it's 20 20 and there is a crazy number of phones out there vying for your
attention well one of the ways that oppo thinks they can stand out from the crowd
is by cramming some of the features normally found in top-tier flagship
devices into the mid-range oppo reno 4
pro this thing has super fast 65 watt charging a big curved display with a 90
hertz refresh rate and some truly impressive camera features while running
on a snapdragon 720 g and 8 gigs of RAM
but is that enough to make you cheat on your samsungs and your iphones
let's take a closer look and thank oppo for sponsoring this showcase
handling the reno4 pro it might not even be that shocking that it's packed with
flagship features because this thing does not really feel
like a mid-range device at all it's super thin and light but not so light
that it feels like there's nothing on the inside you know like those plastic
phone mock-ups that you see at cell phone kiosks there's a lot in there as
we've mentioned but we'll get to that in a moment on the back there's a beautiful
fingerprint resistant matte finish along with a quad rear camera array we've got
three physical buttons total two on the left side for volume and the power
button on the right there's a sim card tray and microphone on the top along
with a single speaker usb type-c charging port and
headphone jack on the bottom in these dark times it is good to know that some
brands still follow the old ways keep the three and a half millimeter
dream alive oppo now for the display once again it's hard
to differentiate the reno4 pro from a flagship here it's a six and a half inch
super amoled with a 2400 by 1080 resolution and a
92.01 screen to body ratio that's helped
a bit by the 3d curved screen now we've seen some brands move away from the
curved edge design but for those of you who like it this one comes with a
sidebar function that you can use to pin frequently used apps the real kicker
with the display though is the 90 hertz refresh rate with a touch sampling rate
of up to 180 hertz that translates to
not only a smoother experience scrolling through photos or social media but also
to snap your gameplay so you can tell your defeated enemies that they paid too
much for their phone or whatever now it's not the 120 hertz that we're seeing
in some of the newest flagships but 90 is a huge step up compared to 60 and
there's really just no going back now after all that snappy
gameplay obviously you're gonna need to recharge and that's where their 65 watt
charging comes in handy apple calls their flash charging tech supervooc 2.0
and they say it can fully charge the reno4 pro from zero to a hundred percent
in just 36 minutes sounds incredibly dangerous like can you
imagine the heat that produces well
okay actually oppo has been developing their super voop technology since 2014.
part of the solution is to use a dual cell battery system in which two 5 volt
cells receive current in an alternating pattern eliminating the need to reduce
the voltage in order to avoid heat buildup pretty cool
get it oppo also uses specialized chips in the charging adapter usb cable and
the reno4 pro itself which check that the voltage and current levels are
within permissible limits now oppo says that with only five minutes of charging
you can watch youtube for four hours and while i wasn't gonna pay riley to
watch four hours of youtube videos at work we did put up those charging claims
to the test now our model came with a north american
plug adapter but thanks to regional differences in power delivery that's
only going to give us 50 watts of charging but to make sure we got the
full 65 watts with the reno 4 pro's non-north american charger
we plugged it into this it's a light fuse power converter that i
actually got for a completely unrelated project but it definitely came in handy
here so five minutes plugged into this monster got us to 18
10 minutes got us to 37 it's basically linear at that point at
15 minutes we were up to 51 then by 20 minutes we were at 70 30
minutes brought us to 94 and so on and so forth honestly
i didn't expect the full charge to come so on the nose but we hit a hundred
percent at 36 minutes and 41 seconds
like i was wondering why did oppo say 36 minutes instead of like you know under
40 i guess it's because it's literally like 36 minutes like exactly
suffice to say if phone uptime is the most important thing to you you really
can't go wrong with the reno4 pro and the last thing we want to talk about is
the camera now modern smartphones are really taking advantage of ai powered
processing to make gorgeous looking photos and the reno4 pro is expanding
that idea creatively in a couple of ways first off you have a number of zoom
options in both photo and video mode that give you a lot of flexibility in
terms of how you compose your shot and in our tests photos and videos taken
with this camera look nice and crisp with surprisingly good color and dynamic
range especially guys remember this is really important for a mid-range phone
it even gives phones that are focused on photography like the google pixel line a
run for their money but apple also fits in some fun ai powered creative features
including ai color portrait which lets you desaturate the background while
retaining the color of the subject in the scene something you would normally
have to do in post and this mode even works with video recording you should
see how fast taran could do this on his station compared to the phone with his
macros maybe fast it's got a lot of macros
low light modes are also getting really good in modern phones although
you only really expect to see really strong low light in flagship phones
but the reno 4 pro's ultra dark mode is about as good as i've seen they've even
got a specialized low-light mode for selfies appropriately titled ultra night
selfie mode so you can entertain your
deepest narcissistic tendencies even in the blackest night of
the soul now we didn't even talk about how opposed flavor of Android called
color os has come a long way and manages to add some life enhancing features
while still allowing you to basically get as close to stock Android as you
want but i think we've said enough if you guys are interested in a mid-range
phone that punches above its weight class check out the reno4 pro and thanks
again to oppo for sponsoring this showcase if you guys enjoy more showcases like
this one why not go check out this one where i unboxed a robot vacuum
did it try to kill you no but it did try to launch itself off
the table