The current trend in the smartphone industry is to deliver maximum screen area in a small footprint. In this pursuit, the manufacturers have thinned down the bezels. Some have moved the fingerprint sensor on the back, while others have placed the biometrics under the screen.

The Oppo Find X's supercool pop-up camera and beautiful, all-screen design make it the best-looking phone of 2018. It's also one of the best phones this year, period.

The Oppo Find X has a beautiful design, a great camera and long battery life with fast charging; It also has top-of-the-line features such as 3D face scanning for unlocking.

There's no wireless charging and it's not waterproof; It can get a little hot when gaming, and isn't yet sold outside Asia.

At first glance, the Oppo Find X looks like the most beautiful Samsung Galaxy S9 you've ever seen, with a massive display and gorgeous curved sides. But this slick, futuristic phone has an innovative identity that barrels it past the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus: a true all-screen display with a module for...

The Oppo Find X has a beautiful design, a great camera and long battery life with fast charging; It also has top-of-the-line features such as 3D face scanning for unlocking

There's no wireless charging and it's not waterproof; It can get a little hot when gaming, and isn't yet sold outside Asia

Oppo's Find X offers a refreshing new approach to the smartphone that maximises screen real estate by intelligently hiding the camera until you need it. It is a bold device that's a pleasure to use.

Slick design; Massive screen real estate; Stealth camera appears when you need it; Great battery life; Fast charging; Impressive camera; Generous onboard storage and RAM

Not water resistant; No NFC; No expandable storage; Onboard speakers weak

design; haptics; performance; good endurance; beautiful OLED panel

ColorOS; SIM card problems; no NFC; equipment; speaker

When all is said and done, 2018 will probably end up being looked back upon as the year that Chinese brands like Oppo and Huawei stopped playing catch-up to global titans like Apple and Samsung.

All-screen look is gorgeous; Great performance

No wireless charging or waterproofing; Hidden camera is a dust-magnet

OPPO is defying the competition with a new flagship: the Find X. This is a smartphone that's impressive at first glance thanks to its innovative design, and furthermore, the Chinese brand has always stood out by daring to propose something new with its devices.

Innovative design; Fast charging; Good photos in good lighting conditions; Unlocks with fast and precise face recognition; Dual SIM

High price; No wireless charging; No IP6x certification; Non-expandable memory; No NFC; Mono speaker

Oppo may not be a brand with which you're all too familiar, but its success in Asian markets has seen it become one of the top smartphone sellers in the world. Now, it's making a splash in Europe with the unlike-anything-else Find X.

Stunning glass design; Pop-up camera mechanism is cool; Bezel-less screen is a surefire head turner; Battery life is superb

Software is overly restrictive; Camera only decent rather than great; Not very durable and prone to dust; Horribly expensive

A few weeks ago I reviewed the Oppo RX17 Pro , which I found to be impressive, offering long battery life and extremely fast charging alongside a range of other enticing features. Indeed, so impressive was that £479 (inc.

Smart pop-up camera system; Great 6.4-inch AMOLED screen; 256GB of internal storage; Some nice software tweaks; Very fast charging

No fingerprint sensor; No NFC or IR blaster; No 3.5mm headset jack; Disappointing speaker; Slippery in the hands; No reading mode; No wireless charging; No IP dust/water resistance rating

A smart way of ditching the notch makes Oppo’s flagship feel like something from 2040. You pay a premium for the fancy features, but it’ll make you grin every time that camera pops out to say hello

Pop-up camera is as slick as you like; Performance and storage on tap; Great battery keeps going

Software a bit on the shonky side; Camera isn’t up there with the best flagships; It’ll leave a serious dent in your wallet