The "futuristic" OPPO Find X will be formally unveiled in Paris on June 19, a whole four years after the launch of the Find 7, the Chinese company's previous flagship phone in the series.
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According to the company’s own reports, as well as independent probes of the global smartphone market by trusted analysts, business has been good for OPPO lately, despite the China-based budget specialist last unveiling a true flagship way back in spring of 2014.It’s said the Find 7’s ...
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Semi-credible rumors on the long overdue follow-up to the 2014 OPPO Find 7 have been few and far between lately, suggesting some other flagship might come soon to confirm the Find family’s death.Enter the camera-centric OPPO R9, teased for a spring launch by the fast-rising Chinese device manufacturer itself, and expected to also carry a Snapdragon 820 ...
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Color OS is, well, Color OS. Some people hate it, some people like it. Oppo did a good job in listening to customers with its latest version running on the Oppo R7 Plus, which I’ll admit is my favorite Android skin to date, but it hasn’t done that same great job in bringing legacy flagships up to speed. Chances are that if you’re currently using the Oppo Find 7 or Find 7a, you’re still stuck on a version of Color OS that runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. I know, that’s terrible.The good thing is that ...
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After breaking its short-lived partnership with CyanogenMod, China-based hardware manufacturer Oppo shifted its software focus entirely on a proprietary platform dubbed ColorOS and obviously built on Android source code.But as the purist community grows stronger and more vocal by the day, everyone from LG to Sony seems to agree bloatware must go or at least get significantly ...
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It’s been a year of tough decisions for practically all Android device manufacturers except Samsung, which Qualcomm left hanging after Snapdragon 810’s unforeseen and unprecedented overheating woes.Some took a gamble on the SD810 anyway, exposing themselves to public ridicule and high flagship return rates, while others settled for the inferior but reliable 808 chip. At the same time, MediaTek stepped up to the plate ...
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While the Oppo R7 Plus, recently unveiled for the Western hemisphere, left a “huge” first impression on one of our strictest reviewers, it’s no use trying to pretend like the 6-inch 1,080p handheld is a flagship. The middling (by high-end standards) Snapdragon 615 SoC renders the impressive 3GB RAM null and void, and a 13MP rear-facing camera isn’t really enough for a place near the top of ...
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I admittedly do not have a ton of experience with Oppo. The first Oppo phone I ever held was the Find 7a I reviewed earlier this year. The first time I even heard the name Oppo was when the N1 was announced, and that was only because it had a massive 5.9-inch display and a rotating primary camera which can be likened to some flip phones from way back when.Outside that, my knowledge of the company, its products, and its perception globally is pretty limited.That’s mainly because Oppo hasn’t thrust itself ...
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Cellular phones used to allow us to make and receive telephone calls on the go, and not much more. Somewhere along the line, text messaging was added, letting us ditch our pagers. Over time, simple apps were added, and we were able to pass away the time with games like Snake. Back then battery life wasn’t all that important, not when compared to today since back then our phones could last a week between charges. Now, however, we’re lucky to make it through a day or two. Manufactures are faced with a dilemma: customers want phones that are thin and light, but batteries are ...
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The Oppo Find 7 is the Find 7a‘s bigger brother, but they could very well be considered twins: if not only for the identical looks, then because of the fact that these two Chinese-made devices were announced at the same time. And as with any twins, the differences are on the inside: the Find 7 is Oppo’s current flagship, and brings a few crucial enhancements over the previous flagship, the Find 7a.Walking around with this device during our week-long review period definitely turned heads. Oppo ...
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Galaxy S5 Prime. Galaxy S5 LTE-A. Galaxy S5 SUPREME. Whatever you call it, we’ve spent the week getting to know Samsung’s most polarizing Quad-HD flagship, and we know you’ve got questions. So we’ve got our review unit all charged up and ready for an on-air “live Galaxy S5 Prime review” of sorts, along with some compelling Samsung topics a few eager readers have already sent in, on today’s Pocketnow Weekly podcast!But there’s more to life than Samsung, so we’re mixing in a whole lot more mobile tech talk for your expectant eardrums. ...
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Each of these phones is their respective manufacturer’s best phone, to date. Their internals are among the highest-end on the market. So, which one would you choose? The phone made by a company that already has a history of making good smartphones, or the phone from a relatively young manufacturer that wants to prove itself on the market? We hope our LG G3 vs Oppo Find 7 video will help you make up your mind.A phone from China, and a phone from South Korea, both the best that LG and Oppo have ever built, both with exceptional specs on paper. In real life, neither of the two disappoints, ...
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On March 19, Chinese phone-maker Oppo has announced not one, but two phones. The Find 7a — which we’ve already reviewed — and the Find 7, which has just arrive in our Pocketnow labs. The differences between the two are not many, but they are crucial, as the Find 7 was actually the first 2K (QHD) phone to be announced (nota bene, not the first one available though).That being said, this is the Oppo Find 7, ...
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The Oppo Find 7a was a pretty sweet phone, as evidenced by our full review of the handset, but just over the horizon was an even more powerful Oppo smartphone — the Find 7. Many stuck out to purchase the Find 7a’s higher-end sibling, and those people are likely ...
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Oppo, unlike many other manufacturers, is taking this camera race to a new level, but not through hardware. Instead, Oppo is taking it to the competition via software, and in a way that, logically, doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. The Find 7 and Find 7a both come with 13-megapixel IMX214 CMOS sensors from Sony. In the standard shooting mode, they max out at … 13-megapixels, of course. But if you enable what Oppo calls ...
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