Oppo F1 Plus, the successor of Oppo F1, released this month. Oppo F1 Plus is very slim with a 6.6mm thickness. Also, they tried to use the Selfie trend for their sales with a 16MP camera in the front while the back keeps a 13MP rear camera. The device is also marketed and advertised as “Selfie Expert” in the media. Comparing to its previous version, Oppo F1, this new F1 Plus got kind of interesting additional features.
The additional features such as quick charging, fast fingerprint sensor, 4G and others are impressive in the specs. The hardware, RAM and battery performance are the primary things to be checked in a smartphone followed by the design and camera.
Oppo F1 Plus Review: Design and Build
Like many other mid-range smartphones, Oppo F1 Plus also got its design inspiration from the iPhones. Oppo always makes their phones gives a premium look and feel. Oppo F1 Plus also follows the premium trend. It is very sleek and thin and also light weight. It weighs just 145 grams and have a thickness of 6.6mm. The metal build is the one mainly gives us the premium feel.
On the rear side, on the top left, there is a rear camera with an LED flash and the Oppo brand logo located in the middle of the rear side. On the left side of the device, volume rockers are located while the right side has the Power button and dual SIM tray. On the bottom, there is the micro USB port and 3.5mm headphone jack.
Oppo F1 Plus Review: Display
The screen size is 5.5 inch with a screen resolution of 1920 X 1080 pixels. The Full HD AMOLED display is protected by the Corning Gorilla Glass 4. The protection factor is to be noted here. So, many of the low-priced smartphones not having any protective feature like Corning Gorilla Glass 4. That is also one of the reasons for the low price.
The display is sharp with 401 pixels per inch. This gives the high-level clarity and sharpness to the smartphone. There is bezel all over the screen on the sides. It is not disturbing the screen. Also, the viewing angles are great.
Oppo F1 Plus Review : Hardware and Performance
Oppo F1 Plus has a MediaTek Helio P10 Octa-core processor with maximum clock speed of 2.0GHz. The CPU is supported by the Mali-T860 MP2 GPU. There is a 4GB of RAM included. This combination of CPU and RAM are more than enough for many of the heavy users. Almost 99% of the Android games will run on this hardware without any issue. Also this phone will fit for power users.
The Internal storage is 64GB in this device. This is a dream storage space for much mid-range Android smartphone users. The storage can also be expanded up to 128GB extra through micro SD card.
The software running on this device is Android 5.1 Lollipop skinned by Color OS 3.0. This is one con we are seeing many smartphone brands who are using their skins and custom OS over the Android. So, Oppo users have to wait for some time to get the experience of Android 6.0 Marshmallow in their devices.
Overall, there are a lot of RAM, internal storage, and powerful CPU-GPU processors. They would bring great performance without any doubt.
Oppo F1 Plus Review: Camera
The camera in the rear has a 13MP sensor with single LED flash. It has aperture f/2.2 to get more clear focus. The expert opinions are so far good about the rear camera. Also, the track record of Oppo saying the same.
Coming to the front, here is the surprise for Selfie lovers. In the front, you got a 16MP camera. This is one such great feature camera for selfies. It seems Oppo gave special treatment to the selfie camera, as this is their main selling key point.
It is specially upgraded from the regular cameras. They included Beautify 4.0 in the front camera app. The beautify settings bring brilliant changes to the selfies with more clarity. It removes the unwanted details like red spots, wrinkles, dull looks and produce them in high clarity.
Oppo F1 Plus Review: Battery
To power the Oppo F1 Plus, which has an Octa-core processor and 4GB of RAM, there is a non-removable 2850mAh battery. The battery test shows the continuous heavy usage of the device drains the full battery in 13 hours. Hence, the battery can power the device for more than a 24 hours for regular use.
There is a quick charger cable provided by the manufacturer. This helps to charge the battery to get 60% in 30 minutes. The regular USB cable for charging won’t do the quick charge trick. So, you have to carry the special charger cable.
Oppo F1 Plus Review: Other Features
There are some quite notable features such as faster fingerprint sensor, fast battery charging, and active noise cancellation is included. And the other usual features such as dual SIM, 4G LTE, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, etc. are available in this device.
Oppo F1 Plus Review: Verdict
Finally, there are a lot of pros in Oppo F1 Plus. There is an Octa-core processor, 4GB of RAM with plenty of default internal storage of 64GB, powerful performing battery with quick charge, 16MP front camera, Corning Gorilla glass and a faster fingerprint sensor.
So, the deciding factor is value for money. Oppo F1 Plus priced at 389 Euros in Europe, 299 pounds in the UK and Rs.26,990 in India. The price is comparable to the other smartphones in the mid-range segment.
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