[OPPO Find X5 Pro General] mcall_r:
Here's my review after owning for 10 days. I am not an Oppo ambassador so therefore these thoughts are not biased in any way. I could have gotten a Samsung S22 Ultra for around the same monthly price (maybe it was £5 more) but the lack of charger in the box put me off. The Oppo gift incentive also swung me over.

I'm sure everyone knows about the features and specs of the phone so far so I won't bother with those.

What I like:

- The build quality and design are exceptional, without a case the phone feels great in the hand, although it's very slippery if you have cold hands and there is no clammyness from your fingers to provide grip. The ceramic feels better than glass and I haven't seen any scratches yet. It also feels very slim so one handed use is possible.

- The screen is very good, even in 1080p it's hard to see the pixels compared to other 1080p phones.

- Main camera and ultrawide very good, in the right lighting conditions they provide excellent shots with plenty of detail.

- Fast and very few stutters in the OS. I haven't encountered any bugs yet.

- Charging is insanely quick and phone doesn't really get hot when charging.

- XPAN is cool and interesting.

- Vibration motor is much better than previous phones I've used. On the strongest setting I won't be missing any calls.

- Battery life is reasonable in terms of SOT. I consistently get 6-7 hours under heavy use.

- Wireless Android Auto works flawlessly.

What I don't like:

Camera

- You cannot zoom or switch between cameras when shooting 4k60 video.

- Some shots on the main and ultrawide cameras can be over exposed, it sometimes takes a few shots in the same light to get a good one. Hopefully they can fix this in a future update.

- Some indoor daytime shots of moving subjects are always blurry.

- Selfies are often, in my experience, over exposed, and not on par with what I've seen from P40 Pro.

- Videos taken in 1080p do not send well over Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms. It could be to do with the compression used in this format, but once uploaded to these sites, the videos are very choppy, colours are crushed, and the videos are in general pretty unusable. Only videos sent in 4K look ok. This was an issue with the Find X3 Pro, and I am not sure why Oppo have not addressed this yet.

- There's no getting around the fact that this phone lacks any reasonable camera zoom at all. 2X is not zoom in my opinion.

- Forget nighttime shots of moving subjects, night photo takes 2s to process (although quicker than other phones).

- I feel like the MarisiliconX thing is mostly a marketing gimmick.

Screen

- The AlwaysOnDisplay is very dim and there's no way to change it. Also the coloured icons are very hard to distinguish at a glance. If the display is dim, then greyscale icons would be easier to see.

- 120Hz doesn't seem to be active in a lot of apps, so I had to manually force it using an app from youtube video.

Software/OS

- Cannot increase grid size in ColorOS launcher any more than 5 x 6. Please give option for up to 9 x 6 like Nova? Otherwise launcher is perfect!

- There is no desktop mode when plugged into a usb-c monitor like Samsung Dex or Huawei EMUI Desktop. You can indeed enable desktop mode in developer settings but it's not the same experience.

- When using a 3rd party launcher (I always use Nova), there are some bugs when going back to home screen, e.g. the recent apps screen flashes up for a split second when it shouldn't. Because of this I forced myself to get used to ColourOS launcher.

- There is no button to turn off/on 5G in the notifications quick settings menu.

- "Hey google" only works in Android Auto & Google Maps if you have the global "Hey Google" listening setting enabled. Not sure if this is an android 12 bug or just Oppo bug.

- Oppo PC Connect is only available on PC, not Mac or Linux.

Battery/Charging

- Standby battery life could be better. It drains about 5-7% overnight when my Huawei P40 Pro only drained 2%. If I barely use the phone during the day (only check/reply to messages etc and use around 1.5h SOT), then the battery is still below 40% when I go to bed. My P40 Pro barely drained when not used heavily. Of course Huawei do much more aggressive battery/memory management and if I enabled optimisation for all apps in the Oppo's settings then maybe I could get similar but I don't want to mess with notifications.

- Wireless charging with a non-oppo wireless charger seems very slow. I have a 5W charger in my Lexus and when charging using it, the phone still loses battery when using wireless android auto.

All in all, I actually preferred using my old Huawei P40 Pro as the camera was superior in most situations as well as better standby battery but the hacked google services installed just put me off. Android auto was very temperamental, hence I can't stick with it.