Author: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5
Review: I really like this phone. It comes with a case and protective screen cover so you really don't need to buy anything else to be able to use it. I love the fact it has facial recognition as I've never had that before. The camera is simply awesome and takes some really good photos, even in the dark which I've never known from a phone before. I would never have even looked at this if it weren't for my son having bought one a year ago. He took some slow motion videos of my owl flying experience which were beyond impressive. You would have thought he had used a professional camera with separate lense. It wasn't expensive either!!
Author: Patrick
Rating: 4
Review: Overall, I'm happy with the phone, but bearing in mind that I’m upgrading from a 5 year-old phone... (Samsung A3 2016), and it costs nearly twice as much, you'd expect massive improvements in every area, it is disappointing in a number areas (I originally gave it 3 stars but after living with it for a year, I'm upping it to 4 stars, because basically I like this phone. Also, it's come down in price considerably since I bought mine.) See my comments below for the details of the pros and cons from my personal perspective. I Like: - Glass-backed not plastic (but only on the silver version) - Dual Sim - Super-fast 65w charging. - Eye-comfort option on the screen. - It’s a good size without being excessively large - Fingerprint and face recognition very fast and effective. - Factory fitted screen protector - 3.5 mm jack - Wide angle lens for camera. - Front camera hole is very discrete. - Nice look and feel. - Fast overall performance. - The 64 megapixel camera is defaulted to a lesser resolution (to keep photo size down) - I feel it’s a nice looking phone with a nice feel, and the silver finish looks almost like polished metal in some light conditions. - Oppo Customer Support has been responsive when needed. I Don’t Like: - In the normal mode the home screen has no 'Apps' Folder so everything just appears automatically, if there are pre-installed Apps you don't want to see your home screen pages, you must copy them to the 'tools' folder. - the volume settings erratically turn themselves right down sometimes which leads to missed calls. - frame/bezel looks like metal but is in fact plastic I think. - Loud speaker sound quality seems less good compared to my old Samsung A3. - Flashlight is considerably dimmer than on my old Samsung. - Android Auto is pre-installed but apparently there is no way to launch it. However I raised this with Oppo who informed me that you can download 'Android Auto for phone Screens' thin in-built install I guess only works if you have a very recent car. - User interface on Settings, Widgets, etc. looks and feels rather low-end, it’s better on my 5 year old Samsung A3 2016 and generally there is not much configurability, basic settings seem difficult to locate. - 3.5 mm jack is on the left-hand side at the bottom of the phone, thus interfering with typical desktop phone stands, would be ideal to right next to the charging port. - The coating on the glass back makes it feel like plastic. The coating also reflects various colours in certain lights (maybe some people would like this) I would have have preferred a straightforward shiny metallic look. Overall the phone feels quite nice in your hand. A high-end look and feel is v. important to me personally and I absolutely reject plastic constructed phones, which is quite limiting these days. - Icons on notifications bar, and pull-down notifications are excessively tiny, making it difficult to see them, or to hit them easily, this seems not configurable. (Android 12 recently rolled out has improved this somewhat) - Icons generally have no choice or configurability unless you sign up for a 3rd party app. - The front camera hole, positioned at left side, whilst discrete, gives a misalignment which makes close up selfie taking a little awkward, and also easy to partially obscure the camera with your thumb. - Poor use of screen space – widgets and icons don’t use of about 5 mm of space at each side of the screen– given that having a larger phone is already irksome, you’d think that manufacturers would optimise screen space usage as an absolute priority... - Minimal water proofing ip52 I believe (by now I’d expect to see this feature at this price) - No contactless charging. - No SD card slot, but 128 Gb should be plenty I guess. - SAR emissions seem to be on the high side. - Standard SMS app seems very minimalistic, not a nice look and feel. Same for most of the inbuilt apps. - I took an indoor photo in artificial light with the wide-angle lens and the result is very grainy. - Comparing an indoor artificial light photo between my Samsung A3 2016, and the Oppo, there is little discernible difference in quality, expect perhaps Oppo image is somewhat brighter. - Can't find any options for voice commands on the Camera. As I say, quality look & feel is very important to me, and given that most phones are technically competent these days – it becomes a key differentiating factor – see how Apple have finally got it right with the iPhone 12. I would probably have bought a mid-range Samsung if they offered glass construction but they don't anymore. Or, at my price point, an LG Velvet (though a bit on the large side) - which seemed to have everything I would want - but LG are closing down their mobile phone business. Hopefully, Oppo or someone else will step up to the space vacated LG, by providing a mid-range phone that gives quality look and feel + all the important features at an affordable price.
