Thin, Pleasure World's Thinnest OPPO R5 Comprehensive Experience

For an electronic product, if one aspect of its performance is too eye-catching, then it becomes particularly important whether other aspects are balanced.

The world's thinnest body thickness of 4.85mm is undoubtedly the biggest highlight of the new OPPO R5 launched this year, but some people may wonder how the overall hardware of the phone can be maintained under such a slim body? Will it be as pleasant to use as it looks?

Our comprehensive experience of OPPO R5 hardware begins here.

It’s thin, but is the screen still great?

As the face of a smartphone, the screen has always been a very important part for domestic smartphone manufacturers. However, when smartphones are made extremely thin, many brands can no longer cope with it. The most direct point is reflected in the screen resolution. When the thickness of a smartphone is about 5mm, many manufacturers only choose a 720P resolution, which is not satisfactory for display fineness.

OPPO R5 has not regressed in this regard. The 5.2-inch 1080P display has excellent effects, and the fineness of 423PPI is not reduced compared to the flagship products.

It may be because the screen material of OPPO R5 is AMOLED. At certain angles, the color of the screen will be slightly green, but the brightness performance of this screen is satisfactory. At least when compared with OPPO N3 which uses IPS screen, the maximum brightness of the two is almost at the same level.

In view of the self-luminous characteristics of AMOLED screen material, OPPO R5 has also made some modifications to the system interface. Although we are already familiar with the ColorOS it carries, unlike OPPO N3, the setting interface style of R5 is dark tones, which matches the screen to achieve the purpose of power saving. However, if the background of the interface is set to pure black, the effect may be more significant.

It’s thin, but is the performance good enough?

OPPO R5 is positioned as an ultra-thin flagship phone, but it does not choose the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 or 801 processor commonly found in flagship phones. Instead, it uses an eight-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 uses an octa-core Cortex-A53 architecture CPU supplemented by Adreno 405 GPU. From the detection software, the processor frequency of OPPO R5 is set to quad-core 800mhz and quad-core 1.5Ghz, which is slightly lower than the standard Snapdragon 615 frequency.

Although the score of less than 30,000 points in the benchmark software can only be considered barely passable, in actual use, OPPO R5 has no shortcomings in performance. The system interface and software operations are smooth. Even when facing large-scale games that test the performance of the processor, OPPO R5 can easily run with the highest special effects. Under the display output of 1080P resolution, the capability of Adreno405 graphics processor is still more than enough. As for the support of Snapdragon 615 for 64-bit system, perhaps it can only be reflected after OPPO R5 is upgraded to Android 5.0.

Although it has strong performance, the heat problem caused by the ultra-thin body should not be underestimated. Even if the "Ice Nest Cooling" system is adopted and certain restrictions are made on the processor frequency, in heavy usage scenarios such as large-scale games, the metal material of the OPPO R5 body can still quickly transfer heat to the user's palm. Under direct contact, it is almost catching up with the "fever" Xiaomi.

Is it thin, but still has outstanding imaging?

Imaging has always been an area that OPPO smartphones pay special attention to. OPPO R5 also uncompromisingly carries the same 5-megapixel front-facing + 13-megapixel rear-facing lens combination as its flagship product OPPO Find7, and even designs a raised area on the back of the body for the camera.

OPPO R5 also supports OPPO's exclusive ultra-clear picture quality photography. The difference is that compared to the 64-megapixel maximum supported by OPPO N3, OPPO R5 can "only" synthesize 50-megapixel photos like OPPO Find7, but this is definitely enough to clearly show the details of photos in complex scenes.

When shooting night scenes, the "Gorgeous Night Shot" mode built into OPPO R5 can significantly improve the picture quality. Compared with the normal mode, the purity of the photos is much higher and it is very practical. The imaging performance of OPPO R5 did not disappoint us.

Thin, but still charges fast

Of course, the ultra-thinness of OPPO R5 does not mean that there is no sacrifice in hardware. The 5.2-inch screen has only a built-in battery with a capacity of only 2000mAh, which may make users feel a little insecure based on the parameters.

We tested it with a 45-minute 720P resolution video with the screen brightness and external speaker volume at 50% respectively. Starting with 40% power remaining, the OPPO R5 finally consumed 12% of power, which is one-third more than the 9% power consumption of the OPPO N3 tested under the same conditions before. For daily use, it is roughly maintained at the mainstream level of charging a smartphone once a day.

The charging efficiency of OPPO R5 will definitely give you confidence. The battery with a relatively small capacity combined with OPPO's patented VOOC "flash charging" technology makes the charging speed of the machine have an amazing performance.

It only took 27 minutes to flash charge the battery from 10% to 80%, which is almost 1 minute to charge 3% of the battery, and the battery is fully charged within an hour. In the current smartphone market, it is difficult to find a second product that charges so quickly.

Summarize

The selling point of OPPO R5 is "thinness". Overall, it has a 1080P display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor, high-quality photo taking effect... The significance of "thinness" is more to add icing on the cake for the product.

Faced with a domestic mobile phone priced at 2,999 yuan, many people must be interested in OPPO R5 because of its 4.85mm thickness. But what is certain is that the world's thinnest smartphone bought for 2,999 yuan is not just a vase in your hand, but also a flagship product with balanced performance.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.