I cannot stop using this phone.
I have been using other phones, of course, when I need to review them.
But whenever I am given the chance to actually pick what phone
I take with me, pretty much always this at the moment.
Here are three reasons why that is.
Number one, the 6.7 inch display is kind of the crown jewel on this phone
because it is just so, so good.
The specs on this all add are top of the range.
It has a 120 hertz refresh rate and it's capable of 1440 resolution.
It's also LCP, which allows it to drop down to as little as one hertz
when it doesn't need to show that smooth scrolling and it's ten bit,
which means it can display over 1 billion different colors, resulting in higher
color accuracy than most other phones, which usually only use eight bit steel.
When I first started using this, my highly trained video
editor AIS did notice there was something special
about this display, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
It's kind of hard to explain and show you in video,
but everything just looks right, if that makes sense.
Well, the screen notes over a displaymate proved me right with actual science.
They've declared the oppo x five pro as visually indistinguishable from perfect
big claim and in their extensive
testing it set six performance records for smartphone displays.
If you're a big stats and numbers nerd, I highly recommend you go check out
Displaymate article on this because it does a really good job of
showcasing just how well constructed this screen is.
It really is something special, actually.
So the cameras.
Yeah, just like the display.
The main and ultrawide lenses on this are two of the best cameras
I've ever seen on a smartphone.
The phone is just so good at replicating true to life colors.
Some come with a touch of added vibrancy, but I think it's just enough
to make the images immediately shareable.
After taking a snap.
Also, everything has this nice softness to it
that you don't typically get with other phones.
I really, really like the look out of this thing.
This is also just really good at low light.
Most of these images are taken in very dark situations
and it's done a spectacular job
of bringing up the true colors and the sharpness of the scene.
Look at this portrait I took.
My face isn't illuminated by anything in the real world.
It's completely dark.
Outside my skin is a little bit smoother than normal, but otherwise
it looks like I'm fully lit.
That is wild stuff.
Similarly, this rabbit I found was sitting in pitch black night
just illuminated by that one straight light in the back.
Of course, it does kind of fall apart when there's a bit of movement
from other yourself of a subject.
But if you can keep still, it's just really, really impressive.
Video is the same, really impressive stuff.
But you can see in really dark footage the AI from the Mirror's
silicon chip adapts the images it records.
It's a weird look, but the trade off is you can kind of
get away with shooting in almost no light, and I think that's pretty cool.
It does have a third lens and that is a 13 megapixel two times
telephoto zoom, but it's just not very good.
Frankly, digitally
zooming in on a 50 megapixel image with the wide looks just as good.
So I feel like the long lens is kind of useless on this phone.
It's such a big shame because pretty much every other premium phone in this price
range have a decent telephoto lens and one that can go further than two times.
Maybe next year.
However, the other two lenses are so good that they kind of make up
for the lack of decent telephoto though.
If you don't mind being close to your subjects
or taking a lot of landscapes, yeah, you'll be happy with this.
But of all the key features
there is the one thing that absolutely sells this to me.
It's the charging and battery.
It's just magic.
The phone comes with its
own charging brick and cable, but it's just not any old charging brick.
It's an 80 watt super vooc charger, which essentially
allows it to charge from 0 to 100% in just over 30 minutes.
Pair that with a £5,000 million battery and you've got a phone that can easily
last the whole workday.
And, you know, if it dies, it's not going to be much of a hassle to charge up.
I was already really happy with this.
It basically made me stop charging my phone overnight and just plug it in
20 minutes before I would go anywhere, which is kind of kind of wacky for a fire.
And you don't normally do that.
But then I took a traveling that absolutely sealed the deal with me
because yeah, when you're, you know, at airports
or camping, it's actually kind of hard to find power outlets sometimes.
But if you have a power outlet in 15 minutes,
that's going to keep you topped up for quite a while.
And that is actually really, really useful when you're out and about.
Okay.
There is one trade off that I should tell you about
because the tech behind this charger is specific to how the phone is built.
It won't supercharge any phones that aren't from the Baby K
Electronics Company and are compatible with this solid charging.
This also can't access super works with other brands charges.
It does still get fast charging, but it is a lot slower than the advanced
30 minute charge that I was talking about.
My advice,
if you do buy this phone, definitely make sure to hold on to your charger
because this is your ticket to those crazy charging speeds.
So you might have noticed there's also another phone sitting here.
This is the Non-Pro find x502 review this maybe about a month ago.
I've checked that video out if you haven't already.
Basically the toddler's.
I didn't really like it that much
and that's because it feels more like a stripped back version of the pro
rather than a decent phone in its own right.
Well, it's a little smaller,
and that could definitely be a good thing for some people.
It's display is missing a few of the things that make the pro so great.
It also has last year's processor, which is still pretty good, mind you,
and it is not technically waterproof, which is a huge miss for me.
There are a few differences that are less pronounced as well.
The pro does have slightly better cameras with better stabilization
and an improved color sensor, but these features really only come
into play on edge cases, most notably in low light scenarios.
Frankly, most images out of these two phones look very similar.
They're both great.
The charging and battery on these is also very similar.
Both have some of the best charging speeds in the industry, but if you are
keen on wireless charging, the pro can go a bit faster.
But again, it's a pretty minor edge case.
Basically.
I feel like the Non-Pro find S5
is priced to compete with phones that kind of just do everything better.
Whereas once you add all the pro features to this one, this is actually
a pretty decent competitor to other phones in that premium price range.
It's kind of neat to think about when a lot of the improvements to this
are actually pretty minor.
But believe me, they do add up.
Unfortunately, all those features also add up to a premium price
with the oppo find x five pro going for around 1800 Australian dollars.
Yeah, that's pretty pricey.
And just below the S20 two ultra, which while it has its own weird downsides,
comes with that cool pen and two decent telephoto lenses
rather than one pretty bad one.
So yeah, if you can get over the price and don't really care
about the telephoto lens, this is just a really, really good fire.
It definitely doesn't have any novel gimmicks
like some of the other phones that I've reviewed this year.
But what it does have is all the features that matter to power users,
and it does all of those things really, really well
with a beautiful main screen, some of the fastest charging
in the industry, and two very nice main cameras.
This phone is just a complete package.
I would use it as a daily driver.
And honestly, I have I absolutely love this thing.
But if you are keen on oppo and think maybe you could save some cash
and don't need all the pro features that I've found here.
Well, I do have my review of the Find X five Non-Pro edition.
You can check that out here.
And who knows, maybe I can help you save some money.
That's what I'm all about here. Tech find it.
I'll see you there.
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