[OPPO Find X5 Pro General] carburano:
OPPO FIND X5 REVIEW: A silky phone experience with few issues CHAPTER 2​

After a month from the unboxing of my Oppo Find X5 as an OPPO brand ambassador I'm ready to share my full review. It will be mainly a user experience focused analysis.

Oppo Find X5 is an affordable flagship phone compared to the premium-flagship OPPO Find X5 Pro. The main differences are:

- Oppo Find X5: v6,5" LPTS FullHD+ AMOLED Display with Adaptive refresh rate (60, 90, 120Hz) and a maximum brightness of 1000 nits vs Oppo Find X5 Pro: 6,7" LPTO 2.0 QHD+ AMOLED Display with Adaptive refresh rate (1-120Hz) and a maximum brightness of 1300 nits

- Oppo Find X5: SOC Snapdragon 888 (2021) and 8 GB of RAM vs Oppo Find X5 Pro: SOC Snapdragon 8 Gen. 1 (2022) and 12GB of RAM

- Oppo Find X5: 4800mAh battery vs Oppo Find X5 Pro: 5000mAh Battery

- Oppo Find X5: 2 axis OIS on main camera and standard lenses vs Oppo Find X5 Pro: 5 axis OIS with glass lenses

- Oppo Find X5: Charging with SuperVOOC 80W and AirVOOC 30W vs Oppo Find X5 Pro: Charging with SuperVOOC 80W and AirVOOC 50W

Since Oppo Find X5 costs 999€ and X5 Pro costs 1299€, the question is: Do you think is necessary to pay 300€ more to go Pro?

REVIEW TOPICS AND LINKS (mandatory since XDA doesn't support more then 40 images per post)

CHAPTER 1 - Build Quality, Display, Haptics & Audio, Performance and Gaming

CHAPTER 2 - Battery and Charging, Color OS Features and Camera

PART 5 - Battery and S7uperVOOC 80W 🔋​

With 4800mAh Battery and the SuperVOOC 80W charger OPPO Find X5 is a solid performer. As soon as the software learns your habits in few days, the battery life is absolutely satisfactory.

I've always used the smartphone at 120Hz with 2 Email accounts, 2 Telegram accounts, Whatsapp, Bluetooth, GPS and NFC always active and mixed 4G - Wifi connectivity.

On standard usage days I have always reached 3 hours of active display with about 40% remaining battery which led me to charge in the afternoon of the next day.

With a more intense use you could arrive at night with a 10/15% remaining.

But if one charge is not enough, the SuperVOOC 80W charger will come to your rescue, allowing you to have an additional 25% in only 8 minutes of charging and to complete the charge from 0 to 100 in about 40 minutes. A feature that could really change the relationship between users and battery anxiety.

There is also 30W wireless charging (with the appropriate AirVOOC charger, otherwise 15W) and the possibility of reverse wireless charging.

😠 Color OS energy consumption management favors battery life over multitasking and punctuality of notifications.

To receive notifications on time and not to allow apps to close in the background, you need to disable energy savings, enable automatic start for apps and in some cases even block apps in the multitasking menu.

I didn't particularly like the limit of 7 apps max to be locked in memory and 20 apps max to start automatically.

Using dozens of home automation and home security apps and many messaging apps, I've soon reached those limits and had to give up some apps.

I would have liked to have been able to configure more apps or have a toggle to disable these limitations at the cost of a shorter battery life (also thanks to the presence of the SuperVOOC charger).

PART 6 - Software and Color OS 12.1 💽​

At the time of this review I'm using OPPO Find X5 with Color OS 12.1 (based on Android 12) build number CPH2307_11_A_13 and February 2022 Security patch.

During this month I've not yet been received any updates and surely the release speed of the security patches is not on par with Google or Samsung (both on my Pixel 6 Pro and on the Galaxy S22 Ultra I already received the April security patches).

Although, I can say that the Color OS is a really good UI: fast, stable, complete, with many exclusive features and some minor bugs related to Dark Mode (some apps are not perfectly adapted to show text and elements with Black Backgrounds) and some glitches with the notification menu (appearing on top of other apps also with shelf closed).

In addition to the features already mentioned to facilitate one-handed use, it is important to mention:

Smart Sidebar: a compact control panel in which you can add your favorite apps or access to quick features and let you open mini floating apps.

Flexible Windows: my favorite one! It allows you to open any app in a floating window to optimize multitasking. Apps can be hidden on either side, resized and used in the window. Really useful!

Color OS also shines with the graphic customization of the UI.

In the Personalizations settings you can customize almost everything: Wallpaper, Always on Display design and widgets, icons shape, display and fonts size, fingerprint animations but my favourites customization features are Wallpaper Color Picker and Edge Lighting.

Wallpaper Color Picker allows you to replicate something like the new Material You arrived on Pixel Phones with android 12.

It allows you to manually select the colors with which you want to customize UI elements but you can't theme the icons or dynamically change the color of the widget based on the portion of the wallpaper where it is located.

Edge Lighting feature is simply amazing. I don't use the always on display on any of my smartphones and I really miss the good old LED notification light. Edge Lighting can replicate this feature illuminating the edges of the screen with the color chosen in the settings as soon as you'll receive a notification.

Another cool feature of Color OS is Multi-Screen Connect, it uses the USB Type C 3.1 with video output to mirror your phone on your PC and letting use it with your mouse and keyboard.

To start using it you'll need to download PC Connect client on your PC and then activate it from the Multi-screen connect toggle from quick setting. It can be useful to send message or check your favourites apps directly from PC. It can also sync notifications and clipboards across devices.

Multi-Screen Connect is not as advanced as Samsung DeX or Motorola Ready For, but I'm glad to see the development of features that allow a convergence between smartphone and PC.

PART 7- Camera 📷​

And last but not the least... let's talk about camera performance.

As I stated in my unboxing, OPPO Find X5 shares almost all the features with the Pro model except for 5-axis OIS (Find X5 got a 2-axis OIS) and a slight less lighter lense on main sensor (f/1.8 vs f/1.7).

The sensors are: 32MP selfie camera with Sony IMX615 sensor, 50MP Main and Ultrawide/Macro camera with Sony IMX766 Sensor, 13MP Telephoto camera with Isocell S5K3M5 Sensor

The main innovations of the Find X5 series are two:

the first is undoubtedly the new MariSilicon X NPU (Neural Processing Unit) used instead of Qualcomm ISP which promises important improvements especially in night photos and videos through a 20-bit ultra-high dynamic range, real-time RAW processing and RGBW Pro Advanced Mode.

the second is the beginning of the collaboration with Hasselblad, the well-known professional brand which has worked on the color calibration optimization, a dedicated Pro mode and has brought some goodies such as the Xpan mode that reproduces the famous Hasselblad 65mm shots.

Camera app is super complete with any kind of feature you can imagine: Portrait mode, Night mode, Pano, Xpan, Pro Mode, Text scanner, Time Laps, Stickers, Many effects, Dual View Video, Time lapse and Slow-Mo.

Also you can activate IA mode for scene recognition and HDR settings. Regarding HDR I have to report some artifacts and halos in photos with moving subjects. I am sure it will be fixed shortly with a software update.

Marisilicon X NPU has also brought the possibility to take 10-bit color shots, but not all the gallery apps on Windows or Mac can read this format.

✅ CHECK ALL MY PHOTOS ON GOOGLE PHOTO ✅

Main camera offers daily natural looking shots with good dynamic range e good details. It is not on pair with the similar priced Pixel 6 Pro, especially for exposure management on darker spots, but the photos are really really good and natural. Sometimes colours are a little bit flat but shots are very natural and this is not necessarily a bad thing. You can also shot at 50MP but I prefer binned photo for better dynamic range and HDR management.

Click on the thumbnails to view full resolution shots:

Photos are full of details also in night mode: MariSilicon X shines here and the main difference with Pixel 6 pro is the shutter speed of the photo. The Pixel 6 pro takes 3/4 seconds while OPPO Find X5 takes about a second and this involves a smaller amount of light captured which is reflected in a less artificial, more stabilized and more natural result.

🔝 Ultra wide camera is simply the best one I personally tested since I've been using smartphone. It shares the same sensor with the main camera so you can expect the same level of details and color profile. It blows away Pixel 6 pro and Galaxy S22 Ultra Ultra wide camera in both day and night photos, with almost no distortion, superior quality details, great dynamic range. The shots are 110 degrees wide, not as wide as other competitors but the results are absolutely great. The only downside is a little bit of lens flare effect.

Ultra wide sensor also doubles as an amazing Macro camera, ways better than 2MP dedicated sensors we can see elsewhere.

Telephoto camera is a nice addition but it lacks behind the competition that in the same price range offers a higher zoom level (such as Pixel 6 Pro with a 4X optical zoom).

The shots are good in daylight even if the color balance is slightly different from the other two cameras. The dynamic range is also less wide.

In the night shot the telephoto camera will be used only in the presence of good ambient light otherwise the 2X photos will simply be a crop of the main sensor (99% times).

Portrait mode works fine but sometimes it tends to soften the details of faces and using telephoto lenses the results are less good and in this scenario subject separation is good but not perfect.

X-Pan mode is a nice addition but often the results lacks of fine details

Video - Oppo Find X5 can shoot videos up to 4K 60fps resolution but switching sensors during recording is possible only up to 4k 30fps resolution.

The recorded audio quality is good and there is a smart feature to focus the recorded audio based on the zoom level of the cam or the subject being shot.

At night, with very low light the video quality is sufficient with some artifacts and perhaps the absence of the 5-axis stabilization present on the Oppo Find X5 Pro is more noticeable.

DAYLIGHT SAMPLE

NIGHT SAMPLE

SLOW MO

PART 8 - CONCLUSIONS ✌️​

It was fun to use the Oppo Find X5 this month and I must say that it has proved to be a truly reliable and performing flagship phone in all respects.

There are some aspects to improve but maybe its biggest problem is a launch price that places it in competition with 2022 smartphones with a more recent SOC or LPTO Display and with 2021 flagships that in the meantime have dropped in price (such as Oppo Find X3 Pro) .

I am sure that with the natural price drop in the coming months. Oppo Find X5 will certainly become a winning choice for anyone who wants an elegant, complete camera-phone with well-developed software features.

Pro (y)	Cons (n)

Incredibile build quality and design

You find everything you need in the box

Amazing Ultrawide camera

SuperVOOC 80W is the cure for battery anxiety

Smooth and complete software experience

Nice UX for One Handled mode

Background apps and multitasking limitations​

Late security patches updates​

LTPS Display instead of LPTO​

Price​