First flagship camera with dual 200 MP periscope telephoto camera on the horizon

Oppo broke new ground with the Find X7 Ultra and its dual-periscope telephoto lens. The current Oppo Find X8 Ultra also features two periscope modules for 2.8x and 6x optical zoom, but Oppo abandoned this concept in this year's Find X9 Pro, switching to a triple camera with a 200 MP telephoto lens, which is also common among its competitors. However, the Oppo Find X9 Ultra is expected to revive the dual periscope telephoto system in an improved form soon.

Looking far ahead into the future, Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station claims in a recent Weibo post that a potential Oppo Find X10 Ultra prototype will probably not go into mass production until 2027 as long as the project is not scrapped beforehand. According to the post, Oppo is currently experimenting with a dual 200 MP periscope telephoto system consisting of a 1/1.3-inch sensor and a 1/1.12-inch sensor. In addition to a classic Samsung sensor such as the ISOCELL HP2, the sensor sizes point to the new Sony 200 MP sensor, which is expected to launch in early 2026 as the LYT-910 and is also expected in the Vivo X300 Ultra.

While Xiaomi will likely equip the Xiaomi 17 Ultra with a true optical zoom camera with variable focal length, at least in one model variant, Oppo seems to prefer to continue using two periscope telephoto lenses for the time being, which are becoming larger and larger and have more and more megapixels. However, two 200 MP sensors are expected to appear sooner, namely on the Vivo X300 Ultra, which is expected to be the only camera flagship to combine a 200 MP main camera with a 200 MP telephoto lens when it launches in early 2026.