MacRumors is an Apple-focused site, but sometimes we like to share notable new features that Apple’s competitors are adding to their devices, as a look at what Apple might discover in the future and just to keep up with what other companies are up to . Oppo recently released a smartphone with a microscope lens, and we thought it would be fun to check it out and see how it works in our latest YouTube video.
The Oppo Find X3 Pro is not a phone sold in the United States and is quite expensive at EUR 1,149 (~ $ 1350), but it has an included 3 megapixel “Microlens”, perhaps a first for a smartphone.
The Find X3 Pro’s Micro lens offers 60x magnification and a ring light, so you can see things up close, as you can see in the video. It’s an incredibly niche feature, but it certainly makes the Find X3 Pro stand out and is fun to play with.
You can see the fabric of the AirPods Max mesh headband, a lock of hair, the grain of a plant leaf, and more. You need a steady hand or a tripod to get most items in focus, which is a drawback.
Apart from the Microlens camera, Oppo’s Find X3 Pro is a top-tier flagship smartphone that easily competes with other Android smartphones in the market. It also features a 50-megapixel ultra-wide angle camera, a 50-megapixel wide-angle camera, and a 13-megapixel telephoto camera, so it still offers what most of the competitors have, just with the bonus microscope lens.
You can get high-magnification microscopes that can wirelessly connect to a smartphone for under $ 50, so this is a functionality that you can replicate fairly affordably, but it’s certainly nice to have it at your fingertips for your on-the-go magnification needs .
Since this smartphone isn’t currently sold in the United States, it needs to be imported, and even with the advanced features and micro lens, it’s probably not worth paying the $ 1300 asking price along with the shipping costs to get there. get one. A built-in microscope probably isn’t something we’ll see on the iPhone in the near future, but it’s an interesting concept.