OPPO N1 is a revolutionary premium smartphone made by OPPO Electronic Corp. based in China. It will leave you good impressions and and higher confidence with “Made In China” premium smartphones. The OPPO N1 features the world’s first rotatable in-phone camera for that high-res selfie via a 13 megapixel camera and also the O-Touch rear panel that makes it easy to scroll through your content with only one hand. It also comes with an O-Click Control which works as a handy wireless remote trigger for the camera, a phone finder and as well as an Anti-Lost notifier should you leave your phone behind.
OPPO N1 is designed to be the Ultimate Selfie smartphone and anyone who loves taking selfies should seriously consider this phone for their next purchase. If you think taking selfies is not what you like, OPPO N1’s ColourOS also offers loads of new user interface improvements on top of the regular Android interface, making it one of the most intuitive interface for smartphone in the market to date.
Best of all, its competitively price at S$769 making it hard to resist. Click here for list of retailers to buy your OPPO N1.
PROS
- Sleek and clean design with a ceramic touch that makes it feels premium
- 206° rotatable camera
- Flexibility to pictures from difficult angles while still able view the screen from a comfortable posture
- Take high quality selfie
- Able to use Flash for selfie in dark environment
- Cool selfie photo editing feature that automatically puts on fake eyelashes and makeup while thinning and smoothens your face
- Image captured by the 13 megapixel camera is clear and vivid
- 5.9″ Full HD display great for video playback
- ColorOS is a simple to use and highly customizable interface for Android
- You can do themed changes to your wallpaper, app icons all by just downloading free themes via the Theme app
- Animated Home Screen wallpaper that reciprocate in real time the weather at your location
- Quick access to favourite apps by drawing a gesture on the Gesture Panel while Basic functions like PLAY, PAUSE, SKIP music tracks, activate camera can be activated by drawing gesture on to the phone on standby (black screen).
- Print Screen is so much easier on Colour OS, just three finger swipe down and done
- Good battery life that can last up to two days on minimum usage and about one day for excessive use
- Good variety of options to trigger the camera shutter – Use the O-Click Control, tap on the O-Touch rear panel, use the volume button and the usual on screen trigger button
- Smooth and swift, hardly any lag when operating
- Speakers are loud and clear
- The price is competitive for a premium smartphone at only S$769
CONS
- Its not LTE (4G) enabled
- The headphone jack and the micro USB port are close together, if your third party cable heads are slightly bigger you may not be able to charge your devices and listening to music at the same time
- Grainy pictures in low light condition, but most smartphone cameras are light that too
- This phone is huge. But if you care looking for big screen phones, I guess you have to live with that
- Currently SingTel, StarHub and M1 are not offering OPPO N1 at their stores, so no contract benefits. Click here for list of retailers to buy your OPPO N1
- Currently there are no third party accessories like casing for OPPO N1, all accessories can only be purchased at OPPO Service Center at The Central (Clarke Quay)
OPPO N1 IMAGE Quality TEST
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