Overview OPPO RX17 PRO - cameraphone performance flagship and NFC

OPPO Chinese company has brought to Russia another smartphone - RX17 PRO. Someone might call it another middling, but it is not. In Qualcomm Snapdragon latest processor 710 is selected as a base, which is designed to erase the boundary between the leader and expensive mass average. For the brightest and night photos OPPO has integrated optics with variable aperture. The volume of artificial intelligence so that it is enough just to press the shutter button and get perfect photos. Finally, I added an NFC chip, which is not typical for the OPPO.

Design and construction

OPPO RX17 PRO is built on the same metal chassis as the flagship Find X. Layout and tray SIM cards, as well as the crescent-shaped design identical ends. Audio jack of 3.5 mm is not certified to protect against dust and moisture - too.

Highlight - the panel at the rear. It is made of brushed 3D-glasses, and therefore does not collect fingerprints. The additional coating creates a gradient effect hazy. The panel is painted in three colors, and one flows into the other, and in depending on the angle of incidence of light changes the tone and nature of the transition. This is a case when it is better to see once.

The manufacturer has used Gorilla Glass Glass 6, so the smartphone is not afraid to drop. OPPO states that the gadget will survive a series of 15 falls from a meter height.

Solid front screen without bending at the edges, the finest frame and "droplet" with the front-facing camera at the top. Looks succinctly and nice.

Included with the OPPO RX17 PRO comes a soft silicone case and headphones to the connector USB Type-C. Adapter 3.5 mm no.

Display

OPPO RX17 PRO received a 6.4-inch AMOLED-display with an aspect ratio of 19.5: 9. Resolution - 2340 × 1080 pixels. Compared with the display flagship Find X it is a bit colder, but the brightness and contrast levels are similar. Glued to the screen protective film, it is not necessary to change.

Performance

OPPO RX17 PRO became one of the first smartphones on the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 chipset. This solution is especially the fact that brings a massive mid-price segment and the top-end offering flagship chips for little money. As part of the chipset eight cores, but if we usually have four productive core and four energy efficient, then This time got a couple of powerful Cortex-A75 with a maximum frequency of up to 2.2GHz and six energoeffektvnyh Cortex-A55 with 1.7 GHz.

Responsible for the graphics GPU Adreno 616, to work with the camera, photo editing and video - Spectra image processor 250, for features of artificial intelligence - the neural Hexagon 685. It is noteworthy that in the flagship Snapdragon 845 includes the same neuroprocessor and almost the same image processor.

As used 10-nm process technology and custom architecture Kryo cores 360, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 overtakes the previous 600-th generation. Qualcomm itself compares the 710-th model with 660-th, which crowns the 600-th series. Thus, in general, the performance gain of 20% in energy increase 710 minutes compared to 660 minutes reached 40%.

Well, it's all the numbers, but in reality? OPPO RX17 PRO proved to be powerful enough to reference in PUBG Mobile you can play high graphics settings - gadgets to Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 could overpower only average. The test AnTuTu smartphone OPPO RX17 PRO gaining 167,000 points in PCMark - 8,7 thousand. This is the level of two years ago on the flagship Snapdragon 821.

The picture in the result is this: although the figures in the OPPO RX17 PRO tests and behind the hellishly expensive flagships, in real life, including in graphic loaded games, it allows all the same thing.

The memory volume OPPO RX17 PRO typical mainstream segment and is 6 GB. Built-in Memory - 128 GB, and it is so much that the manufacturer has decided to give up slots for microSD-cards.

camera

The cells RX17 PRO pile of innovation, which is why a smartphone removes perfectly in any environment, whether it's a sunny day, it is backlit or dark night. Actually, Night Snapshot is skate RX17 PRO: Gadget is optimized for this task.

Main camera parameters are: 12-megapixel sensor Sony IMX362 with pixel size 1.12 .mu.m, aperture f / 1,5 and f / 2,4, dvuhpikselnaya autofocus Triaxial OIS Images.

Perhaps the most unique feature - it's a smart diaphragm main camera. The aperture of the optical physical change! Yes, there is not a radar aperture and only two provisions - f / 1,5 and f / 2,4, but this is a breakthrough. Regulation f / 1,5 diaphragm takes night shooting conditions and low light for the rest is f / 2,4.

Other camera chips are already software. This intelligent recognition scenarios, color mapping, reconstructing the color and provides natural colors and night Ultra Night mode. At the last dwell.

Due to the wide aperture of f / 1,5, and intelligent optical stabilization processing algorithms Image smartphone RX17 PRO is able to make a bright, clear, detailed night shots short exposures.

However, OPPO has gone further and developed a special Ultra Clear mode - a kind of night HDR. Smartphone makes several shots with the shutter speed of 1 second, processes them and produces the final image. It turns out beautifully, especially when shooting the lights of the city at night. Note: neon signs is sharp and well read. No soft-lit and white spots.

In all other circumstances of the shooting RX17 PRO is also at altitude: he correctly identifies scenes competently fulfills Auto RAW HDR mode that extends the dynamic range, gently blurs the background when shooting a portrait without harm to the circuit model.

Apart from the main dual rear is the third 3D-TOF-camera, which is used for creating of 3D-models.

Selfie camera, oddly enough, simple (as in OPPO F7): 25-megapixel module Sony IMX576 diaphragm f / 2,0. Processing selfie engaged SelfieTune 2.1 algorithms based on artificial intelligence. Smartphone recognizes race, sex, age, assesses a person of 296 points, compared with a database of 8 million portraits and then makes adjustments.

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RX17 PRO was the first in Russia the OPPO smartphone, which received NFC (yes, this chip is not even in the flagship OPPO Find X). This means that the RX17 Pro allows you to use the system of contactless payment G Pay.

NFC full supports MIFARE Classic specification. You can, for example, not only to check the card balance "Troika", but also to fill it in the "My travel" application.

The rest of the set of wireless interfaces in 2018 is typical for a smartphone of the year: a dual-band Wi-Fi, 5 Bluetooth-enabled codecs aptX HD and LDAC, satellite receiver GPS / GLONASS, LTE support Cat.15. Of course, the two SIM cards.

Software

OPPO established in RX17 PRO new operating system Color OS 5.2 based on Android 8.1 Oreo.

On the basic chips ColorOS we told in the reviews of other smartphone OPPO, eg Find X and A5. Here we confine ourselves to innovations.

The "Smart Panel" - a pop-up multitasking menu, through which you can open other applications, including in windowed mode, and start the video recording from the screen to take a screenshot, send files. Unfortunately, compatible programs not so much: to "Smart Panel" you can add instant messenger, YouTube and Facebook clients. And yet. The list of supported applications will be expanded. How quickly - depends not only on ORRO, but also from the software developers.

Improved built-in video editor. Now, video playback speed can be changed in addition to crop video and overlay color filters, and not only speed, but also to slow down, add special effects and soundtrack, apply a design theme to get a nice roller.

In addition, according ColorOS 5.2 scattered other important updates. For example, SOS function to alert selected users on your location, call «Google Assistant" by long pressing the power button, the ability to listen to the sound of the video with the screen off.

Security

In addition to traditional OPPO face recognition system, RX17 PRO added fingerprint authentication. Interestingly, the scanner is located below the screen, and is equipped with an optical sensor, and therefore reacts even on wet hands. The technology works exactly, but a bit slower than usual scanners. Together with said recognition system entities creates a feeling of complete security of your smartphone.

Since the front camera in the RX17 PRO usual and without any infrared projectors in complete darkness gadget you do not recognize. It was then, and come to the aid of a fingerprint.

Runtimes

As the flagship OPPO Find X, the new RX17 PRO is equipped with a quick-charging SuperVOOC. Thanks to this gadget is fully charged in about 40-50 minutes and as much as 40% in just 10 minutes.

The smartphone has two battery to 1850 mAh, which gives a total 3,700 mAh. This is enough for a half day of use in a mixed mode. PCMark battery testing showed that 80% of the charge is sufficient to smartphone without interruption-enabled TV worked in various modes for more than 11 hours. This is a good result.

Important: SuperVOOC works only with the proprietary power adapter cable and USB Type-C. These accessories are equipped with chips that are responsible for safety and charging current conversion. Without them RX17 PRO charged in 2 hours.

Summary

OPPO RX17 Pro has turned one of the most exciting vehicles on the market, and here's why.

pros

1. Thanks to the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 smartphone to cope with the same challenges as the flagship, although he is the mainstream segment. This is exactly what was missing mass of technically savvy users with a limited budget. However, this advantage can be referred to all subsequent devices in the 710-m processor.
2. Traditionally, OPPO we got a cool camera, which you can simply remove any plots and capture beautiful photos.
3. Fast charging SuperVOOC really fast. The smartphone can not connect to a power outlet on the night - just 10 minutes in the morning before brushing your teeth.
4. Finally, a NFC - now with OPPO can pay for goods at the checkout. Anyway, RX17 PRO - the first smartphone OPPO, which is perceived holistic. Because NFC is no longer anywhere, but because even the flagship Find X seemed to be "cut off" because of the big money wants to get as a minimum standard.
5. Futuristic fingerprint scanner.

Minuses

1. There is no slot for a memory card. But it is unlikely to be needed: to the user, and so 128 GB.
2. The lack of audio jacks can be forgiven, but the absence of the adapter with Type-C 3.5 mm - no. Or is it possible? Headphones something put.
3. camera app ascetic, the minimum number of settings, and even though the smartphone is able to shoot in RAW, you can turn it on only in the third-party application.
4. "Smart Panel" at this stage of development of the system is not too ColorOS expands functionality, because it supports small applications.
5. Dust and moisture protection for IPXX standard would not hurt, but so far the Chinese manufacturers for some reason bypass its side.

By OPPO RX17 PRO should look for those who want a spectacular smartphone with a good camera and innovative processor, which can feel like the owner of an expensive and powerful leader.

Sales OPPO RX17 PRO will start on November 16 in stores "M. Video", "The Messenger" and OPPO. Price - 49 990 rubles.

Layfhaker thanks the company "OPPO Russia"For providing a sample for testing.