1. Introduction and pictures
The Reno series is the key product line of OPPO mobile phones. Since its launch two years ago, the update speed has been quite fast. So far, six generations of products have been released, which is jaw-dropping.
In the field of smartphones, the update frequency of Reno is very rare, almost keeping the rhythm of three generations per year. According to the practice of electronic products, it can only be said that it is a product problem. After all, the life of a mobile phone represents quality, and the longer the update interval, It means the more durable the phone is, such as an iPhone that changes every year.
At first, the author thought that OPPO was crazy and couldn’t understand this number of ways. After reviewing the information and analysis, I found the cleverness of OPPO.
As we all know, the number of OPPO offline stores is staggering, and they have spread to almost every county or town in the country.
In the third quarter, the global smartphone shipments reached 36.7 million OPPO mobile phones. It is impossible to reach this number with the Find X3 series and K series alone. The only thing that can explain it is the Reno series, but unfortunately, OPPO rarely externally Publicizing the specific sales of the Reno series, what does it mean to make a fortune in silence? worth learning.
Then there are the products, each generation of Reno is beautiful, and each generation of Reno has its own unique characteristics in terms of cameras. The inside and outside of this series are completely tailored for the offline market, plus the price of more than 3,000 yuan, I can’t say The supply is in short supply, but it is definitely not worrying about selling. OPPO really understands the offline market.
Near the end of the year, the OPPO Reno series ushered in the seventh-generation update, namely OPPO Reno7, which is still a familiar product warm-up, focusing on portrait video shooting, let’s take a look at its performance.
This series offers three versions, the one in my hand is the Reno7 Pro, and the color matching is the Star Rain Wish using the Star Rain lithography process.
mobile phone packaging
mobile phone packaging
front of phone
front of phone
front of phone
The Reno7 Pro uses a straight screen with a hole in the upper left corner and a right-angle frame design. It has a high screen ratio. For a straight screen, this frame is well controlled and looks similar to a hyperboloid screen.
Many netizens joked that the phone is quite similar to the iPhone 13 series, especially the design of the right-angle frame. In fact, the previous generation Reno 6 standard version had a right-angle frame and a straight screen. The positioning itself is different, and the price is very different, there is nothing to argue about.
front of phone
In terms of parameters, the Reno7 Pro uses a 6.55-inch OLED flexible screen with a resolution of 2400×1080 and supports a 90Hz refresh rate. There are not many bright spots as a whole, and it belongs to a usable level.
The back of the phone
The camera layout is a double-step design to reduce the thickness of the body
The back of the phone
The back of the phone
One thing to say, OPPO Reno7 Pro is difficult to show with photos. The real machine looks better than the real shot. You can go to the physical store to experience it. The back cover adopts the star shower lithography process, and you can see that there are dense slashes, similar to meteors. Passing by, most offline female users are very fond of OPPO’s appearance, and this time should be no exception.
The change in the camera layout is rather strange. The long-standing rectangular camera layout is very beautiful. I don’t know why OPPO made the change. The lens appears asymmetrical. Although the double-step design reduces the visual thickness, it is a bit abrupt.
The back of the phone
The back of the phone
Looking back at the sixth generation of Reno products, I personally feel that the Reno7 Pro lacks a sense of refinement, mainly due to the straight screen and right-angle frame, and the top frame has no text logo and special treatment, and the previous details have been cut too much.
The reason why OPPO is designed this way may be to improve the recognizability of the shape, which is different from the previous generation products, but the overall design of OPPO does not have the original design, and it is hoped that the subsequent products will return to the original.
Right Angle Border Transition
The frame is a right-angle design, and if you look carefully, it has a beveled surface treatment, which solves the problem of holding the hand.
On the left side of the fuselage is the volume key
The right side of the fuselage is the power button
The top of the fuselage is a microphone
The bottom of the fuselage is the speaker, USB Type-C interface, speaker, SIM card slot
Package comes with phone case, 65W charger and data cable
2. System and Highlights
OPPO Reno7 Pro runs ColorOS 12 based on Android 11. It has been released for some time. The animation UI has not changed much, and its functions are roughly the same as other models running ColorOS 12. I won’t go into details, just pick a few. Talk about highlights.
ColorOS 12 has added a new function called Omoji, which is relatively rare in the Android camp. Users can customize the desired Omoji according to their own preferences, and then they can use it in video calls and on the screen.
ColorOS 12 continues the sidebar function and strengthens it. After opening, it can be opened by sliding on any interface. It is a shortcut startup method, and supports custom addition of apps, and opening is a small window mode.
As early as before the press conference, OPPO specially warmed up this function called Star Ring Breathing Light, which enables the edge of the image module on the back to achieve lighting effects, as shown in the figure below.
As the name suggests, this function is used as a breathing light. The OPPO industry’s first optical fiber hot bending process is applied to the rear image module of Reno7 Pro to form a star ring breathing light design, which can flash briefly when starting the game and slow when texting/calling. Flashing and charging show corresponding lighting effects. Although it is not very practical, it increases the fun and playfulness, which is of the same nature as the previous dong dong teaser.
3. Performance and Gaming
In terms of core configuration, OPPO Reno7 Pro is equipped with Dimensity 1200-Max processor. Why is the suffix Max? It is a product of MediaTek’s 5G open architecture. Previously, OnePlus and Relame have also launched models equipped with Dimensity 1200-AI. The latter mainly improves the AI capability of the chip and improves the effect of video recording.
As for the Dimensity 1200-Max, it has the same parameters as the regular Dimensity 1200, and it is built with TSMC’s 6nm process. Let’s take a look at its benchmark performance.
After actual testing, the AnTuTu running score of OPPO Reno7 Pro is 701742, which is not much different from the realme GT Neo2T released not long ago. It fully utilizes the performance of Dimensity 1200, and the temperature increase is acceptable, but compared to games that pursue performance For a mobile phone, it’s still a little less interesting.
In terms of storage, OPPO Reno7 Pro has a sequential read speed of 1969.6MB/s and a sequential write speed of 1268.2MB/s, which is the normal performance of UFS 3.1 flash memory.
Let’s take a look at its game performance, taking the currently popular “Glory of the King” and “Peace Elite” as examples.
– “Glory of the King”
Enable the highest image quality (90fps) currently supported by OPPO Reno7 Pro
game fps
It may be the reason that it has not been released yet. The Reno7 Pro in my hand does not support high frame rate games for the time being. “Honor of Kings” is open to a maximum of 60 frames. The actual measurement has no lag, and the frame rate is basically stable in a straight line. The frame drop during the period is Switching the interface is a normal phenomenon.
——”Peace Elite”
Enable the highest image quality (60fps) currently supported by OPPO Reno7 Pro
game fps
“Peace Elite” also does not have a high frame rate, and supports up to 60 frames, but the curve is obviously more twisted than “Honor of Kings”. There are frame drops during the period, but then it is stable, and the game process does not have much perception, and it is smooth to the end.
4. Video and photography
The image is one of the main highlights of the Reno7 Pro. The rear of the Reno7 Pro is a 50 million main camera (IMX766) + 8 million super wide-angle + 2 million macro three-shot.
It is worth mentioning that the front camera is the world’s first jointly customized IMX709 lens by Sony, which claims to have a 60% increase in sensitivity. Why does OPPO pay so much attention to the front camera?
At the same time, it has a built-in OPPO self-developed RGBW image processing unit, which can improve the performance of dark light scenes. The super-sensitive cat-eye lens took 3 years to develop, invested 300 imaging engineers, cost billions of dollars, and accumulated 87 technical patents. Let’s first look at the performance of the portrait video of the front lens.
1、Portrait video
High-rise buildings (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-102 for the main camera)
High-rise buildings (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-107 for the main camera)
High-rise buildings (8-megapixel wide-angle shooting f/2.2 ISO-109)
High-rise buildings (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-104 for the main camera)
High-rise buildings (2X zoom main camera cropped 12 million pixels f/1.8 ISO-132)
Indoor hanging lamp (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-514 for main camera)
Main camera macro (12MP f/1.8 ISO-525)
Macro mode (2 megapixel macro lens f/2.4 ISO-360)
Reno7 Pro should add some screen colors by default, such as recognizing the sky will deepen the color reproduction. There is no telephoto lens, so the zoom can only rely on the main camera for cropping, and the details of the algorithm are restored.
In addition, let me talk about this macro lens, which is called by many people to make up the number. In fact, it has a certain effect. In the macro mode, the details of the paper cup are displayed more clearly, which is suitable for close-up shooting.
3. Night proofs
High-rise buildings (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-2392 for the main camera)
High-rise buildings (default 12 megapixel f/1.8 ISO-1942 when the night scene main camera is turned on)
High-rise buildings (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-1967 for the main camera)
High-rise buildings (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-1886 for the main camera)
High-rise buildings (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-1725 for the main camera)
The night scene performance of Reno7 Pro is very clean, and there is basically no picture noise. The reason is that the algorithm adjustment does not blindly brighten the dark parts, but try to suppress the highlights, use the ambient light to supplement the light source, and restore a pure picture, but usually There are reflective reflections in the highlights, but the Reno7 Pro has almost no actual measurements. OPPO has many years of experience in camera algorithms, which is inseparable from the continuous investment in research and development.
5. Battery life and charging
In terms of battery life, the OPPO Reno7 Pro has a built-in 4500mAh battery, which is a common battery capacity at present. Since it is equipped with a Dimensity 1200-Max processor, let’s see how its battery life is. It is customary to use the AnTuTu stress test function to perform a super power consumption test.
Stress test is a built-in function of AnTuTu Review. It tests the stability of device performance by performing high-load operations. It requires a lot of calculations by the CPU, so the power consumption is larger than that of video and daily use.
In the super power consumption test, OPPO Reno7 Pro lasted for 175 minutes, which is normal performance for a model equipped with Dimensity 1200. It is no problem to use lightly for a day, and thanks to system optimization, daily standby power consumption There is not much power, mainly because the power consumption is higher when the CPU is fully loaded, which also means that if you are playing games, it consumes more power.
Let’s look at the battery life estimate, because this result is obtained when the CPU is always fully loaded, considering our daily use and screen time, so this data needs to be converted into a multiple, and it is concluded that the Reno7 Pro can have 6 hours of continuous use time.
Then there’s charging. The Reno7 Pro is equipped with the ancestral 65W wired fast charge, let’s see how it performs.
After the actual test, OPPO Reno7 Pro took 30 minutes to charge to 100%, of which 46% was charged in 10 minutes, indicating that 65W maintains high power for a long time, and basically does not generate heat. Green factory has a lot of research on charging. , although there is no 100 watts of power, the current 65W charging is basically sufficient for daily use.
6. Summary
Although the appearance has changed, the interior of OPPO Reno7 Pro has not changed. It is still a familiar “recipe”, especially the blessing of super-sensitive cat front camera, which improves its portrait shooting ability again. How can I take a selfie more beautifully? OPPO Reno 7 Pro gives the answer, as the first sentence of opening the package, in my eyes you will shine.
In the past, after the release of the new Reno machine, there were usually many voices of doubt, such as the low configuration of the machine and no cost-effectiveness at all, but after six generations of products, the Reno series is still the same, why? because of the different positioning.
The Reno series is a model tailored for female users. It can even be said that OPPO did not consider users who pursue performance at the beginning. It would be unreasonable to ask users who like selfies to pursue performance and practicality. OPPO understands this very well, so The goal of the Reno series is only one, and that is how to capture the heart of the young lady.
Let’s talk about Reno 7 Pro. After six generations of products, the appearance has changed a lot. Personally, I think it is a bit unnecessary. It is absolutely unnecessary to change for the sake of change. Understand, after all, two years, some aesthetic fatigue.
Aside from cost performance and performance, the Reno 7 Pro is a sincere iterative upgrade from the essence of Reno’s products, which fully meets the needs of most female users for smartphones, at least I personally think so.
And anyway, the machine is still not worrying about selling, just because it is the OPPO Reno series.
