OPPO which has been a little bother just lately, with some of its units apparently being faraway from some retailers because of low gross sales. In spite of this, they’re persevering with to work on cracking the market in Australia and have launched a new machine, the OPPO Reno 10 5G.
It’s obtained twin hybrid/micro-SD (SIM or MicroSD) functionality, 67W PD3/SuperVOOC charging (included inbox) and that implausible 6.7” 10-bit/1.07 billion color, 120Hz AMOLED display.
Now OPPO isn’t a stranger to us and definitely I’ve to say I’ve reviewed a truthful few OPPO telephones, with my final being final years (2022) OPPO Find X5 Pro which I discovered may have been simply a Samsung and even potential Apple killer, although perhaps not an iPhone killer however positively a worthy competitor to Samsung’s Galaxy S line up.
So when OPPO opted to launch a new telephone, I wished to present the Reno 10 5G a attempt to see if it may be a worthy competitor to its friends. Can the OPPO Reno 10 5G really be a competitor; out shining and out powering its rivals, let’s have a look lets.
What’s within the field?
In the field you can find the machine itself, a 1 meter USB-C to USB A cable, 67W wall charger, common consumer manuals and booklets and a SIM tray instrument.
The design and underneath the hood
The OPPO Reno 10 5G comes with a 6.7-inch 3D AMOLED show (2412 x 1080, 394ppi) that gives a 120Hz refresh price and I’ve to say turning on the machine and seeing the show working, it’s simply very beautiful and clear.
The entrance show additionally homes an underneath show fingerprint sensor while the highest center homes a 32MP selfie digital camera which is greatest described as a punch gap within the show.
The proper hand aspect of the Reno 10 5G homes the facility.standby button and above that is quantity rocker (up and down).
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OPPO reno 10 5G – entrance
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OPPO reno 10 5G – rear
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USB-C port
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proper hand aspect
The backside of the Reno 10 5G homes the SIM and microSD card tray on the left hand aspect, subsequent to that is the USB-C charging port within the heart while on the proper hand aspect is the place you can find the exterior speaker grill.
The left hand aspect doesn’t have something on it while the highest the small microphones to assist make calls clearer and drown out any background noise.
Flipping over the again, while it’s made of a plastic and matte wanting Lilac color, which appears completely beautiful if I say so, its so nice to see and consider. The rear left hand aspect prime of the machine, homes the digital camera housing which protrudes out from the rear cowl for about 2-3mm homes the triple rear cameras that are made up of 64MP digital camera lens, 32MP telephoto lens and an 8MP extremely extensive angle lens., with the OPPO brand positioned in the direction of the rear proper hand of of the again of the Reno 10 5G.
Under the hood, you can find the Reno 10 5G is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 7050 processor, ARM Mail-G68 MC4 GPU alongside 8GB RAM and 256GB of onboard storage which will be expanded to 1TB. We will go additional into this in a while within the overview to see the way it took a grueling couple of weeks on the Ausdroid overview bench.
Furthermore, the Reno 10 5G comes with Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.3 Low Energy (LE) and GPS.
Lights, Camera, Action!
The OPPO Reno 10 5G comes with a triple rear digital camera arrange that’s made up of a 64MP digital camera lens, 32MP telephoto lens and an 8MP extremely extensive angle lens.
The settings which might be out there within the digital camera app itself embrace Night, video, picture, portrait, professional, additional HD, Panorama, slo-mo, Timelapse, twin view video, sticker and textual content scanner.
Photos taken on the rear digital camera are fairly vivid with color. The tone and color usually are not overly saturated and near actual life, although sadly, the OIS has been eliminated so that you’re going to wish to digital camera utterly nonetheless to get the right picture or video.
32MP Selfie digital camera can also be nice with digital camera picture, colors, and saturation are true to life and might supply these clear social media photographs.
Performance and software program
As acknowledged within the design part, the OPPO Reno 10 5G is powered underneath the hood by octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 7050 processor, ARM Mail-G68 MC4 GPU alongside 8GB RAM and 256GB of onboard storage which will be expanded to 1TB.
In phrases of efficiency, the Reno 10 5G is ready to multitask fairly nicely with no stutter or lagging between varied apps like Gmail, YouTube, streaming companies apps, social media and extra. Even enjoying video games the show is vibrant and the efficiency have been
Though my difficulty is the considerable bloatware apps which might be put in, resembling their very own calendar, clock apps. Purely and certainly these apps could possibly be carried out away by the Google equal. Furthermore, I observed that OPPO appears to have downloaded extra apps, primarily all video games that I by no means downloaded or put in like royal match, fill the glass, household mini mart and extra. All up it could appear an extra 9 to 10 apps that I needed to strive uninstall if I may.
This is have been some of the decrease price and catches are available and I do implore OPPO and another firm that obtain apps with out asking first or duplicating different apps as an alternative of the Google ones, please rethink this concept. Just observe the Okay.I.S.S philosophy – Keep It Simple Stupid!
The Reno 10 5G runs Android 13 with the standard ColorOS 13.1 working excessive and I’ve to say ColorOS has improved a lot from its early days however once more one thing that may little question evolve extra time.
Battery life
In phrases of battery life, the OPPO Reno 10 5G comes with a whopping 5,000 mAh non detachable battery on board which will be charged due to the included 67W charger which might cost the machine up shortly inside half an hour from near 10% to 100%.
The battery is ready to final all through the day with medium utilization between social media, watching YouTube movies or streaming apps like Netflix, Stan or extra, emails, messaging apps. Taking the machine off cost at about 7-7:30am and returning dwelling wherever between 6pm and 8pm, I nonetheless had wherever between 40-60% battery cost left on the finish of the day with no need to cost. Though with increased utilization this could possibly be a bit much less battery life on the finish of day.
Furthermore, OPPO has included a characteristic which helps to increase the life of the battery, due to the good battery well being algorithm alongside a battery well being engine which may also help prolong the recharge cycle life to over 1600 that may nonetheless maintain 80% of the cost. This implies that the Reno 10 5G may doubtlessly final a lot longer than many different good telephones with no need to be always wired to your wall charger over time.
Should you contemplate shopping for one?
The OPPO Reno 10 5G does present a compelling supply to anybody who needs 5G, a nice digital camera, wonderful battery life and tremendous quick charging all in a neat package deal. OPPO has gone far and past my expectations and that’s a good factor.
Granted there are a couple of issues that I would love OPPO to have a look at altering resembling adopting extra fundamental Google apps alongside eradicating or not downloading apps and video games it thinks I would need however that’s simply minor in comparison with the general package deal and expertise for the typical consumer.
The OPPO Reno 10 5G is accessible to buy from the OPPO web site, JB Hi-Fi and Officeworks web site and shops in both silver gray or ice blue for $749.00.
