The moment I got the OPPO Find X5 Pro, I realized that today's flagship machine has really entered a homogenization period.
Why? Compared to the OPPO Find X3 Pro, you can hardly find a gap between the two except for the camera design, the same digging screen in the upper left corner, the same design style, and even the most important part of the camera module has not been adjusted much. In the eyes of outsiders, in addition to Apple, mobile phone manufacturers always bring more distinctive and recognizable designs when launching new products. Should the OPPO Find X5 Pro I have in my hand be called the OPPO Find X3 Pro+?
However, after a few days of careful play, I finally sorted out the gap between OPPO Find X5 Pro and Find X3 Pro, which added a lot of new flash points on the basis of ensuring that the OPPO Find series "all-round", although these flash points may not be felt at the first time, but it can make users really feel what details a high-end flagship should have. For the Find series, this is also their original intention and the point they have always upheld.
The flagship Find is also a high-end Find
Perhaps many readers have the same question as me, why do we feel so dazzled when choosing a mobile phone that we can't recognize who is who? Ask the reason, most mobile phone manufacturers in order to meet the vanity of consumers "buy a new machine", will not continue the same design to the next generation.
For example, a mobile phone manufacturer launched a highly recognizable mobile phone, and indeed achieved the purpose of making consumers firmly remember, but its iterative products use a completely different design scheme in terms of design, which may make it difficult for consumers to realize that this is a new machine launched by a mobile phone manufacturer at the first time, which is actually not conducive to consumers quickly remembering a mobile phone brand. Therefore, OPPO chose a completely different path: through micro-modification, the original highly recognizable ID design continued.
Back to the protagonist OPPO Find X5 Pro, its most interesting and most worthy of further study is still the camera module design. Compared with the "fruity" design of OPPO Find X3 Pro, the camera module of find X5 Pro is more "recognizable".
In the traditional impression, the camera module of the mobile phone is mainly divided into a matrix or a circle, and the entire camera module of the Find X5 Pro looks closer to an unequal side trapezoid, which looks strange at first glance.
However, after two or three days of getting started, I actually think that this camera module is still a bit good-looking, after all, its back cover is a whole, and the official said that it is made by hot forging technology. It may seem as if there are four convex starting points in the camera area, but in reality it is a smooth transition that does not have a strong sense of abruptness in the camera part like other mobile phones.
The continuous curve of the back panel can also be seamlessly connected with the mobile phone border, especially the top and bottom border wrapping also runs through the round transition style, which is worth learning from many mobile phone manufacturers.
Coupled with the OPPO Find X5 Pro white porcelain plate equipped with a warm and jade ceramic back plate, it feels very delicate and is more fingerprint-free. The last time I could feel this way was the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, which also has a ceramic back cover.
Of course, this is also related to its more "slender" fuselage three circumferences, OPPO Find X5 Pro length of 163.7mm, width of 73.9mm, thickness control within 8.5mm. If it is a blue vegetarian leather version, the weight will be reduced to 195g, but the thickness will be increased by 0.3mm, and you can go to the offline store to feel it.
Almost forgot, the OPPO Find X5 Pro finally used the normal size of the ultra-thin screen fingerprint, fingerprint module has finally returned to a relatively normal range from the lower position of OPPO Find X3 Pro, and the unlocking experience has been greatly upgraded.
The Hasselblad legend, Find to continue
Unlike last year, when various mobile phone manufacturers were competing for the first sensor, this year's mobile phone manufacturers have obviously become more cautious in camera sensors. Looking at the current release of flagship mobile phones, almost all use IMX766 this good reputation sensor, Find X5 Pro is no exception, the main camera and ultra-wide angle part are IMX 766 sensors, because we have a fairly mature tuning experience, more conducive to manufacturers to adjust the white balance of the two cameras, so as not to appear "the main camera and ultra-wide angle lens color temperature difference is huge" situation.
In the upper right corner of the lens module is a 13-megapixel telephoto lens (S5K3M5, F/2.4 aperture, 5x hybrid zoom, 20x digital zoom), while the controversial microscope lens on the Find X3 series has not been preserved, perhaps because OPPO itself feels that the practicality of this lens is too low.
After talking about the basic hardware parameters, let's focus on the OPPO Find X5 Pro's camera experience, let's take a look at what the IMX766 can play with the IMX766 that adds mariana MarilSilicon X's self-developed NPU chip, suspension stabilization and optical glass lens.
In the past, when shooting scenes with very complex background colors, I always worried that the phone would be difficult to restore the scene seen by the naked eye, but the OPPO Find X5 Pro performed quite well, capturing the texture and color levels under different light and dark conditions.
When shooting the sky or some landscapes, oppo Find X5 Pro's IMX766 ultra-wide-angle lens comes in handy, which can bring more shocking picture impact, and the common problem of not being sharp and clear at the edge of the ultra-wide-angle film in the past has been greatly optimized on this machine, which may also be due to the fact that the IMX766 sensor has been polished in OPPO for a long time.
In terms of night scenes, thanks to the newly added optical glass lens, the Find X5 Pro will not appear as obvious as the iPhone in the face of strong light sources. In terms of screen restoration, OPPO Find X5 Pro will not forcibly increase the brightness of the screen to achieve the cognition of some users that "the brighter the picture is called night mode".
In 2021, OnePlus announced a partnership with Hasselblad, but with The return of OnePlus to OPPO, the Find X5 series has also received the Hasselblad Name certification, and things like Hasselblad Classic Shutter Keys and Sound, Hasselblad XPAN Mode and Hasselblad Pro Mode have naturally become part of the OPPO Find X5 Pro camera.
Whether you know Hasselblad or not, the three new master filters added to the camera are worth playing with, among which the "Master Portrait" filter is very popular with me, which can enhance the color of the shadows and make the highlight color softer, especially suitable for shooting some calm pictures, but this "portrait" is a matter of opinion.
As for the Hasselblad XPAN mode and the Hasselblad professional mode, my personal use frequency is relatively low, and perhaps this special mode is only suitable for niche groups that like to shoot tricks.
The OPPO Find X5 Pro's imaging effects during the day are impeccable, whether it's a well-lit indoor, a gloomy rainy day, or a night with complex light conditions, it can take quite textured photos.
But personally, the lack of a high-power telephoto lens is indeed a big regret, enough but far from the level of the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra and Huawei P50 Pro.
The upper is the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, and the lower is the OPPO Find X5 Pro
Having said all this, it seems that there is no mention of the self-developed Mariana NPU chip? In fact, this NPU is mainly for the video shooting link, and there is almost no connection with the camera link. OPPO officially said that this NPU can allow the phone to have a limited video recording specification that supports 4K+20bit RAW+AI+Ultra HDR at the same time.
I give a simple example, most mobile phones on the market at present when shooting night video, the system will automatically lock to 1080P (not to mention that there are many mobile phones do not support night video recording function at all), and OPPO Find X5 Pro can achieve 4K night video recording function under the blessing of this NPU, according to actual measurements, the picture perception is indeed much better than the OPPO Find X3 in my hand.
On the left is a screenshot of the OPPO Find X5 Pro 4K night scene video, and on the right is the OPPO Find X3
Almost forgot, the biggest use of this NPU is to wake up the system camera directly in third-party software to get a better look and feel. This point is estimated that most WeChat and Douyin users are deeply touched, the camera of the third-party software is not only caton, the effect of shooting is comparable to the old machine in 2015, which is simply a waste of mobile phone manufacturers finely polished sensors.
It can be seen that the OPPO Find X5 Pro is more practical in terms of imagery, and excellent color reproduction, well-controlled exposure, and the NPU that perfectly "replaces" third-party cameras have greatly stimulated my interest in taking pictures of it. However, the lack of high-quality telephoto lenses still makes me feel a little regretful, after all, this is OPPO's annual flagship product, and it is not a good thing to shrink in hardware.
Snapdragon 8Gen1 is a small flaw made up for last year's small flaws
The Find series has never been a flagship in the traditional sense in my eyes, to be precise, not the so-called flagship with only parameters and functions stacked. Of course, even if the Find X5 Pro is delegated to the regular flagship series, it is still full of confidence.
In order to better present the hardware that determines the lower limit of the experience, I still briefly summarize the hardware configuration of the OPPO Find X5 Pro. In fact, this is also the "most boring" link in this article, it is not surprisingly equipped with the strongest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8Gen 1 processor (Find X5 Pro Tianji version is Tianji 9000, Find X5 is Snapdragon 888), providing 8+256G, 12+256G and 12+512G three storage combinations.
In the Antu rabbit running score test, the OPPO Find X5 Pro in my hand ran to 999845 points, in the 30-minute original god test (high picture quality, frame rate 60), in the first 15 minutes it can be stabilized at about 50 frames, but in about 20 minutes, the game's frame rate and screen resolution fell sharply, can only say that the overall is in line with the level of this year's Snapdragon 8Gen 1, but in the heat situation is indeed stronger than last year's Snapdragon 888, at least not so hot.
As for the battery life, OPPO Find X5 Pro is equipped with a 5000mAh super battery, which is also the largest battery capacity in the Find X series, compared with the 4500mAh Find X3 Pro does have a qualitative improvement, the following is the simulation of daily battery life test results.
In terms of charging, although the OPPO Find X5 Pro finally used 80W wired charging, the actual test power averaged around 55W, although the number of fluctuations was not much, but it also took about 37 minutes to fully charge, but it was completely enough for me.
Wireless charging is a big upgrade, after all, OPPO Find X3 Pro that 30W wireless charging is really not enough to see, this year finally upgraded to 50W wireless (OPPO Find X5 is still 30W wireless), the actual measurement takes about 47 minutes to fill.
The OPPO Find X5 Pro I have in my hand, the factory system version number is ColorOS 12.1, if I had to use one word to describe it, I would rate it as "comfortable". In these four or five days, OPPO Find X5 Pro has hardly seen any situation in my hands about system animation dropping frames, third-party applications flashing back, dragging without a trace of dragging mud and water, and this experience should be what high-end flagships should have.
However, OPPO's strategy in terms of the system has always been relatively conservative, especially in terms of listing new features, and it will not be as fast and efficient as friends, perhaps they think that users will care more about the stability of the system than the function. I have no objection to this, but this is not a slow interface to update, I hope that the follow-up OPPO can speed up the speed of the OTA of the system, so that every user who has purchased the OPPO flagship machine can use the latest and best features at the first time.
Another flagship with OPPO characteristics
merit:
1, excellent feel, ceramic back plate with "true integration" fuselage to bring a unique feel;
2. The photo experience is good, and the white balance is quite stable;
3, 4K night scene video production rate is extremely high, is the king of the field in the market.
shortcoming:
1, there are not many upgrade points, it is difficult for people to understand its advantages over the previous generation for the first time;
2, the lack of high-quality telephoto lens;
3, performance scheduling is somewhat instigated.
This year's Find X5 series does not suck toothpaste like some manufacturers, but there is no end to the pursuit of professionalism. OPPO brings us a balanced and easy-to-use mobile phone, you can't find a configuration that can hang friends all the way, and you can't find obvious regrets, Find X series put all the power introverted, in the place where you can't see it. I did see oppo's progress on this phone as well.
Back to this OPPO Find X5 Pro, it's not a product that can see changes on paper, and like I said at the beginning, it's hard to find the gap between it and the OPPO Find X3 Pro in the first place. You can say that its highlights are not many, but you can't deny that it is indeed a flagship product that is quite easy to use, and these seemingly extremely small upgrades and details are precisely the characteristics common to high-end flagships.