OPPO is a smartphone manufacturer in China.
Along with HUAWEI and Xiaomi, it is a very popular manufacturer in China and has a strong presence in the world.
In particular, OPPO Reno A, which was released in October last year, was memorable for many people with the CM “Ryo Sashihara, I’m thinking of changing my smartphone.”
Appearance
The surface looks like a modern smartphone, but the characteristic is the back.
OPPO Reno3 A comes in two colors, white and black, but the back of white in the photo is very beautiful!
The gradation from white to light blue is so much that I want to see it all the time.
You want to use it without a cover or with a transparent cover.
A beautiful big screen of organic EL
The first thing I feel when using OPPO Reno3 A is that the screen is beautiful!
That should be it, the screen of OPPO Reno 3 A is not a liquid crystal but an organic EL.
Since organic EL can express black well, it is characterized by a clear screen display of bright and dark colors.
OLED is an expensive component, and even in the latest iPhone 11 series, iPhone 11 is equipped with a liquid crystal panel, and only the upper model iPhone 11 Pro has an OLED panel.OPPO Reno3 A is a smartphone with a beautiful screen, equipped with such an organic EL, although it is a smartphone in the 30,000 yen range.With this, you can enjoy movies and games with great satisfaction.
Feel the future! Display fingerprint authentication
Fingerprint authentication on smartphones has become commonplace, but OPPO Reno3 A supports “display fingerprint authentication,” which is one step ahead of that.
A fingerprint sensor is embedded in the screen, and touching a specific place on the screen with your finger completes fingerprint authentication.
As shown in the picture above, it is futuristic that fingerprint authentication will be completed just by touching the screen with your finger, and you will want to try it again and again.
(By the way, the previous model OPPO Reno A is also equipped with display fingerprint authentication. OPPO’s technical strength is amazing…!)
When unlocking, fingerprint authentication and face authentication are activated at the same time, and the lock is released when either one is authenticated.
Therefore, you can use it comfortably without stress because the person who can authenticate in that situation, such as fingerprint authentication when you are wearing a mask, face authentication when your hand is wet, etc.
Suitable for everyday use with waterproof
OPPO Reno3 A supports IPX8 waterproof and IP6X dustproof. IPX8 and IP6X are the following standards respectively.
It’s encouraging to have a smartphone that will be okay even if it gets wet in the coming summer, due to the rainy season and typhoons.In addition, the dust proof function is safe even if the smartphone is sanded at leisure at the beach.Before charging, make sure that no water or sand is left in the charging connector before charging.
Just press the shutter! “Orthodox” camera that you don’t have to think about
Next, I will check the performance of the camera that interests me.
There are 4 lenses on the back (outside camera) of OPPO Reno3 A, one for super wide angle, one for main, one for monochrome, and one for portrait.
However, you do not need to be aware of the type of lens when using it.The good thing about OPPO Reno3 A is that it automatically takes the picture that suits the situation, simply by pressing the shutter without thinking about anything in the camera app.There is also a wide-angle mode, “Ultra Wide”, which is a common feature on recent smartphones.With Ultra Wide, you can capture a wider range, but the feature is that the edges are slightly stretched.The zoom can be expanded up to 10 times optical.
As you can see, if you magnify it up to 10 times, it will look like a “magnified image”, but you can see what is written, so it is enough for recording.You can take beautiful nightscapes without changing the settings or modes.It’s a pretty bright picture.Low-priced smartphones often produce dark pictures or dark pictures in dark places, but OPPO Reno3 A can take beautiful pictures.And the “dazzle color” function is what I would like to use to take a higher-grade photograph. With this function, you can get a more vivid and clear tint than usual.
The blue picture of the dazzle color on the right shows the blue sky more vividly and clearly.It’s a bit difficult to understand even indoors, but the color of the dazzle color ON on the right has a clearer shade of brown.
If you turn on the Dazzle Color, you can bring food closer to “shine”.
This time, I photographed “Steamed sea bream pickled rice bowl”.
Not only can you take a picture of red sea bream and how much gloss it has, but the vivid color of the dazzle color allows you to take a picture that can be put on SNS as it is.
Also, with regard to the in-camera, many of the latest Android smartphones take considerable correction in the default state, but OPPO Reno 3 A has a quite natural finish.
There is also a beautiful skin mode, but this is a fairly natural process.
Recently, many people are posting natural photos that are not overwhelming on SNS.
Natural pictures can be used with the default camera, and applications such as SNOW and SODA can be used if you want to take vibrant pictures.
Easy-to-use ColorOS and Android 10
OPPO Reno3 A is equipped with the latest Android 10 among the currently released Android smartphones.
Moreover, it is not just Android, but ColorOS with OPPO’s own custom.
It’s more fashionable than standard Android, and has added useful features.
For example, the multitasking that switches between apps is also intuitive and easy to understand.
In Android, there are “Home” and “Back” buttons at the bottom of the screen, but you can change the arrangement of those buttons, or switch to a mode in which you can remove the button and operate with gestures such as swipe, and that person You can achieve operability that suits people.
In addition, a function called “smart sidebar” that comes out from the right side of the screen is also useful.
You can immediately call up a menu that contains useful shortcuts such as screenshots and screen recordings.
On Android, you can take a screenshot by pressing and holding the “power button + volume down button” at the same time, but it is troublesome to remember.
Also, screen recording is not provided by the standard Android function.
With the “Smart Sidebar” of ColorOS installed in OPPO Reno3 A, you can perform both screenshots and screen recording with simple operations.Instead of pushing it to the person who uses the function, the user can select the function by themselves, so there is little catch and it can be used comfortably.
Battery and quick charging
OPPO Reno3 A is equipped with a large-capacity battery of 4,025mAh.
The battery capacity of a typical smartphone is 3,000mAh to 4,000mAh, so it falls into the high capacity category.
When I actually played the video on YouTube (720p) for 30 minutes, the battery drain was 5%. You can play YouTube for 10 hours by simple calculation.
In this case, it seems that the battery will last for one day.Moreover, it is compatible with quick charging that can be fully charged in about 120 minutes (value listed in the catalog).
Even if you wake up in the morning and notice that you have forgotten to charge the battery, it will be enough to charge it in one hour.
Summary
So far, we have seen various functions of OPPO Reno3 A, but in a word, it is “stress free”.
With smartphones up to now, there were stresses such as “I can’t authenticate my face with a mask”, “I was submerged”, “I couldn’t take a picture well”, and “Battery runs out”.
“Fingerprint authentication”, “Waterproof and dustproof”, “Camera that allows you to take beautiful pictures without special settings”, and “4,025mAh long-lasting battery” will solve this problem.
With this, a single tax excluding 36,800 yen can be felt as if OPPO really is…!