Oppo R15 Pro (CPH1831) – Pickr

The iPhone X is not what we would call a cheap phone, but the Oppo R15 Pro allows for budget support of the high-end handset from Apple. Is it as good as Apple does?

Design

Oppo R15 Pro starts like most phones, and that is with the design, and unsurprisingly, there is definitely a specific theme to this phone.

Because it was a joke with Oppo handsets because the company was responsible for some of the best iPhone clones you could find. They do not just look like an iPhone, but work and behave as one, only with Android running underneath and a look inspired by iOS.

And here in the Oppo R15 Pro, this iPhone inspiration continues, with a design reminiscent of an oversized iPhone X at the front and an iPhone 8 Plus at the # 39; rear.

This means that you get a 6.24-inch Fullview Fullview screen with the top notch, with all the main front-panel buttons built-in to the screen, a fingerprint sensor at the top. Back, and two cameras there too,

Features

This is an overview in the 39 all the features of the R15 Pro, which can look like a high-end phone thanks to this large screen notch, but is actually a mid-range disguised.

It's known thanks to the chip, with Oppo arming the R15 Pro with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 660 eight-core, badociated with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, with a microSD slot i If you're Feel like 128 GB is not enough.

Android 8.1 "Oreo" arrives on the phone out of the box, as does a nice set of connections, including 4G LTE, Bluetooth 5, GPS, WiFi 802.11a / b / g / n / ac, and also a first for Oppo, Near-Field Communication (NFC)

You will always find here a 3.5mm headphone jack, so no need to go get a converter headphone jack, while the phone charges the old microUSB standard.

There are two cameras at the back, sporting 16 and 20 megapixel cameras capable of capturing 4K Ultra HD video, while the front camera is set at 20 megapixels, also

You will also find two types of security on the Oppo R15 Pro, with a rear fingerprint sensor and a face unlock through sensors located at above the screen.

The battery is set to 3430mAh and is not removable, and the phone is IP67 water resistant, which also makes it relatively water resistant.

In Service

Another feature of the R15 Pro is the operating system, unique in the Android world because of what it aspires to be: iOS.

This is not iOS, notice – it's Android – but it has the skin to look like an iPhone, something that Oppo has done in its phones for almost always. This approach is something that Oppo calls "ColorOS", and it's a pretty non-Android approach, even though a person seems to have little problem with it.

In fact, quite the opposite, with the mash-mash of Android with iOS This helps to make the Oppo R series very user-friendly.

This means that you get the Android widget-hosted home screens and the Apple app drawer from left to right, and you even get notification screens.

Quite simply: if you have already used an iPhone, you will very quickly hit the Oppo R15 Pro. And if you do not have it, you will always be fine.

Performance

With the right amount of memory tuned to a fairly upscale 6GB processor and a mid-range eight-core processor handling grunt, Oppo hit the mark in phone performance, with virtually no delay or slowdowns across the board. Although the chip is by no means a speed demon like what you get in a Samsung Galaxy S or Huawei Mate, it's not left out, offering enough speed for most applications and activities [19659028]. the R15 Pro, but we still could test the R15 Pro all the same, without the synthetic benchmark tests we usually rely on.

Although it means that there is no cute metric image to look at, we are able to report on the performance that manages to manage his own. The eight-core Snapdragon 660 is perhaps not the best chip in the world, but with 6GB of RAM, we found little or no delay in most operations, with enough memory to balance completely the phone.

Mobile performance was also correct, with 4G LTE speeds ranging from 50Mbps to 200Mbps in our tests on the Telstra network in the Sydney CBD

It's pretty strong, with performance capable of handling at just about everything you could need from a phone.

Camera

This is not just the performance that is decent, with a set of cameras also decent for the ride, as well. An area in which Oppo has worked regularly to improve, and although its choice of sensors has never been what we considered bad, the treatment and the overall result do not always reach the strength of the rest of the device.

for example, while we liked w We had the impression that the technology was a little stuck in the Oppo R11, and that was the proof that sometimes the manufacturers do not understand well.

But in the Oppo R15 Pro, the feeling is that Oppo has definitely recovered, with a combination of sensors that evolves from what the Oppo R11s had for it, improving the low light capacity with a configuration that does not not bad, day and night.

find two cameras here, with both a 16-megapixel F1.7 and a 20-megapixel F1.7 camera, although only one of them works for images, with the same effect. other providing pictures for portrait mode. Fortunately, the sensor you use gives you a decent quality of 16 megapixels.

In broad daylight, the images are sharp and offer a fairly strong saturation, while the night reveals a relatively solid quality, even if the light is weak. sometimes means that the camera needs to be held a little tighter to reduce shaking or vibration unintentionally.

The proposed images are mostly enjoyable, and so is the front camera, which at 20 megapixels offers more than enough room to show this beautiful mug.

Battery

Next to the surprisingly decent camera performance is Seriously, it's a good thing to see two full days of life of the 3430mAh big battery of the Oppo R15 Pro, but it's not a shock given the frequency of Oppo phone shots in the aggregate after two days [19659004] The same is true here in the R15 Pro, with two full days possible on the handset, even while we're streaming music on a wireless headset, connected with a smartwatch, making and receiving calls, messages, surf the web, take photos

Value

The price of Oppo is also difficult to argue, because at $ 779, the R15 Pro is very convincing, offering a camera of mid-range high-end, although this one only starts to be less convincing t when you compare it to phones from last year, which you can always find on the place.

Although there is this point, the value is rather solid, and pretty much the only question of existence is why the standard R15 exists at all, changing the processor and removing the specifications of the installation, all for the sacrifice of a good hundred dollars

It seems so minor, but the R15 Pro hits pretty well, and if you are after a smartphone iPhone X-inspired wi The price of the iPhone X is definitely worth taking into account, especially since it's a little less than a thousand dollars less

A Little More

Oppo is already well known for providing value, but what surprised us with the R15 Pro is that it's that Oppo has added in this generation.

For example, Oppo included NFC and resistance to water in this generation. smartphone, he also packed into some software extras.

You'll find an extra layer of security to allow you to lock applications independently of the rest of the phone, which means you can lock apps like Facebook and Messenger Works independently of the rest of the phone.

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Oppo even packed into two keyboards for this phone, one of which we can not take screenshots of. Google's standard keyboard is one, but there is also a secure Oppo keyboard that pops up when you do things where safety is paramount.This is a neat system, and one only has one. never seen before.

Applications can be cloned for execu ter different accounts (like with two Instagram or Facebook accounts), security is provided with a lot of settings, and as always, there is download the monitor in case you do not want to download too much.

And yes, there is a dual SIM tray that lets you choose between having two SIM cards, or a SIM card and a microSD card. You have a storage space of 128 GB. Whatever your choice, everything will be fine.

That's what needs work?

With all this extra goodness, it may seem a little surprising to find that there is a small problem with the Oppo R15 Pro. Indeed, it's a very well thought-out phone, and although it's obviously an iClone, it's the one that gives the impression that the course Oppo is more than just a simple iPhone style company.

For the first time we are seeing an Oppo that is really taking off, with a phone that looks like how Apple's iPhone X would be designed if another company borrowed the model.

And that has a lot to do, from the inclusions of Near -Field Communication to a big camera, to the fact that he has so much to do in the software.

We are still not super big fans of Oppo overlay to Android, ColorOS, but he has his friends. Not everyone is after an iOS inspired take for Android, and we are definitely in this group. We get it, we do not just love it for ourselves.

However, it's really the lack of wireless charging that overwhelms us as the only major complaint on this phone. You could argue that the microUSB port is a bit missed, and we would have that, but microUSB is going to be there for quite a while, so it's not a huge loss to be stuck on the older port.

Our other problem is the camera, because as decent as the quality of the picture, we found the camera a bit slow to shoot. We even found that we were going to switch to the volume knob tip to trigger screenshots just because the button on the screen would not always respond. That did not happen all the time, but when it happened, we were thankful that the old volume trick works

It would also have been nice to see a telephoto lens on this camera setup, and would have provided a little more camera punch than the two camera configuration. We have seen Oppo do it once before, and it would have made the R15 Pro more like the iPhone X. For now, it's a decent camera, although it might be better .

Final Thoughts (TLDR)

Oppo's way to creating the best complete smartphone feels close to ending in the R15 Pro, with enough of a nailed plan and a set of features that complete well, rounding up to the package.

And yes, of course, it's not It's hard to see where Oppo gets its inspiration, with one of the world's largest smartphone makers.

But do not get me wrong, Oppo gets so good in this phone. The Oppo R15 Pro package is clear: full view, full value, full stop. Recommended.