The Oppo Find X10 and the iPhone 18 Pro are both smaller flagships, but it’s clear they’re taking very different paths to the top.
The Find X10 is the standard model in Oppo’s latest flagship line, but it’s the Find X10 Pro in all but name, with a new LTPO display, a redesigned triple camera and a huge battery in a palm-friendly body.
The iPhone 18 Pro, meanwhile, doesn’t have any big headline features. Instead, it’s a collection of smaller improvements — a variable aperture camera, the A20 Pro chip and much-improved battery life — that make it a more complete phone.
The question then is, what is your hard earned money worth? After reviewing both the Find X10 and the iPhone 18 Pro, here’s what’s best.
Pricing and Availability
The two smartphones are fairly evenly priced. The Oppo Find X10 is available for £1099 in the UK with 256GB of storage as standard, and is available to pre-order now ahead of release in November.
The iPhone 18 Pro is slightly more expensive at £1199/$1199 and will be available to buy after the release in September. It comes with the same 256GB storage.
Design
The Find X10 looks a lot like the Find X9, with flat aluminum edges, flat glass front and back and rounded corners, while the iPhone 18 Pro sticks closely to the 17 Pro’s blueprint, with an aluminum chassis, gently rounded edges and the camera tray that runs across the top back.
Oppo has refreshed the camera island, placing the square camera hump inside a larger rectangular island that rises seamlessly from the back. In the new Glow Coral finish it is gorgeous. Apple’s recessed panel below the cameras now blends more subtly, which is an improvement, and the color palette is more muted, with burgundy leading alongside silver, glacier and a true, deep black.
They are also very close at hand. The Find X10 weighs 216g and measures 8.35mm thick, while the iPhone is 211g and 8.75mm – about 5g heavier than the 17 Pro, although we prefer to carry a little more for the added battery life.
Durability is strong on both. The Find X10 has an IP68 and IP69 dual rating plus Gorilla Glass Victus 2, while the iPhone is rated IP68 with Ceramic Shield 2 – tough enough to bounce a screen protector.
In terms of buttons, Oppo’s Snap Key is frustratingly limited. You can’t set it to launch an app of your choice, and it’s nowhere near as flexible as the iPhone’s action button, which we find much more convenient.
screens
The Find X10’s 6.6-inch screen is seriously impressive, thanks mainly to bezels that are less than 1mm thick.
It’s also now an LTPO panel, so it can adjust its refresh rate in small steps to save battery, without that noticeable stutter when it jumps between rates, and it can even hit 144Hz in supported games. Oppo’s color tuning leans natural and realistic, which is refreshing after years of hyper-realistic Android displays.
The iPhone 18 Pro’s 6.3-inch 120Hz ProMotion OLED features nothing new this year beyond a marginally smaller Dynamic Island, and that change is so slight that it makes little real difference.
Still, it remains one of the best-looking screens on a phone, with lush colors that make streaming, gaming and browsing your camera a joy. It’s also a nice size – we can use it with one hand without having to dislocate a thumb.
Performance
This is where the iPhone pulls ahead well. The A20 Pro posted 4019 single-core and 11218 multi-core in Geekbench 7, compared to 2702 and 7990 from the Find X10’s Dimensity 9600M. The GPU gap is even bigger, with the iPhone with 62,693 to Oppo’s 18,205, and it also leads in AI performance, with 9167 against 3727.
The iPhone maintains that performance as well, games run longer and cooler than the 17 Pro, and we couldn’t find a single task that interfered with the chip.
The Find X10 hit around 40fps in our graphics tests, which isn’t far off from top-performing phones, but it struggled in the stress test, with a stability score of just 37.9%.
We suspect that its huge battery leaves little room for cooling. Still, it’s more than powerful enough for almost anything—we played Destiny: Rising for 15-20 minutes without stuttering or lag.
cameras
Both phones pack triple rear cameras. The Find X10 combines a 200MP main camera, a 50MP ultrawide and a 200MP telephoto with 2.8x zoom, while the iPhone 18 Pro uses three 48MP sensors: a variable aperture main camera, a 120-degree ultrawide and a 4x telephoto.
Oppo’s 2.8x zoom is a slightly puzzling choice, as it doesn’t push much further than the sharp 2x crop of the main camera. Its larger sensor, however, still delivers strong shots beyond 5.6x.
The results are clean and consistent across all three lenses, and Master Mode produces more lifelike shots with far less AI processing. At night, Oppo shows admirable awareness, keeping scenes close to what we saw with our own eyes, although the ultrawide is a bit fuzzier and darker.
The iPhone’s major upgrade is a mechanical aperture on the main camera that switches between f/1.48 and f/4.0. We like the idea, but the real world payoff is small. The new manual controls for shutter speed, white balance and focus are a bonus, although the camera controls annoyingly don’t access any of them.
The results are realistic, with warmer color and convincing texture, and his night shots use shorter exposures that look closer to the real scene.
Video is where they diverge the most. The Find X10 can shoot 8K or 4K at 120fps, and even Open Gate in Pro mode, but the iPhone remains the best phone for video – nothing else records footage that’s as smooth, sharp and attractive.
Software
There is an ironic twist here. The Find X10 runs ColorOS 17 on top of Android 17, and it borrows a lot from Apple, from liquid glass-like settings tiles to the camera’s color style picker. Still, it’s among the best for customization, even if widget sizing remains fiddly.
The iPhone 18 Pro runs iOS 27, and the headline addition is the new Siri AI – the version of Apple Intelligence we should have had all along. It understands what is on the screen and gives much more accurate answers. There’s also a new slider to adjust how transparent Liquid Glass appears.
Long-term support favors Apple. Oppo only promises five OS upgrades and six security patches a year, while the iPhone 11 is still supported by iOS 27, so expect many years of updates.
Battery life
The Find X10 has the clear edge here. We tested the global model with its 8,000mAh battery, and it comfortably lasted us until the end of a second day. Just keep in mind that the European model comes with a smaller 7,150mAh cell.
The iPhone 18 Pro is the best standard Pro iPhone for endurance in years, close to the 17 Pro Max. A full day of heavier use is easily achievable, and lighter users can stretch to a second day.
Charging is fast on both. The Find X10 reached 50% in 30 minutes and full in 70 minutes, impressive for such a large battery. The iPhone reaches 50% in 25 minutes and full in 62 minutes in our tests – the fastest charging iPhone to date – and holds MagSafe, although wireless charging is significantly slower.
Final thoughts
The Oppo Find X10 packs a huge battery, a great LTPO display with small bezels and a versatile triple camera in a palm-friendly body. It’s not perfect – games can’t sustain peak performance for long, the Snap Key is limited and the software borrows heavily from iOS – but at £1,099 it’s a real flagship.
The iPhone 18 Pro is more of an ‘S’ upgrade than a revolution, but it remains an easy recommendation. The camera is great in all conditions, the battery life is better than ever, and the performance is off the charts compared to Android rivals.
If you want two days of battery life and a great display for less, buy the Find X10. But if you want the best performance, the best video recording and long-term software support, the iPhone 18 Pro is the one to go for.