[OPPO Find X5 Pro General] eoghan2t7:
Hi Everybody

This will be my final thoughts review of the OPPO Find X5 Pro in Ceramic White that I received from OPPO as being part of their ambassador program. This phone has become my daily driver since getting it. The Phone I received comes with 256GB of storage and 12GB of RAM.

Build Quality and Design:

After I unboxed the phoned you are greeted with a device that looks like it was moulded around the hardware on the inside due to the way the Ceramic on the back of the phone has been seamlessly made to incorporate the camera bump/cut out. When holding the phone at first, I thought the back would be a finger print magnet but no matter how hard I tried its very hard to even notice them. Coming from the beautiful curved Ceramic White back you swope round to the equally curved 6.7-inch LTPO2 AMOLED screen which is protected by the masters at Corning with their Gorilla Glass Victus and also has a peak refresh rate of 120Hz and HDR10+. The screen on the Find X5 pro also incorporates the front facing camera in the top left corner however this very hard to see with day-to-day usage the only time I see it is when I use the pinch to zoom feature of YouTube only in that use case do you see it on the screen. The phone also comes with stereo speakers which are located in the main earpiece and also on the bottom of the phone. Speaking of the bottom you will find more stunning curves that lead to the dual sim tray and the usb type-c port which can charge up to 80 watts fast charging.

Performance and Gaming

Inside this beast of a phone, you have the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 to give this some real performance gains plus it being able to better manage the battery you don’t need to sacrifice a whole lot of battery just to have a we gaming session. I have been playing games on my phone using not only installed gaming from the play store but also via Goggles Stadia platform and even when the phone feels warm to the touch the games that I have played from my naked eye can’t see any stuttering or dropped frames. The phone just keeps powering on and even if you do play games until you kill the battery having it charge up to 50% in around 12 minutes will have you gaming again. As a daily phone without gaming, I am impressed with how much the battery lasts. I work 12-hour shifts and with phones I have owned over the years I struggled to get full day’s work out of them without enabling battery saver modes. With the Find X5 Pro to this day I have not needed to enable such modes and even when I get home from work, I still have plenty of battery left to see me through until I go to bed.

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Camera

Since getting this phone I have been trying to push the limits of its camera array consisting of three cameras 50MP Main Camera, 50MP Ultra-Wide-Angle Camera and a 13MP Telephoto Camera. No matter what I tried the images always came out clear with the exception of images that are taken at 20x zoom which will always look grainy to some extent. This phone also has the added benefit of having 5-Axis Optical Image stabilisation so when shooting photos are videos they will come out as if taken using a tripod as it does a fantastic job of keeping what’s in your viewfinder stable. I even decided to give the phone to my nephew to see how shaky he could make a video as he only 2 years old so runs about a lot yes there was some shaking in the resulting video however, I am still impressed as I know if given a phone without the Image stabilisation on the camera lens the video would have been awful to view. Having the ability to enable 10-bit colour as well really helps when taking photos at night time as it makes the colours pop as if a light was there. For avid photographer’s you can also enable the camera to output in RAW format for editing directly on the phone or exported to computer-based image editing software. On the front of the phone there is a 32MP camera which I have plenty of fun with as the nephew loves taking photos of himself so I have been using it as an excuse to build photo memories of him before he all grown up and doesn’t want photos taken with his uncle anymore☹. The camera system also has some secret sauce in the way of its MariSilicon X in house developed chip which allows you to shoot videos in near pitch black without losing details that you would on a normal phone camera. OPPO has even went a step more and joined with Hasselblad to tune colours to be more natural when taking photos and give it the feel of using a DSLR camera.

Notable Features:

Since OPPO have added their own style to android they have also added some tools which I think make it stand out more than the competition in the settings menu you will see an option for privacy in there you will find perfect tools to keep your phone safe for others to use if you forget to lock your phone. You have the ability to Lock apps, hide apps, private safe for all sorts of content to don’t was prying eyes seeing and a system cloner. The privacy menu also has options for notifying you when the camera or microphones are being used useful if sideloading apps that may have been modified to steal personal data or listen in on conversions. It also goes as far as to alert you if an app reads your clipboard data. When it comes to features the OPPO development team have also added a battery booster system that gives you an eta of how long the battery will last it also gives you optimisation tips to extent the battery even more or you can enable high performance mode to make your phone fly at the cost of battery draining quicker.

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Conclusion

In conclusion this phone is an absolute beast every now and then I notice we small things that confirms to you that this is a flagship smartphone. Beaty and the beast comes to mind when describing this phone all beauty on the outside beast on the inside. Having the 80W SuperVOOC charger is perfect for the times I need some extra battery for going on long walks with my partner or on my own with earphones in. Having a smartphone that packs so much tech into it is amazing it true does feel like OPPO went back to the drawing board and reimagined what a flagship phone should have and to me they just went give it all the things and more. Also I would like to thank the @OPPO Ambassador Team once again for bring me along in this ride as an ambassador ;)