Oppo Find X9 Ultra vs Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6

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.

• A 200MP main, 200MP 3x telephoto, 50MP 10x optical telephoto and 50MP ultrawide, all Hasselblad-branded — camera-first overkill in the best way.
• Consistently great photos, sharpness and dynamic range with really good color calibration — this phone did basically everything right in the camera department; an incredibly well-rounded smartphone camera.
• Is this the best camera phone ever built? — my new favorite camera phone and one of the best Android phones I've ever used.
• Even after a direct shootout, still the best camera phone I've ever used.
• Detail is very good, but sharpness remains a bit underwhelming on the main camera.
• The ultrawide is probably the weakest part of the setup — with the first three cameras taking so much space, Oppo reused the Samsung GN5 sensor here.
• Night-mode processing — color, contrast and exposure handling — is so much better than the Galaxy S26 Ultra's, and the ultrawide is now one of the best for detail preservation.
• The optional 300mm Hasselblad teleconverter delivers ~13x (300mm) optical-feel zoom that retains real telephoto sharpness, extending to ~60x (1380mm).

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6

A new 50MP main (the same sensor as the Galaxy S24) plus a 12MP ultrawide. A real upgrade for a flip, but no telephoto and weaker than the same-year S24.

• A significantly better 50MP main sensor — the same as the Galaxy S24 — should deliver similar performance.
• Despite the iPhone 15 Pro's hardware advantages and zoom range, the reviewer mostly preferred the Flip 6's photos in most situations.
• You won't get the best photos, but Samsung isn't scraping the bottom of the barrel; the selfie is better than any dedicated selfie camera.
• It's one of only a few phones in this bracket lacking a third (telephoto) camera, and zoom past 5x isn't good.
• Compared head-to-head, the same-year Galaxy S24 is genuinely a way better camera than the Flip 6.

Oppo Find X9 Ultra

A genuine highlight: a 7,050mAh silicon-carbon cell that posts some of the best endurance numbers of any 2026 flagship, with fast 100W wired and 50W wireless charging.

• Draws power from a 7,050mAh battery — a sizeable increase over the previous generation — with 100W SuperVOOC wired and 50W AirVOOC wireless charging.
• Earned an active-use battery score of over 20 hours; with the SuperVOOC charger it went 0–75% in 30 minutes and to full in 45 minutes.
• After ~10 hours of continuous use starting at 7am it still had 53% battery, regularly getting 8–9 hours of screen-on time and ~40% left after a 13-hour day.
• A PCMark synthetic loop returned 15 hours 2 minutes, and 100W SuperVOOC charging took ~49–52 minutes (the charger isn't included).
• With moderate usage you can easily expect more than 2 days of battery life — Oppo finally feels like a truly complete product.
• Charges 0–100% in about 52 minutes on the official 80W charger in a head-to-head charge test.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6

A 4,000mAh battery (about 10% bigger than the Flip 5) with 25W wired and 15W wireless — better than past Flips but small and slow next to clamshell rivals.

• A roughly 10% larger battery plus the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 yields about an hour more screen-on-time per day than the Flip 5.
• The 4,000mAh cell is modest — Oppo and Vivo clamshells are at 4,300–4,400mAh — though any increase is welcome.
• Charging is 25W wired and 15W wireless — slow versus the fast-charging competition.
• Owners feel confident leaving the house at ~50% and getting home with good battery, but the always-on cover screen can quietly eat charge.
• A battery-care option lets you cap charging at 85% to preserve long-term battery health.

Oppo Find X9 Ultra

ColorOS 16 has matured a lot and is fast and smooth, but it still trails Samsung and Google on AI depth and feels iOS-derived to some — the phone's clearest weak point relative to its hardware.

• ColorOS 16 feels like one of the best versions yet.
• It's a good Android experience but not on par with the Galaxy experience for AI features and tool integration, and portrait autofocus struggles in some low-light conditions.
• For me it's the best version of Android I've ever used — light, fast and smooth with no major issues.
• The hardware is superior to the latest Samsung, but the software feels like an imitation of iOS.
• With a bit of tweaking and updates, Oppo's software and camera engineers can make this even better — there's clear headroom.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6

Galaxy AI plus seven years of updates. The longevity is excellent; the cover-screen software remains the line's frustration.

• Long update support — seven years of OS and security updates — is a listed strength.
• After a year there's been no performance degradation and seven years of updates means it will last a long time.
• One UI 7 brings major improvements to the Flip 6, including updated drawing/photo assist and generative edit.
• The AI transcription feature worked well with only a couple of typos.
• Doing most tasks (email, WhatsApp, Samsung Pay, notifications) on the outer display reduces the temptation to open it and doomscroll.

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.

• Its main compromises are the ~€1,699 price, large 236g body, occasional software concerns and limited availability in some markets.
• It feels like Oppo wanted to make the camera first and just happened to also create the best Android phone you can get right now — though it won't win every year-end award.
• The base Find X9 Ultra starts at 7,499 yuan in China — roughly £814 / ~$1,100 — but the heaviness and visual pressure are the first impression.
• The closest rival is the Vivo X300 Ultra, but the X9 Ultra wins by having a more user-friendly OS.
• The Hasselblad alliance delivers a phone that genuinely challenges the Galaxy S26 Ultra on cameras.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6

At $1,099 (256GB) it's a $100 hike over the Flip 5, with cheaper, more capable Motorola Razrs as the main pressure.

• An excellent flip phone, but there's renewed competition now — the latest Motorola foldables are just as exciting and cheaper.
• It's the best Z Flip Samsung has ever made and 'the best folding phone you can buy, period.'
• A $100 price hike for both foldables over their predecessors raises whether there's enough here to warrant it.
• If the bigger cover display and larger battery of the newer model aren't compelling, the Flip 6 (often discounted from $1,099) is more than enough.
• Owners would still pick the Z Flip 6 over a regular S25 for the form factor.