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it's not just the phone it's a selfie expert so oppa says but does the f1 cut certain corners to make it so does it even live up to its own moniker well that's what we're here to find out i'm jules wong and this is PocketNow a metal backplate polycarbonate shell in 2016 s middle-of-the-road price range the competition has brought their all-metal jackets to play and Oppo didn't but we think it got away with something here in addition to Cost Reduction it also lent enough probable metal to keep that cool feel on contact and a small sense of luxury but it's not much luxury as we take a closer look at the back we find speakers and only one led to serve as a camera flash flip the phone over and you have capacitive keys that don't have light-up icons and a 5 inch 720p pad warm LCD as you can probably tell we had a hard time shooting the display while outside and that's thanks to the panel's limited brightness range more of a syn to us than below resolution is the f1 has dual sim capabilities but there is a slot that has a micro SD card space to expand that native 16 gigabytes of storage by up to 128 gigabytes even better news on the insides though the snapdragon 616 promises very consistent power and with the 3 gigabytes of RAM this phone shouldn't really stutter well it doesn't tiny ways but we'll get onto that on paper the f1 is a modest but substantial phone modest is not the software though color OS is a tangley matter exhibit a lock screen you can offer it to show a magazine of sorts constantly rotated images of pretty things every time you unlock your phone like beautiful woman oh sure is a man's world huh beyond that the typical Chinese Android traits are here mimicking the layout of iOS having a theme store screen gestures that apparently work only one time out of three animations some superfluous things here and there of course the notification shade is at least a decent one it even adjusts its layout for landscape mode the nastier side of color OS art of the box shows us how much of a control freak it is seriously the security center nudges you to send unwanted memory beat stored or active up into space Major Tom it aggressively manages your power usage with a smart mode that kicks in at around said what's up Kirk's I'm about is that you can't edit any of the behaviors that set to do even though it seems to invite you to do so it even tells you every so often to take a break and eat hey I know what I'm doing with my time oboe and it doesn't help that you treat every calendar event like it's an alarm OCD much now viewing the larger software picture we hope that oboe is making progress with the spectrum UI project in the meantime color OS presented by default does it color us and impressed camera wise we are pretty happy fourth the f one's worth 13 megapixels is fine for the rear and F 2.2 aperture is okay but the rest of the work goes to the functionality packed software with features like 50 megapixel snapshots through compositing raw output manual focus and just a whole bunch of nifty features the pro mode is a bit of a joke though is the fastest shutter speed you can manually set to is a quarter of a second focus was a tad tricky to get sometimes but we're pretty happy with the results decent color balance and great detail in bright conditions as is the standard for most cameras contrast II situations gave some trouble to the f1 with far-off details of washing mud and noise and blown out sky to lower light still and well so much for dynamic range on the selfie side the 8 megapixel camera with a relatively large sensor does a decent job the beautiful lens is as overpowering as ever but beyond that fluff it's certainly good on the detail side and even in the dark where yeah that's pretty bad overall but it'd be a few shades darker on similar font is it a selfie expert at 229 euros well we'll go as far to say that it's right among the better selfie takers even in the upper price ranges but expert is a little too boastful our performance notes will be short Opel doesn't have an American version of the phone app leaving our unit stuck on edge for most of our test period we opted to carry around a hot spot to use the phone while benchmarking scores showed good potential we found that moving around the UI and covered some occasional dinners just from how burdensome it is casual gaming is fine more intensive games come pretty smoothly with the very rare frame drop battery wise we couldn't really get an accurate picture the day we had our t-mobile SIM minutes the f1 lasted us nine hours all told while sticking strictly to Wi-Fi we've been able to go into the next day with 40% battery there's no VOC rapid charging as there is on other Apple phones and how pushy color OS is about saving battery it doesn't give any duration info the best estimate we can fathom based on these percentages is about three and a half hours of screen on time its 229 year rows 20 more than what the honor 5x goes for but in some key specs the f1 does outsmart its Huawei competition and in spite of the very blow D sometimes dysfunctional software the hardware carries through it admirably and there are good cameras packed in for the cash well we don't have reason to wait for an update to marshmallow given off of software track record there is hope that it may come in form of a project spectrum ROM now if you're willing to forgive a pretty bad display by this year standards Oppo definitely has a great value proposition in the f1 while its main selling point the cameras are fine they're just fine ahead of the pack but only by a stone's throw and you could say the same about the rest of the innards of this thing if that arcs the future preferring you the f1 should probably be out with there running if it's not well put a little work into it and this device should treat you well it certainly has for me thanks for tuning in if you like this video enough and are on YouTube well hopefully you have hit that subscribe button 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