Oppo Reno3 Smartphone Review: Affordable and Beautiful

Oppo’s expansion into our market (and opposition to established leaders such as Xiaomi and Huawei) gave us very favorable prices for interesting smartphones. Including pre-flagships like Oppo Reno3, with a good set of features.

Packaging: Oppo Reno3

The smartphone comes with a charger, USB Type-C cable, a wired headset with a 3.5 mm connector, and a case. Fortunately, transparent, so as not to detract from the beauty of the case. And he is really very handsome here.

Oppo Reno3: Appearance

Oppo Reno3 in our color, Auroral Blue (there is also Midnight Black and Sky White), has an expressive blue-turquoise, even a slightly lilac gradient on the back cover, with a neon-blue stripe in the middle that is visible only from a certain angle.

The case is in glass on the front and back, connected by a plastic side edge, which is quite skillfully disguised as metal, making the smartphone even more premium both in hand and by eye.

The arrangement of elements in the Oppo Reno3

In front, there is a screen with a teardrop notch for the front camera and an under-screen fingerprint scanner – which, although inferior to traditional counterparts, is generally quite nimble. Interestingly, the predecessor – Oppo Reno2 – had a sliding front camera. But this feature was abandoned, presumably in favor of reliability. Well, this probably influenced the price downward. It’s a pity the fin camera was lovely. On the left side, there are power and volume buttons and a slot for SIM cards.

Below is the speaker grill, USB Type-C, and mini-jack.

Behind, in addition to the gradient, we see a protruding camera unit, a flash, and the manufacturer’s logo. Everything is classic.

The Oppo Reno3 body’s dimensions are 158.8 x 73.4 x 8.1 mm, the weight is 175 g. There is no special coating on the back, but the smartphone feels confident in the hands and does not even plan to slide, so it does not need to be found.

Oppo Reno3: Display

The smartphone is equipped with a 6.4-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 2400 by 1080 pixels, with a density of 410 pixels per inch, and an aspect ratio of 20: 9. Everything from viewing angles to brightness with contrast is of the highest order.

Plus, if you’re not happy with the base colder color temperature, you can easily adjust it in the display options. And flicker noticeable at minimum brightness is removed by the option “minimum brightness without flicker,” which is great for eye health.

Performance Oppo Reno3

The 12-nanometer system-on-chip MediaTek MT6779 Helio P90, with eight cores, two Cortex-A75 with a frequency of up to 2.2 GHz, and six Cortex-A55, with a frequency of up to 2 GHz, is responsible for the power of the smartphone. The video core is PowerVR GM 9446 with a frequency of 970 MHz.

There is no variety of available memory options – 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of UFS 2.1 format ROM. But there is a slot for microSD up to 256 GB, and at the same time, it is not combined with SIM-cards. That is, you can install two SIM cards and another microSD card.

In terms of performance, we have a solid competitor to Qualcomm Snapdragon, model 710. 202,000 points in AnTuTu will not surprise anyone in 2020, and you don’t really need to – in games, the smartphone shows itself with dignity, and in work, it is responsive and fast. Fortunately, the SoC includes acceleration by artificial intelligence.

Oppo Reno3 Software

Oppo Reno3 runs on Android 10 under the ColorOS 7 shell. In general, we have a nice looking reskin of the “dozens” with support for all the necessary and modern features, as well as chips like the side toolbar. The responsiveness and smoothness of the animation is also great.

Cameras in the Oppo Reno3

The smartphone is equipped with four main camera modules. Main 48-megapixel with f / 1.8 aperture and phase detection autofocus, 13-megapixel telephoto module with f / 2.4 aperture, 8-megapixel ultra-wide module with f / 2.2 aperture, as well as a black-and-white 2-megapixel additional module for determining the depth …

And if you do not consider the corporate-aggressive noise reduction for Chinese manufacturers, then the photo quality is decent. In good daylight, the shots come out nice to the eye, the dynamic range is generally good, and – most surprisingly – the results are not much worse when shooting indoors.

At night, the quality sags slightly, although the noise reduction is activated at full, and there is almost a minimum of artifacts, especially in Ultra Night Mode. The telephoto module is also pleasing. The quality is not inferior to the main one. Unfortunately, there is nothing to praise the ultra-wide for that. He is clearly a weak point in the four.

The smartphone’s real pride could be considered a wide-angle front camera, 44 megapixels with f / 2.4 aperture.

But in fact, I want to praise the video, particularly the proprietary Ultra Steady Mode 2.0 with amazing image stabilization.

Oppo Reno3: Audio and Communications

Thanks to the fresh SoC, Oppo Reno3 received a full set of data transfer tools, including Wi-Fi 5 with Direct support, Bluetooth 5.0, and GPS / GLONASS / GALILEO / BDS navigation. USB, although Type-C, is only 2.0.

The audio capabilities of the Oppo Reno3 are average. The multimedia speaker is not bad, but not for listening to music, and the spoken speaker does not help it create at least some stereo effect. But the sound in the headphones is not bad. There is support for the AptX and AptX HD wireless codecs.

Autonomy Oppo Reno3

Oppo Reno3 is equipped with a non-removable lithium-polymer battery with a capacity of 4025 mAh and demonstrates a very decent battery life. It will be enough for a whole active working day, and if you use it as a player or an RSS reader, then the gadget will last a day and a half.

Autonomy pleases, but the charging speed is more pleasing – after all, there is support for proprietary VOOC 3.0 technology, which means a power of 30 watts and 50% of the battery in 30 minutes, and 100% in just over an hour.

Conclusions:

Considering the price of about $350, the smartphone looks very interesting. It has many premium features, great cameras, a wonderful screen, and a magical gradient. There is also a sub-screen fingerprint scanner and a nimble, but at the same time beautiful shell on a fresh Android.

However, for the flagship appearance, I had to pay off at best with adequate multimedia capabilities and simplicity in terms of power. This is frankly not a gaming smartphone, don’t be fooled – but it doesn’t pretend to be. And if you understand correctly what you want from a gadget, then Oppo Reno3 may be perfect for you!

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