Wan Nurul
11 hours ago
Oppo put the Find X10 series on sale in Malaysia this week, priced from RM4,599, with up to triple 200MP Hasselblad cameras and an 8,000mAh battery. That is proper flagship money, so I am curious how many people here still pay the launch price on day one. The calendar makes the timing awkward. 11.11 is about two and a half weeks away, and the payday sale window most of the big marketplaces are running closes on 28 October. Buy at launch and you have the phone in your hand, but you also get to watch the listings move for the rest of the quarter. What I want to know is where the line sits. If you tracked the previous Find X from launch to its first 11.11, how much did the street price really move in those first two months? And do the launch bundles ever come close to covering that gap, or do they just look generous on the day?
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Check which storage tier that starting figure is for before you compare it with anything. The number in the headline is always the smallest one, and the unit the shops actually keep on the shelf is the middle tier that runs a few hundred more.
If your current phone barely makes it to dinner time, the battery on this one is the reason to stop waiting. Three weeks of charging twice a day has its own cost and it does not show up in any comparison table.
I wait for the first couple of software updates on any new series. The camera processing on launch firmware is never the version people rave about three months later, and a flagship that shoots too warm is not something you can return.
Set a reminder for the midnight opening on 11.11 instead of arguing about it. On flagship listings the real movement happens in the first hour, and by lunchtime the voucher stack that made it look cheap has usually been used up.
Does the Malaysian set get the same Hasselblad tuning as the global one? One of the earlier generations shipped locally with a different processing build and you could see it in low light without zooming in.
The thing that decides it for me is the trade-in quote. If the shop locks a decent value for your old phone at launch and it drops with every software cycle in between, waiting can cost you more than the phone saves.