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Oppo N3: The O-Click

2014-12-15
so ever since I put this particular picture up on my Instagram and my Google+ page of me and my girlfriend at Disneyland using the oppo n3 in a kind of a special way in order to get a picture done I've been getting some questions not only about how I got the picture but the tool I use in order to do it and as I'm finishing up my opal and three full review I thought it would be a good time for me to show you exactly what that's all about so it's Josh of gar from Andhra Authority what's going on everybody and as you can see here I'm going to give you a feature focus on the O click the O click does come in the package with the opal n3 and it also has a battery included so you don't have to worry about buying one just pop that into there and you'll be able to slide the back cover onto the old click the only problem I had with it is that the back cover seems to slide off pretty easily but putting this on a keyring since it was able to hold everything in place is the remedy for that now setup is pretty easy with the O click you will be able to have the old click nearby it is connected via bluetooth and paired as such and when you have the oppo n3 available to you just get into the operating system and you can head on over to the O click application which is where you will do all the setup once you get there you'll be given a quick introduction into what it is able to do you will be able to see that it does the remote control for the camera and for music it's a nice little presentation that also shows you how to locate your phone by double pressing on it and then it also will be able to blink for notification alerts the notification alerts are not really ones that I use very often because it's just a pulsating light much like the skyline notification light on the oppo n3 it's just one color I can't really tell what different notifications there are only that there are notifications but from there you'll get here and you'll be able to turn on the various functions the remote control for camera music locating the phone which are the two that pretty much I always have on and the notification alert which like I said alright it doesn't make too much of a difference once you head over to the top right you'll be able to connect it to the phone and it will connect automatically in your initial setup you will just press the button on the oak click in order for it to recognize the phone the Bluetooth range on the oak click is pretty standard which means that if you're in your house let's say in your living room and you just can't find your phone having the oak click on your key ring like I do allows you to just pick it up double press on the middle button and it should turn on the phone and play a loud little tune let's say and have the phone go nuts so that you'll be able to find it after you find your phone you'll be able to just either turn it off on the phone itself or press the button to turn it back off well that's obviously a marquee feature for the old click but there's one big problem with it if you walk outside of the Bluetooth range then these two devices lose their connections it should be easy to get them back but that's not really the case the instructions state that if you press the middle button and it glows white instead of red then you have reestablished the connection with the 0.3 unfortunately that has only worked sporadically at best more often than not I've had to go into the actual application in the oppo n3 go to the connection screen re-establish the connection using the application and then finally I'll click with work again that is far from ideal for anybody walking into a room trying to find their phone but in order to get the.oh click to actually work you have to find the phone first before anything else can happen now we have the up-down left-right available here on the Oh click and that is what you're going to use to control your music in particular controlling the volume and controlling your forward or backward on the tracks if you hit the middle button especially after you've already had some music playing in the native application for the oppo n3 it will just play the music already you can see that that music is already playing and if I hit the left button it will go back and play the beginning of this particular song I only have one song and that's the built-in one on the elbow and three but nonetheless you can do other things like turn down the volume there you go and you notice that the responsiveness of the buttons isn't necessarily that great it's another issue that I've had with the old click but it has come in handy for the other application which is for a camera but it is also worth noting that these controls do not work for other services which is a bummer for me because I prefer to do google play music streaming but now we come to the final usage for the L click and that is as a remote control for the camera now even when the 0.3 is stationary like this and the screen is off in standby mode you can hold the middle button on the O click and it will access the camera now obviously the cameras pointed backwards right now and if I'm trying to take a self-portrait I needed to move the other way around hold the up or down button and you'll be able to move it in that particular direction but on the other hand if holding down the button in order to move the camera forward and backward is too much you can hit the left or right button to make a go all the way around all in one swoop in this case we'll hit the left button and it will move the camera all the way around and you can see me right there press the right button just tap that and it'll rotate all the way back around now of course if we have the self portrait area here this is where the Oh clicks main functions come in and it's awesome the ability to just rotate the camera around do it in just the way that you need it to hopefully with those increments being a little bit too big at least for my taste and then you just press the button and take your shot so that's a rundown of all of the things the L click is capable of now you know what the functionality is but is it really a good product to have all the time around with your oppo n3 well as a companion it does work really well and in those situations where it actually works very well it's incredibly useful but there are some problems as you probably suspect it's on my key ring as you can see here and the main problem happens when I have this in my pocket and other things in my pocket like the other keys happen to press what happens to be a rather large surface area for that middle button during that trip to Disneyland I found my phone going off playing music a lot and when I took my phone out at other times the camera was already on which means I was losing precious battery life so that is one of the issues I had with the okhla expecially when it was in my pocket because those buttons can be triggered pretty easily by other objects and of course the main annoyance I probably have with it is the fact that when you go outside of the Bluetooth range it's hard to get it back without having the actual phone in your hand nonetheless though taking up a lot of time in the elbow and three full review in order to explain to you this little module it comes with seems like something I should put into a feature focus video instead and that's exactly what I hope you guys enjoyed today nonetheless stay tuned for my Opel entry full review and that is coming very soon but until then you can check out all of the content from my colleagues in Android and you can see a couple of those videos right over on this side keep it tuned here for even more coverage and drop us some likes on our videos and don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already once you're done with all of that don't forget to head on over to android authority comm because we are your source for all things Android
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