\nOPPO is\u00a0now using\u00a0Silicon-Carbon for its batteries, like HONOR, Xiaomi, and a number of other Chinese smartphone makers. This allows them to put much larger battery capacity into their phones and keeps them rather thin. The Find X8, for example, has a 5630mAh battery, while the Find X8 Pro has a 5910mAh battery. That\u2019s much larger than what Samsung is putting into its phones. The Galaxy S24 Ultra is larger than both Find X8 models and has just a 5,000mAh capacity battery. That means that the Find X8 Pro has a 16% larger battery in a smaller and thinner form factor. This also results in some pretty incredible battery life.
\nWhile I\u2019ve been here in Bali, I\u2019ve been using the Find X8 Pro quite a bit and have been pretty surprised at how well it has performed. Despite the heat and using the camera a whole lot more than normal, I was still able to get through a full day. Which is honestly hard to do on days like that with this kind of heat, as well as on most other phones. By the end of the day, my iPhone 16 Pro was down to 30% with not a whole lot of usage, while the Find X8 Pro was down to 39% with a lot more usage \u2013 about four hours of screen on time too.
\nOPPO has also already launched Android 15 for the Find X8 and will start updating other devices in the coming days. That\u2019s something that Samsung is struggling with, too, now. One UI 7, which is based on Android 15 hasn\u2019t even started public beta yet. And that\u2019s not expected to start until the end of the year. Meanwhile, ColorOS 15 is out and is actually starting to be pushed out via OTA.
\nFinally, the last area where OPPO is better than Samsung right now is with its displays. The Find X8 has a flat display with an incredibly thin bezel. The Find X8 Pro has a quad-curved display, which looks amazing, to be quite honest. It has some pretty thin bezels, too, but that quad-curved display is just stunning to look at when watching videos and playing games.
\nSamsung better get its act together
\nIf Samsung doesn\u2019t watch out, they could end up being dethroned by other companies in the smartphone world. They\u2019ve been in the top 2 for many years. Often trading places with Apple depending on the time of the year. But with brands like OPPO doing so many great things with their phones, Samsung might be dropping to third or fourth.
\nLately, we haven\u2019t seen much innovation from Samsung. The most innovation we saw from them this year was with the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition, which had a wider front display, thinner bezels and a 200-megapixel camera. Yeah it\u2019s a nice upgrade, but I wouldn\u2019t necessarily call that \u201cinnovation\u201d.
\nSamsung has been resting on its laurels a whole lot in the past few years, knowing that its brand name holds a lot of weight and people will still buy their phones, particularly in the US. In the US, we are limited to basically Samsung, Apple, Google, Motorola, and OnePlus. And with the big updates Google made with the Pixel this year, it\u2019s starting to eat away at Samsung\u2019s market share. I\u2019d expect Samsung to do something drastic soon, to stop that bleeding. The US is its second largest market, behind Korea. So it\u2019s not a surprise that they (supposedly) moved to help keep many Chinese brands like Huawei out of the US. Because they\u2019d be done for.
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