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Alpo is celebrating their 10 year anniversary with the release of a couple of new smartphones the one you're seeing here is the larger of the two hey it's Josh magar from Android authority what's going on everybody and here is your first look at the Oppo r7 plus but first let's take a look at the design you're going to notice in this particular video and in with this particular device that this phone looks a little bit familiar there's almost this of an iPhone 6 plus and a huawei mate7 actually sort of got together and created this particular phone nonetheless you have a really nice design all over this particular phone it is of a metal construction and you have a little bit of a punch on the sides there with a lip that comes out in the chassis but there are subtle curves on the screen and also on the back the 2.5 D glass on the front covers up this six inch panel that comes in 1080p resolution and is an AMOLED screen so you get some nice colors coming from the color OS 2.1 on the back you have what is called a violin arc where they took the inspiration from the simplicity but also the elegance of a violin and really that curve is very similar to what you would find and the 2.5 D class that is up front yes you did hear me right that this is a 6-inch display and as such you'll have a little bit of trouble handling in one hand but that's pretty much to be expected with larger devices like this but with a very respectable bezel especially on the sides you get a lot of handling help when it comes to the r7 plus rather you'll be using it with two hands most of the time but at least there are certain functions on here that will help in that regard for example you do have a fingerprint reader on the back where your index finger will pretty simply lay and right above it is the 13 megapixel optics thankfully the button layout Falls pretty squarely where your fingers would with the power button on the right side just low enough for easy reaching and then the volume rocker on the other side might need a little bit of extra hander in order to reach but really this is a very elegant device that comes in silver and also golden colors and its simplicity really speaks to just how well this particular device was designed as we get over to the screen yes it's 6 inches like we keep saying but it is also of a 1080p resolution but an AMOLED construction really makes the colors pop from here going through the color OS 2.1 version this time around that is powered by lollipop you'll see that everything looks really nice on here and moves very smoothly thanks to the Snapdragon 615 that is underneath the surface three gigabytes of RAM will help with all of the multitasking that you might be doing on this device and in our short testing with the device we did find that its speed was actually really smooth very snappy and the 615 is proving itself as a nice processing package even for an affordable yet reliable and pretty speedy device here in the r7 plus 32 gigabytes of built-in storage can be bolstered by a micro SD card slot in the tray that can actually work as a dual nano SIM tray as well so you'll get a lot of connectivity here and also the expandable storage if you so need it but with the battery of course it's not going to be removable here but you get a 4100 milliamp hour battery that can be charged to up to 75% in just half an hour using the VUCA fast charging which in previous versions of Oppo phones we already had a great time with N is a very reliable and speedy way of getting power into your phone when you're losing it for a phone that is actually quite thin despite its larger screen the 7.75 millimeter thickness here is actually not quite that heavy on the hand and really getting from side to side is not that difficult despite the fact that ham Gymnastics are going to be needed for the top portion of the device but really it's just a very nice cool feeling phone and it continues that particular feeling as you get into the software everything really it just moves along really smoothly as you can see here with color OS 2.1 really powering what you're going to have in a app drawer less interface but nonetheless color OS despite some of the flag game I've gotten in the past seems to have gotten the speed boost that it's needed despite still having a lot of the features that might have let's say bloated it in the past the notification drop-down with its quick settings is very lollipop esque but still looks a lot like what color OS would make it look like with a lot of that real estate on the top taken up by the quick settings you can change among the different applications in the recent apps screen by holding down the home soft key which is at the bottom there are no capacitive keys here like in the r7 proper and going through the interface without the app drawer it's a little bit of a bummer but you still get a lot of nice Media pages as you can see over on the side all the way to the left and finally in camera we're obviously going to have to save our testing for when we get our own unit of the r7 plus but the camera interface already looks quite nice and is really easy to use with very few elements on the viewfinder you can just hit this one button over on the side and you'll get to all of the different features that you may already be familiar with from phones like the n1 the N 3 in the Oppo find 7 the biggest addition when it comes to the camera on the r7 plus is that it now comes with laser guided autofocus something that you may have already seen in the LG g3 and g4 after it but when it comes to focusing in these photos it should be really easy with the r7 plus and finally the sensor which is basically a ISO cell sensor is able to capture the colors of RGB n:w basically what this means is that the photos will have a little bit less noise as they claim but also the color production should be a little bit more accurate in these photos and all of the fixings that you would expect from a high-end Android camera despite the fact that this is considered more of a mid-range device pictures looked pretty nice but that's also because there's a bit of a punch in the photos and then it also benefits from the view of the AMOLED screen that it's given despite it's more mid-range tendencies the larger screen for even more real estate for work and play what looks to be a pretty good camera experience and a faster color OS underneath really makes this sub $500 phone feel like a bit of a steal especially how sturdy and how nice it feels and looks so really the r7 plus is something we're looking forward to reviewing once we get our hands on it but this was your first look at the larger of the two Oppo phones in their celebration of their 10 year anniversary once again this is Joshua Vergara reporting to you live from the Oppo r7 launch event here in Beijing China stay tuned for even more because we are your source for all things Android