OPPO Reno3 Pro Unboxing - 108 Megapixel for the masses? By Mrwhosetheboss

Right I've got a phone here from op. Oh, it has just been announced, like literally less than an hour ago, but I've actually been using it properly since mid-January I've, taken it on a racetrack through a snowstorm and quite literally across the world and yeah we're getting married next year. No I took it too far, but yeah. This has been a fascinating case, study for just how fast mid-range phones have improved over the last few years. So now that I can finally talk about this I feel like a weight has been lifted. Let's do this for anyone wondering this is what was sent to me, a big cardboard box, inside which two things the first the OPPO encode free airboats, which I've also been testing alongside the phone and the device itself.

This is the Renault 3 pro, but a different realm 3 pro 2, the one you might have heard of that'll make more sense in a minute. It's nice presentation, I appreciate the extra effort versus just having a plain black box, but of course, more important is, what's inside, so there's a sleeve with instruction manuals and a clear CPU case standard stuff, but it is good to see a fast 30 watt charger and not just a USB cable, but a pair of actually decent quality earphones. Now you might have already heard this name before Renault 3 pro and that's because OPPO released a Renault 3 pro in China December last year, but this phone is the international version of the Renault 3 pro, and it's actually a completely different device. With that out the way, then, there's a lot to talk about here, but I'd be lying. If I said, the focus was anything but the six cameras dotted around the phone they're, not what I expected.

But I'll come to this. The Renault 3 Pro is priced at around four hundred thirty dollars. So with that in mind, my first impression was that it feels ok. I am a fan of the Aurora blue coloring on the back, and the Renault is yet another reminder that every time I think I've seen every possible way to do a smartphone gradient finish, I'm wrong with the Renault 3 Pro. The light rays actually start from the bottom right corner and kind of shoot outwards.

I would have personally preferred a glass finish, but the silver lining to these plastic materials is that the phone is featherweight, considering that it has a 4025 William hour battery in it, and let's talk about that for a second as I mentioned, I've taken this phone everywhere for two months and in that time it hasn't died on me once the phone takes about 20 minutes to charge, 50 percent or just over 50 minutes to charge 100, which is good, but the battery life has been amazing and, in my travels with it, a couple of other things that become clear. I, like the display I've watched entire seasons of Netflix, shows on it and with a 1080 by 2400 resolution, spread across a six point. Four-inch screen size. It's relatively crisp with discoloration only at extreme angles. The highlight is the Super, AMOLED tech and assisted by a piece of opposed own software.

The colors, even in third-party apps, are given an extra pop. It is a little strange, though, that this pop doesn't translate to the phone's user interface, and that's because the company has made the purposeful decision to tone down the saturation of their icons and wallpapers, as that supposedly reduces eye fatigue, it's actually the opposite direction to Samsung who've, just dialed up the saturation of their icons, but I, don't know each of their own I mean what would you prefer just for a bit of fun, really I pulled out the Opp, our 11 and upper mid-range phone from about two and a half years ago, and it's kind of astronomical. The jump that's been made in this segment in particular, you'll also notice the dual punch hole cameras previously seen on the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S, 10, plus, and I said this before for the hole punch, I'm personally, a fan like every time, I looked at this phone from the front I've had that subtle reassurance that I am actually looking at a modern, sophisticated piece of technology. In my eyes it is so much better than a notch. The other thing I noticed while watching shows on the Renault, was this little bar on the side.

You can turn it off if you don't like it, but the more I started using it. The more I found it to be weirdly exciting, as of now at only supports a few applications, but it feels like a taste of how smartphone multitasking should be. You can reply to a message without leaving a full screen, video or browse the files on your phone and even play your own videos within this mini window plus, if you drag an app from this bar it'll, automatically open up in split-screen view on that note that color OS 7 the software skin operate, puts on top of Android 10 here is actually been a really nice. Surprise, though, raised to wake feature works quickly, which, when combined with face unlocking means that getting into your phone is effortless, and there are visual flourishes throughout like the fancy power of screen or scrolling indicators that reactive velocity and a massive selection of live wallpapers that contextually respond to scrolling. What I wasn't expecting is the vast control it gives you over icons, customization that literally rivals third-party launches, which, when you think about it, it kind of makes sense.

OPPO would rather you stick to their launcher, then switch to a third-party one, but at the same time it's rare for customisation like this to be pre-baked into a phone. Also, the dark mode here is one of the best when you turn it on. It covers the 200 most used, apps everything from the Play Store to YouTube, to the file manager to Instagram and saves more battery now, just before I get to the cameras worth noting is performance because we're quite used to seeing Qualcomm powered mid-range phones, but Xperia I've gone with MediaTek instead with I, guess the silver lining being that this is world's first smartphone to use their Hello p95 chip. It basically takes the Hello p90 that you might have seen last year, and then it bumps up the GPU AI and the connectivity. Furthermore, it's not a game-changing improvement more of a case of keeping up with the times, and they paired that with eight gigs of ram and pretty generous 256 gigabytes of storage, I found that 2d and 2.5 D games. There were a non-issue, but it's good to see.

The even Call of Duty mobile was fine on high settings. There were a couple of even heavier games. I tried ones that might not have been as well optimized and for them frame rate was lower, still playable, but not 60 frames per second smooth, oh yeah, this Dolby Atmos sound here as well. It is rich, it is loud, but the further it is coming from. Only a single speaker does limit the spatial effect anyways.

Let's address the elephant in the room cameras, so you might remember back in January, I teased this on Twitter world's first phone with a 44 mega pixel punch, hole, camera well in case the penny hasn't dropped. Yet this is that, so to start with, we have a forty-four megapixels, plus a two megapixel front camera which has impressed me. It's got quite a crisp output, turning out full 44, megapixels selfies, but like it's selfie, you're, probably not going to be printing it out on a two paper and hanging it on your wall. Probably so. Resolution is less important than the actual quality of the image as well as the camera modes.

So it was good to see that portrait mode works well with good edge detection. Thanks to that second depth, sensing camera, and you can take night mode selfies, which you can probably imagine I, got very excited about, and it really works like the difference between a normal, non-night mode, shot in the dark and a night mode shot in the dark should give you an idea of just how powerful smartphone imaging software has become, and this becomes even more impressive as we move to the rear cameras, the night mode on the Renault, 3 probes and frankly, shocked me for starters. There's the normal night mode, which captures for around four seconds and significantly brightens up in nights cape, but something I haven't seen on a mid-range smartphone before is tripod mode. That lets you plant your phone down on a tripod or really just rest. It against something.

Stable and it'll spend 30 seconds literally turning night into day. Seeing this phone in action gave me the exact same goosebumps feeling that I had when taking a look at thousand-dollar flagships last year. It also has ultra dark mode, which uses all manner of software magic to create bright photos, even standing in just one Lux of light, almost pitch-black. The photos just generally have been really, really good. They'll come out as 16 megapixels by default, but here's where it gets interesting.

If you tap on the settings menu, you can switch up to capturing full 64 mega pixel shots. But then, if you go into the pro mode of the camera, you can turn on Ultra HD, which shoots a 108 megapixel photo is using a technology called sub pixel interpolation, it's effectively estimating extra pixels it's an interesting concept, but in my testing, I should get the best results from sixty-four, megapixel I'll. Let you be the final judge on that. One though the company is also quite proud of their 2x zoom and their ultra-wide cameras and what they do well, is they keep colors fairly consistent as you move between them? So this is me bit by bit zooming through the entire focal range, and you almost don't realize its changing lenses, and you can still snap a good photo at 5x zoom. The video quality is okay.

It's about what you'd expect, which is to say if you use it well, the ceiling for what you can get is high. What I did think was cool, though, is that when you head into video, and you get an ultra steady mode and to dial it up even more ultra steady Pro, which uses the wider angle, camera I mentioned that I took this phone to a racetrack. Well, a big part of. Why is to use this ultra steady feature, considering there's no actual optical image stabilization, it's impressive! What they've done with software alone? And finally, the phone's got an optical in display fingerprint scanner. It's got a monster of a SIM tray supporting two sims plus a micros card, and it's got a headphone jack, so yeah, that's the Renault 3 Pro, International Edition! This has been fun thanks for watching, and I'll catch you in the next one.

Source : Mrwhosetheboss