
Apple
Best iPhone of 2023, transformative titanium + 5x periscope + USB-C

Oppo
The best camera phone of 2026
iPhone 15 Pro Max
iPhone 15 Pro Max
iPhone 15 Pro Max
Grade-5 titanium frame drops weight ~20g to 221g — the headline change of the year. Slimmer bezels, contoured edges, USB-C port and customizable Action Button replace the mute switch. The most refined iPhone in-hand feel yet.
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Oppo Find X9 Ultra
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
A Hasselblad-camera tribute in phone form — vegan leather, a symmetrical 'master eye' module and a Hexagon-inspired ring. Gorgeous to most, oversized to some, and undeniably heavy.
iPhone 15 Pro Max
6.7-inch Super Retina XDR OLED with ProMotion 120Hz adaptive refresh and a 2000-nit peak brightness — the best display Apple has shipped. Dynamic Island carries over from the 14 Pro Max with no major changes.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
A 6.8-inch LTPO OLED with up to 144Hz and very high real-world brightness — among the brightest screens on any phone outdoors.
iPhone 15 Pro Max
48MP main + 12MP ultrawide + 12MP 5x Tetraprism periscope telephoto (Pro Max exclusive) + 12MP TrueDepth selfie. The 5x periscope is the headline upgrade — first iPhone past 3x optical, with computational zoom up to 25x.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
The reason to buy it. A Hasselblad-tuned quad system with the most versatile zoom on any phone, a true 10x optical periscope and an optional 300mm Hasselblad teleconverter. Near-universally praised, with only minor sharpness and ultrawide caveats.
iPhone 15 Pro Max
First-ever 3nm A17 Pro chip with hardware ray tracing, 8GB RAM and NVMe storage — the fastest mobile silicon at launch. Launch overheating issues plagued early units but iOS 17.0.3 mitigated. Future-proofs the phone for Apple Intelligence on iOS 18+.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 puts it near the top of the benchmark charts, but sustained-load stability is mediocre and Oppo deliberately throttles early to control heat.
iPhone 15 Pro Max
$1,199 starting (256GB base) — the most-expensive baseline iPhone yet. In 2026 it's the smart-buy Apple pick at $700-900 used with 6+ years of updates left. Versus the S23 Ultra: closer than ever on cameras + zoom, still loses on raw zoom range.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
Premium-priced and hard to buy in many markets, but reviewers broadly conclude it out-cameras the S26 Ultra and Pixel and edges the Vivo X300 Ultra on usability.