Nothing founder Carl Pei said a few months ago: RAM is already the most expensive component of new phones. We are fully immersed in an unprecedented memory crisis and we have already said how this cost increase has resulted in cheap mobile phones. On the one hand, companies are being forced off the wagon. On the other hand, the prices of entry-level, low-range and mid-range mobile phones are improving compared to the previous generation without specifications.
However, a leak points to a new category of victim in this whole thing: the most premium range of mobile phones. And the Oppo Find X10 Ultra will be in the spotlight.
In short. Our colleagues at Xataka Móvil echo the digital chat station, a leaker who dropped on Weibo that an “Ultra” model of the current generation mobile phone will be held back due to the state of the components. He didn’t say the brand or model, but Android Authority has hinted that the mystery model left by the wayside is the Oppo Find X10 Ultra.
flagship. The Find X10 and Find The Pro Max have particularly impressive photographic capabilities, but a “superflagship” model was expected. Following the pattern of the current generation, Oppo will prepare the Ultra model in early 2027, ready to compete against the most ambitious of both Xiaomi and, above all, Vivo.
Obviously, we are talking about leaks, but the mobile phone was aimed at a 200 megapixel main camera, a 200 megapixel wide angle camera, a 3x telephoto lens also at 200 megapixels and another 10x optical telephoto lens at 50 megapixels. It will come to compete for the photographic reign in 2027, but with a find
The Find X9 Ultra arrived in April this year for 1,699 euros, while the aforementioned X10 Pro Max came in at just 1,799 euros. This will force prices to increase significantly and it is easy to not compensate for margins at a certain point, especially when industry sources indicate that the memory crunch and component prices will not ease in the medium term.
‘Ultra’ case. Again, this is a leak, but we must remember that we have had conflicting signals about the ‘Ultra’ mobile phone for months. In August, leaks indicated that Xiaomi had scrapped plans for the Xiaomi 18 Ultra, with Oppo and Vivo continuing, but without selling their models outside of China. The news provides a bit more context about this scenario, but, again, this is a leak and the companies haven’t confirmed anything.
The crisis does not stop pressing. Whatever it is, and whether it arrives or not, it’s clear that the situation has put smartphone makers’ plans in check. Samsung is one of the culprits for this situation as it shifted its factories towards making HBM memory for data centers leaving less RAM for mobile phones. TM Roh, one of the leaders of the South Korean company, has already warned that we’re facing the worst memory price situation in history, and analyzes from Counterpoint and IDC point to annual shipments we haven’t seen since 2013.
The cheap mobile phone has been hit with death, Asus quickly fell off the wagon, nothing has already said that there is no flagship for 2026 and Samsung itself has seen how its mobile division is suffering the consequences. In fact, it’s estimated that it will cut production of its Galaxy A range by 20% next quarter, so it doesn’t matter if Oppo finds a
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