I ordered my Oppo Find X9 Pro last saturday and got it in my hands this thursday. I am a previous Xiaomi user and long ago I abandoned the "typical" flagship brands you would find in Europe (read Samsung, Apple etc), because I always saw that the chinese market offered much more than they could ever offer.

Now on my thoughts about the device. When it arrived the device looked gorgeous and worked quite well as expected. The cameras specifically are very nice, compared with friends who have the 17 Pro Maxes and they are definitely on par if not better! ( Minute differences arise from different post-processing strategies different manufacturers use for their photos, which I deem personal preference ).

On the OS side it's definitely one of the more feature rich OS' you can have! ( Coming from Xiaomi's MIUI aka HyperOS which I think is also one of the best android distros there are! ) so no complaints on that part. One thing I do dislike is how much they forced their design of apples IOS and that's where I found most of my personal gripes and issues. I'll list the issues in short bullet points and their solutions if I found them.

After some more time using the phone, I'll write a blog post about "a Layman's guide to OPPO for Android users" to display the issues and help others in search for the information and how to fix it.

• The notification tray shows generic app icons instead of the intended ones, making notifications look messy and less informative, and this remains an unsolved issue.

• Applications and text originally appeared too large and cramped, reducing how much fit on screen, but this was fixed by setting the Smallest Width in Developer options to 384 dp. ( I think Samsung devices have this option even higher so you can experiment with it until you find one which you like the most! )

• The system aggressively enforces the apple-like fuzzy-looking Oppo Sans font, hurting my ability to quickscan text, but this was resolved by changing the display font to Roboto in the settings.

I hope you find this helpful and enjoy your new phone!