I might get UPSET - OPPO Find X5 Pro
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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1,984 words · ~9 min read
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- I get to spend the next 10 minutes finding out just how upset I get to be.
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This is the Find X5 Pro from Oppo,
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which they actually sponsored this unboxing of, except, fun fact,
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even if I wanted to buy one I wouldn't be allowed to
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because it's not available in North America. So I sincerely hope, in spite of the sponsorship deal,
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that it's just not that great. Frankly, the specs aren't looking good for me though.
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It's got the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which is the latest flagship
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that we're seeing in Android phones. It's got 12 freakin' gigs of RAM,
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because why wouldn't it? 256 gigs of storage.
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A 6.7-inch display. It is IP68 water resistant.
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And it feels really nice. Boy, is that ever a cool backing.
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Over the years, Oppo has done some really striking designs,
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both with their material choice and with their their curves and contours.
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So it's still got a thick camera bump, but it's got a very different look to it.
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This is another one of their Hasselblad collaborations. So you've got two 50-megapixel rear shooters back here
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along with a 12-megapixel telephoto. You've got your flash and all that good stuff.
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And then you'll find a 32-megapixel front shooter with a hole punch.
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That is an extremely smooth backing material.
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That has got to be some kind of Corning glass. - [Jono] No, not that one.
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- It's not Corning glass? Oh, is it like a ceramic thing? - Mm-hmm. - Okay. That explains it.
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So you're probably going... Oh, wow. The molding for this must have been a nightmare.
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To get it just right for that contour?
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Oh yeah, it fits fine though. Okay, that's pretty cool.
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You're almost definitely going to want to use a case and you're almost definitely gonna want to hate
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everything about that experience because this really does look and feel really, really good.
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It's just definitely got that slip, you know what I'm saying?
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And you know what's really funny is it's a whole thing, right? Like it's a whole meme, resale white for car colors?
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- [Jono] Yeah. - Why don't we see more white phones? Look at this.
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I've been handling this thing this whole time. You can't see a bloody fingerprint on it.
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That doesn't mean they're not there. They're there. You just can't see them 'cause it's white.
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As slippery as the ceramic might be though, Oppo is claiming 1,200 to 1,300
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on the Vickers hardness scale for this thing, meaning it should be extremely scratch-resistant.
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Of course, I will let JerryRigEverything be the one to test that.
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I'm sure sure Zack's gonna have a video about that at some point in the future.
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What kind of Gorilla Glass is it on the front? It's gotta be Victus. This is very flagship-feeling.
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It's Victus? Yeah. I don't know, man. I've been kind of considering going back to a candy bar,
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and maybe I'll try this for a little bit. It depends on band support though,
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and if they're not shipping it in North America there's a chance that the band support here
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might not be that great. But the thing is, it's running a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
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My understanding is the 5G modem is built into that. So it support 5G, I guess I didn't mention that yet.
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It does have dual SIM support. No microSD expansion.
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Come on, let's bring back microSD expansion. It's not that big. I mean, let me know, guys.
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Would you rather have microSD or a second SIM? - [Jono] Micro.
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- I mean, over here, yeah, but my understanding is dual SIM is a lot more common overseas.
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All right, let's see if we get anything here.
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Am I gonna get a connection? Okay, I've got 4G+, whatever the heck 4G+ is.
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Oh, I haven't even really done a tour of the phone yet. So you've got your lock button over on the right. Okay.
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A really nice-feeling metal accent ring around the outside.
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I mean, metal-backed phones are just a thing of the past at this point now
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because of wireless charging. And this supports Oppo's SuperVOOC wireless charging,
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so up to, I believe, 50 watts wirelessly, which is ludicrous.
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And then it'll do 10 watts of reverse charging. Up to 80 watts using the USB-C port.
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Let's see if they act actually include a wall wart that'll handle that though.
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Oh, this thing looks chonky enough that it's probably gonna do it. Yep! That's an 80-watt wall wart.
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You can see it's not exactly a North American standard one, so I would need an adapter for it, but hey-oh, there you go.
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A Type-A to Type-C charging cable. A thick boy, obviously.
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Okay, here we go. Ready? Fingerprint unlocked. Boom.
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Not bad. Not the fastest I've ever seen, not the slowest either.
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When it's already powered on it's actually a touch snappier.
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It looks like I have to actually check my voicemail to... Well I guess we'll find out how good the speakerphone is.
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- [Voicemail] You have one new voice message. - [Linus] Volume's over on the side here. - [Voicemail] Press 1 to record a message.
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- Nothing on the top. Did I already say USB-C on the bottom? Okay!
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Hopefully this isn't anything incriminating. - [Woman] This message is for Linus.
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I'm just following up with regards to your telecom account.
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At this time I am unable to reach you. I will try to contact you later in the week.
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- [Voicemail] Message deleted. You have no more messages. - Oh, okay. I guess I better figure that out.
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Oh, this is cool. So not only is it an OLED display,
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I mean, pretty much any high-end phone has an OLED display these days,
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but there's some pretty cool tech in here. So they're claiming a peak brightness of 1300 nits.
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A resolution of 3216x1440, so that's like a 1440p-class display.
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A dynamic refresh rate of 1,220 Hertz. And as we found out recently
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with one of their competitors, I'm not gonna name them, this is sponsored video, that would be super weird,
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but one of their competitors, Oppo is actually using an LTPO Plus technology OLED,
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so it is actually possible for them to have a 1-to-120 hertz variable refresh rate.
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Whereas a particular competitor was caught advertising that
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when that wasn't actually the case, which I thought was pretty interesting.
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Like some of their competitors, Oppo is shipping the screen at a full HD Plus screen resolution setting.
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And you can sharpen it if you really want to, but as they say, it could lead to higher power consumption and device temperature.
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Personally, I never turn it on anymore. I just don't find it makes a difference
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at this kind of screen size. I do not like 30-second timeouts.
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And I'm not a huge fan of motion controls either. I'm actually gonna change that right away.
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They leave video color enhancer all off by default.
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Thank you! Oh, you can hide the front camera.
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Oh, by app! App-by-app you can decide to hide the front camera.
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Well, that's cool. I haven't actually daily driven ColorOS in quite some time
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so I'm sure some of this stuff is not that new, but thank you for letting me decide
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how I want my buttons configured. That's something Sony just can't wrap their brains around
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and I don't get it. I will decide how I want the buttons configured. Not you.
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All right, it's got a 5,000-milliamp hour battery. And what else do we wanna talk about?
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Oh, definitely camera. Do they have a double-click power for camera gesture yet?
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No. Come on, Oppo. Come on! Soon, right?
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Ah, yes! This! Oppo actually developed their own
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six-nanometer NPU for image processing.
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And the idea here is that they're using it particularly in low light
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to generate cleaner images than were otherwise possible.
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So I guess other than just taking a couple of pictures...
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I mean we obviously have to fire up video recording
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in order to check out that five-axis stabilization.
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Hold on, let me just give the lens a quick... - [Jono] Also, the chip is actually right to your right.
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- Oh, is that the chip? Would you look at that. It's a little boy.
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- [Jono] Six-nanometer. - All right. Now, I have seen some really good stabilization recently
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and this is definitely some of it.
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That's cool. So Hoffman, you can see me shaking this, right?
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(Linus growls) I don't even understand what I'm doing right now.
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"Keep your device steady." What even the crap is going on here?
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Huh. How the crap-many exposures is it doing to do that?
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Like I can almost read the display on that thing.
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Okay, let's switch back to our 32-megapixel selfie camera.
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Ooh, I'm doing a portrait! Ooh!
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- [Jono] Beauty mode activated. - A little bit of haze around me,
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but that is a very challenging situation. And I did manage to capture
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some of these little, little flyaways here.
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And that is a surprisingly natural-looking bokeh.
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There may actually be something to this. Again, sponsored video, guys. Not a review.
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But the results really speak for themselves here. I mean, these are not even...
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I'd say the skin tone is a little off. Am I that pale?
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- No. - Okay. (crew laughs) - But I also haven't checked if there's any kind
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of beauty nonsense enabled on it or anything like that.
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Yes, yes, there is. Skin texture, okay. Natural, we're going back to natural.
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Okay, let's try again, natural instead of retouched.
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I'm still probably a touch pale. Definitely wrinklier. Nope, all right.
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- [Jono] (laughs) Ooh. - Ooh!
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Ouch. Now obviously,
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we're gonna want to try night video here, right?
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So I guess this is a good opportunity for us to use the microphone on this thing.
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And I busted my knee at badminton,
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so I'm kind of limping around. So I guess we'll get to experience
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the smoothness of the stabilization.
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Okay, so we're heading into a room
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with no lights on whatsoever,
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which is gonna be pretty challenging. This doesn't seem very fair.
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There's no light in here.
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There's a little bit of light coming from outside.
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Oh, wow. That's cool. So it kinda sharpens over time.
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You guys can see that, right?
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Obviously the video has a fair bit of grain in it,
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but it's usable. Like if that was your security camera or whatever
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and you were trying to get a shot of the guy that broke into your stuff, then...
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I mean, the results speak for themselves. So take everything I'm saying for what it is,
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it's a sponsored video, but that's it. We recorded that.
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So photos, other media creation, just daily driver use, or even gaming.
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Oh yeah, I didn't even mention it's got a 1,000-hertz polling rate for the touch inputs.
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Find X5 Pro got a lot going on. So you can follow Oppo on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,
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and check them out at the link down below if you wanna learn more,
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particularly about this MariSilicon. Very, very interesting, that one.