I've been saying this for years: brands like Samsung and Apple need to pick up the pace when it comes to camera hardware and imaging tech, and the Oppo Find X9 Ultra was the most recent phone to prove that point.While the iPhone 17 Pro Max tops out at around 8x optical zoom, the Find X9 Ultra pushed that to 10x optical zoom, with an option to go up to 20x using sensor crop.It's not even been a week since I moved on from that phone, and I've already tried another device that reinforces the same idea: Apple and Samsung…