Hands-on Review:- Oppo R7

DISCLAIMER

The opinion of this product is not to discourage the buyers for buying such product.

The opinion is just to state the pros and cons, with some introduction and specifications.

Read previous reviews (click here). 

1. Introduction

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There was a Plus, there was a Lite, and now there's an    S - the Oppo R7s. Next in Oppo's line of premium built mid-rangers, the R7s borrows both the looks and the substance, and brings the so-far-missing 5.5-inch-screen phone size to bridge the distance between the R7 and the R7 Plus. #googleplustips
                   
You'd have to be a true Oppo connoisseur to tell the R7s apart from its brethren, and that's more of a good thing, really. The R7s has the same sleek metal unibody, the gentle arcs towards its display edges, the exquisite fit and finish - an overall aura of superiority.

Beneath the surface little has changed. The only headline-worthy bump in the specsheet is the 4GB of RAM - it's still a pretty exclusive club and its members are mostly true flagships.

Aside from that, it's the tried and true Snapdragon 615 running the show, and we know how Oppo is capable of extracting the best out of it. The 13MP camera setup with phase detection autofocus is also familiar from the R7, as is the 8MP front-facer.

The increase in screen diagonal comes with a due growth of battery capacity, and you can top up the 3070mAh power pack blazing fast thanks to Oppo's home-engineered VOOC charging.

2. What I liked about it

-Magnesium-aluminum alloy unibody construction

-Dual-SIM dual-standby capability

-5.5" 1080p AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 401ppi, Gorilla Glass 4

-Octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU (4x 1.5GHz plus 4x 1.21GHz), 4GB of RAM, Adreno 405 GPU;

-Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chipset 32GB of built-in storage

-ColorOS 2.1 on top of Android 5.1.1 Lollipop13MP phase detection autofocus camera, f/2.2 lens, single-LED flash;

-HDR, Expert, RAW, Panorama, Long exposure (up to 16s), Double exposure, 50MP UltraHD modes1080@30fps, 2x-10x speed timelapse, 1/4x speed slow motion 720x480px resolution

-8MP front camera, 1080p video recording

-Cat. 4 LTE (150/50Mbps); dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, hotspot, Wi-Fi direct;

-Bluetooth 4.0;

-GPS/GLONASS;
 
-microUSB3,070mAh battery capacity;

-VOOC fast charging3.5mm headphone jack, active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic

3. Main disadvantages

-Midrange chipset in a premium price handset

-Sealed battery, microSD slot shared with second SIM

-No NFC or FM radio

-No fingerprint sensor

-Pricey

If you were to check back on the R7 Plus' review, you'd notice that we've listed the same disadvantages, with the lack of a fingerprint sensor the only addition here. Some of them are clashes of concepts - the gorgeous unibody and fast charging tech come at the expense of a non-removable battery. #Marketing The chosen chip has reserved the R7s in the midrange, so Oppo has headroom for its proper flagship from the Find series, and the less than affordable price is par for the course in the R7 lineup.

4.Hence,

The Oppo R7s turned out all we expected it to be. A stunner to look at and a joy to handle, the smartphone does well to defend its premium price tag, even before you actually turn it on.

And when you do, it greets you with 5.5-inch AMOLED display with deep blacks and vibrant colors. Sure, it could have been brighter and more color accurate, but you'd be enjoying it nonetheless.

5. In my opinion (Read the Disclaimer above before reading the following)

I just buy OPPO R7 lite last week. My problem now when I was inside the building using this Smartphone my phone line cannot detect but before this when I using another brand it’s have no problem. Anyone can help?
Oppo R7 lite or Oppo R7s ? Any suggestion

New Oppo series has less heating issue, but Oppo n series has insane heating problem,,
This phone is awesome vibration is to good girls buy it now. J lol


So far there are no significant issue. My previous phone Xiaomi and Samsung. The difference between Oppo with my previous devices are :
- Longer battery life, I only charge once every day. Even working until 10th battery still 20%.
- Fast charging, usually takes 50 minutes until full. Usually I only charge until 90%.
- Stronger signal captured, I don’t know my previous phone was not or so. But I get better signal for surfing while using Oppo. #googleglass
- Ram management, while using my previous phone the ram management usually takes 60% or 65% of usage

Ram. While Oppo takes 40% after installing app.
I'm not using for game, just for browsing and read news, purchase online during my daily activities.

May be the back body is a little warm, but I think it's normal if you use it for a heavy using, because my iphone will have heat too. But I think it has been anticipate with the Aluminum Alloy body that can absorb the heat, and it's also strong. So I recommended Oppo R7s is the best choice.

So I just bought this phone and everything went well until I noticed that though it has 2 speakers only one on the left seemed louder than the right, is this how it is or did miss anything here? Can someone enlighten me on this problem? Thanks a lot.

Nice looking phone. OppoR7plus has insane battery, it has 4100mah. Or you can always have your power bank with you.

Oppo is a new brand and same specs as Samsung so why always take Samsung if other branch are better or cheaper with same specs J

6. Specification

NETWORK
Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE
2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 - Global, Taiwan, USA
4G bands LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800), 40(2300) - Global LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 28(700), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500) - Taiwan LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 4(1700/2100), 7(2600), 17(700) – USA
Speed HSPA, LTE Cat4 150/50 Mbps
GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes

LAUNCH
Announced 2015, October
Status Available. Released 2015, December

BODY
Dimensions 151.8 x 75.4 x 7 mm (5.98 x 2.97 x 0.28 in)
Weight 155 g (5.47 oz)
SIM Dual SIM (Nano-SIM/ Micro-SIM, dual stand-by)

DISPLAY
Type AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 5.5 inches (~72.9% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 1080 x 1920 pixels (~401 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 3 - Color OS 2.1

PLATFORM
OS Android OS, v5.1 (Lollipop)
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8939 Snapdragon 615
CPU Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & quad-core 1.0 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU Adreno 405

MEMORY
Card slot microSD, up to 128 GB (uses SIM 2 slot)
Internal 32 GB, 4 GB RAM

CAMERA
Primary 13 MP, f/2.2, phase detection autofocus, LED flash,
 Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, panorama, HDR
Video 1080p@30fps,
Secondary 8 MP, f/2.4

SOUND
Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes

COMMS
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, WiFi Direct, hotspot
Bluetooth v4.0
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
Radio No
USB microUSB v2.0, USB Host

FEATURES
Sensors Accelerometer, proximity, compass
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
Browser HTML5
Java No - Fast battery charging: 75% in 30 min
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- MP4/H.264 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player
- Document viewer
- Photo/video editor

BATTERY Non-removable Li-Po 3070 mAh battery
Stand-by
Talk time

MISC
Colors Golden

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