Oppo F11 Professional evaluation: Spectacular efficiency, lovely design

Chinese language smartphone model Oppo jumped on to the 48MP digital camera bandwagon with its newest launch, Oppo F11 Professional. The 48MP rear digital camera and pop-up selfie digital camera are the important thing highlights of Oppo’s newest launch within the sub-Rs 25,000 smartphone market. The smartphone can also be among the many first few Oppo gadgets to run on its newest software program ColorOS 6.

Oppo F11 Professional has been launched at Rs 24,990 in two color variants: Aurora Inexperienced and Thunder Black. As for the specs, the smartphone is powered by a 12nm 2.0GHz octa-core MediaTek Helio P70 processor (4 Cortex-A73 cores and 4 Cortex-A53 cores) coupled with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage. The interior storage is expandable through microSD. Oppo F11 Professional runs on ColorOS v6.0 based mostly on Android 9.0 Pie. It packs 4000mAh battery beneath the hood and paired by firm’s personal 20W VOOC 3.0 charger which Oppo claims will cut back the general charging time by 20 %. As for the digital camera, the telephone boasts of a 48MP+5MP twin rear digital camera setup and 16MP selfie digital camera. We acquired our fingers on the Thunder Black mannequin of the F11 Professional and right here is our evaluation of the system.

Oppo F11 Professional design

The Oppo F11 Professional includes a 6.5-inch (16.5 cm) FHD+ (1080 x 2340 pixels) ‘Panoramic’ show with 90.9 % screen-to-body ratio and 19:9 facet ratio. The Thunder Black mannequin additionally comes with a brand new triple-colour gradient design on the again with a mixture of Purple, Black and Violet hues.

The proper fringe of the telephone carries the twin (nano) SIM card slot that additionally comes connected with a devoted slot for the microSD card. Just under the SIM tray is positioned the ability button of the telephone that has a neon turquoise line in its centre. Whereas this small line helps to simply distinguish the ability button and provides to the aesthetic worth of the telephone, it doesn’t glow at the hours of darkness as per our first thought once we held the system. The ability button has been positioned a bit of forward of the centre in the suitable edge. Regardless of that, the thumb can simply attain it.

The left fringe of the telephone carries the amount buttons. All buttons come solidly embedded within the physique and they don’t tilt sideways. Simply the place the show meets the highest edge, a large and slender earpiece has been positioned.

The highest fringe of the telephone has a popup selfie digital camera module on the middle in addition to a secondary noise-cancellation microphone.

The underside fringe of the telephone carries a 3.5mm audio jack, a microphone, a micro-USB charging port (with quick charging help) and three mini capsule-shaped speaker vents, all organized from left to proper.

The rear aspect carries the 48MP+5MP twin cameras with an LED flash embedded inside a slightly-raised capsule-shaped enclosure. Under the twin rear digital camera setup lies the fingerprint reader. In the direction of the underside is Oppo emblem.

Because the rear digital camera module protrudes a bit from the physique, the telephone tends to wobble a bit of when rested on a flat floor. Nevertheless, it’s comfy to carry and never that slippery both. It’s acquired to do with the truth that the perimeters are of matte-finish, not like the opposite elements of the telephone physique that include a shiny end.

The entrance digital camera is a motorised sliding digital camera which Oppo prefers to name “rising digital camera”. It’s a 16-megapixel digital camera which additionally has AI-based beautification mode, portrait mode and extra.

A telephone cowl comes packed contained in the smartphone field that’s not like the common smartphone covers due to the house supplied for the popup digital camera to slip out with ease.

Oppo F11 Professional show

As talked about, the F11 Professional sports activities a 6.5-inch (16.5 cm) FHD+ (1080 x 2340 pixels) ‘Panoramic’ show with 90.9 % screen-to-body ratio and 19:9 facet ratio. Although the motorised ‘rising digital camera’ was clearly put in to extend the display screen measurement and minimise the bezels, the telephone show shouldn’t be completely bezel-less. There are some very skinny bezels on the highest, proper and left sides of the display screen. The chin of the telephone is barely thicker in comparison with the opposite three sides of the telephone. The show comes protected with a skinny display screen cowl.

The show colors are sharp and the icons clearly outlined. The display screen is a bit reflective and on tilting the show to both aspect, it takes a light-weight yellowish tinge.

The show brightness is ample when indoors and in cloudy climate however in vibrant daylight, we discovered it to be insufficient even after jacking it as much as full. Oppo F11 Professional’s Auto Brightness characteristic, like in lots of fashionable smartphones, mechanically adjusts the display screen brightness as per the environment. A button for activating that characteristic has been added on the suitable aspect of the brightness bar solely, making it very simple to change the brightness to Auto and swap it off when you don’t want it. Three choices for various the display screen color temperature — Cooler, Default and Hotter — have been given and the Evening Defend setting is for decreasing dangerous Blue mild emissions.

Oppo F11 Professional efficiency

Oppo F11 Professional comes with Oppo’s proprietary VOOC 3.0 quick charging know-how. The smartphone charged to 37 % in about 15-20 minutes. For an entire cost, the telephone takes roughly an hour and quarter-hour (75 minutes). The smartphone rear heats up a short while charging.

The pop-up selfie digital camera slides out and in of the telephone physique simply as per the calls for of face unlock or selfie pictures. It does make a really slight creaky sound because it comes up and slides down.

The face unlock characteristic labored like a appeal each time, whether or not be it in low-light setting or in pitch-black darkish, due to the Display screen Brightness Compensation setting. Each time this setting is enabled, the display screen turns white in color that illuminates the face in entrance of it for recognition. Nevertheless, the telephone doesn’t include this setting turned on, and you would need to manually allow it for a clean face unlock in any type of surroundings, be it dimly lit or pitch black.

Many might imagine that the processor powering the F11 Professional, MediaTek Helio P70, wouldn’t be capable to match itself to the velocity {that a} modern-day smartphone consumer appears for in a telephone. However it’s not so. The velocity of dealing with numerous duties is quick sufficient, the UI– ColorOS v6.0 — works with none glitches or lags and navigating via numerous apps is quick.

There are Driving and Driving Modes beneath Good Driving in Settings. Whereas Driving Mode readies your telephone for a Bluetooth connection inside a automobile, enabling Driving Mode mutes all notification besides incoming calls.

The telephone can deal with multitasking simply with no sudden battery drop or heating points. Watching a movie or back-to-back movies on this system, listening to songs on audio system on full, and on the identical time, discovering your manner utilizing Google Maps was quick and did not trigger the telephone rear to warmth up or trigger fast battery drainage.

Battery drop turns into distinguished when you’re enjoying high-end video games on this system for over 3 hours. We examined Oppo F11 Professional with the favored gaming title PUBG Cellular on excessive settings though the default settings had been set as medium and the telephone managed it effectively largely. The widescreen FHD+ show of 6.5-inch makes the sport look interesting and helped in stopping misfiring that occurs with gamers each from time to time within the recreation in the event that they aren’t utilizing a large-display telephone. Racing video games like Asphalt 9 on excessive settings additionally carried out largely effectively on this system with a bit of little bit of stutter.

So, within the gaming division, Oppo F11 Professional gave a stable and clean efficiency with none lags. Oppo’s Sport Area setting for recreation optimisation works effectively right here by mechanically tweaking some settings to optimise the telephone for gaming.

It is a 6.5-inch display screen telephone that may be a bit on the heavier aspect. So, it might really feel a tad heavy to customers initially. Whereas it felt heavy on the fingers whereas gaming to start with, we acquired used to the load after 5-6 gaming periods.

The telephone comes with three mini capsule-shaped vents on the underside proper edge that function the speaker vents. The sound, on full quantity, can fill a median sized-room and does distort in case you’re enjoying Rock or Metallic music. However in any other case, listening to some Pop/Digital music and watching a movie or video on audio system was an pleasurable expertise. Zoom out the video to fill the display screen for a widescreen expertise. Plug in your headsets if you need, the audio of Oppo F11 Professional will not allow you to down.

Connectivity choices embody 4G, VoLTE, Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi 802.11ac and GPS/A-GPS. The assorted sensors are the ambient mild sensor, proximity sensor, compass, accelerometer and fingerprint sensor.

On AnTuTu benchmark check, Oppo F11 Professional acquired a rating of 149569. On Geekbench 4 benchmark check, the telephone acquired 1552 because the single-core rating and 6014 in multi-core rating.

Oppo F11 Professional digital camera

As for rear cameras, Oppo F11 Professional comes armed with a 48MP major rear sensor with f/1.7 aperture and a 5MP secondary depth sensor with f/2.4 aperture. The entrance digital camera sensor is a 16MP one with f/2.0 aperture.

Let’s start with the rear digital camera pictures of Oppo F11 Professional. Within the day, the rear 48MP+5MP twin rear digital camera gave clear and detailed pictures with minimal grain.

The 48MP digital camera setting, nonetheless, shouldn’t be default, and must be enabled by going to the Picture Ratio setting and selecting 4:3 (Extremely HD). The default is 4:3. The Extremely HD pictures don’t help Zoom, Chroma Increase, HDR, Filter, Magnificence, AI Scene Recognition or Steady Taking pictures.

The principle distinction between 4:3 and 4:3 (Extremely HD) is simply that the Extremely HD setting will increase color saturation and the readability within the shot a bit of by decreasing grain. In any other case, there may be not a lot change other than enlarging the dimensions of the picture from round 3-4 MB (4000 x 3000 pixels) to 10 MB (8000 x 6000 pixels). You’ll be able to shoot on 1:1 and Full Display screen too of you need.

Right here is a picture captured in 4:3 ratio-

Now, the identical setting in 4:3 (Extremely HD) or 48MP-

The portrait mode pictures throughout day time are fairly good, with efficient blurring of the background.

The images of the individual/object in focus come out clear and sharp.

The rear digital camera within the evening, offers a passable efficiency because it captures the objects close to the digital camera clearly however the the distant objects and the background come out to be smudged out.

The portrait mode rear digital camera pictures in low-light stored on capturing photographs as a standard digital camera shot would. In lots of circumstances, the digital camera requested for extra mild.

The Nightscape mode improves the readability of the pictures, takes in additional objects by defining their edges extra, reduces the blurriness of the picture but in addition robs the picture of pure colors. The brightness of the lights from overhead road lamps got here out lessened in Nightscape pictures. If you would like the images to come back out pure with the Nightscape mode, it’s not attainable, although the Nightscape mode does enhance the readability of pictures.

Here’s a digital camera shot with out Nightscape-

Now, the identical setting with the Nightscape mode-

Now, we’ll come to the 16MP selfie digital camera efficiency. The selfie pictures in virtually all mild situations are sharp sufficient and they’re particularly good when taken in daytime and beneath indoor lighting. The low-light ones can’t be referred to as distinctive as there’s a little bit of noise that comes on the face, and in addition in group selfie, pictures of individuals standing behind the individual holding the digital camera don’t come out to be that clear.

The entrance digital camera portrait mode works superbly in each well-lit and low-light environments with the perimeters of the face or the item in focus popping out to be very clear with no dispersion of pure colors and efficient background blurring.

So, general, the F11 Professional’s cameras may be referred to as competent sufficient within the worth section. Not one of the pictures got here out with a whole lot of grain or dispersion of colors within the picture.

The digital camera permits video recording in 720p and 1080p however doesn’t enable recording past 1080p (like in 4K).

Oppo F11 Professional battery

Oppo F11 Professional comes with a 4000mAh battery that may run simply for over a day in case your smartphone utilization consists of gaming for about 1-2 hours a day, watching 3-4 movies of about 15-20 minutes, enjoying music for an hour or so, checking social media feeds and so on.

Should you play high-end video games on this smartphone for over 3 hours a day, then you definitely would possibly really feel the necessity to cost it. For mild customers, the F11 Professional can run simply for a day and a half on single cost. For heavy customers who multitask loads on their telephone, the F11 Professional can run for a median of 8-9 hours.

The telephone comes with some battery optimisation options like Tremendous Excessive Energy Effectivity and Good Energy Saver mode. When the battery ranges attain 20 %, a message will pop asking you to change on ‘Deep Energy Down’ setting. If you do that and select Tremendous Excessive Energy Effectivity setting, it’ll cut back display screen brightness, swap off the display screen after inactivity of 15 seconds and disable background sync.

Verdict

Oppo F11 Professional ticks all of the required packing containers proper on options and efficiency one might count on from a mid-range smartphone. The design and show are spectacular, the ‘rising’ digital camera is sort of flawless, the telephone comes with quick charging, battery life is nice, gaming is fluid and, final however not the least, the telephone gives good audio efficiency. If we search for some minute factors, the telephone physique is barely heavy and vulnerable to scratches, display screen is little reflective, show brightness in vibrant daylight is insufficient and the low-light digital camera pictures might not come out to be passable everytime. Plus, the native inside storage may have been 128GB contemplating that the Oppo F11, which is a decrease variant, ships with the identical storage. Below Rs 25,000, the newest providing from Oppo absolutely impressed us.

FbTwitterLinkedin

finish of article