The Oppo F1 Plus is a nice phone, as long as you don’t worry about fast performance or a good camera. However, there are better phones to buy in this price range, such as the OnePlus 3, LeEco Le 2 and even the HTC One X9.
DETAILED STUDY OF THE OPPO F1 PLUS
I’ll be honest. When I see a selfie-oriented smartphone, I grind my teeth. I don’t take selfies. I can’t smile, sulk, pose or care about her enough. In fact, I usually give them to other reviews here at Digit. The point I’m trying to make is that it takes a lot to impress a selfie-oriented smartphone. But the Oppo F1 Plus did just that. It’s part of Oppo’s “Selfie Expert” series in India, and there are a lot of them, although some things are not so good.
In many ways, the Oppo F1 Plus is a gem of a smartphone, but in others it absolutely disappoints a user like me.
Construction and design: you can compare
You may want to compare this with Apple iPhone designs, and you may even consider it negative, but the fact is that the design is well done. The Oppo F1 Plus has an all-metal design with shiny plastic on the front, above and below the screen. On the display there is a screen that covers most of the front, with the exception of the fingerprint sensor, speakers, 16MP front camera and other sensors. It’s 6.6mm thick and Oppo has somehow made the 16MP camera on the front smaller than the 13mp module on the back.
It looks like a high-end device like any other device in its price segment, and although it’s not particularly light, the weight is just right. The F1 Plus weighs around 145 grams and, in combination with the metal casing and stylish appearance, it feels not only high-quality, but also sturdy.
It’s extremely ergonomic for a 5.5-inch smartphone, and you get an almost frameless screen with a frame size of just under 2mm. The screen quality still adds to the phone’s appearance, but more on that later. The fact that it is a 2.5D display may be important to many.
There’s really nothing to complain about in this department. The power button always rests under the thumb, while the volume control is placed in the place where the index finger would rest. I was able to switch from the fingerprint sensor to the power button with minimal change of grip.
Screen: Beautiful
The Oppo F1 Plus’s 5.5-inch Amoled panel has a diamond pixel array, and while the brightness isn’t the highlight, it’s the colors. My tests gave a maximum brightness of about 735 lux, but the colors are much SOFTER. The arrangement of the diamond-shaped subpixels provides a more uniform arrangement of colors, but Oppo seems to have artificially added some strength to them.
Surprisingly, despite the low light, the screen looks sharp enough even in sunlight. The contrast is excellent everywhere and the blacks are as deep as the whites are brilliant. The Oppo F1 Plus may not have the best screen on the market, but it’s one of the best. Perhaps a brighter sign would have ranked him even higher.