Introduction

Few brands say exclusivity, high performance, and stunning looks quite like Italian car maker Lamborghini. So when you hear of the Oppo Find X Lamborghini Edition, you know it's no ordinary smartphone. That's even if you aren't remotely familiar with the vanilla Find X, which is already pretty unique before the Lambo-inspired changes. After all, how many smartphones exist with a motorized pop-up section housing the cameras? Anyway, the Lamborghini Edition adds to that a slick black carbon-fiber back, in true super car fashion, plus a black UI theme with golden accents.





It's not just on the surface that the Find X has been Lamborghini-fied, however - it's got a smaller battery so you might think it's gotten the Superleggera treatment, making it lighter. Not really - it weighs the same as the regular Find X, but the 10-ish percent reduction in capacity has been the result of having to fit the bits enabling SuperVOOC fast charging. And with Lamborghini in the name, you'd be correct to assume it's not just plain fast, it's bonkers fast.





With its 512GB on board the Lambo Find X has more storage than you'd need - so unlike the Centenario, even if we do fancy its custom luggage. The handset lacks the option to extend that via a card slot - as if you'd put a cargo box on said Centenario's roof. The Snapdragon 845 is the metaphorical V12 under the hood, and there's 8GB of RAM for your multitasking needs - sorry, we couldn't think of a clever analogy for that (as if the rest of them were any clever).





Unboxing

Phone aside, the package contains the mighty 50-watt SuperVOOC charger - naturally, black with a golden Lamborghini logo on one side. There's a super nice braided USB cable to go with the SuperVOOC power brick too.

A pair of Oppo O-Free wireless earbuds have also made it into the box. They're not in one of the regular colors (Bordeaux Red and Ice Blue), but have golden Lambo accents to match the rest of the bundle. Same goes for the earbuds' charging case that also gets a Lambo logo. The case itself charges via USB-C like the phone so you don't need to worry about having a separate cable for it.





Now, the Find X isn't a particularly rugged phone, and the Lamborghini Edition comes with a slip-on back cover to help at least a little with that. It covers the sides and bottom corners too, but can't do much about the top - the motorized camera assembly can't be contained.





Design

Well, the phone is a Find X alright. Its all-display front and apparent lack of cameras on either side make for a striking impression before you even get to the Lamborghini bits.









It's the back that is different from any other Find X. Where the regular version can be had in either Bordeaux Red or Glacier Blue, both of them attractive in their own right, the Lamborghini Edition's back has a fine carbon fiber texture underneath the glass. Because what says sports car more loudly than a carbon fiber mesh. A golden Automobili Lamborghini badge, that's what. The shield logo, complete with the raging bull, graces the phone's lower back. You'll be covering that up when talking on the phone, and in those cases only the less intimidating (but still golden) Oppo logo up top will give out the phone's pedigree.





Battery life

One of the big deals about the Lamborghini Edition Oppo Find X is its SuperVOOC fast charging. But before that, let's go over the battery life. Now, while most of the hardware of the Lambo Edition is the same as on the regular Find X, the battery capacity isn't - instead of the 3,730mAh of the vanilla model, the special edition only gets 3,400mAh.









That's not really all that bad though - the Galaxy S9+, for example, has only a marginally smaller display and a marginally larger battery. The Pixel 3 XL makes do with a barely noticeable 30mAh more (for an admittedly smaller display made even smaller by the huge notch - we just couldn't help ourselves). Meanwhile, the Xperia XZ3 packs 100mAh less juice than the Oppo, though its display is somewhat smaller.



