mAh to 7,086 mAh.

Just a PSA for any of you who plan on charging every 2 days to maximize charge cycles. Those extra 200 mAh help. 😁

Proud owner of this beast. I already had the 1TB variant pre-ordered + I was selected as the first 100 to receive the phone on launch day (May 12th), so I knew I'd go home with the device. Just didn't think I'd be the first to officially own the 1TB version here.

The official local price was $61,999 NTD, but I got it for under $60k after the early bird rebate, which is just north of $1,900 US. The phone comes with the charger, cable, and a case here.

Early impressions after 24 hours of "new phone" prep coming from an S23 Ultra:

1. Debloat: Lots of stuff to disable and uninstall, from pushed 3rd party apps to redundant Oppo/Google apps. No idea why I would need both Google and Oppo Contacts, Pay apps, etc. Went with the ones I liked, disabled the rest. All in all, disabled/uninstall over 40 apps with UAD/Shizuku enabled debloaters. Kind of nice that many of them could directly disabled via Apps Management, something Samsung sorely lacked.

2. The battery is an absolute beast. I didn't even bother recharging overnight as it was charging via the laptop's USB port transferring photos and such all yesterday (hence the 1TB, I don't do cloud backup). Today, it's been nearly screen on all day extracting files, installing packages, etc. After nearly 5 hours screen on, I'm only down 25% or so. For reference, my S23 Ultra, which charged overnight, started out at 100% but is now under 70%. And, I didn't even do much with it today other than the occasional screen on to confirm settings.

3. Nova launcher go to home lag is slightly annoying, but I still prefer it over ColorOS. Just way more customization options, like gestures to launch apps, dock, etc. Hopefully this is something that can get addressed. Not a huge deal for me as I'm usually swapping between most commonly used apps via the app task manager.

4. Weird little quirks like not being able to bind Wallet to double pressed power key, all you get is access card and flashlight or something. Can be mitigated somewhat with adding it to the lock screen tho.

5. Nice that steps can be natively added to the lock screen, missed that from my Huawei P30 Pro.

6. Fingerprint reader is blazing fast vs the S23 Ultra, haven't had a miss yet either.

7. Some odd ColorOS stuff, like my preferred weather app's persistent notification in the status bar now only shows the icon instead of up to date temp. Something to do with how ColorOS handles the temp being sent as numbers. Working with the app dev thru that quirk.

Still in the process of setting everything up, not doing any cloning as that always caused ghost battery issues. Pictures can be moved over with 7z files, which will retain both Dates taken & modified.

Will be back after I get everything setup and spend more time with the camera. Hope this helps!

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2026/04/oppo-meta-instagram-video-quality-optimization-find-x9-ultra.html

Interesting update, applicable for those of us using or waiting on the X9 Ultra.

I'm posting this as these are the two phones I'm considering upgrading to, and for me, battery life and camera performance are the two main metrics. Given I don't game much or make calls, I made the use case 50/50 between videos and web use (which includes most apps via WebView).

I'm a bit surprised by the result given other comparisons have shown the gap to be much smaller between the 2 phones, but I thought I'd post it here in case it helps others. Cheers!