Apple revolutionised the smartphone market 10 years ago when they launched the iPhone.
We all know that the last 10 years have been incredible in the tech world.
Has Apple lost its edge???
Their ability to innovated and make the user experience seamless between their products, cannot be compared.
It's seamless!
I'm an Apple geek for sure, but recently, that excitement for everything new has left me.
When the iPhone X was released with its premium pricing I'd expected more. The reality was that it just didn't innovate enough! Yeah, it has a big screen and... and...
Not enough that I'd go and spend over $1000 for!
The iPhone 7 I have is fully functioning and generally a good phone, so decided to keep it.
BUT then...
After a visit to the local phone shop to replace my screen protector, I decided to play around with the phones.
Oppo
A Chinese company that has very aggressively advertised here in Vietnam, They position their phones right in the middle of the smartphone market. Not the cheapest, but not the most expensive.
After handling and playing around with the Oppo F7 I was blown away by this attractive feature-rich smartphone.
It is marketed as the best Selfie camera on the market, it's smart Ai 25megapixel front facing camera spiked my curiosity.
That wasn't my reason for wanting it, more the leaps and bounds that have been made by the Android operating system. It's just so clean now, compared to only a year or two ago.
It didn't take long and I was handing over my hard earn Vietnam Dong!
8,000,000vnd ($350 or £260)
Main features of the Oppo F7 are
- SIM FREE
- Android 8.1 (Oreo)
- Display 6.23 inches, 96.9 cm2 (~82.5% screen-to-body ratio)
- 16mp rear camera F1.8
- 25mp front facing camera
- 64GB internal storage
- Dual sim card with expandable SD card up to 256GB
- Rear fingerprint sensor with facial recognition
- 3400 mAh battery
It's a really decent spec at a quick glance, the phone looks like an iPhone X, as it has the notch out the top of the screen. More and more companies are opting for this, to realise the maximum available space on the front of the screen. After about 4 days using it, it's never bothered me.
Cons
This is a list of things that are annoying me at the moment about the changeover. Probably not as much as I expected.
- iMessage (I can still use on Mac, but miss the messages on the go)
- Apple watch (I've not figured out if I can sync it yet, doesn't look likely)
- iCloud storage
- Apple Music
- iPhoto storage
Pros
These are the main things that are making me happy about the changeover.
- Affordable
- Larger screen (great for videos and browsing the web)
- Dual Sim
- Smart AI camera (I've not fully tested the camera yet, first impressions are good)
- Google apps (excellent here in Vietnam as most people share files through Google Drive)
- Gesture controls for lock screen, quick access to favourite apps
- Swipe gestures
- App clone allows cloning of Whatsapp, Viber etc. great when you want business and personal separate
- Zing MP3 (free app for music here in Vietnam)
- Google apps (Gmail, calendar, sheet, docs, keep)
- Google assistant (excellent and much better than Siri)
There are a ton of other things I think are awesome, but I'll leave that for another post after I play around a bit more.
For now, I have no regrets the Oppo is a cracking phone with a great screen and loads of useful features.
What do you have? Apple or Android??
Have you made the leap? Are you bored with Apple's recent lack of innovation?
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