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hey what is up guys I'm Kay PhD here and this is the Oppo n1 the CyanogenMod phone that we saw earlier this year and that I already made a video talking about but this is the actual device first thing I notice is yeah it's huge and I have big hands and this phone looks huge in my hands but that's just the first thing I notice about it but inspired by Joshua vegara from Android Authority let's see how many times I cannot make it that's what she said joke while talking about this phone it's going to take a look at the full review so earlier this year cyanogen became its own company with its own employees and its own ideas and its own product CyanogenMod and this is partially the result of its first real partnership with a company called Oppo who kind of burst onto the scene with their fine 5 this is a very big phone with not so very big expectations but this is a pretty interesting device nonetheless and it has all of its quirks and that's what we like to take a look at but first of all its size it's kind of hard to give you an idea of exactly how much space this takes up in your hand when you're holding it other than by telling you it's exactly 6.75 inches tall and 3.25 inches wide and houses a 5.9 inch display one thing you'll notice though when looking at the display on the front is that there is a whole lot of chin and a whole lot of bezel all around the entire top and bottom this is more common to see on tablets which is why this feels so much bigger than most other phones with the same sized screen I mean there are phones that also have around a six inch screen that actually feels smaller than the Oppo n1 because they're lighter and they have smaller bezels and speaking of weight this is also a pretty heavy phone so if you're gonna hold it with one hand which you probably won't but if you happen to be typing with one hand with it it's gonna feel just a tiny bit top-heavy again it's not all that bad I mean I also have Lumia 1520 I've compared it against this exact phone in house and they feel similar but big phones like this are gonna feel top-heavy when you're using them with one hand the Galaxy Note 3 on the other hand is plastic and it's not nearly this top-heavy so there's a difference in the way it feels but I really like this difference and a lot of people will prefer this build quality on the n1 that's just something we can trust Oppo to get right the 5/5 was carved around a piece of stainless steel and n1 feels the same way in the build quality apartment this phone crushes and I have no doubts that it will last a long time now because this phone is so big all of this phones buttons and ports are on the right-hand side and the bottom because it would be crazy to put them on the top so the power button is on the right hand side near the middle and the volume rocker is below it it's pretty easy to get used to and on the bottom you have your headphone jack USB port for charging and data and the speaker which is actually surprisingly pretty solid and you can tell here that this isn't the thinnest phone in the world obviously it's 9 millimeters thick but all of this rocks all build quality and size gets you a 3610 milliamp-hour battery that keeps this phone in operation for hours and hours and hours sometimes I get 7 hours of screen on time two full days of use like you can take this phone for a weekend and not bring your charger just incredible stamina on this phone with such a huge display and a lot of this is due to the specs inside if you take a look at the specs its rocking at 1.7 gigahertz quad-core Snapdragon 600 the Adreno 320 GPU and of course the big bright 5.9 inch 1080p display on the front it handles itself pretty well for having this big display now there are some unique hardware choices in this phone that you should know about one of them is on the back there's actually a small square touch sensitive area in the middle one and a half square inches called Oh touch it's pretty much limited capabilities right now but basically it acts as a little mini touchpad on the back that lets you scroll through apps in the app drawer and through the browser and tap and click things and apps things like that I haven't really used it much beyond just showing it off to people how cool it is that you could magically swipe through the app drawer without touching the front of the phone and part of the reason I don't use it that much is the placement it's just not convenient at all and no matter what size your hands are big or small or no matter how you hold the phone you're probably not going to be holding the back of the phone in any sort of way like that the HTC One Maxx made the same mistake by putting the fingerprint scanner back there there's just it's a nice feature it's a cool idea but even if it's perfectly implemented it's just too in conveniently-placed to really change the way you use the phone the only thing that I actually found it useful for was to fire the camera shudder without touching the screen now of course you can't talk about the Oppo n1 without talking about this camera here on the back or this camera here on the front it is a manually rotating camera it's a 13 megapixel back facing shooter or you can flip it around to become a 13 megapixel front-facing selfie camera it's so controversial because as we all know moving parts in any device that all tend to be the breaking point when you ever have a fully compact really well integrated device like a phone or a tablet you have almost no moving parts and this is a massive moving part on a little things when you consider it no other smartphone has anything like this right now is this good or bad honestly it's a combination of a little bit of both right now so Oppo says they've tested the crap out of this thing and it seems to hold up perfectly for 100,000 rotations and of course that's a huge number and we have no idea how many times you need to rotate this camera in your lifetime of ownership but you know let's give an example let's say you're a girl who loves taking selfies or guy and you sit down and have a selfie portrait session every day where you rotate that camera 10 times back and forth every single session every day for 365 days a year this mechanism would be guaranteed to last you for 27 years of selfies that's a lot of selfies and you probably won't own a phone for that long so basically what I'm saying is I'm not too concerned about the build quality here I'm actually just more concerned about the dust and dirt getting into that groove for someone who's less careful with their device than I am if you don't use a case that groove is like the perfect place for a little bit of sand or a little bit of grit from your pocket to get caught in there and leave scratches or just be really hard to clean so so far my n1 is clean and it looks flawless so it looks like Oppo did a great job with the design of this build so no complaints now but just something to keep in mind oh and in terms of actual camera quality it takes pretty great high-quality photos I mean it's 13 megapixels so they're looking pretty sharp and of course it'll take much higher than normal quality selfies if you're into that so yeah using this phone is very pleasant any phone with a big display like this is going to be amazing for media too so watching videos constantly reminds me of that Gaming is also really nice though I wish the speaker was a little bit better at high volumes to enjoy movies more but other things like moving through apps multitasking web browsing and everything else you do with a high-end Android smartphone is very smooth and enjoyable on this phone now my n1 is rocking a build of CyanogenMod based on Android 4.3 right now you'll get an update soon enough and there are actually a few tricks in the CyanogenMod settings specifically for this device things that make one-handed use easier like the notification pull down trick from tablets left side swipe for notifications right side swipe for quick settings that's useful there's also settings to control the capacity menu home and back buttons on the bottom of the phone how longer back light stays on etc little things like that just stuff that makes it a very solid complete CyanogenMod experience and while that doesn't at all feel like this device was built with CyanogenMod in mind it at least performs well with it and I can appreciate that now at the end of the day this is the phone that we saw as the CyanogenMod phone but the first Oppo n1 czar actually going to ship internationally with a pose color ROM which is also seen on the Oppo find 5 the Colorama is decent it's alright in a lot of areas it also makes much better use of the AU touch area on the back of the n1 which is nice and it's kind of a neat trick that you can use to show people but I really don't like the aesthetic of it I'm much prefer the aesthetics and the look and the functionality of something like Saanich and mod but luckily the n1 is very developer friendly so it's a matter of maybe three steps super easy to install CyanogenMod on any Oppo n1 but that being said later in the year there will be a limited edition CyanogenMod version of this phone that comes shipped with CyanogenMod built for this phone pre-installed so if you like huge phones and you like stock Android this could be what you want to go with so definitely something to consider in the Oppo n1 and keep an eye out for that limited edition CyanogenMod version later this year but either way that's been it thank you for watching this video review much much more to come because I'm just finishing up final exams now so I'm going to be steamrolling through a ton of awesome content in this last year last month of the year of 2013 so definitely stay tuned so anyway subscribe below if you haven't already if that thumbs up button if you haven't already and I'll talk to you guys in the next video peace