How did they curve it like that? - OPPO Find X3 Pro
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·ShortCircuit
·2021-05-05
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1,762 words · ~8 min read
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- Holy shnikes. - [Andy] It's so smooth.
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- On paper, this thing look absolutely sick.
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Oh, I love the press packaging. This is the Oppo Find X3 Pro 5G,
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Snapdragon 888 processor, 12 gigs of RAM, 256 gigs of storage
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and what they call an impossible curve in the glass.
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I haven't seen any pictures of this yet because I have intentionally cloistered myself
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so I am excited to find out what an impossible curve is.
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It's apparently made of Corning Gorilla Glass 5, so--
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Oh, that is cool.
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That... Is breathtaking.
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Have you seen this Andy? - [Andy] No.
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- Holy shnikes. - [Andy] It's so smooth.
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- I mean, I am not a huge fan of camera bumps
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but that's not a bump, that's like, it's a contour.
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That's pretty cool. Okay, okay, let's start at the back.
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You've got dual 50 megapixel cameras, so I've wondered this for a long time,
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The cost difference between one sensor and another can't be that much, can it?
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Why not just put a top quality sensor in both your main shooter and your ultra wide?
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Well, that's exactly what Oppo did. Then they have a third camera that's a three megapixel
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that is apparently for like micro photography.
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In the front, we've got a 32 megapixel front-facing camera.
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Obviously then the front would be a front-facing camera and is a hole punch, not a huge fan but let's see
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if this thing can make it up to me in some other ways.
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You know, one of the selling points for this form Oppo is that it's pretty light.
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I actually tend to agree, at 178 grams
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it doesn't feel as chunky as a lot of current flagships.
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I don't know, maybe it's not that much less heavy but it definitely feels less chunky.
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Now you are going to give up some spec for that. They had to use a super thin vapor chamber
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in order to keep the Snapdragon 888 cool in here, and it only has a 4500 milliamp power battery,
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but it does feature their VOOC fast charging,
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including 30 watt wireless charging. Now I've made myself clear in the past
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that I'm not super comfortable with high-speed charging, particularly high-speed wireless charging,
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and it's not the best way to make your battery last as long as possible.
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But at least it's there as an option if you're almost depleted and you need
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Oh, I am not a fan of the screen protector
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that they've got on this thing out of the box. I appreciate the inclusion but you can see
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it doesn't quite go to the edges of what is otherwise a very,
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I was a huge fan of the Galaxy S6 Edge,
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like way back in the day, and I really liked that kind of feel,
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the Note 7 for that matter, I really loved the shape of.
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And this is a very similar shaped phone, it's nice and sleek, it's slim.
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But the one thing about it that doesn't feel good in the hand
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is this screen protector is not the same experience
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as Gorilla Glass 5 so I'm going to take it off, it's--
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Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's, it's vinyl.
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- [Andy] It's not a screen protector. - Are you sure it's not? - [Andy] No, not for me.
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Not even for me, so. - Yeah, no that's--
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Oh, that's much better. That feels very nice in the hand.
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Now, back to that finish on the back for a second though.
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Probably could to use a little more fingerprint resistance. I've been sitting here for about four minutes.
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(laughing) Let's see if it's at least easy to clean though
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with this wonderful shirt from lttstore.com. (gasping)
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Here's something I didn't think of. Look at this, check this out, Andy.
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Okay, are you ready? Are you ready? - [Andy] Yeah. - Boom, no, dust and grime build-up around the camera bump.
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- [Andy] So nice. - Right? I didn't even think of that.
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Okay, this is a stupid, stupid thing for me to get all hung up on,
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but it really does, it feels different.
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Like it feels different, like here, hold on. I got do, I got to do a slide test.
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I got to do a slide test here. Oh. Okay.
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Hah. Hah.
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Oh, Andy.
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That... - [Andy] That is very smooth.
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- That needs to be the future. Where's Apple with this stuff?
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Included in the box, you've got a charger and a charging cable.
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Yeah, 65 watts, so, we've got a fast charger and a charging cable.
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Unfortunately this is not appropriate for my region. That's okay, minor details.
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Oh, hello. Whoop.
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Oh, these look like crappy cases,
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Lo and behold, they are. It would be a crime.
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Actually, It doesn't feel that crappy. That feels pretty nice.
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It would still be criminal, it would be criminal to have a phone that looks this good outside of the case
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and put a freaking case on it, I don't approve.
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It's too good to put a layer between you and the enjoyment.
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Let's set up the in-screen fingerprint sensor here, see if it's responsive.
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It seems a little slow, but it remains to be seen if that's just the training period.
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Positions a little bit lower than I'm used to and probably not where I prefer.
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Oh, they've got face unlock though. Still not sure.
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Wait, what? Oh, that was, that was very fast.
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Okay. I don't know how much I trust face unlocks that are not using like the topography of your face as well.
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Yeah, I like it up a little bit higher, but the advantage of this approach
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is that it's a little bit easier to landmark the spot without looking at it.
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Oh, there it is. I'm trying not to look at it here.
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It's got a 120 Hertz display that runs at 1440 by 3216.
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So whatever aspect ratio that is basically means it has extremely high pixel density
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at around 516 pixels per inch. I really, with all these features, don't know
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if I would expect amazing battery life out of it cause it also boasts 1300 nit peak brightness
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on the OLED display. So, if you're watching HDR 10 plus content, for example,
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you'd expect this thing to get pretty flipping bright.
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Volume rockers over on the side, two separate buttons, then you've got your lock button over on the right.
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On the bottom, we've got USB Type-C for charging as well as a dual SIM SIM slot.
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Nothing on the top, but what's really nice is they managed to cram stereo speakers into it
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so you've got an amplified earpiece speaker right here and then a bottom firing speaker that,
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let's actually have a quick look here and see how balanced the stereo effects is.
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(music playing on phone)
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Typically with a very small device, my expectations are a little bit lower, but this is great.
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Now I'm really curious about this three megapixel camera, Oh, and I missed one of the cameras before.
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It actually has a total of five cameras, including the front-facing one,
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there's also a 13 megapixel telephoto camera with a 5X hybrid optical zoom and 20X digital zoom.
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So, 5X hybrid optical, let's find out what is actually optical.
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Okay, so there's our little figurines
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that we take pictures of there. Here it is with our main shooter.
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Okay. Well, that's either an indictment of the main shooter
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or an indication that these telephotos are actually pretty strong.
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A little bit of noise in here, but definitely a cleaner image than the main one.
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One cool thing about this device, should you decide to take advantage of it, is full support for 10-bit color.
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So, sensor, firmware, software and of course the display itself are all capable
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of displaying a billion colors. Now whether that'll make a difference
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to you in your day-to-day life, hard to say, but it could give you a little bit more flexibility
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in post if nothing else. So it's setting that you're going to have to adjust here for your photos.
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Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, just like that. And it does warn you that not everything
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is going to be compatible with your 10-bit pictures.
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Hold on, Andy, I'm going to go for a little walk, okay? - [Andy] Sure, yeah. - I'll be right back.
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Okay, let's have a look at this.
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That is not bad.
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So you can see it's kind of compensating there as I turned around the corner.
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It's not perfect, but if I was like desperately trying
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to capture something and I was in a situation where I'm kind of all over the place,
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this is a lot less jitter than I'd normally be stuck with.
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Not perfect. I guess the only thing left to say then is it has IP68 water resistance,
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so it's supposed to stay under, I think a meter and a half of water for half an hour,
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which is pretty darn good. This is a fine, fine looking
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and feeling device, man. So we'll probably have a link to it in the video description
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and you guys can go check out more details if you're into it, make sure you subscribe to ShortCircuit
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so you don't miss more of these initial impressions. Okay, so it's dirty, right?
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Oh, yeah. Perfection again.