[OPPO Find X5 Pro General] TferThomas:
For the past couple of weeks, my SIM Card has been inserted into a new OPPO Find X5 (Black, 256GB on-board storage, 8GB RAM, and Model CPH2037), which I received from OPPO (thank you for the OPPOrtunity!), as one of their 20 global OPPO Product Ambassadors. It has become my daily driver, and replaces my previous OPPO Find X3 Pro. The following are my views and opinion only.

In real life, I enjoy Smart Phone technology, and manage all of my online presence (including my twitter (more than 181,000 tweets so far), Instagram and LinkedIn accounts), directly from my Smart Phone.

I’ve broken down my OPPO Find X5 Product Review into shorter sections, which makes it either easier to read everything, or perhaps you may just jump to the topics that are important to you:

Summary

Build Quality and Design, and Overall Performance

Camera Performance and Other Performance Features

Best ColorOS Features and Battery Review (you are here)

Conclusion

Best ColorOS Features:

The OPPO Find X5 could be the most amazing phone, but it’s nothing but a paperweight without the OS (Operating System). ColorOS 12.1 is Android the OPPO way, and at first glance, presents a clean and clear straight forward OS, very similar to the vanilla Android 12 (ala Pixel 6 Pro), but with noticeable extras.

ColorOS brings some tricks and extra apps to differentiate itself above and beyond Android 12. Some of the promoted ColorOS apps, such as Omoji and O-Relax are not available in my region, but for me the following ColorOS extras and settings are must haves and I missed these when I went from the Find X3 Pro to the Pixel 6 Pro briefly:

Special features: this group of settings is all aimed at productivity and fine-tuning the user’s experiences, and includes Flexible Windows, Quick launch, Smart Sidebar (see below) and Simple mode.

Smart Sidebar: gives you extremely quick access, via a retracted sidebar, to extremely productive ColorOs system tools like Screenshot, Screen recording, Screen translate and Recorder. You have the ability to add other apps to the Smart Sidebar’s menu. Depending on which apps you include, these can be pulled out quickly from the Smart Sidebar, to create floating windows, allowing you to multitask across multiple apps, all from one screen. I am truly hooked on this productivity tool … do yourself a favour, and if nothing else, try it out.

Personalisations: this setting allows you a much deeper customisation of Wallpapers, Always-On Display, Icons, Quick Settings, Colours, Font & display size, Fingerprint animation, and Edge lighting. Smart phone users generally align to one of two trains of thought …those who love to customise the look of your phone, and those who are content with out of the box, and for those who prefer the former, this is a very happy place to be.

Digital Wellbeing and parental controls: in a world that is highly connected and everything is in real time, this ColorOS feature assists with working out and implementing changes to regain control of your online activities …. please don’t judge me on my Instagram and eBay usage (I was researching something special for a family member … honest!)

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Battery Review:

Having used Mobile Phones from the mid 1980’s, I think I may suffer battery anxiety, and up until the Find X5, have carried a Portable Powerbrick with me. With a 4,800mAh Battery, not set to High Performance Mode, but with the screen refresh set to 120Hz, I can get through a day of usage (videos, posting and commenting on social media, music, instant messaging and emails) … and still have around 33% battery left. But I am comforted by the inclusion of the 80W SUPERVOOC wall-charger, with my Find X5 back to fully charged in approximately 46 minutes. It is important to note that my Wall Charger is not the Australian version and I am using a travel adaptor, which may have an impact on performance, but it's still very quick.

The Find X5 also plays well with other non-proprietary wall-chargers. This is the exact opposite experience I faced with the Pixel 6 Pro, with charging which felt like watching paint dry, and would only play nicely with certain chargers (not that a proprietary wall charger was actually supplied).

For those who are interested, there is also up to 30W wireless charging available (wireless charger performance dependant).

Perhaps no more battery anxiety for me.

Thank you for taking the time to read my Real Life Product Review of the OPPO Find X5. I welcome any questions you may have (noting I'm not an experience Tech Reviewer), and if I cannot answer them, I will seek the answer from either another OPPO Product Ambassador, or from the OPPO Team.

Thomas