Oppo R7 Plus or iPhone 6s Plus.

 Oppo R7 Plus.

Oppo R7 Plus. Supplied
Indeed, in some respects that matter a great deal to many people, the R7 Plus has better features than a top-quality  phone. It's got a 6-inch screen, which is big even by the standards of plus-sized phones like the iPhone 6 Plus (5.5 inches) or the Galaxy Edge+ (5.7 inches). It's a monstrous phone – a little too big for my tastes – but at least it's got another feature that's better than those top-quality  phones: it's got a relatively tiny bezel, and a screen-to-body ratio of 77 per cent, compared to 68 per cent for the iPhone 6s Plus and 76 per cent for the Galaxy Edge+, meaning the 6-inch screen doesn't make the Oppo quite as huge as it might have.

It's bloody huge, but if Apple had made it with the same proportions as it made the iPhone 6s Plus, you might as well just shove a SIM in a MacBook Air and call that a phone. It would be cheaper, too.

Apart from the size, there is another respect in which the R7 Plus out-plusses the plus-sized, plus-priced phones – the battery, one of the most critical aspects of all phones. It doesn't matter how much you love your iPhone, if the battery is dead the phone is little better than a prop for showing people how much money you are willing to spend.

What the Oppo has isn't so much a brilliant battery life as a brilliant battery charger. Using the Oppo R7 Plus for a week, I found it got a day of usage on a single charge, which is fairly normal for a big-screened phone but nowhere near the two or three days I can get on a small phone like Sony's Xperia Compact.


The charging is another matter. Where the battery in an iPhone 6 Plus can be charged from completely flat to completely full in about 2 hours 40 minutes according to our tests using one of Apple's more powerful, 2.1-amp chargers, the Oppo can go from zero to 100 in little more than an hour. It's got a 4 amp charger, you see, which to our knowledge is the most powerful charger on the market. (And, no, you can't just buy an Oppo charger and use it on your iPhone. You have to have a phone that's capable of using all those amps, too.)

Perhaps of more interest to anyone who's had to do an emergency recharge on their phone, you can get the R7 Plus back to 15 to 20 per cent charged, from empty, in just 10 minutes in our tests. Oppo says a mere five minutes of charging is worth  2 hours of talk time, though I'm not a big enough talker to have tested that. In any event, it means you would only need a couple of minutes hugging the wall at an airport to get yourself back in action with this phone. It's brilliant, and there have been plenty of occasions when I have been so desperate for a fast charge, I would have swapped my much more expensive Galaxy Note for an R7 Plus in a heartbeat.

Under less stressful circumstances, I wouldn't do the swap, however. Like I said, the phone is a little too big for my tastes, but also there are other things about the R7 Plus that mean it's not as good as a Note or an iPhone.

It's quite a lot slower than other high-end phones, though I should point out the slowness show up far more in benchmark tests than in day-to-day operations, where the R7 Plus runs pretty smoothly.

Like the iPhone and the Galaxy edge, and very surprisingly given the price, the R7 Plus has a fingerprint scanner on it, which lets you unlock your phone without having to enter a password. It actually works pretty well - it's one of the more modern fingerprint readers you only have to touch, rather than one you have to slide your finger over, and it unlocks your phone very quickly - but unfortunately the scanner doesn't seem to work with third-party apps such as LastPass. Worse than that, the fingerprint reader is on the back rather than on the front as it is with the iPhone and Galaxy, and on the back it means you have to pick up your phone to unlock it. I don't know what the stats are for people unlocking their phones while the phone is still sitting on their desk, but for me it's got to be 30 or 40 per cent, meaning the scanner is only 60 or 70 per cent as useful as it could be.

Then again, it is 60 per cent cheaper, so what do you want? Everything?

The other thing I wasn't a fan of was the software. The R7 Plus runs a version of Android that Oppo calls ColorOS, which isn't too bad as far as heavy-handed Android skins go - it's theme-able, at least, though I can't say I loved any of the themes - but which could do with being a little more like regular Android and a little less like an iPhone clone. Where is the app drawer?

Indeed, with another one of its phones, the Find 7, Oppo actually releases a version of the firmware that is pure Android, and it's a pity it doesn't do the same thing with the R7 Plus. Oppo is targeting the R7 Plus at style-conscious consumers, rather than the more technically minded consumers it has designed the Find7 for, but we can't see why it can't offer style-conscious consumer the option of pure Android, too, if for no other reason than pure Android is very, very stylish nowadays, to our mind the best looking of all the various Android incarnations.

With pure Android, the R7 Plus would be something. Sure, you'd need deep pockets to carry one around, but you wouldn't need deep pockets to get one.

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OPPO N1 smartphone with rotating camera

OPPO N1

Over the years, my biggest grouse with Android devices have been their lack of variety. Once you swithc them on all these phones and tablets look, and work, alike. The differentiator is usually in the design and that too is more often subtle. But recently there was a big exception to this rule, the Oppo N1. If you haven’t heard of Oppo, it is a global brand that is quite popular in some parts of the world. Interestingly, the company also chose to enter the market with high-end device that wants to take on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and the Nokia Lumia 1520, not the mid-range Galaxy devices or the Micromaxs.
Here are five things that set the Oppo N1 apart.
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1. Just one camera, not two: Android device manufacturers have struggled to offer one great camera in their phones, let alone two. So as a rule, the front camera is much lower specced than the rear one and can at the most be used for a Skype call or a dark looking selfie. Oppo has thought around this problem giving the phone a good 13MP camera and giving it the ability to rotate on an axis. So you have a 13MP front and rear camera. It helps that this camera is really good, though it gives an over-saturated feel at time. But the details are amazing and rare of camera phones. That is good enough for me to overlook the noise that comes with it. See photo gallery
http://list-phones.com/catalogue/OPPO-N1
And yes, the video quality is really good, with a smooth zoom.
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2. The OS is different: There is no doubt that the plain vanilla Android is the best there is. There have been many attempts to give the users something new, and some like the HTC Sense have been quite good. The Oppo N1 tweaks Android and calls it the Color OS. This was my first tryst with this overlay and I can definitely live with it. It is very intuitive and uses gesture better that most other phones. I also like the homescreen that gives a camera windows inside in case you want to add stuff to remember. The music and video players are much more fun and easier to use.
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3. The gestures work: Everyone has  been trying to make use use of gesture on Android phones. I think Oppo has pretty much cracked the best way to do it. You can pull down a screen from the top to use gestures that you have preset for certain apps or functions. For instance, I calibrated it to open the camera every time I scribbled C on this screen. There is more. A simple three finger scroll up saved a screenshot. As this is a feature I use a lot, I loved the fact that it had become so easy. And gesture work no just on the screen. You can swipe you finger behind the body to click pictures. However, we felt this only added to the shake in images.
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4. This one has a remote: The phone ships with a small device called the O-click. This small white disk works like a remote that connects to the phone over Bluetooth 4.0. It takes seconds to pair the two devices and once done, it will beep when there is an incoming call or message. We used it to trigger a shot when the camera window is open. It also alerts you if you move too far away from the phone and call also lets you track the phone when you can’t find it. The remote can be worn as a band around your arm. It is all a bit gimmicky and I doubt if anyone will use it on a daily basis. But this is something that works.
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5. It is built like a tank: At a time when we end up writing the word plasticky in every Android phone review, Oppo shows us that good design and build quality is not something that needs to be compromised on. You start feeling confident about the device from the time you see the packaging for the first time. Only Apple devices have been able exude such confidence with its packaging. This confidence show up inside the box too, with the phone’s all while body reminding me of the HTC One, arguably the best built Android device. This comes close, and maybe goes a step ahead as it has been able to create a camera that rotates but does not feel like it will fall off.
So should you buy this?
If you are looking for a high-end Android phone and don’t mind spending Rs 39,999 then this is definitely a phone that is worth a look. The only cause for worry is the fact that this is a new company and you might be stuck if something happens to the phone. We expect the company to have a service network in place in the coming months, just take care of your phone till you town gets one.