Oppo F11 Pro Review

The Oppo F11 Pro is finally here, aiming at the Indian market with its instantly eye-catching look. Over the years, Oppo smartphones have gained the reputation as selfie-focused, however, this time, it’s not about selfies anymore.

Check out what the Chinese phone maker has to offer this time.

Design and build

The phone display measures 6.53 inches with no cutouts and almost no bezels. The detailed dimensions include 161.3 x 76.1 x 8.8 mm in size and 190 grams in weight.

The F11 Pro features a full-screen design, which means the selfie camera has to move to somewhere else, and Oppo has chosen to use a motorized pop-up cam. However, fans of selfies will have to wait a second for the camera to pop up and do its job, and they have to be extra careful in case of crowds and tight spaces if they don’t want the appendix to break.

While all phone makers are trying to minimize the bezels, none of them have managed to make a true bezel-less phone and neither has Oppo. A bezel, even the thinnest one allows the company to place an earpiece for a speaker. The F11 Pro sports only one loudspeaker, located at its bottom.

Meanwhile, there is a noise-canceling mic on the top of the frame, along with an ambient light sensor. The pop-up camera is also here (of course) which displays a cool transition towards the rear when it’s extended.

On the back, we have the dual-rear-camera setup and a LED flash at the top center of the device with a metal ring around. Under the camera is the fingerprint scanner.

The phone back and the frame is made of plastics that looks and feels like glass. The phone’s rear stuns with the eye-catching triple-color gradient finishing, which changes between different light conditions.

At the bottom, there is a microUSB port, and 3.5mm headphone jack, and a hybrid dual-SIM tray.

The Oppo F11 Pro feels premium in hands, probably thanks to the back indistinguishable from glass. It’s a bit slippery too, but not too much.

Display

The most impressive thing about F11 Pro’s 6.53-inch screen is the lack of cutouts for an uninterrupted viewing experience.

The phone display has an aspect ratio of 19.5:9, featuring 1080p resolution and 400ppi of pixel density. Its contrast ratio is 1400:1, which is excellent, with the lowest brightness of whites at 3 nits, pretty great for low-light reading.

The device support different light settings based on temperature, including Default, Warmer, and Cooler.

Battery

The Oppo F11 Pro house a 4,000 mAh battery, along with support for VOOC Flash Charging. The limit, however, is the requirement for a 20W charger and a proprietary microUSB cable. The phone can charge from 0% to 40% within 30 minutes, quite fast, and full battery in 85 minutes.

According to a battery life test by GSMArena, the battery reaches 109 hours of endurance. The result turned out great in all scenarios tested including calls, video playback, web browsing, and standby performance.

Software

This is the first Oppo smartphone to run on the Color OS 6, its ROM is based on Android 9 Pie. The Color OS 6 comes with Oppo Sans – the company’s new global font, which was developed in a collaboration with Chinese typeface firm Hanyi. Notably, the new operating system offers an app drawer, which is optional following users’ wish.

While the new OS mixes light color gradients with a white backdrop, it still brings a familiar feeling to users.

Both the fingerprint sensor and face recognition are blazing fast and user-friendly.

Like usual Oppo phones, the F11 Pro allows users to change themes either completely or just wallpapers. The phone also supports full-screen gesture and its voice assistant aids in real-time translation.

Performance

The phone sports the Helio P70 CPU with an octa-core chipset, including a 4-core A73 at 2.1GHz and a 4-core A53 at 2.0 GHz. Its GPU is the tri-core Mali-G72 MP3.

The F11 Pro gives provides a balanced performance to users across the board. It works well in games, especially when users tweak several of the possible parameters through the Game Space, allowing excellent performance at Arena of Valor or PUBG. It’s worth noting that the device has a Game Engine that acts to improve the gaming experience.

As a mid-range smartphone, the device has quite everything to smoothly handle whatever task you give. As stated by GSMArena, the phone got hardly warm even after long gaming sessions.

Camera

The device house a 48MP main camera along with a 5MP lens for depth sensing, phase-detection autofocus, alongside a LED flash to use in low-light conditions.

The 48MP lens is probably the Bright GM1 from Samsung – 1/2.25”, 0.8µm pixels, and an aperture of f/1.79 – which is commonly used these days, including flagships like the Xiaomi Mi 9 and the Honor View 20.

Its software uses the technology like Quad-Bayer for combining for adjacent pixels into a single one. So we get a sharper 12-megapixel photo with a lot of brightness, details, and less noise.

The pop-up selfie cam is 16MP with 1.0µm pixels and an f/2.0 lens, without a Led flash or autofocus.

In the phone’s camera app, users can make use of AI scene recognition and three main modes: Video, Photo, and Portrait. There are a few shooting modes like Ultra Night Mode, Slow-mo, Time-lapse, Pano, and Expert. The camera also features a 2X zoom toggle.

Image quality

By default, the photos are generated by the 48MP sensor that end up in a resolution of 12MP after some works inside the phone. From a handful of attempts, the photos appear detailed with high dynamic range, superb contrast accurate and lively colors, and well processed. Thanks to the appropriate sharpening amount, detail is highlighted.

The HDR effect will please users with an improved range of dynamics. The Dazzle mode further improves the dynamic range compared with the HDR but there may be a loss of some intricate details.

The Oppo F11 Pro take excellent photos in low-light conditions thanks to its bright f/1.8 lens. The images are detailed with balanced highlights, low noise levels, and excellent contrast.

The Ultra Night Mode helps further clean the noise in exchange for some smeared intricate detail. The mode also captures more light, and the photos illustrate well-exposed shadows and highlights, boosted saturation and contrast.

Portrait

Photos taken in portrait mode are nice with effective subject separation with few abrupt transitions from sharp to blurred.

Selfies

The selfie shots are excellent too, for a mid-range phone, with good dynamic range, plenty of detail, nice colors, and enough sharpness.

The HDR is automatically used in contrasty light, with a bit lower quality but the boost in dynamic range is good and the selfies are still beautiful overall. And like many of Oppo selfie snappers, the selfie camera offers simulated bokeh and Beautification mode including an AI-powered one.

Video

The Oppo F11 Pro can produce video at 1080p@30fps. Its video has stereo sound, lots of resolved detail, average dynamic range, and accurate colors as well as well-handled noise. The device allows users to capture loss-less 2X zoomed videos at the same quality as regular 1080 ones.