The flagship smartphone race has become a little too polite, especially when it comes to mobile photography. There was a time when the conversation revolved around megapixel counts, sensor count, and wild zoom numbers. But over the last few years, that energy has cooled.

The biggest brands no longer behave like they are trying to shock the market. Companies like Apple and Samsung now focus more on refining image processing and fine-tuning the formula than on pushing camera hardware into genuinely outrageous territory.

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Then a phone like the Oppo Find X9 Ultra shows up and reminds you what old-school flagship ambitions used to look like.

And yes, it is as ridiculous as it sounds. There are not one, but two 200MP cameras here.…