Oppo F5 was announced on October 26
and has been leading our Top 10 most popular phones chart since. And
now that we got the phone for a review we'll be able to find out what
all the fuss is about.
The Selfie Expert
The chipset is decidedly mid-range and the design is hardly very
exciting - although the taller screen helps improve the traditional Oppo
look.
Oppo targets this at selfie enthusiasts so we are willing to live
with those compromises. And at €320 the MediaTek P23 isn't that bad a
deal.
Keen to share some of the iPhone X spotlight, Oppo repeatedly
points out that the F5 comes with facial recognition. Its recognition
needs a picture of your face instead of complicated 3D mapping, but our
early experience shows it's quite fast even in dim lighting like a
bedroom in the morning or late at night. You need to turn the display on
and the UI recognizes you in less than a second. It needs 300 ms in
good light and around 800 ms in a dark environment.
Setting up the face recognition
Oppo dubbed its F-series Selfie Expert and to back it up the F5 comes
with “AI beauty recognition technology”. It promises to capture human
beauty in all its forms - no matter your age, gender, skin tone or skin
type. In practice it applies a soft filter to your skin, widens your
eyes and blurs the background. There are additional Edit options that
make your jawline skinnier and strengthens the glow. We aren't huge fans
of such overprocessed photos, but beauty is subjective, so we’ll let
you compare and tell us what is the best way.
Edited Beauty Selfie • Beauty Selfie • Auto Selfie
The Oppo F5 also comes with FullHD+ resolution on its 18:9 LCD. It is
good for videos taken with the phone, but watching something on YouTube
gives you black bars on the sides. One feature that many will enjoy is
the card tray. It fits two SIM cards and a microSD which is still a
rarity.
The F5 is one of the first devices with the new Helio P23 chipset. We are eager to share how it performs, so stay around for the complete review.
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