Finally managed to get my hands on the oppo find x5 pro so you might
have heard about this phone it's been out for a little while now i'm a bit late but
better late than never right as they say so i did get this model here from the oppo
ambassadors program right so i wanted to make that really clear that i'm part of the oppo ambassador
program straight away here does that mean that this is a paid video that's going to be biased
well no first off i'm not paid and it's going to be my standard review here let you know all the
pros and the cons that i encounter in this and oppo no they don't have to approve of this video
before i publish it all the opinions expressed on my own so with that out of the way
you probably know a bit about this phone right it's an android flagship with snapdragon 8 gen
1 but it has a custom chip in this an mpu that handles low light photography and video it's
the murray silicone so be interesting to see what kind of difference it's going to make versus the
typical standard qualcomm isp there so my model here has got 12 gigabytes of ram 256 gigabytes
of ufs 3.1 storage the screen this one has an in-screen fingerprint reader 6.7 inches
a quad hd resolution 120 hertz refresh rate 5000 milliamp hour battery 80 watt wire charging and
50 watt wireless charging so enough of the specs let's jump in and take a look at this phone in
detail so this is what we get in the box we have a case tpu one that fits it perfectly of course
a premium services card which is basically like a vip card sim tray tool safety information and then
our charger now this one is 80 watts and i'll give you the exact charge time later on in this review
and our cable which is type c to type a now this is one very slick looking phone it's
basically like a mirror surface here this is the ceramic black and i think the camera module here
from oppo is one of the best looking ones that i've seen on a recent flagship now this phone
is almost 120 grams so i would not call it a light phone now you can see we've got some branding here
it got powered by the murray silicon so that is the mpu in there that's handling the processing of
the photos the night shots hdr video and they're not using that qualcomm isp not this time around
so 50 megapixel main camera camera 15 megapixel macro and a two times optical 13 megapixel sensor
which i find a little unusual they should have gone for at least three times optical because two
times digital from a 15 megapixel camera actually looks pretty good now the sim tray in this one
is two nano sims no micro sd card support type c does support video out one of two loudspeakers
secondary mic here for voice calls and two antenna lines so the frame around the outside is metal so
the screen here with this one it's gorilla glass victus curved it's a ltpo2 display amoled and it's
very bright about 1300 in its maximum brightness i can make it out in direct sunlight and a screen
has a quad hd plus resolution which by default is actually set to full hd plus so if you go in here
i'll just swipe up to my app straw there you can see the camera which is in the cut out there now
this one's a selfie cam that is 32 megapixels it doesn't sadly have 4k video recording which
is really odd considering how much that oppo is pushing the cameras on these and they just lack
4k with the front-facing camera 1080p only with video and i'll give you samples of it later on
now other options you get here with this display you do have their image sharpener and video color
enhancement now these i do find tend to make some of the images look a little bit too artificial to
my eyes at least so i don't actually use them at all i do like the fact that under the screen color
mode we've got some options in here so by default it's vivid you've got natural and then pro mode
so cinematic brilliant and that's great you can also adjust the color temperature now just going
into some real world images very quickly here some photos that i have taken i think
it's a good display it's very good it's definitely flagship level i just wish that it didn't have the
curvature to it i actually do prefer flat screens and i'm sure a lot of people would probably agree
with me and when you look at the screen at certain angles you can see right on the edges
that it does shift out a little bit but it's not really too bad now touch response gestures are all
working really well with this screen the oppo find x5 pro is running android 12 and i do have the
latest patch from them that has come out recently had that update and we do have 12 gigabytes of ram
so it's android 12 running the color os 12.1 and you can't even allocate a little bit more ram but
it's not actually ram of course this is virtual ram so it's a caching system here file caching
that is supposed to help improve the fluidity of the rom and i have found it to be really good the
performance here now i have 256 gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage i'll get onto the speeds of that very
soon but i found that this is definitely one of the better android 12 roms i found the same
with the real me for example their gt2 and the gt2 pro that color os and that's real me ui with
them but it's basically the same it's very quick very fluid animations look great animations for me
are much better than say miui and even i have to say sometimes better than one ui 4.1 that
i've tested out with my samsung so quickly go here into twitter and the scrolling performance
here that's better than my samsung galaxy s 22 ultra it is very smooth and fluid now normally
twitter the app for android is not really that great but it seems to run well so optimization
definitely gets a big thumbs up from me what they've done here oppo with this because the
performance is great now multitasking works really well swapping over between your different
apps i really have not seen any issues lag with that and you can see the available ram that it
does actually use quite a bit that i've only got four gigabytes available out of the 12.
so how is oppo when it comes to bloatware a lot of brands they do cram a lot better bloatware
and there is quite a bit on here so i don't like this we've got featured amps tik tok all sorts
of things hot apps hot games that you need to go through the settings of the launcher to actually
disable that to stop it from showing up they're recommended apps they're not actually installed
it's a bit of a pain and you can see these other things in here that i had to go through and remove
i don't think that this should be on here for such an expensive phone so that's
not great to see now the battery capacity 5000 milliamp hours the charge time with the 80 watt
charging is just 37 minutes that's very good now that's from seven percent to 100 i don't
think that's bad at all like anything that's under one hour for me is good and i know yes there are
phones out there now that charge in around about 20 minutes so you could say it's falling behind
a little bit there but it's still way faster than an iphone so the internal storage here
256 gigabytes is my version here ufs 3.1 and you can see from these speeds
certainly not bad at all now they're not the fastest random reads of writes that i've seen
but they're still quick the sequential is also very good there for reads especially
and you'll see too that it can produce a very high score with antutu nearing up towards 900 000
that's not actually though the fastest i have seen out of the snapdragon 8 gen 1 which can normally
get about 100 000 points more than this so why is it a little bit lower well that's because i ran it
on balanced mode if you then put it into turbo or the more high performance mode i should say that's
when it performs to the maximum but it generates a little bit more heat you can see it went up
10 degrees there compared to well 9.8 not much of a difference there and you lose about five percent
battery from just one benchmark run so it does throttle quite a bit now i'm seeing this with a
lot of snapdragon 8gen ones this is nothing new so it gets a really good best score of almost 2
600 but then the lowest score there is quite low so look at that it throttles down stability
to 62 and it does get quite hot in the process it's a hot running chip that's snapdragon 8gen1 so
it passes this safety net test there and it does have nfc on board we've also got wireless charging
2 and inverted wireless charging and we've got a drm here of level one for it although it doesn't
i took the screenshot bad it's actually a level one that it does have with drm which is good
camera two api full support here level three another great thing gps also works very well
with a good average signal strength then our battery life so this really surprised me i set
it to quad hd 120 hertz i did not expect to get this score here so this is a fixed benchmark so
200 nits is what i calibrate the brightnesses of the displays to and all the phones and it runs it
so you can compare it to my other reviews it's not a bad score for the high resolution and the
refresh rate now real world use you are looking around eight hours of on-screen time which is
better than some other phones better than my samsung galaxy s 22 ultra for example which i
get only around six to seven hours out of so not bad at all when it comes to battery performance
from that five thousand milliamp hour battery that's bigger performance now so we do have
the earpiece that also acts as a loudspeaker now voice call quality it's a phone after all
does sound good i've got no problems with it no issues with it it does have noise cancellation
on the other side i ended up just doing a test call to myself and it sounds like any other
flagship basically there so no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack you need to use a type-c adapter
and when you do the quality is fine i've got no issues with it it's loud it's clear
and no complaints really at all the loudspeakers they do sound pretty good the volume's not bad
and there's a little bit of bass to them here's a sample now on one of my tracks at 100 volume
because it's that demanding it just cannot maintain 60 frames per second the only phones that
i've seen that are able to do that are actively called phones with little fans inside them with
the snapdragon 8 gen 1. it's quite a hot flagship chipset from all the phones i've been testing out
with this chip so performance dipping down at times but normally when there's not too many
enemies on screen you'll have mid 40s as the frame rate so right now it's 37 frames per second but it
should go up now to around the mid 40s it seems to be struggling a little bit clearly some throttling
is happening so what i'm gonna do now is play for about one hour and then report back on the
thermals with my thermal imaging camera okay so it's definitely warm to the touch and it's around
about 42 degrees celsius that is the front of the find x5 pro and the rear of it a little warmer
actually no about the same around 41 degrees celsius there ambient temperatures are about 25
so it is clearly throttling to me because i'm seeing the frame rate go from
40s mid-40s down to now mid and lower 30s so they control the heat oppo but the performance
does drop off once it starts to heat up now with the x5 pro cameras over to the x5 pro camera so
i find that the front camera is the let down of the cameras with this phone so with video
performance it's only 1080p maximum no 4k option and it does have electronic image stabilization
you need to enable it all the time because it's normally off by default now you've got
a closer crop and you can pull out a little bit right here the stabilization is good
now i do find with the front facing camera here which is 32 megapixels that it's sometimes does
overexpose especially with the photos let's have a look at the rear camera now with video
rear cameras now 4k this is the ultra wide so 50 megapixels electronic image stabilization
it is very steady as i walk along here so you can see now i can swap over to the main camera which
is one times now this has five axis optical image stabilization so three are the sensor and then
two access for the lens so this looks very steady and the quality is very good
now it does have quite a crop to it and it is applying that electronic image stabilization
and now very quickly low light video which is looking very promising here on the oppo
find x5 pro really good stabilization this is me just walking ahead i'm not using a gimbal
and that's coming out great so that sign should look
blue it's actually looking a little lighter than what it really is
do
now what did you think of those photo samples that i just showed you i think the low light is looking
really good like look at the details captured and then the amount of noise or should i say the lack
of noise and blacks is impressive very good it's probably got one of the best ultra wide cameras
that i've seen in daylight and low light really good there but there are some areas of weakness
i have noticed with the main camera that if you take photos with any moving subjects even not
moving that quickly like just animals um people and stuff it can blur that photo so there's a
bit of shutter lag happening that i hope that oppo can improve upon just speed things up a little bit
i guess because all the processing that's going on it could be slowing things down
that's why it tends to blur any photo with the slightest bit of movement with it
the other is that the selfie shots on this i don't really like i think the hdr is a bit over the top
uh it sometimes gets gets it wrong it overexposes and they just seem to be a little bit too bright
at times i've noticed with the selfies and of course the video performance is only 1080p maximum
with the front-facing camera which is really behind other flagship phones excellent excellent
build quality i like the camera module i think it looks great really good battery life i'm able
to get about well about nine hours of on-screen time out of this which is really good that's not
gaming however and then the rom the ui it's very quick it's very fast animations look great and
it's been very stable for me i've had no issues at all with the stability fingerprint unlocking great
wireless charging is there 50 watts we also have 80 watt wide charging 37 minutes fully charges
there's a lot of really good things about the phone but there's just two other little things
i wanted to mention that when you game a lot it doesn't get hot because it throttles it throttles
that snapdragon 8 gen 1 right down in the performance so gentian impact on high settings the
highest possible settings can go from 50 frames per second when it's cold when it's cool when you
start out gaming an hour later i only was getting about 35 frames per second it's a big dip and you
also see that in 3dmark their wildlife extreme test it really throttles down almost up to 40
performance it will drop to keep the thermals in check now thermals as i showed you are actually
really good doesn't go over 40 degrees celsius to the touch but we lose that performance the other
for me is the pricing of this now it's a great phone from oppo it offers a lot and it's got a lot
going for it but still 1300 euros or just under now at the time of me posting this video i think
it's a little too expensive for what it is but other than that it is a very good phone
here and i'm not just saying that because i am an opera ambassador no it's just what it
is it's got a lot going for it but as i mentioned there's still a few areas that oppo can improve
and it's mostly just all software tweaks to really get the best out of the find x5 pro so
thanks a lot for watching my review hope to see in the next one do subscribe for more bye for now