Oppo F3 Plus Review: More than just a Selfie Expert
Oppo F3 Plus Review: More than just a Selfie Expert
Published: 06:21 am Apr 03, 2017
Kathmandu Cameras in smartphones are getting better with time. Big names in the industry have released smartphones with dual cameras on the back one after another. But there are only a few phones with dual camera setup on the front, and Oppo F3 plus is the newest addition to this list. Oppo F3 Plus has dual selfie cameras and much more. Let’s find out what you’ll be getting if you buy this phone. Design The Oppo F3 Plus is a big phone that is so hard to fit in one hand and in the pocket. With the ‘Plus’ tag right on its name, well, that will be something obvious. The phone resembles Oppo R9s in many different design aspects like the strip antenna bands on the back, the chamfered lines around the front edges and even the rear camera positioning. This metal clad phone is a little slippery due to its smooth finish. However, with its slightly curved back and rounded edges, the phone gives your hands a premium feeling. All in all, this is a well-built phone that looks appealing with huge display and thin borders. Display The phone comes with big 6-inch display with the resolution of 1920*1080 pixels. It’s an LCD display that just looks as saturated as the OLED ones. Well, if the display with saturated colours fall in your liking, then this display won’t disappoint you. However, the phone doesn’t come with any display tuning options which can be disappointing to many. The display protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 does have a good touch response. Performance Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 with 4GB RAM, the phone handles almost any task with ease. The app loading and switching times were noticeably fast and the phone performed quite well even while playing graphics intensive games. At times, the upper portion of the phone gets hot but that doesn’t deter the performance. The phone offers 64GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 256GB. Camera Oppo F3 Plus houses a 16MP rear shooter with f/1.7 aperture and is accompanied by dual-tone LED flash that performs impressively well even in low light conditions. The photos look well-detailed and the colour reproduction is pretty close. The camera app is straight forward with options for HDR, Ultra HD photos and manual control and will let you to take 20 burst photos at a time. It is also capable of taking 4K videos at 30fps. Since it’s titled the ‘selfie expert’, the front dual cameras (8MP+16MP) are equally appealing as well. The 16MP unit has f2.0 aperture so the selfies taken from it come out detailed and bright. The second 8MP lens is a wide angle one that lets you pack all your friends in one selfie. There are options to shoot selfie time-lapse and panoramas. Like other Oppo phones, this to comes with beauty mode for the enhancement of selfies. Battery The phone packs in 4000mAh battery that will easily last for a whole day even in heavy usage. Plus, the phone comes with VOOC fast charger that charges your phone from 0 to 89 per cent in just one hour. Software This device is running on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with ColorOS skinned on top. But the separation of quick toggles and notifications in different panels isn’t that handy. The phone comes with nifty trick that allows to shrink down the display to either side of the phone for better one-hand usability. Verdict The Oppo F3 Plus, a capable camera phone, easily justifies its title of selfie expert. Other impressive features of this phone are its snappy fast fingerprint sensor and sound rich loudspeaker. However, Oppo could have made the phone a little more future proof by inclusion of Android 7 Nougat and USB Type-C. Plus, the Snapdragon 653 is a powerful processor but isn’t as powerful as Snapdragon 821 that is powering the device of the same price range. Overall score Build: 4.6/5 Display: 4.4/5 Software: 4.1/5 Performance: 4.2/5 Camera: 4.5/5 Battery: 4.6/5 Overall score: 4.4/5 The author is a content writer at Gadgetbyte Nepal who is a gadget enthusiast and also loves writing