Spec me a modern Android Phone with 5x Telephoto Zoom

[Alexrose1uk]

Hi Guys,
Had been holding out on upgrading my phone, as I was quite happy with my current one (Oppo Find X2 Pro), however the volume up button seems to have just gone and as I am now well over the 2 year mark and out of contract, I cannot see much point in attempting a probably expensive repair, and it is probably a hint from above to get moving and just get a newer phone!

The difficulty comes with options, I'd like something new and powerful, but I have quite liked having the 512GB storage and 5x Telephoto zoom lens on this camera, and the zoom lens in particularly seems to have fallen out of favour, with Oppo themselves not offering it on newer models. I'm quite happy to look later, but if anyone knows off the top of their heads any current gen phones or phones about to come out that have a 5x Telephoto Zoom or better, that'd be appreciated.

I've got quite used to having the 5x optical zoom, and don't really want to sacrifice it and go back to a 3x or similar, as it's enabled me to get some great wildlife shots etc whilst using the phone!

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Pinching to zoom isn't what I'm after, I'm after raw optical zoom over digital zoom. You (all else being equal) get much clearer, detailed distance photos with a longer optical zoom lens (which digital could then be thrown on top of if needed), than via a shorter zoom length with digital zoom thrown on top to get to the same zoom level.

Sometimes it's simply not possible to get closer to a subject (wild animal for example) and the longer optical zoom typically gives a much better result than digital zoom either cutting a chunk out of a larger picture or interpolating the data etc.

After getting use to a 5x optical zoom it's hard to go back.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Thanks, didn't know you could filter that way, will take a look later! Usually a few phones coming out across this next month or two so a good time to upgrade I guess!