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hey everybody Ashley would TechnoBuffalo I just wanted to take over John's review of the Oppo find five so I have it here with me I've only had it for two days because I've only been here for two days so I'm gonna give you my first impressions and then I promise I will have a full review up as soon as I can let's check it out okay so we have the Oppo find five here we talked to already in the unboxing about the lovely design quality it's kind of reminiscent of the older experience I've been hanging out with it the last day or so since I got here and I have a couple of thoughts on it the first thing you'll notice about the Oppo is obviously the the UI the Android skin that they've chosen to put on is it's a little reveal this calendar widget is I just find the the widgets to be just a little bit kind of amateur compared to a TouchWiz or even especially since obviously with the widgets you can always install something like beautiful widgets HD widgets any any widget app of choice and and just get rid of these which is really nice and I'll talk a little bit about CyanogenMod in a second the phone itself though runs really responsively it's a quad-core processor it's running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon pro it's got 2 gigs of RAM it's running Android 4.1.2 so almost the most current version of jellybean but not quite I know that Oppo is promising rapid software updates that kind of remains to be seen at this point but yeah the screen is absolutely gorgeous 1080p 441 PPI it's an IPS LCD screen it doesn't get super bright but it is visible in broad daylight which is nice and the images are very clear I love the almost edge to edge screen here it's a 5-inch screen so you're definitely carrying around quite a bit of phone in your pocket if if that's what you're into let's take a look really quickly at the the camera which I'm really interested in I love camera apps and I like how different they are so you can see with the shutter it's very quick and once you go into your gallery I'll show you some of the stuff that I took at my desk earlier so I've got my iCade my nyan cat and my robot so there's it's very quick shutter quality the one nice thing about oboes camera software is they have this really sort of lovely editing features where they have things like fill light highlights shadows and they're actually really nice sliders that's the auto fix there but if I wanted to emphasize the highlights I could do that with a slider if I wanted to add some more shadow I could also do that so I like that they also have different effects so very Instagram --is-- you can do your vignettes all those sorts of things and there's also of course warmth saturation all those great things that you see a little bit more granular than Instagram but generally speaking pretty robust I like it I do miss photosphere I will admit that but I guess that's on Google and not on all of the other OEMs putting Android on their phones now the the phone itself is actually unlocked it's available on AT&T and t-mobile it starts at $4.99 there's a 16 gig and a 32 gig option there is no expandable memory though that is something that you might have a problem with there's also no LTE on this phone so you cannot actually utilize LTE I do think upon first impression putting CyanogenMod on this phone would actually be really great and it's something that you would probably really enjoy I'm sure the screen would look gorgeous with some of the the different roms that are out there I I definitely don't see any feature yet that I would really miss if I if I routed it and put flash a different ROM on it as opposed to say the HTC One which I would definitely miss things like video highlights so far the Oppo find 5 it feels like a really solid phone I think there's a lot of good things about it unfortunately it kind of feels like it was built with an entirely different market in mind which is probably the case because this is a this phone is going to be really popular in China I'm not sure why it was brought over here to the States but at the end of the day I'm sure they're you know of course it'll have its pros and cons and I get to now review this phone so I'm sorry it'll take me at just a little bit longer I know that John was supposed to review it but I took it over I took the phone from him because I thought it looked really cool so I will be bringing you a review as soon as I can as soon as I unlock all of the find five secrets but for now that's my initial impressions my my hands-on and if you guys have any questions leave them in the comments and I will try to answer them in the review thanks you