Oppo Find X3 Lite 5G Review - 8GB RAM 128GB Storage Smartphone 6.4 inch, 64MP Camera, 65w charging By Gareth Myles

By Gareth Myles
Aug 16, 2021
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Oppo Find X3 Lite 5G Review - 8GB RAM 128GB Storage Smartphone 6.4 inch, 64MP Camera, 65w charging

This is the Oppo find x3 lite 5g, okay, coming in from OPPO. This is the find x3 light 5g, it's a 5g light phone, a cheaper variant of the Oppo find x3 retails for around about 379 pounds which isn't budget- I wouldn't say, but it has that 5g technology built into it. So it's it does come with a little of a premium as always uh. This is a test sample sent over by Oppo um and the box has been a bit beaten up in the in transit, but I think I'm given the seal on the side there. This might be the first time this one's been opened. I don't think it's been through another tech reviewer's hands which would be nice.

Okay, so uh we'll have a look through the packaging, and while I was booting up I'll give you a rundown of the specs, so you're going to see this uh coming out for free, pretty much on various different contracts through earphone warehouse and the likes uh. So what you get for your money, uh in the bundle, is an is kind of interesting right. Okay, so we get a sim card ejector tool, we get an do, no, it oppo uh pamphlet with uh product information inside it. We also have a quick start guide in various different languages. We also have a FCC regulation, Bobby thing, and then we have an an an a warranty information plus we have a nice clear case, love companies that put nice clear cases in no reason to have it just it's there, because they look after their phones, there's a hole here, a hole here, a hole here and a hole here, a hole there and a button there and a double button.

There's a hole there: okay, there's the device we'll come back to that in but a moment, and we have stuff underneath this plastic our cardboard cover. We have an USB type c: cable uh, which are we've got green inside, which is nice, you'll, probably not use that. Actually, there is a wee set of earbuds which look somewhat happily, but they're, the type of ear buds that a lot of people get on very well with uh they're, not quite dying the ear canal, but they're in-ear headphones. And finally, we have the wall wart. Although it does look quite nice, the smooth edges make it a wee bit a bit different and I guess in this day and age, where we're starting to lose out in these more and more um.

It's its just nice to have it in there so down to the device- and we do have some sticky plastic on here, and it goes away. Okay, sorry, I was just adjusting the light there. So it's a wee bit more uh illuminated, I suppose right um yeah, it's its very glossy black plastic. You can see by the fingerprints already on the back, but that's fine because it comes with a transparent case. We have a 6.4 inch, which is screen ratio of 91.7 percent, uh 20 400 by 1080 display on the front here, which is full HD plus. It's got 90 hertz of a refresh rate, which is really quite nice, and it works out at about uh 410 PPI.

The brightness is 430 nits, and it's a hard AMOLED panel, which is quite nice around the back. Here we have the camera bump, which is everyone's favorite bit to analyze so on. Here we have a 64 megapixel, rear camera and an 8 megapixel ultra-wide angle, camera a 2 megapixel macro camera and the 2 megapixel mono camera as well around the front. Here we have a 32 megapixel, front-facing, f-stop, 2.4, uh selfie camera on the front, which is quite nice with a field view of 85 degrees. So these cameras back here can obviously shoot video and photographs and there's uh functions for panoramic portrait nighttime lapse, stickers and dual lay dual view.

Video, which is quite interesting as well, goes up to 4k 30 frames per second in video on 1080p at 60 frames per second, which is quite nice so inside the chip shows that uh it's around about a snapdragon 765 g, which is an 8 core 2.4 gigahertz processor, with an arena GPU, which is uh the 620. There are eight gigabytes of ram and usually 128 gigabytes of ROM down the bottom. Here we should have an USB type c and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. That makes sense for those holes at the bottom and a Wii speaker here. Microphone hole there on this side.

There's volume buttons here- and this is where your sim card goes- risk life and limb to pull it out right now to see if there is a micro SD card tray live rather than looking it up, which it doesn't seem to be um. It does say actually in the specs there, that the external memory is not supported, which is a bit of a pain, so you're limited to the 128 gigabytes, but for some people that should be all right whenever it comes to 4k. Video might not be that says connected, and it's worth noting that the battery comes halfway charged and that's an it's a 4 300 William hour battery, which um should see us through the whole day, but I'm just realizing that there isn't actually wireless charging on the back, which is a bit of a shame. We have a NFC up there already on just for you to be able to pair your gadgets almost straight away, but the 65 watt fast charging- that's in the bottom, should keep your battery pretty much topped up and really quickly. They say that that should mean that you will be able to charge the device in around about 35 minutes from zero to 100.

So really I guess you don't quite need wireless charging. I suppose there could be an argument for it uh. You can see quite there that there's a little green mark on the power button as well, which is kind of a nice flourish too and color OS. It's important to note that uh Oppo have recently been charted to be the fourth-largest phone manufacturer across Europe, so these are important phones, actually they're they're, the underdog, the up and comer dog, if you like, so we've got calendar photos, settings and some tools there, uh phone, monitor, game, space and compass, that's quite nice, uh clone phone tap to lock or one top lock screen. Okay and the screen is actually really, really nice.

I'm I'm really quite enjoying it. It's its a good-looking screen. It certainly helps this background is gorgeous too so um yeah. I might take this background and stick it on my phone. You can see down there that it does come pretty much down to the chin of the phone, and it actually looks quite nice where the phone finishes and then there's a small black line before it gets to the edge of the screen.

It's its a really nice little chin there. I'm it accents very well, it's quite gorgeous and the uh. The representation of the icons on the screen is very, is very smooth if you're watching this in 4k. That probably does look quite nice, I'm quite impressed with that. We have Facebook and we can uninstall it.

Yes, uninstall it ground and it goes away. That's good news. We also have uh, Netflix and relax file manager, weather clock. We've got a Google suite here as well with YouTube music play, store, duo assistant. Then over here we have the Google sign in what are the Google? What's it called the thingymabobber google now or something like that? I can't remember: what's called uh, and we'll go straight into the camera while using in the lie in a lie: okay, so we'll, we'll take a couple of pictures of Mr Campbell over here and let's check sheila, and we'll try the Indiana Jones just to see how nice the colors work out there and then zipping in here.

We can see that it's good representation yeah. It looks rather nice a bit of a soft focus on the the background. There we have a dedicated night function, which is cool which obviously isn't integrated into its own sensor. So it's not going to automatically detect whether you're at night. I don't believe HDR is on auto portrait, and we have more functions here where I've got dual view: video slo-mo, time-lapse, video pro or room pro mode extra HD.

That sounds intriguing, enhancing quality, okay. Well, what I'll do is I'll, try and replicate that in non-extra, HD can't say I'm noticing too much, but that's just an initial reaction to it, not seeing too much there. Okay. So oh! Yes, I wanted to check this as well see what the dual view. Aha, okay, so that's a bit like the all right inside settings.

What are we on so android 11 8 gigabits of ram 128 gigabytes of storage, of which 111 is remaining, and we do have an update to it, uh to color OS 11.1. So I'm going to go away and play with this for a while, and I'll come back and let you know exactly how I'm doing with it, I'll have to apply this update as well. So it's actually been about three weeks. As you can see, it may 22nd that I've been using this phone and I have to say I am pretty sold on it, I'm quite impressed. I have a few reservations about it, and I'll go through those as uh as I talk about it here.

However, from the very third word go, the phone is solid, and I want to go straight ah straight to the point that oppo has made a phenomenal job of appealing to the folks that have that use a phone, because this is a phone, and it makes great phone calls now. You may notice that on my screen here I have two bars: that's not a lot. That's not terrific, but um. Three, the network that I am on in my neighborhood is woeful. Two bars.

That's dropped under one there, but two bars is what I consistently see throughout my house and that's more than I've ever seen on a phone ever. It's always one bar dropping to zero, depending on where I go. This has almost consistently two bars right up until this moment of filming. Perhaps I just haven't noticed it fall down to one, but I still have a signal in the house which is incredible. Um Oppo attribute that to the fact that they've packed in nine antennas around this film so depending on how you're using it there are antennas.

There might be say three here three here and three: I don't I'm not entirely sure but uh, you put your hand around it, and you're, probably blocking some antennas here, but the ones at the top and the bottom are able to broadcast and receive, which is terrific and again, if you're playing a game or consuming some media. There are antennas on the side that are working for you and getting you better reception as a phone. If you need a phone, this um I'd say a second and none at the moment, because I'm just uh blown away by the performance here, because it's, it just makes calls, and it receives, calls all the time there's. No. The second thing is that this phone is actually a wee bit of a life changer.

I have very much changed the way that I charge this phone in my daily life. Normally, I would come home. I would still have about maybe forty percent of my battery after a day's work. That would last me to bedtime, and then I'd place it on a QI charging pad and absolutely charge up to 100 ready for the next day. I don't have to do that now.

I don't have to remember to do that. Furthermore, I don't have to even be concerned about the battery meter, because I know that hooking it up to this cable will turbocharge it or supercharge or flash charge, whatever it's called up to 100 percent. In virtually no time I can whack it on this with the super UK VOC. Still I'm not used to unlocking this phone, though you can see it just ramping up the charge there really quickly and that's really reassuring. I can go to bed with this having something like twenty percent and then stick it on charge.

While I jump into the shower the next morning and have almost a hundred percent and even in the car, I've noticed that it charges just that wee bit faster. It seems to make that little extra out of whatever power is available to it, it'll suck in more energy in order to get this up faster, and I'm I'm really impressed by that- and it changes the way, your attitude toward things, because you don't have to plan that much about charging your phone, because you know it's not going to have to sit on the charge, stand for too long. The next one is the cameras. Now we have a 64 megapixel here and then the 2 megapixel mono camera here and uh, the other that was the 2 megapixel ultra or whatever megapixel ultra ultra-wide one. And then this is the macro camera.

So I thought I'd take a little look through some of the images that I took whilst using this camera, and I took it onto the beach- and this is a perfect example of just how nice some pictures can turn out. As you can see, there's a there's, a massive amount of color here, uh, the blue, the white and the brownish gray of the sand and little ROG way right in the distance. This automatically jumps into recognizing the scene that you're trying to take, and it maximizes the cameras and gets them all to work together so that they take the best possible image, and you can take around in the settings and play around with that, so that it doesn't do that and there's a whole sort of professional side of things where you can manipulate all the settings. I didn't bother with that at the meantime, because I think most people are going to go out and just take the phone out of their pocket and snap away now. This is another wide shot that packs in a huge amount of detail.

You can see the detail from the sand and the detail on my son's coat there with a rock and things like that, and it all looks very, very nice. It's a good quality picture that would be worthy of going into any album. So then the macro camera. It's a really nice little feature here as well. I've taken a picture of some screws from some garden furniture.

The detail is perfect. You can see tiny fragments of wood and things like that. This automatically jumped across to the macro camera. For me, whenever it detected that there was nothing of real subject here to latch onto until the macro camera was engaged and at that it did its automatic thing and tried to get the best picture possible and of course we have the panoramic function as well, which is something I always love to play with, and this is a full panoramic of my front garden. It looks really nicely it's all stitched together quite nicely.

I did. I had the feeling that this was actually video being stitched together that way, and it was making a photograph out of the perhaps the 4k video camera recording as much as possible, so going up for some fine detail on this tree, which is the typical photograph that I always take. This tree has been documented throughout the tech addict's history, as the moss does grow more and more uh. You get a nice level of detail um, and you can see that the focal point is right in the center with the closer part of the tree being blurred out. Yet the distant part of the tree is still very much in view.

There's a little of fungus as well. That has a similar thing going on, and the background is it's quite nicely blurred out, so it focuses in on what you're taking picture of. Of course, it's not always flawless. This was a picture of one of those. I think it's a worm that pushes, through the sound or maybe a hermit crab or something like that, and it pushes sand up to the surface uh.

It didn't quite manage to do that quite well, but then this picture of the seaweed did work out quite nicely. It does pack in a large amount of uh, color and texture as well. Moving across the video camera, I had a play around with my little dog, as he was parading through one of the larger pools of water, and one thing that I've noticed on many phones is that whenever you go to the slow motion function, is that it degrades the quality of the video and uses lower quality video, and it does that to a certain extent here, but not as bad as some of the other phones that I've I've used this on in the past and the detail here is actually very good, and it's a very smooth, slow motion, video and for this one I did the same thing. However, I kept a thing in the foreground so that it would have trouble working out. What's what and where.

But it's still, it manages to keep the focus on the ROG as he comes close to it during the slow motion. So the camera is very adept at detecting what to shoot and what not to shoot and out of all the photographs that I took, there was only a few that I would say, didn't work out quite so well and if not they're not terrible, now going for the low level light pictures um, I did try them outside. However, recently it's been really stormy and things like that, so getting still pictures outside has been quite difficult because there's a lot of movement uh, so I decided to go back inside and take some pictures at night inside. The house here, for example, is part of my James Bond collection on Blu-ray, and we have straight from automatic mode. Taking a picture is a bit dull: it's not great having to go with the flash.

There are a number of functions that can be used with the flash. This is the main flash where it's just on this is flash set auto. Now it may be a wee bit different, because I moved my hand whenever I was taking the picture. The picture crop is slightly different and then this is the fill light that you can turn on, which pretty much works like shining a torch. Then, of course there is the knight function as well, which Oppo have is a setting that allows you to do something along the lines of macrophotography and the countdown will happen of 20 seconds, and it'll, take a bunch of different photographs and then pulls all that information together and produces one image.

Now you have to stay still for this or use a tripod. If you try to move or if there's any form of camera shake during the 20 seconds that is taking these pictures, you get a noisy shot. This was taken in pretty much pitch darkness on a tripod pointed out this collection of cars and bond awesomeness, and it's all right. It's not too bad. I perhaps it would work slightly better if it was pointed at the sky looking at the stars, letting as much light in as possible, but you can see for where it would say never again.

There is a light in the background and perhaps that's messed around with some of the optic analysis that's going on there, but it does have an overall blurry feel and if it was less cloudy, I would have loved to be able to get this side and pointed at the sky and see if I could take some photographs, but then you have streetlights and those sorts of things for most people who are in an urban environment that would end up meddling with that and having tried macrophotography in the past. I know that can be a problem, but all in all things considered, the camera is rather good for the money. The sound that comes out of it is a little annoying. I'm used to a Samsung, so I'm used to having a sound coming out of the earpiece whenever I'm playing a game or watching a movie, but it's it only comes out of the bottom speaker and at that it's not amazing, but it's still quite good. But then you have the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack I'll. Take it off charge.

I don't really need to charge it now. I do. Furthermore, I still have never quite got to grips with exactly how to unlock this phone as I'm showing in this video, and although I have used it for the last number of weeks, I know that you pick it up and then the thumbprint shows, whereas I'm used to just picking it up, hitting the power button and that turns it off. Furthermore, I've never got over that because that's the way I had my other phones set up, and I'm just that's me now. This is obviously a 5g phone and I wish I could have tested the 5g to see just how fast it was.

I live in Northern Ireland, and I'm on three. I don't have very many three or five g options. Furthermore, I was in the center of Belfast, where which has a 5g network, apparently on it. This is on auto, so it should have latched on to it, but it never did, and I got a bit frustrated with that um. So I wasn't able to have a look and see how the speeds work out, but given the price of this, getting a 5g version would future-proof yourself if you're looking to change it up, because there's always new 5g networks rolling out all over the show, and apparently there's one opening up near my house, which would be great um after I send this back now they do put in this cover, which is grand, and it'll.

Last you until you get a better cover. The cover is a's. I don't say it's not precision cut um, it moves, and it's a wee bit noisy whenever you're using it all the butt buttons are actually covered in plastic. So you can't feel the buttons, and it does attract quite a bit of dust because um it is pulls back quite easily. It does, however, have little raised ridges here, which is kind of nice, but it'll.

Do you right out of the box um before, whilst you're choosing a better cover to put on to this, which boils us down to the price um? Apparently, this is about 379 pounds. Now, that's not budget. It's not, however, it's a hell of a lot of phone for the money. I'd say that puts it in new mid-range, which is not what some people are coming here. Looking for, it's called a light which I think is unfair, because it's not light it's its very much.

A feature-packed phone light implies that things have been stripped out and I couldn't say that I would say anything has been stripped out of this. It. It maybe has been dubbed down a little so that it's a wee bit more cost friendly, but it's still quite expensive for a budget phone. It's a very top-end budget film then. But what you're getting here is a awful lot of phones for your money and anyone would be very pleased.

I would like there to be a micro SD card slot. There's not there's dual sim, but no micro SD that would really benefit running out of space. Uh would be an option if you're going to be having this on, say a two-year contract and then looking through various reviews of other Oppo phones. I do see a lot of people complaining about the actual UI of the Oppo phone and, to be honest, I find it quite simple. It is very intuitive.

It works quite nicely um if it's everything's laid out very well and there's a there's, a good amount of options. A lot of things, however, are turned on by default, and that kind of annoyed me whenever I first started using it, for example, the bedtime mode, which turns everything black and white, to save your eyes and to make things a wee bit better for you in the evening. I wasn't aware of it the very first night I had it. I sat up in bed to use it, and it was after I think, nine o'clock or ten o'clock, and whenever I picked it up, I dropped it. It hit the floor and I turned it on, and it was black and white, and I thought I had caused it.

A problem um, but thankfully it turned out it was. It was merely a setting that I needed to um adjust here so that it turns on slightly later in the evening, or you can turn it off altogether, but it's turned on by default, and I guess that means you probably not find it if it wasn't turned on by default, and now you know that it's there, but at the same time it caused me a wee bit of stress at the time I didn't want to have to write Xperia and say I can't send it back because I bust it, but everything else in the interface is fairly standard as to what you would expect to see from a heavy android overlay and that's what this is. It is a heavy android overlay, but it still runs really nicely, although I've spent a lot of time making sure that this is a smooth experience for the user being able to find every setting that I need. Whenever I do it, it's its laid out differently to a pixel or to a Samsung. But it's all there.

You can search for your specifications when you're looking for them, and they're easily findable, but all in I'm I'm really impressed I'm. I would recommend this phone to anyone who's looking for it. If you're watching this thinking, should I buy it, don't doubt yourself, you're going to get good value for money, it's at the top end of the pricing structure for what you get, but you are getting a very quality and enjoyable device that makes phone calls. First and foremost, I can't highlight that enough and well done to Oppo for sticking those antennas just check my notes there, and they've got 10 antennas in here distributed around the phone. That's terrific! Oh, the battery lasted me.

I would say about. I could push it to two days if, if I needed to um but without a care in the world, I was getting a day and a half. If I was doing a bit of gaming, if I watched some Netflix uh very heavy use, I'd probably say it would get you through the day, and you're going to need to top it up toward the end of the day. But again topping it up is not an issue at all.15 minutes and you're laughing so well done. OPPO very impressed with this um for those who are concerned about the idea of the fast charging killing the battery at the at that superfood or whatever it was that popped up there, and they say that that's tried and tested technology that does not harm the battery, and we should hopefully see that the battery will be able to take that continual fast charge over the duration of it.

But I guess time will tell whether that's truth or an inaccuracy, so yeah. The Oppo find x3 light is a cracking little phone 120 hertz decent battery fast charging great for phone calls blacks the SD card gains. A 3.5 has USB type c. Speakers are uninspiring, but all in grand very nice I'm impressed by OPPO. I look forward to seeing what they bring to the table next.

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