People often look for style and a little substance to make do with what they want. Oppo’s recent smartphone line-up has a caused a stir in the handset market, with the F17 Pro being the latest edition to their formidable ammunition.
Design and Display
Weighing a little over 160g, Oppo F17 pro has a plastic frame and a rugged feel to it. Whenever you’re handling a device with a plastic body, there’s always little to no premium feel, so don’t be surprised there. The rear camera bump doesn’t protrude as much to labelled a bump, but looks as ravishing as the Huawei nova 7i.
The front display is a 6.43-inch FHD+ AMOLED screen with a brightness stat of 800nits and a standard 60Hz refresh rate. The in-display fingerprint works fine and there’s an always-on display to keep you up-to-date with day-to-day notifications on the go.
F17 Pro comes with the Color OS 7.2 on top with Android 11 fresh out of the box.
Performance and Hardware
Performance-wise, the device felt snappy and responsive when loading apps or navigating through multiple app windows. There’s a Smart Sidebar, Quick Return bubble, nice themes and custom factory applications. The Air Answer attribute works decently when answering a call without touching the phone. Nice, huh?
F17 Pro runs a MediaTek Helio P95 chipset coupled with a PowerVR GM9446 GPU under the hood. The device packs 8GB RAM plus 128GB UFS 2.1 storage fresh out of the box.
The chipset feels somewhat slower with heavy gaming. All things equal, this phone works just fine.
Camera
The rear camera bump houses a 48MP main sensor supported by 8MP+2MP+2MP ultrawide and twin-depth sensors. The camera works well, and offers 4K and 1080p video recording at 30fps.
There’s no macro mode, since the F17 Pro doesn’t house any macro sensors in its quad camera setup. In daylight, the primary 48MP GM1 sensor captures sharp and well-detailed binned images. Exposure and colours are also handled very well, without any unwanted boost in saturation. Autofocus is reliable, which makes capturing close-ups quite easy.
The front peanut cutout houses the selfie camera setup with a good self-portrait mode and nice colors to top it off.
Battery
There’s a 4015mAh battery running the hood that supports 30W fast charging. The fast charger is included in the box and fully juices the phone within 85 minutes.
Verdict
It’s a good phone with a nice outlook, but the price doesn’t look good. These days, many midrange devices are entering the cellular market at a flagship level in advertisement but the spec list screams I’M A MIDRANGER. Our complains are somewhat ignored at this point, so all we can do is look for alternatives with similar specifications and a price-tag to compliment them. The Huawei nova 7i is the best alternative here!
