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hey guys this is Bailey Stein with android authority and this is our video review of the Oppo our 11 it's not an accident that the Opel r11 looks a lot like the iPhone 7 plus the r11 is catered towards mainland Chinese customers who view the inspired by Apple design philosophy positively almost as a way to pay homage to Apple well we are dismissing criticisms or ethical discussions of such practices we're focusing our review on the design itself rather than the design philosophy so what does the r11 offer well it's pretty much just a refined version of the r9 s it has a premium all-metal body that's also thin and light the rear is very slightly curved too so the phone is a group of your hand combined with the protruding side edges you should not have to worry about this phone being too slippery to hold the center home key on the r11 may look tactile but it's capacitive so it doesn't press down the r11 s fingerprint reader is embedded within this key so you can simply tap it to authenticate the reader is super quick to easily the quickest scanner I've ever used you may have guessed that Opel placed the back button to the right of the home key well this layout is non-standard some including myself prefer it the side keys are illuminated but the illumination is pretty dim but it's nothing you won't be able to get used to for the display we're looking at a 5.5 inch 1080p AMOLED panel we'll let you decide whether 1080p is an acceptable compromise from quad HD resolution aside the display looks great with punchy colors there's still some drawbacks though the maximum brightness is high enough for most cloudy days but you'll have some trouble on sunny days weirdly the r11 lacks a proper oleophobic coating so it's essentially a fingerprint magnet the r9 s had the same exact issue so we're disappointed that Oppo is making the same mistake twice if you're coming from pretty much any other device expect some difficult to remove fingerprints with the r11 under the hood the r11 has a quad-core qualcomm snapdragon 616 nice upgrade from the 625 found in the r9 s to be frank every day performance is really just mediocre it's a mid-range chip so you can expect 835 affordable flagship level speed with that said the minor sluggishness is easy to get used to and is difficult to really notice unless you've used some of the higher-end chips there's four gigabytes of memory which is enough to do some basic multitasking in addition to being an unlocked dual sim smartphone the Chinese Oppo our lemon partially supports us 4G LTE networks bands twelve and seventeen are missing so you'll only have partial coverage carrier aggregation will also be limited so you might notice some slower data speeds this partial support was likely intended to help global travelers more so than US citizens the r11 even includes the Oh roaming app which lets you obtain affordable cell phone service in over 50 different countries without needing a local SIM card if you'd like you can instead use the second SIM card slot in order to expand the phone 64 gigabytes of internal storage with a micro SD card up to 256 gigabytes something to keep in mind the r11 lacks NFC so you unfortunately won't be able to use mobile payment apps like Android pay it does still have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack though but there's a downside the jack appears to read too deep inside the smartphone thus there is limited compatibility I wasn't able to get my personal headphones to work so you should just plan on a worst case scenario having to use the pair in the Box the side firing speaker is actually pretty good moderately loud with minimal distortion it's not on par with front-facing speakers but it's still better than we expected we don't have any numbers to share in regard to battery life since the software prevented us from collecting data but the 3000 milliamp hour battery seems to provide pretty good battery life we never had trouble getting through a full day with moderate to heavy use the built-in Volk fast charging allows you to charge from 0 to 70 percent in just 30 minutes or to 100% in just 65 minutes one of the fastest rates out there ready for a head-scratcher the Opel r11 6 was a legacy microUSB port for charging and data transfer we're having trouble understanding why Oppo hasn't made the transition to reversible USB type-c for their flagship smartphone as it's been out for nearly two years now the dual cameras are the unmistakable highlight of the r11 the high resolution pair work together to provide up to 2 optical zoom in order to match the camera hardware capability over work directly with welcome to customize the spectra 160 image signal processor and the effort appears to have paid off you notice that our day time sample images are sharp and have accurate color reproduction and just check out that excellent dynamic range when using the 2 times optical zoom and just came out with about equal quality the image processing is quite slow at 3 to 4 seconds with this amount of zoom though so it's not best for scenes with a lot of action there's also a hardware software hybrid depth effect as part of the portrait mode the edges can be a tad off especially in non-ideal lighting the images can still come out as fairly convincing as we anticipated images taken in low light are softer and noisier with a good amount of lens flare especially with a secondary camera color reproduction is still decent though and the images are pretty bright for the amount of light actually available optical image stabilization would help a lot here though YS would also help with the video capture the phone records up to 4k with the rear cameras but the footage can be pretty shaky more so a two-time zoom oval states that the 20 megapixel s 2.0 front-facing camera was treated as important as the rear cameras and it does a really nice job the camera app is pretty standard easy to use yet powerful basic controls are here and you can quickly access an expert mode to control the more technical details although it runs Android 7.1.1 you get all those color OS 3.1 skin makes the software experience feel more like iOS the notification panel toggles have been replaced with a control center and the system apps use many design elements from iOS for example unlike some other Chinese Android skins color OS doesn't positively take inspiration from iOS it feels as if the focus was placed on cloning rather than developing a good user experience for instance dismissing notifications is a two-step process even though there's no separate notification panel view like there is an iOS speaking of notifications we cannot get our Chinese unit to send any from third-party apps we made sure to enable notifications for each app and disable all three battery life optimizations for each app but to no avail we ended up having to carry around an extra phone entirely during the review period in order to receive important emails and urgent hangouts messages we hope that this issue will be fixed very soon as it's a pretty big deal there's also a bunch of other minor annoyances as an example you can only adjust one audio profile at once in addition if you import a Chinese unit you'll need to install Google services yourself thankfully this isn't a hard process but for the best experience you better just go with a global unit the Oppo our 11 is now available in China and gold rose gold and black for 3,000 UN global availability is yet to be determined the Oppo our xi has a lot going for it it has great cameras a premium all-metal design and good battery life however the r11 also has a large number of compromises the software user experiences poor performances only mediocre and there are many small issues the r11 is a good value but we cannot recommend it over competing options you can spend just a little bit more we suggest you go with the oneplus 5 instead as it's very similar to the r11 with the same great cameras a nearly identical design much better software and better performance and that will be all for this video please be sure to give it a thumbs up if you liked it and don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already finally be sure to this is the end recording website for additional coverage as we are your source for all things Android