A successful phone that has a hard time

Overall, the processing is at a very high level, the phone does not bend anywhere, does not throw and everything fits perfectly. We can definitely see here that Oppo has been making phones for some time. We were even originally confused by the frame, which we thought was metal. In reality, however plastic, as well as the back of the phone. On the front there is a classic tempered glass. Specifically, Gorilla Glass 5. The plastic body reduced the total weight to a pleasant 172 grams. The dimensions of the phone itself are 159.1 x 73.4 x 7.9 mm.

The very bottom of the frame will surprise, in addition to the classic USB-C connector and the speaker speaker grille, there is also There is a 3.5mm audio connector. If wireless headphones are not your cup of coffee, you can easily connect a classic wired one. There is a power button on the right side. The volume control is then on the left side of the frame. All buttons are pressed comfortably and can be touched very well. If you look at the front, the frames around the display are relatively small. The exception is the chin, which is slightly larger than the rest. The selfie camera is located in the shot on the left.

The telephone speaker is located directly in the frame and unfortunately really works for telephony and cannot be used for stereo effect as an accessory to the main speaker, as we may know from many other phones. This missing feature freezes all the more because the loud speaker can be easily hidden during use, when you often think that your music or, for example, the sound from the video has completely dimmed.

A successful display will please the fingerprint reader

The display of the Oppo Reno5 5G does not deviate too much from the standard set by the parent company BBK Electronics. The same AMOLED displays with Full HD + resolution (2400 x 1080 pixels) and 90Hz refresh rate we could see it on many phones and it’s no wonder because it’s a hilarious display. The size of the display itself is 6.43 inches. It can “conjure up” a brightness of up to 600 nits, which is now useful on sunny summer days and the phone’s display is still easy to read. It is difficult to find any negatives in color rendering, viewing angles or the implementation of a 90Hz refresh rate. We are pleased that the Always-on function and higher refresh rates had a relatively small effect on battery life.

Since this is an OLED panel, so the fingerprint reader can be found directly in the display. This is an optical reader that is used in most phones. You can choose different types of animations in the phone settings, but all of them aim to effectively hide the fact that the unlocking speed itself is not exactly the best. On the other hand, we have to emphasize accuracy, after a simple finger scan, it rarely happens that the reader does not read it correctly.

Oppo Reno5 5G mobile phone performance

Inside the Oppo Reno5 5G there is a proven Snapdragon 765G chipset with an eight-core CPU and an Adreno 620 graphics chip. Yes, it is not a chipset designed for the best mobile phones, but it can be said that handles the vast majority of activities that the user does with the phone without any problems, including playing more challenging games. After all, the same chipset is used by Google for Pixel 5 phones or Motorola for the Razr flexible phone. While playing, we tested it with the game Pascal`s Wager, with which the phone handled the highest details without any problems. You can see the results from the Geekbench 5 benchmark below. As the name of the phone suggests, this chipset also supports next generation networks (5G). Support applies to SIM card slot number 1, in the second slot “only” 2G, 3G and 4G networks will work.

As for the memory variants, the phone has two different ones. We tested basic version with 8GB RAM memory and 128GB storage. The more equipped version counts on 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Unfortunately, it did not support microSD cards, the European version of the phone at least supports NFC, so you can easily pay via Google Pay, for example.

ColorOS 11 superstructure

As with most phone manufacturers, the Oppo was not easy with its superstructure in the beginning. With ColorOS 11, we can already see a perfectly optimized superstructure that offers great customization options. This is not exactly the eleventh generation of software, because Oppo jumped from ColorOS 7 to ColorOS 11 just this year, so that the number is identical to the version of Android itself. If we were to compare ColorOS with other extensions of sister companies, it is much closer to FuntouchOS from Vivo phones than from OxygenOS or Realme UI, which are more or less closer to pure Android.