this is the Reno it pro from Oppo [Applause] [Music]
coming in from Oppo is this lovely uh Siam box I suppose Siam yeah we'll go with that it's an
Oppo Reno 8 Pro 5G variant um obviously it's an Android phone and we're coming in
to have a look at this and it's been sent over by Oppo for me to have a play with and see
exactly what I think of it although there's a full review on this and see exactly how well it works
so inside the packaging we get a SIM card ejector tool some bump and a thing a USB a to USB type c
dongle that's nice it's nice to have a wee thing in there as opposed to
nothing else in the packaging as we've seen increasingly safe it's the device on the top
which I'm going to set aside just for the meantime oh there's a huge charger so this is the Superbook
or supervoke or however what you want to pronounce it I go with look I like it being book that sounds
fun to me it's an 80 watt Superbook charger this is a gorgeously fast charger that'll
suck the paint off your house and give your wife a permanent orange afro
don't know where that came from but it did I think Dan Aykroyd said that anyway this
is a really fast little charger that'll it's spruce up your power to your phone
I think you get almost 100 percent in about half an hour and then we get a rather chunky
USB type-c cable and I believe the cable and the charger need to be used in conjunction
to be able to get this device to charge super fast alright so back at it batteries
um this is the the Reno 8 Pro and as you can see from the side around here it has
a it has a a straight finish it's not so much curved it's more like an iPhone than it is a
Samsung phone I suppose um yeah and it this one is all black it's just sort of kind of piano gloss
black you can see it's very fingerprinty and very reflective it's gorgeous looking and then there's
massive camera Island sitting out here that I can't wait to get out and start taking some snaps
says awful across here on the back and Udo if you I'll do if you do it that way right
it's it's nice that there's a there's enough I don't know
a Groove around here it's not so much a a flush finish as abrupt as the sides of
the phone are that abruption is not evident right here and then here there's just another
small angular piece where the island is raised up so it it's it's smooth and gravitated from
one level down to the other but then here it just feels nicely milled as well it's it's beautiful
it really is a very very striking design but you absolutely need a kiss which would be such a shame
and it's it's a good weight too um there's a nice bit of half to it because it feels like
it's made out of more durable materials than some of its competition um it it's sitting
at 183 grams which isn't a heck of a lot but it's it's enough in a film that it feels good
and then wrapping a case around it would be such a shame but as you can see I've I've been handling
it for a couple of minutes and it's covered in uh in fingerprints and uh and it does feel a bit
slippery especially on those sides there's not too much in the way of grip but looking along
the side we obviously have nothing along here we've got uh two volume buttons there and along
the bottom here we have a SIM card slot and I I'm pretty sure this doesn't feature a micro SD card
and we'll just uh we'll double check it because I haven't had a SIM card ejector tool here
however both models of the Reno 8 Pro has 256. uh gigabytes of storage so you might
not really need an SD card now there's an eight gigabyte and a 12 gigabyte this being the eight
gigabyte then on this side we have just a power button I'm guessing that's what that is with a
little green flag in it if you can just about to see that glittering there it's it's very pretty
it's it's one color that only appears in that one area suppose it matches the Box you know
no it doesn't match the Box turquoise that's what I was looking for cyan and turquoise whichever
is it I don't know what turquoise is it's a mint green mint green so uh we have a couple
of antenna bonds here and then up at the top we have I'm guessing that's a microphone hole
um perhaps another microphone hole or some form of hole for sensing stuff that's going
on around the front we have the earpiece up here and you can barely see it it's kind of
just about built into the top there and then we have the front facing camera in the screen
yeah so the main camera around the back is a 50 megapixel uh camera and then there's also
an 8 megapixel Ultra wide and a two megapixel macro camera there's also an LED flash which
you can see there there seems to be two LEDs it's quite nice and then some sort of
combination here I don't I imagine one of these is a 50 the other Z and then maybe that's the two
uh it films full video uh 4K at 30 frames per second new 60 frames per second on that which is
a bit of a bit of a missed opportunity a 1080p 30 60 120 and 240 frames per second and 720 as well
the screen is an AMOLED 120 hertz display 6.7 inch as you could well guess from all films these days
it has a resolution of 1080p 1080 by 2412 and it's got cornering Gorilla Glass 5. we have Android 12
on here with color West 12.1 and the processor inside of this is a it's a mediatek immensity
8100 Max which is a five nanometer processor it's an octa-core and it's got a Mali g610 GPU
for backup it is quite nice the way about just like the iPhone again the uh the screen comes
right up to the edges it feels really quite nice in the hand and just looks like a nice
big slab of technology to play with so because I have it to hand here it is against the the pixel
6 Pro which is my daily driver and you can see the screen does look exceptionally bright
although um as per usual the pixel 6 well I suppose is running at three quarter brightness
for now
and unfortunately we have some suggested apps that it wants to install for for you to enjoy
uh I can't I don't think any of those are particularly exciting I don't know what share
it is I'll be the only one that I think would be anyway useful or or a benefit to your life
and we can have traditional navigation or we can have gesture navigation as you can see the
battery is down a bit uh this has obviously been through other reviewers hands before it's got to
me and it's got lithium ion for 4500 milliamp hour battery and it the the pamphlet here says that the
80 watt charging will charge this from one percent to 45 in 10 minutes and from one percent to
a hundred percent in 31 minutes that's uh that's a on a pretty incredible statistic so right okay
well I'm gonna jump into the camera and then I'm gonna use this as my daily driver for the next
week or so and then I'll update you on my thoughts so all that oh what's this Mario silicone X this
model is equipped with Mara silicone X I'll post first self-developed Imaging npu with its powerful
Imaging processing capabilities silicone X brings you the next level of Photography experience
terrific okay so what we'll do is we'll take a picture of Mr Williams from Army of Darkness here
with that and then we will take a picture of
on full auto mode from the pixel one of the best cameras on the market for its time
and you can check those two out but what I'll do is I'll I'll run around with this and take
some video and and stuff like that and see exactly how well it fares oh it is really nice maybe it's
just the joys of having new film oh even though I said I didn't want to install the bloat we have
bloat installed so we've got LinkedIn Tech talk Facebook Netflix and oh relax and music
we do have more under here as well
but color OS is a very nice rendition of Android and it has lots of Abu fill it full of lots of
interesting applications that are fully featured and and to be honest the
oh the picture looks rather well I have to say the color is quite impressive of that oppo's Optics
are generally excellent right well I'll start playing with it and I'll update you in a second
all right so one of the first things I want to do is have a test of this new super Vicky type stuff
going on here this fast charging that's supposed to get you from zero to 100 in was it 33 minutes
or something it said in the manual I'm gonna have a go with that and I timing this was actually
quite difficult because always on displays and things got aren't easy to achieve and also it
would have if the phone was on and running uh then it's it's obviously going to just suck up
a little bit more battery power and things like that and getting another reliable phone to stay
on as long uh just meant that actually recording this segment took a number of different goals
given how fast the phone charges as well whenever I left the phone and
then discovered that it didn't work very well I had to unplug the phone but only to discover
that the film was charged 45 after a couple of minutes so uh it was a long drawn line process
to get what you're about to see hear annoy and it'll be over in a couple of seconds
here's a notable point and the journey of 10
minutes and 30 seconds we just about hit 50 percent
so there we are coming in just at uh 100 taking over 32 minutes and 20 seconds not about scoring
really it's a pretty fast charged 32 minutes and 22 seconds for 100 charge is pretty incredible
by any phone standard and it's a bit of a game changer whenever it comes to how
you fit in charging around your life so the camera on Oppo devices is generally very good
I've really never had a problem with some of the cameras that I've used on Oppo devices I can't
say categorically all of them are excellent but this one is new slouch it certainly takes
very nice still images around the garden here I'm just uh snapping away at various different
things using the ultrawide here and then down to the regular lens and into the macro lens as
well obviously the macro lens being 2 megapixel is slightly less high quality than the rest of
the camera but uh it all looks really quite nice to be honest in idyllic circumstances
flap it over to the video obviously the Oppo Reno disappoints a little with the 4K running on only
30 frames per second no 60 frames option being available but the video was crisp and nicely
colored nicely balanced as well the microphone is quite good as well as you can quite clearly
hear me mouth breathing as I have a cold as my model gets into place we flip over
to the telephoto lens as I zoom in on the little kitty cat here as he plants around
one thing that is worth mentioning is that you do get a bit of microphone disruption uh
from the outside of the film where your hands may be covering one of the many
microphones that are recording whilst using the video camera very evident in this clip
I gotta say that this really is one of the most beautiful phones that I have had in my
hands for a good long time when you compare it to some of the other films that are out there
like the pixel and this really kicks its ass when it comes to looks the beautiful
reflective exterior place oh look with your autofocus and there's a fingerprint
magnet but really is a very very strikingly beautiful design to accompany this the phone
also feels very natural in the hand although it is devilishly slippery and will require a case
so when all ins is said and done um and Oppa want this back I don't want to give it back I
really like it um some people will criticize it straight away for saying it's got no G charging
but Q charging I feel is a wee bit unnecessary given the faster charging that has been included
because you're going to change the way you charge your phone based around that fast charging method
it is a little bit of a pain that you could only achieve that fast charging with the accompanying
charger and wire but I'm prepared to go with that and I would buy another if this was my main device
now I've been using this as much as possible as my main device I don't have a case for it and it is
that slippery that I would need a case to be able to use it for my day-to-day stuff so I I only did
a small amount of day-to-day stuff on this and I didn't take it out of the house or out of the
car whenever I was going for fear of dropping it because it does feel like it's a it's not going
to survive too many drops as it's very fragile and this big colorful screen is gorgeous yeah
the the phone is super fast I'm not geekbenching it or anything like that because it's a tried and
tested chipset it works very well it's color OS which is one of the better Android overlays
some people may dislike it other people can quite happily get used to it and enjoy using it
there's a a packaged amount of some things that come with it that enhance the features
and it's it's all great all the settings are very easily laid out to get into and enjoy enjoy does
anyone enjoy settings I don't think so but you can find what you want when you need it and therefore
the phone performs exceptionally well there is an excellent battery inside of it that lasts a
really long time I know because waiting for it to discharge took longer than I hadn't anticipated
there are various little bits and pieces that have been included that feel a wee bit Samsung
the likes of the the panel that you can swipe in I don't remember that being in my my last Oppo phone
but it seems to be a recent addition to color OS that I might have missed but it's a very handy
unthoughtful widget that doesn't get in the way at all the operino
8 Pro should be on many people's lists for a phone to upgrade to it's a very sensible very
beautiful and very well made device it's got an excellent price point but if you're looking
at this video wondering if if this is the phone for you I would say with my hand on my heart yes
I'm looking for reasons to get rid of my pixel 6 Pro so that I can use one of these because I do
like them very very much and the charging method suits me others will will say that that's not
good for the battery doing that to the battery I have an Oppo Find X3 that my wife has been using
using this charge method for over a year now and the battery hasn't degraded so consider it
do if you like the look of it and you're looking to to upgrade to this you won't be upset you
won't be annoyed it's an excellent phone and that's all I can really say about it so let me
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