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Oppo Find7 Smartphone Hands-on Review

Posted on the 27 August 2014 by Devender Singh @DevenderSingh93

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Oppo flagship smartphone #Find7 is one of the most high quality hardware smartphones in the Indian mobile market.We used the flagship Find 7 for about 1 month to test its performance & features at every limit and the results were quite good with very few  down slopes

Recently,Oppo has made it exclusively available on flipkart.com online retail also and we expect that this step will give lead to this device in the market.

Design and Build Quality:

Oppo #Find7 has a very Innovative design look and stylish rear cover which is made up of carbon fiber instead of brushed metal.The phone itself cannot be considered slim by today’s standards with its dimension(152.6 x 75 x 9.2 mm). Its weight of 172g makes it heavier in comparison to a lot of other flagship devices. The weight is uniformly distributed however throughout the phone and it holds well in your hand.

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Performance and hardware:

Oppo #Find7 is powered by a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor which gives great performance and user experience without any lag even while running heavy resource usage apps and high end graphic games.It runs on a higher-capacity 3,000 mAh battery that keeps the device running for about 12 hours on fair usage.

Oppo has also implemented an amazing VOOC charging technology that allows the phone to charge 4x faster than the normal duration. Which is very Impressive, if you ask us. Further boosting the experience, this device comes with a replaceable battery, a feature that is becoming very rare these days.Those 3 GB of RAM also help keep your gaming and multi-tasking experience as flexible as jelly. Another feature to mention, the device’s 32 GB of internal memory storage is also very sufficient, and it can be further expanded via its microSD slot.

Benchmark Scores:

AnTuTu Benchmark Test:  37,347

Quadrant Benchmark Test: 23,101 points

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Software & UI(User Interface) Experience:

The Oppo Find 7 comes with Android version 4.3 Jellybean.

Similar to HTC Sense and Asus ZenUI, Oppo also has its own custom User Interface: “ColorOS”

The “ColorOS UI” is quite different from regular Android User Interface experience. It is generally lag-free. The Oppo Find 7 is filled with the regular bunch of Google apps and also a ton of Oppo’s own custom apps,which might be quite useful.

Oppo’s custom apps which comes pre-installed are O-Cloud, Power Manager, Data Monitor, and a ton of other apps which are meant to secure the device.

Specifications & features:

  • Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support; penta-band 3G with HSPA, quad-band LTE
  • 5.5″ 16M-color 1080p IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with 401ppi
  • Android OS v4.3 Jelly Bean with Color OS
  • Quad-core 2.3GHz Krait 400 CPU, 2GB RAM, Adreno 330 GPU; Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset
  • 13MP autofocus camera, dual-LED flash; HDR, RAW, Panorama, long exposure (up to 32 seconds), Super Zoom mode producing 50MP high-quality samples
  • 2160p video recording@30fps, 1080p@30fps, 1080p HDR, 720p@120fps
  • Dual-band Wi-Fi ac/a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct and DLNA; Wireless TV-out (Miracast)
  • GPS with A-GPS
  • 16GB of built-in storage
  • microSD card slot
  • microUSB 2.0 port, USB on the go support
  • Bluetooth v4.0
  • NFC
  • Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
  • 2800mAh battery with fast charging
  • Accelerometer and proximity sensor
  • Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic

Contents Inside the Box:

  • Handset
  • USB Cord
  • Battery Charger
  • Ear phones
  • Replacement Ear buds
  • User Instruction Manuals & Warranty Card

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Overall Verdict:

Oppo Find7 is currently one of the cheapest high-end quality segment smartphones in the Indian market and gives really tough competition to other same segment smartphones of brands like HTC,Samsung etc.It is currently priced at Rs. 32490 which is quite genuine price for such an quality product.

The overall design and look of Oppo Find7 is very Innovative & bold.

One thing we didn’t like is the Heating issue in this smartphone,It generally gets very heated while charging or continuous high usage.We hope that Oppo team will look into this problem and try to remove it.


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