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Table of contents The biggest upgrades on the Find X9 Ultra OPPO Find X9 Ultra: Full specs and features OPPO Find X8 Ultra: Full specs and features Side-by-side comparison When OPPO launched the Find X9 Ultra at its headquarters in Chengdu, China, on April 21, 2026, the biggest story was the geography. For the first time since OPPO introduced the Ultra-tier label in 2024, an Ultra-range Find X phone is available outside China. The Find X8 Ultra, which launched a year earlier in April 2025, was never officially released outside China. That global shift changes everything for you as a Nigerian buyer. Both phones are imports for now since there is no official OPPO Nigeria channel for either. However, the X9 Ultra, with confirmed launches in the UK, Europe, and India, will be far easier to source through grey-market vendors than its predecessor ever was. Here is how the two phones compare across every meaningful spec. The biggest upgrades on the Find X9 Ultra OPPO’s tagline for the X9 Ultra is Your Next Camera, and the phone mostly lives up to it. The most significant change over the X8 Ultra is the camera system. Where the X8 Ultra used a 50 MP 1.0-inch Sony LYT-900 main sensor alongside three 50 MP companions, the X9 Ultra moves to a five-camera rear setup led by two 200 MP sensors. These are a Sony LYT-901 main camera and an OmniVision OV52A 3x telephoto. On top of that, OPPO added an industry-first 50 MP 10x optical periscope built around what the company calls a Quintuple Prism Reflection design. Engadget, which tested the phone ahead of launch, called the 1/1.12-inch main sensor the largest 200 MP sensor in a phone yet. Beyond cameras, the X9 Ultra brings several other upgrades: A newer Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, replacing the X8 Ultra’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Battery capacity jumps from 6,100 mAh to 7,050 mAh with a silicon-carbon build OPPO calls the Glacier Battery Display peak brightness rises from 2,500 nits to 3,600 nits, and the refresh rate hits 144 Hz in supported games Android 16 and ColorOS 16 out of the box IP66 added on top of the IP68 and IP69 ratings that the X8 Ultra already had Bluetooth 6.0, 8K video, an O-Log2 log profile with ACES support, a 50 MP autofocus selfie camera, and AirDrop-compatible Quick Share for transfers between your phone and iPhones or Macs OPPO Find X9 Ultra: Full specs and features Image source: The Tech Chap on YouTube 1. Display The X9 Ultra has a 6.82-inch LTPO 2.0 AMOLED panel at a resolution of 3168 x 1440, which works out to 510 pixels per inch. It runs at an adaptive 1-120 Hz refresh rate, with 144 Hz unlocked in select games. Touch sampling sits at 300 Hz. Brightness is rated at 800 nits typical, 1,800 nits in high-brightness mode, and 3,600 nits peak HDR. The panel supports Dolby Vision, HDR Vivid, and HDR10+ with 10-bit colour. PWM dimming runs at 2,160 Hz, the minimum brightness drops to 1 nit, and the top glass is Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2. OPPO uses what it calls an X3 luminescent material with pixel-level gamma correction. 2. Processor, RAM, and storage The X9 Ultra runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 3 nm chip (model SM8850-AC) with two Oryon V3 Phoenix L cores at 4.6 GHz and six Oryon V3 Phoenix M cores at 3.62 GHz. The GPU is an Adreno 840 clocked at 1,200 MHz. RAM is LPDDR5X, available in 12 GB or 16 GB. Storage uses UFS 4.1 in 256 GB, 512 GB, or 1 TB options inside China. For global buyers, OPPO is selling only the 512 GB and 1 TB variants. 3. Battery and charging The Glacier Battery is a 7,050 mAh silicon-carbon cell. It supports 100 W SUPERVOOC wired charging, 50 W AIRVOOC wireless charging, and 10 W reverse wireless charging. The charger also works with 80 W SUPERVOOC, 18 W PD, 18 W QC, and 55 W PPS profiles. OPPO claims up to 31 hours of YouTube playback per charge, though that figure is based on manufacturer lab conditions. 4. Camera system OPPO’s partnership with Hasselblad, the Swedish camera brand whose cameras went to the moon, has been in place since 2022. The X9 Ultra marks the fourth generation of that collaboration, now branded the New-Generation Hasselblad Master Camera System. Hasselblad co-branded the launch event in Chengdu. Video: 8K at 30 fps on both 200 MP sensors; 4K at 30, 60, or 120 fps; 4K Dolby Vision up to 120 fps; 1080p slow motion to 240 fps; 720p slow motion to 480 fps. The O-Log2 log profile supports real-time LUT preview, LUT burn-in, ACES colour management, and custom 3D LUT imports. OPPO also introduced a feature called LUMO, an internal optical zoom processing system that quadruples the pixel count at the 2x and 6x focal lengths. Optional accessories include the Hasselblad Earth Explorer Kit (a grip-case with a 300 mm teleconverter for roughly 13x optical) and the TILTA KHRONOS Kit, which includes ND filters, manual focus handles, and an internal HDMI output. 5. Design and durability The X9 Ultra measures 163.16 x 76.97 mm. Thickness is 8.65 mm for the Canyon Orange version and 9.10 mm for Tundra Umber, with weights of 235 g and 236 g, respectively. The frame is aluminium alloy. The Canyon Orange back is glass; Tundra Umber uses an eco-friendly vegan leather inspired by the Hasselblad X2D 100C Earth Explorer Edition camera. Globally, the phone ships in Tundra Umber and Canyon Orange. Polar Glacier is China-exclusive. The phone carries IP66, IP68, and IP69 ratings, plus Swiss SGS five-star drop and shock certification. There are two physical buttons besides the power and volume keys: a customisable Shortcut Button on the left and a pressure-sensitive Quick Button on the right that doubles as a camera shutter and zoom slider. 6. Software and AI The X9 Ultra ships with Android 16 and ColorOS
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28 avril 2026 Hello , Welcome back to Francophone Weekly by TechCabal, your weekly deep dive into the tech ecosystem across French-speaking Africa. For readers who want to understand Francophone Africa beyond headlines—through markets, startups, and systems. New editions of the newsletter will land directly in your inbox every Tuesday at 12 PM WAT. By default, this newsletter is in French. If you’re reading this in your email inbox, click the “Read in English” button below to switch to the English version. If you’re reading on our website, you can either click the button below or toggle the language selector at the top right-hand side of the page to view the English edition. Read in English A minuit, quand les cliniques sont fermées et les salles d’attente vides, une femme à Abidjan tape une question sur son téléphone. Elle veut savoir pourquoi ses règles sont en retard, ce que signifie une douleur qu’elle ne sait pas nommer, une inquiétude qu’elle porte en silence depuis des semaines. Elle n’écrit pas à une amie. Elle ne fait pas défiler un groupe Facebook en espérant une réponse. Elle parle à Kiko — l’assistant de santé basé sur l’intelligence artificielle de La Ruche Health, disponible sur WhatsApp, vingt-quatre heures sur vingt-quatre, gratuitement. Ce n’est pas un cas extrême. C’est le cas d’usage central. Depuis son lancement en 2022, La Ruche Health, une start-up spécialisée dans les technologies de la santé basée à Abidjan, affirme que a répondu à plus de 500 000 questions de santé via Kiko, facilité plus de 5 000 téléconsultations payées avec des spécialistes vérifiés, et constitué une base de patients dans dix pays — sans un seul cabinet, une seule salle d’attente, ni un seul carnet d’ordonnances. Quatre-vingt-dix-huit pourcent de ces interactions se font sur WhatsApp. L’entreprise a été fondée par Rory Assandey, PDG, et Benjamin Sasu, directeur technique — deux cofondateurs qui ont bâti leur MVP ensemble pendant plus d’un an avant de se rencontrer en personne pour la première fois dans un couloir d’aéroport. Ce qu’ils ont construit depuis est l’un des produits de santé grand public les plus discrètement importants d’Afrique de l’Ouest francophone. 1. Un système bâti sur un vide Source de l’image : Getty Images via iStockphoto Le problème que résout La Ruche Health n’est pas subtil. En 2023, la Côte d’Ivoire comptait environ 0,2 médecin pour 1 000 habitants—bien en deçà du ratio recommandé par l’OMS—et près de 80 % de ces médecins sont concentrés à Abidjan. Pour le reste du pays, les soins spécialisés ne sont pas lents ni coûteux. Ils sont, en pratique, absents. Le tableau de la santé maternelle rend cela concret. Le ratio de mortalité maternelle de la Côte d’Ivoire s’élève à environ 480 décès pour 100 000 naissances vivantes — plus de trois fois la moyenne mondiale de 197. L’Afrique de l’Ouest et l’Afrique centrale représentent collectivement plus de la moitié de tous les décès maternels à l’échelle mondiale, selon le rapport régional 2025 de l’UNICEF. Dans l’ensemble de l’Afrique de l’Ouest francophone, le taux de prévalence contraceptive moderne reste compris entre 13 % et 27 %, avec un besoin non satisfait moyen en contraception de 27 % — encore plus élevé chez les femmes non mariées, selon une recherche publiée dans Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. En Afrique de l’Ouest, environ quatre femmes enceintes sur dix n’effectuent toujours pas les quatre consultations prénatales recommandées, selon une analyse multipays des enquêtes démographiques et de santé menées entre 2015 et 2022. La situation de l’assurance maladie aggrave le tableau. La Côte d’Ivoire a introduit la Couverture Maladie Universelle (CMU) en 2014, mais son adoption est restée limitée. Les données de La Ruche sont sans appel : 96 % de leurs patients payants ne bénéficient d’aucune couverture d’assurance et règlent leurs factures entièrement de leur poche. Chaque consultation représente ainsi une dépense discrétionnaire dans un pays où, selon les estimations de la Banque mondiale, 36 % de la population vivait en dessous du seuil de pauvreté correspondant au revenu intermédiaire inférieur (4,2 dollars par jour) en 2025. C’est dans ce vide que Rory Assandey a construit la plateforme à laquelle il pensait depuis 2015 — forgée, dès le début, par ce qu’il a vu en grandissant. « Mon père conduisait lui-même les femmes à la maternité — parce que pour beaucoup de familles vivant à dix kilomètres de là, sans transport fiable ni route pour accéder aux soins, son camion faisait la différence entre un accouchement sûr et une tragédie. » — Rory Assandey, PDG Sa mère dirigeait une équipe de sages-femmes. Son père créait la prise de conscience et construisait le chemin pour l’atteindre. « Ensemble, ils formaient un système complet, » a dit Assandey. « Ma mère et son équipe sont le réseau de spécialistes de santé vérifiés — désormais disponibles en ligne. Mon père, c’est Kiko et notre plateforme de télémédecine — qui créent la prise de conscience, établissent la confiance et orientent les patients vers les professionnels qui peuvent les aider. On a juste construit l’infrastructure pour le faire à grande échelle. » Ce que les femmes demandent quand personne ne regarde L’intuition produit au cœur de La Ruche Health est d’une simplicité trompeuse : les gens parlent de leur corps d’une manière radicalement différente quand ils ne se sentent pas jugés. Les données de Kiko pour 2025 le montrent concrètement. Sur un échantillon de trois mois, 31 % des questions concernaient le cycle menstruel, 23 % la grossesse, 21 % la contraception et 21 % le soutien émotionnel — les moments de santé fondamentaux de la vie reproductive d’une femme, systématiquement mal desservis par les soins en présentiel dans des contextes marqués par la stigmatisation, le genre des soignants, le coût et la géographie. La première raison de consultation payée reflète cette réalité : 34 % concernent la grossesse et le post-partum, la gynécologie et la dermatologie représentant chacune 20 % de plus. La base d’utilisateurs est composée à 82,4 % de femmes, dont 45 % ont entre 25 et 34 ans. Pour que cela fonctionne, Sasu a dû faire un choix technique délibéré : Kiko ne pouvait pas
Read MoreDodai, an Ethiopia-based electric mobility company that focuses on electric two-wheelers, has closed its $13 million Series A funding round to expand its electric motorbike and battery-swapping network across Addis Ababa. The round includes $8 million in equity and $5 million in debt, with participation from Value Chain Innovation Fund, UTokyo Innovation Platform Co., Nagase, Persistent Energy, For Seasons, CBC Co., Ltd, Inclusion Japan (ICJ), and debt financing from British International Investment (BII). The funding comes as Ethiopia positions itself as one of Africa’s most aggressive electric vehicle markets. In 2024, the government banned the import of private internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles and expanded that ban to include gasoline and diesel trucks in 2025. That policy has accelerated adoption, with the country now recording around 100,000 electric vehicles on its roads, according to its Ministry of Transport and Logistics. “Ethiopia is emerging as one of Africa’s most compelling frontier markets for the clean mobility transition, where the right capital can unlock outsized impact and long-term value,” said Leslie Maasdorp, CEO of British International Investment (BII). “BII’s investment will support Dodai to scale critical e-mobility and battery-swapping infrastructure, and accelerate the development of a commercial market for electric motorbikes.” Founded in 2023 by Sasaki, Dodai locally assembles electric motorbikes and batteries, and operates a battery-swapping infrastructure that allows drivers to replace depleted batteries. The company, which raised $7 million in 2024, is building a model in a market attracting competition from local and Chinese manufacturers like the Belayneh Kinde Group (BKG) and Yadea. Dodai is betting on its integrated model of combining local assembly with battery-swapping infrastructure to reduce charging friction for riders. Since its launch, the company said it has locally assembled and deployed over 2,000 electric motorbikes. Dodai’s new funding will be used to scale its battery-swapping and e-bike network, as the company aims to set up 30 battery-swapping stations across Addis Ababa and reach 3,000 users over the next 12 months. “This funding will help take us from early traction to real scale,” said Yuma Sasaki, CEO and Founder of Dodai. “We’ve proven the model in Addis Ababa—now we’re building the network and infrastructure needed to make electric mobility the default.” Over the next three years, the company plans to scale to 30,000 users and 1,000 battery-swapping stations across Addis Ababa, before expanding into cities like Abidjan, Kinshasa, Accra, Dar es Salaam, and Cairo from 2028, exporting its model to other high-growth urban markets across the continent. “We chose Ethiopia because that’s where the opportunity to build from first principles really exists,” said Sasaki. “This raise allows us to double down on that bet—and show what the future of mobility in African cities can look like.”
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