Review – OPPO F5: For the Selfie Lovers
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OPPO F5
RM 1298
Pros
- Good build quality
- 6-inch 18:9 aspect ratio display
- Good front camera
- Great battery life
- Dedicated dual SIM and microSD card tray
- Good value
Cons
- Display with dull & washed out colours
- Sub par rear camera
- Cancerous ColorOS
- Micro USB
- No fast charging
Performance & Battery Life
MediaTek Helio P23, 4 GB RAM & 32 GB eMMC 5.1 storage
The OPPO F series smartphone always uses the MediaTek chips and there’s no exception for the F5. The MediaTek Helio P23 (16nm) is quite an upgrade considering that the OPPO F3 had a MediaTek MT6750T with the 28nm fabrication process. Therefore, we can expect improvements in the battery life.
AnTuTu score shows the Helio P23 chipset falls just slightly behind the Snapdragon 625 which is weird since the Helio P23 is supposed to be weaker.
For some reason, the phone refuses to run Geekbench as it could not connect to the server. Further investigation found out that the ColorOS itself is the culprit that blocks the connection to Geekbench server.
Moving on to PCMark and we start to see some obvious score difference.
3DMark clearly shows the weakness of the MediaTek Helio P23 – graphics processing department. Even if the GPU is utilising the capable Mali-G71 chip, however, having it in MP2 cluster spells disaster. Hence, don’t expect the phone would run high-end games in high quality and smooth frame rate.
3200 mAh Battery
As expected out of the Helio P23 with 16nm FinFET process, a single full charge could easily last for a full day of usage. Even with the added display resolution, the phone still can provide roughly 5 hours of screen-on-time (SOT) over 14 hours of usage.
No Fast Charging
Comes in the box is the standard 5V2A charging adaptor. While it baffles me why OPPO choose not to include their ultra-fast VOOC fast charge technology in the F5. Feature discrimination much?
It takes roughly 2 hours to juice up the phone from 10% to 90% mark which is nothing to brag about.
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