Oppo Reno 10x zoom let's put the shark away so I'm pretty sure you
guys have heard of the shark in phone. Been cooking up that's kind of an animal
rights issue isn't it anyways that's this guy right here this is opoos flagship
entry for the year and i must say i'm kind of a fan starting off with design
like most flagships nowadays. The Oppo Reno 10x zoom is clad in glass unlike
most flagships. There is no camera hub on this device the camera module at the
back is flush under that Gorilla Glass 5 protection and Oppo also added this
ceramic little nipple here too they're calling it the Oh doc it's basically
there to protect the glass in front of the camera module from get tings cuffed
and stuff when laid down flat on a surface and it does work you do get some
wobble because of the Oh dot but only if you tap at the top of the device. Our
unit is jet black color and it does look super clean I do prefer the ocean
green color they have like on our unit as the standard we know more. But the
black school too the gradient on these phones go from side to side and I'm
really a fan of this one the way the sheen passes through reminds me of like satin
fabric and I think it's dope in front you get a true full screen display pinhole
just display, one of the main attractions of this device is the pop-up shark
fin, on the fin you can find the front-facing camera speaker grille and front
facing flash that's also where the flash for the rear cameras are.
So do note that if you're using your flashlight that pin is out now
do I dig it I mean after you like it more than the standard pop-up cameras. We've
seen it's different and it's unique and I like that you also get a pass through
speaker grille on the top bezel. Just wanted to mention that if you were wondering
how you take calls so yeah no need to worry about that fin poking. Your ears
for buttons and ports starting on the left side you can find your volume buttons.
Up top aside from the fin there is a noise cancelling mic for speaker, for at
the right you can find a green accent and power button. Lastly at the bottom
you get your hybrid dual SIM plus micro SD card tray USB type-c noise cancelling
mic for calls and 1 out of 2 media speakers.
So far I am a fan of the design choices Oppo made economics are on
point it feels good at the hands without a case, it can get slippery especially
if on a fabric surface the one thing I feel iffy about with this device in
terms of design is the size the length is at 6.30 eight inches and I do find it
to be on the plus size of the smartphone spectrum. You guys might be into that
or not so just thought I'd share moving to display the Reno 10x zoom gets a six
point six inch full HD plus AMOLED panel and it does look good, it isn't the
best panel. I've laid my eyes on in terms of brightness and image quality but
AMOLED plus a big non intrusive display for media consumption the display is
also protected to Gorilla Glass six. So it's great to know that you get really
nice protection from both sides of the phone. I mean it gives me more of a
peace of mind so that's nice you also get display feature here on color OS, it's
called off-screen clock.
I think it would have been nice if you can get some notifications
here as well maybe in a future update. It is nifty to have this thing on if
your main form of biometric security is the in display fingerprint scanner in
my opinion going back to media consumption Netflix, on this thing is just like
eyes glued to screen 24/7 and the best part is to know 3.5 millimeter audio
jack here. But you get a stereo audio setup so finally a true all street smart
phone and the thought about built-in audio hardware too and it is toy the
speaker on this thing it's so loud like did I just buy a smart phone or did I
get a bluetooth speaker as well.
Now let me show you guys how this thing sounds like actually I'll
bring out my S10 here for comparison as well this has stereo speakers. This has
stereo speakers so that's the one thing I did notice is that since they are
stereo speakers it does use the call speaker as the output for the highs and
half the mids and the bottom firing. One gets the other half of the mids and
most of the lows but if we cover the bottom ones you can see. I do honestly
think that the S10 does sound more fall and in terms of quality I mean they're
both tuned by Dolby so that's nice you don't get the dolby enhancement feature
on the oppo like you do an estan. But either way I'm really enjoying these new
speakers so if you were just gonna go on Netflix all day and you're like oh I
only have a 3.5 millimeter audio jack type of ear buds and you don't got your
type C ear buds, do not fret the on-board speaker on this phone is amazing next
up performance for hardware. The Rideau 10x zoom is equipped with a Qualcomm
Snapdragon 855 and an Adreno640 GPU when it comes to configurations like I said
earlier our unit is the eight gigs of ram plus 256 gigs of internal storage
variant for software you get Android nine PI out of the box with color OS six
skinned on top.
I'm not the biggest fan of color OS but it's really not that bad.
I went through the theme store and it just had the slappy dark theme on which
left me feeling like I wish that it had a built-in dark mode to it. I also wish
that the drop-down and settings menu weren't so ios. I mean the Apple influence
did help me a bunch when it came to navigations I switched the gestures and
found that I was way more using the iOS copy/paste gesture configuration. So I
guess it all worked out in the end I did find the three fingers swipe up for
split screen really useful since there really isn't the way to activate. Let's
spin quickly if you're using a gesture based navigation system when it came to
day-to-day tasks like being on social media consuming media and playing a bunch
of games. The Reno 10x zoom has on it like a true flagship no lags, no delay
apps open fast, no complaints. If you're interested in benchmark scores I'll
have them flash on screen.
Now for battery the Reno 10x zoom gets an impressive four thousand
sixty five million power battery capable of 20 watt flash charge in our
standard video loop test. The device lasted a whopping twenty three hours and
three minutes, so yes the Reno 10x zoom can surely last you two days. If you
were pushing it the best thing about it though for me is the inclusion of look,
it literally takes no more than an hour to charge up this 4065 milliamp hour
cell. With the included charger that's bonkers when it comes to biometrics you
get optical facial recognition on here and it does work specially quick for a
pop up camera, It's been my main way of unlocking the device and I didn't find
it to be a problem. I've probably had more iOS and locking the device with the
optical in display a fingerprint scanner but then again take that with a grain
of salt that in display fingerprint scanner is actually real quick compared to
in display scanners of early 2019 and I'd say it works nine times.
Out of ten moving on to the cameras the Reno 10xzoom gets a triple
camera setup that consists of a 48 megapixel main shooter, an 8 megapixel ultra
wide and a 13 megapixel periscopic telephoto lens on the front facing side of
things you can find the 16 megapixel selfie camera in the film. Now it's
interesting to see a periscope camera capable of some lengthy zooms that isn't
on DP 30 Pro from Huawei and truth be told.
Oppo actually they viewed this innovation first at MWC2019 so if
you guys were a fan of that periscope system on the p30 pro but we're kind of
afraid to get the device due to what's been going on with the Huawei X American
trade ban, this could very well be a sound or turn active.
Let us know in the comment section below if you want to see a
camera comparison between the Oppo Reno 10x zoom and the Huawei P 30 pearl
alright let's get into those samples in this first shop we got some food porn
vibes and just look at that detail not to mention this was in the default photo
mode and it automatically got the aperture down to 1.7 so that this standard
shot to get some sweet sweet bokeh in this second shot.
I got a visit art in Thailand over the weekend and I brought their
you know 10xzoom with me so here I am surfing and I do have the dazzle color
option off for all the samples I'm kind of a fan of the color reproduction,
here the colors are vibrant and the skin tone seems to me right exposure is
also perfect here. Now in this shot we're using the ultra wide lens and it isn't
the widest I've used but it gets pretty wide when you compare it to the
standard One X what really got my attention with these shots was. The building
in the background like wow the dynamic range is impressive I thought to keep
zooming into it and then I hit that hybrid 10x zoom at 2x it kind of overexposed
the buildings here I may have been focused on the plants, though so that's why
at 6x it corrects itself. This is 10x now we can see here that the image
quality does take a slight hit compared to the standard focal length but the
quality compared to a digital 10x is unparalleled in this next shot of the
Macari skyline. We kind of get an idea of how the Reno's post-processing works
and to be frank and isn't my favorite but it does have its moment shere we can
see that it likes to up the contrast sharpen and crush the blacks at ad bit
more than I like.
I'm also not a fan of the cooler white balance it tends to favor
making stuff that are green look unnatural and making the shadows come off with
a slightly bluish tint this is the same shot in two weeks the sharpness took a
hit here, but that's fine because details are still intact this is in 6x
focusing on the crane. Now this is once again 10x the image really doesn't look
more musky in comparison to even just the 2x although everything should be fine
as long as you don't pixel peep. Now some of you might not know this but the
Reno10x zoom does get a digital zoom capable of going up to 60 X for those
curious, this is what that looks like it's basically a watercolor mess and the post-processing
didn't even mind to sharpen the image at all. At this point moving to night
mode this photo is on the default photo mode for reference this is with night
mode on again that dynamic range is working its as off year and it pulls
through this shot is taken in a parking lot and just look at those details from
the ceiling. I think it's amazing the camera picked that all up this is with
night mode on I mean the photo didn't actually needed, but I was curious it did
make the initial fluorescent light less overexposed and the images brighter overall
details were well preserved and we also got a boost in saturation. In this last
night mode set I wanted to take things indoors this is again an the default
photo mode this is with night mode on it literally looks like. I turned the
lights on but I swear I did not now to be honest for night mode this isn't the
best device you can get for that but it definitely is still something looking at
portrait mode. Now in this shot subject background separation is very good, it
isn't perfect but I'm totally fine with it either way moving to the front
facing side of things. We have I Rover here and it does a fantastic job especially
for a selfie the photo is highly detailed dynamic range again on point and yeah
it looks good you also get a front-facing flash for when lighting becomes poor
and you just need that well lit selfie when it comes to portrait selfies in
terms of detail it's just as good as the regular selfies for background subject
separation. It may perform a little bit worse compared to rear portraits but it
gets the job done even with harsh backlighting. Although when it comes to more
challenging situations. It may have a little trouble like you see here, it
almost got it perfectly but the tip of the leaf didn't get blurred out and it
could have done a better job with my left shoulder as well. Before we move on
to some video samples I do want to mention that the portrait selfie has this
weird thing going on it tends to detect any face it can find so that makes
sense. Maybe if you're next to someone in the selfie but when people are in the
background just like here it can look really really weird. This doesn't happen
with a rear shooter though our guess is it uses one of the other lenses to take
in depth information the front-facing shooter on the other hand seems to rely
too much on facial recognition. Now I'm not sure if this is a bug that can be
fixed with a software update or we're stuck with this if the latter is the case
you might just want to try your best.
To keep people's faces out of the background when taking portrait
selfies for video you can shoot up to 4k in either 60 years 30 frames per
second the image quality from this thing is something I find very usable like
if you wanted to make vlogs and cinematic shorts with a smartphone then can
handle it I do want to mention that if you want the most stable footage from
this phone you might want to record in full HD because that's when the electronic
image stabilization really come to play.
Now to conclude this review article we got to talk about price the
Reno 10x zoom has been launched locally and officially for our market. The only
configuration available is the 8 gigs of ram buss 256 gigs of internal storage
and it gets a price tag of forty five thousand nine hundred ninety. With that
in mind the one plus seven proof the same configuration is actually cheaper by
three thousand pesos and you might want to cop that instead if you don't need
that periscopic telephoto lens. This leaves myself with one question do I
recommend the Oppo Reno 10x zoom, well if you can afford it you'll be getting a
device can handle your day-to-day tasks easily. Great battery performance,
great cameras, great speakers a peri scope camera and let's not forget the
novelty of that shark fin so what did you guys think of oppo20:19 flagship
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