hi this is Dom from tech advisor here for another unboxing we have the Oppo
Reno Zed or Zee depending on your linguistic inclination which is the new sort of
budget model in the Opera Reno range so let's take a look at it ok so I
hopefully have one of the other opera models here for comparison that one's
actually a 5 G model but it's exactly the same as the ten-time zoom for G
model but this Reno Zed or Zee is something a little bit different it's priced in
the UK at just 299 pounds so it's less than half that top-end flagship and
lower even than the regular Reno but we're gonna see as we go there's a lot
of stuff that you're getting that's quite different to those top-end models
particularly it's missing what's kind of like the flagship Reno feature which is
that pivot rising shock fin selfie camera but let's get into what we do
have so there we go that's the phone itself the Reno Zee, Zed I don't know I'm
gonna keep going both ways who knows what do you get that's there's
something else in there once done got even more in there what's that we've got
something that's stuck in there no that's part of the packaging it's like
I've never unboxed a phone before these aren't even interesting anyways warranty
stuff right okay there we go the phone itself if I can get that up so yeah
we've got the basic like headline specs here 48 megapixel main camera lens
which is nice because at a 299 pound phone that's really good
good it's the same main camera there's actually in the higher-end models so
that's one the oh you're still getting sort of that great high-end performance
and also four thousand milliamp hour battery pretty much the same size you've
got the vooc 3.0 charging which is the same fast charging the top model you
still buy the in screen fingerprint reader it's then we get there like four
gig of ram that sort of thing full gig of ram like that's fine that's good but
as that's not flagship and it's that kind of internal stuff but we'll see
this feels like the cheaper phone that it is you
have to forgive me I've only like this is a phone I found that was coming to UK
this morning we requested it and then the phone turned up this afternoon and
this is the only chance we got shoot video so have to very quickly like find
out everything I can about this phone so we could get some video out to you guys
straight away but we will get to the actual phone a sec what else do we have
in here okay we've got a case
transparent that kind of you know dark so it's gonna look like block the color
it a bit but still it's nice headphones in I actually don't know to just have a
headphone port it does headphone jack so normal 3.5 more headphones that come
with it you'll see we've got a European power plug and USBC cable for charging
and that's yeah that's what we've got in there so pretty standard stuff nice to
get headphones in I can't imagine they're the best
headphones in the world but it's one of those things manufacturers increasingly
not bothering to include is headphones in the box so especially at this price
point is nice to see their student okay let's get to the meat of this thing so
okay now we have that color which I really really really like so this is or
or a purple you can also get the phone and I think they call it jet black as
you can see this purple but it's just purpley blue II kind of gradient thing
that's going on very purpley at the top I mean it's actually more blue than
purple overall but still I think that's a really nice finish and again
especially at this price point getting that kind of nice gradient effect often
that's the kind of thing that drops off of is you get down to the like lower
price back of these things and if we look on the back that screen off like
the design is pretty similar to the high in Reno you can see like the base sort
of aesthetic is still the same obviously the camera module very different and
that's why we'll see there is some change but call
you still got this sort of strip down the middle design which I don't love but
I know other people really do and it's also got the O-dot which is that little
like ceramic nubbin that lets the phone rest on it so that the camera lenses
don't get scratched because just like on the high in reno it's pretty much
totally flush with the body in fact I don't know sorry that's there's a few
glass protection on the back of the phone pre-applied so that's why that
looks like it's a little bit sort of indented that's just because it's come
pre applied with a protector on the back as well as the front which i don't think
i've ever seen before okay so let's get it turned on and run
through some quick setup
okay cool so I've just run through the boring immediate bits of setup and here
we go - welcome screen for color OS 6 so that's sort of the upper branding for
its own OS this is the same version of the OS that's again on the on the latest
arena we used to really not be a big fan of color OS but actually the six version
is like a big step up it's still not the best Android skin out there for me it
still doesn't match what oneplus do with oxygen or Samsung's new one you are the
one they introduced earlier this year with the s10 but it's it's a real step
up it's very sort of Anna chunky and colorful and it's got it's got that kind
of thing it still takes a lot of design cues from Apple and iOS but you know it
looks nice it's mostly pretty easy to navigate I find some of the settings
menus a bit odd to work around but broadly I think unless you're a real
like stock Android nerd you're probably not gonna have too much to complain
about okay so one of the first things we'll
notice as we compare these two phones so again this is the reno z and this is the
ten times zoom 5g model so yet the the notch here so we've got this dewdrop
kind of teardrop not effect on the top of the Z because it is lacking that main
exciting high-end Reno feature which is that silly rising selfie camera or girl
my chin looks horrible like that that's what that oh there we go
so we don't have that shock fin look on this phone it's just a standard not
which is a bit odd I think to put this out with the Reno name I think it felt
maybe to a lot of people like Reno was synonymous with that that shark fin
because that was kind of the one big thing that was unified across the
previous Reno models but still at 300 pounds maybe that's kind of a sensible
place to cut some corners and one of the funny things actually is the camera it's
potentially better this is a 32 megapixel selfie camera where does that
one's only 16 so you are getting a high megapixel count on the selfie camera
going to the back cameras this is where we got a big difference so I could said
the main lens is still the same 48 megapixel one it is it actually I was
looking through the specs earlier it's the same lens it's the same Sony sensor
it's got the same aperture everything seems to be
exact same as the lens that the the big Reno is packing what you're not getting
is the wide-angle or the five times optical zoom
telephoto that's in the tenth um zoom model instead that second lens is just a
5 megapixel depth sensor so that will help taking portrait mode shots and
things like that but you're not getting those other like zoom options wide-angle
all that it's just gonna take your standard images well portrait should be
good it should have the same software side and the sort of AI image processing
so you should get the same night mode stuff
obviously I've just got the phone out so I haven't had a chance to run through
exactly how the camera performs but I would expect it to do a pretty good job
like I was impressed by the Reno 10 times zoom camera I'm sure this will do
almost as well for standard voters the challenge is going to be while on the
software side the processing might be the same hardware wise it's definitely
going to be quite different well the Reno is packing a Snapdragon sorry the reno
10 times zoom is packing a snapdragon 855 this is a mediatek helios p90
processor which you may have heard of MediaTek is one of the other sort of
rival chip manufacturers they don't tend to get used as often certainly not in
the West and certainly not in big phones or flagship models the p90 is kind of an
equivalent to the Snapdragon 710 so it's a mid-range chip so it will be fine it
will be fast enough for ordinary usage but it's definitely not flagship
performance it's definitely not hand gaming performance and I would feel it
might lag a bit when you're talking about that image processing stuff it
could mean that saying night mode and things like that may take a little bit
longer to process it may not come out quite as well and that's one of the
things I'm going to looking for as we're playing around with the phone in the
full review rest of the specs are it's a kind of a similar story there's four
gigabytes of RAM rather than six or eight, 128 gigabytes of storage at least
in the UK I think other countries may be getting slightly different skews in
terms of RAM amounts of storage amounts so I know funds coming to India in
August I'm not sure where else so if if those internal specs are a bit different
where you are than sorry but yeah for the UK it's for gig of ram and 128 gig
of storage other than that though there aren't that many compromises like the
design is still nice it's obviously a bit smaller than the Reno but that's
probably thing for a lot of people like them you
know this is a big phone like this is right at the limits of what I am
comfortable using in terms of phone slide and you can sort of see like in my
unlike that's a stretch for me to use that so the the big Reno is six point
seven inch screen this is six point four inch so I think for a lot of people that
would be a nicer size actually it's still plenty big it's a small notch so
you're still getting an almost full screen experience
and actually the screen should be of a very comparable quality it's also AMOLED
it's also 1080p so this is basically the same kind of screen experience you're
getting in that high-end Reno phone you just have to put up with a little bit of
a notch at the top which I don't think is particularly big compromise to make
given the price difference we're looking elsewhere in otherwise yeah the
software's the same they're still in screen fingerprint scanner you get the
perk of a headphone jack which you do not get on the more expensive arena it's
still USB C charging and like I said it's still got the vooc 3.0 super fast
charging so you should be looking at charging like most of the battery in
half an hour it's the same four thousand milliamp hour battery and given that
it's running a slower processor in like slow specs actually that battery life
should last a lot longer so we're the flagship Rina 10 times zoom would do add
a stretch to two days just about I kind of expect the Reno Z to be a two day
phone pretty comfortably if it's if it's what I'm expecting from it I haven't
tested that but that's what I'd be thinking this is likely to deliver so
yeah I mean I must be really quite impressed by this I it's it's got a lot
of them for what it is the big drawback is you're going to be missing out on
that kind of internal processing power so if what you're really looking for is
gaming it's not going to deliver on that front but for everything else it kind of
will and the only big compromise on photography is that you're missing the
telephoto and the wide-angle well I honestly think those are the kind of
things most people don't use that often they're nice features to market a phone
they sound really cool you see people zoomed in shots of like faraway
buildings and it seems really cool when you've actually got the phone nine times
out of ten you just take it out your pocket point-and-shoot and take the
photo that you get from that and this will be almost as good I would think on
that kind of photo he which is what counts plus this color
is so much better than the green of that if you ask me so yeah this is out now I
think in the UK at 299 I think it's coming to India in August August 11th is
the day I saw but that like I might decide on that so sorry yeah if you like
the look of the sort of modern la po UI and you've been tempted but you're sort
of not quite sure about that pivot rising camera or you can't justify the
cost of one of the top end Renos like yeah I would give the Reno Z a really
serious look thanks