[OPPO Find X5 Pro General] carburano:
OPPO FIND X5 REVIEW: A silky phone experience with few issues CHAPTER 1.​

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 relevant 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: is it 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 0 - UNBOXING​

I hate to repeat myself :cool: Check my Unboxing to know what hides in the super complete package of Oppo Find X5

PART 1 - Build Quality and Design 🎤​

Nothing to add here: the phone is amazing! 6,5" inch display with slightly curved edges both on front and the back, a Gorilla glass back treated to look and feel like silk, maybe the best touch finishes I've ever been experienced in almost 15 years of smartphones :)

In my opinion 6,5 inches are the perfect spot, I can use it with one hand most of the time and Color OS offers a couple of amazing UX trick to help you: One Hand Mode and Icon Pull-Down Gesture (see this in action on Color OS Launcher)

Build Quality is also great: gloss aluminium frame, nice clicky buttons on both sides (volume on the left and power on the right), Gorilla Glass Victus on the front with a preapplied screen protector. Really a top tier smartphone. An honorable mention to the beautiful camera bump with its curved raised glass. A nice touch of class.

Perfect position and reactivity for the optical fingerprint reader: fast and accurate.

A nice find is the USB Type C 3.1 with video output, a feature I really like since I often use my smartphone with external monitor or TV

PART 2 - Display 📺​

The Oppo Find X5 Display is a very good one, but it doesn't shine in the landscape of current flagship Android smartphones in the same price range. It has a LTPS AMOLED Display with 120Hz Dynamic Refresh Rate and 240Hz touch sampling rate . Since it's not an LPTO Display, refresh rate is fixed according to the app your are using (this is not configurable), here some examples:

Some apps (i.e Youtube) are locked at 60Hz and experience is not super smooth, but it's a minor issue. It would be great to raise refresh rate to 120Hz when scrolling all the apps.

Display brightness is good (max 1000 nits during HDR Video, 800 with auto brightness), visibility in direct sunlight is fair and with 402 PPI everything is super nice.

In the evening and in very low lights environments, the brightness sensor behaves somewhat conservatively by lowering the brightness too much. This leads you to manually adjust the brightness level to make the readability perfect especially using Dark Mode.

Color OS offers a lot of settings to optimize colors and comfort:

I really love Cinematic DCI-P3 Pro Mode because colors looks so natural and well reproduced. Also the support for HDR 10+ makes the Oppo Find X5 a super media consumption device. The images really pops out of the screen!

It's also very nice that OPPO has decided to add the Munsell 100 test, which allows the calibration of the screen tint. Each user can then adjust the colors according to their vision to achieve the most comfortable viewing effects.

PART 3 - Audio and Haptics 🎧​

Let's start with Haptics: the new O-Haptics engine it's configurable on two feels: Crisp or Gente and is very well implemented system-wide. You can really feel the natural feedback swiping, scrolling and typing.

Oppo also took care of the audio section. The smartphone has a main speaker in the bottom and uses the earpiece as a second speaker to replicate a stereo effect.

The result is good, with a sustained volume that never distorts. Hands-free calls are also excellent, even in relatively noisy environments.

Color OS shines with a lot of useful settings. In evidence the presence of Dolby Atmos effects, which give body and space to the audio in the headphones.

Unfortunately there is no 3.5mm jack but with a Type C analog dongle (not included) I can still use my favorite wired headphones.

If you prefer Bluetooth headphones, Oppo Find X5 offers a Bluetooth 5.2 module with support for all the best codecs: in addition to the classic SBC we find AAC, Apt-X, Apt-X HD, Apt-X Adaptive, Apt-X TWS +, LDAC and LHDC for wireless Hi-Res quality on the go.

I've tested Bluetooth with my Technics AZ60 in LDAC: the maximum volume is not the highest but the quality is very good.

Unfortunately Color OS lacks of a graphic equalizer and a finer tool for audio configuration.

Color OS offers the possibility of choosing the recording source in case external devices - such as headphones or external microphone - are connected to the phone.

PART 4 - Connectivity, Performance and Gaming 🎮​

Do you think Snapdragon 888 is old? Nothing more wrong! The 2021 flaghship SOC is still a solid performer and after a year of optimizations (Snapdragon 888 is well known by OPPO since it was used in the Find X3 Pro) it runs so fast, smooth and with almost no overheat. All the apps open fast , system is very smooth and the 8 GB of RAM are sufficient for good multitasking. I would have preferred 12GB of RAM instead of expandability (2,3 or 5GB) using the internal UFS memory (slower than RAM).

Since performance are top notch, you can consider OPPO Find X5 a flagship with minor (almost imperceptible) differences in performance compared to its big brother X5 Pro.

Gaming experience is amazing with a great level of details and high frame rate in almost all the most demanding games. Here you can see benchmark performance of CPU, GPU and UFS Internal memory:

For the hardcore gamers, there is a Performance Mode that unleashes the full power of the SOC at the cost of more overheating and shorter battery life.

It is also possible to configure the Game Toolkit as you like to adapt the performance according to the game being played.

The connectivity sector of Oppo Find X5 is flawless: 4G reception is truly excellent and is more stable and reactive than S22 Ultra and Pixel 6 Pro. Wifi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 are also perfect.

The GPS is also fast and accurate.

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