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how's it going everyone long hear from Android Authority and this is a phone that you may or may not have heard of it's the r17 pro from Oppo and oboes been doing a lot of really cool and innovative stuff with their smartphones this year and this is another one of those phones and just like a lot of other opal phones this phone will most likely not be coming to the US but in the u.s. we have something that's pretty identical to this it's the oneplus 60 it actually offers a lot of the same stuff as the r17 pro so if you want something that's pretty equivalent to this the 1 plus 60 is gonna be your best bet but the r17 pro is sort of this high-end mid-range smartphone it has a snapdragon 17 processor 8 gigabytes of ram a hundred and twenty eight gigabytes of internal storage there's no micro SD card slot for expandable storage but I think 128 gigabytes is gonna be enough for most people it also has a 3700 milliamp hour battery and it's running color OS version 5.2 on top of Android 8.1 Oreo now there are a handful of things that makes this phone really interesting one of those things is the water drop or tear-shaped knotch and this is not the first time that we've seen Oppo use this particular style of knotch but I like this notch way better than any other notch on other smartphones for a few reasons one it's smaller - it eats up a lot less of your screen and three it just visually looks more appealing so even though I'm not that big of a fan of notches I really don't mind this one that much at all and the secret behind this notch is it only houses a front-facing camera and then the other sensors like the proximity and light sensors are actually hidden underneath the display and then the speaker or the earpiece is just this tiny little slit of a speaker grille that sits on the outer bezel above the knotch the screen itself is a six point four inch AMOLED panel and it's really vibrant really colorful and of course you get those inky deep black so you sort of expect from an AMOLED screen so it's a really good looking panel overall I really have no complaints about it the second thing that makes this phone really cool is the in screen finger sensor and we're starting to see this technology crop up more and more on our smartphones and it's definitely come a long way since we saw it back at like CES and MWC this year and the in screen fingerprint sensor on the r17 Pro Oppo says it will unlock the phone in just point four seconds which is pretty fast and it definitely does feel pretty quick but it's still a step behind the traditional fingerprint sensor I think the biggest thing for me here is just the overall consistency it's fast for the most part but then there's times where it ends up taking a full second or two to actually unlock and not only do you feel it but you also visually see it because the fingerprint sensor animation ends up happening more than once when it's trying to read your fingerprint but I think like traditional fingerprint sensors which got better and faster and more accurate over time I think the same thing is gonna happen with these n-screen fingerprint sensors as more om start to adopt this technology and I like the in screen fingerprint sensor it feels very futuristic and it also makes the design of the phone look a lot cleaner you don't have a physical fingerprint sensor on the front or the back and the r17 Pro is already a really good looking phone it's a very sleek phone very curvy it's really comfortable to hold in the hand it also has really excellent build quality it has Corning Gorilla Glass 6 on a front and back and metal rails on the sides so it's a very high quality feeling phone and I also just love the way this phone looks especially in this fog gradient color the way that it transitions from the purple to the blue is just absolutely incredible I never really get tired of looking at it this might remind you a lot of the Twilight color on the Huawei p20 pro but I like oboes implementation a little bit better because it's not reflective and because it's not reflective it doesn't show fingerprints and smudges quite as easily there's also no headphone jack on this phone so if you care about headphone jacks you might be a little bit disappointed in that but it is what it is this next one is gonna sound a little bit weird but the battery on this bone is actually worth talking about because it's a little bit different from batteries on other smartphones it actually has two batteries inside instead of just one for a total of 3,700 milliamp hours so it's to 1850 million fire batteries and OBO says the reasoning behind this is so that it can charge the phone faster and more efficiently and this phone does support super vooc flash charge which gets the phone 40 percent in 10 minutes and I actually tested this claim from a completely dead oboe r17 Pro and sure enough after 10 minutes I was at 40% and I even took this test a couple of steps further and after another 10 minutes I was at 74% and after 30 minutes I was at 96% so basically after about 30 minutes you can get a completely charged hour 17 pro which is pretty impressive it doesn't have wireless charging if you like wireless charging but with super vooc flash charge being as fast as it is I don't really care that much that it doesn't have wireless charging the last thing that I want to talk about is the cameras and this phone has three cameras on the back but they may or may not be what you're expecting the main camera is a 12 megapixel camera with 1.4 micron pixel size and optical image stabilization and it also has a variable aperture of f15 and f2 point for a la samsung galaxy s 9 / galaxy note 9 the second sensor is a 20 megapixel camera and this sensor is basically designed for creating these 3d portrait lighting effects on the rear camera and it's a cool feature I think it's a little gimmicky to be honest but it's meant to make your portrait mode photos look a little bit more artistic and professional the third camera is not a wide-angle or telephoto lens it's probably not even a lens that you would even guess it's actually a TOF or time-of-flight 3d camera and this camera allows you to create 3d scans of objects or people and it sort of reminded me a lot of the 3d creator app that we saw on Sony Xperia phones and it sort of works pretty similarly you just circle the phone around the object or person and it creates a 3d scan but I didn't find this feature to be particularly useful I don't know if I ever would I think I would have much rather preferred a more traditional wide-angle or telephoto lens but as a camera itself it does take really great photos I was pretty impressed with the quality it has excellent color reproduction really great dynamic range and the ultra night mode that's on this phone is pretty impressive it does take a couple of seconds to process and take the image but the results are actually pretty cool so here's an image with the night mode turned off and here's the image with the night mode turned on and you can see there's a pretty big difference between the two you get much more dynamic range and better highlight and shadow details when night mode is enabled and you also just get a brighter image overall the only downside to these photos is I think they over sharpen them a little bit to give the illusion of more detail but otherwise I really like what this ultra night mode is capable of doing so that's really it for the Oppo are 17 Pro I go much more in depth about it in my full written review so if you guys want to see more camera samples benchmark scores screenshots all that good stuff is linked down in the description below so check that out but thank you guys so much for watching this video give it a thumbs up if you did enjoy it subscribe down below if you want to see more videos like this and keep it tuned here to Android Authority and I will talk to you guys in the next video