Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G Assessment: Many Hits, however a Few Misses

The widespread issue between the OnePlus Nord 3 (Assessment), OnePlus 11R (Assessment) and iQoo Neo 7 Professional (Assessment) is that they’re all priced underneath Rs. 40,000 in India, and deal with offering flagship-grade efficiency. The premium mid-range phase has witnessed a surge of cellphone launches these days, and if these choices weren’t sufficient, there’s the brand new Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G so as to add to the checklist. Priced at Rs. 39,999, the Reno 10 Professional 5G sits between the baseline Reno 10 5G and the top-of-the-line Reno 10 Professional+ 5G (Assessment).

Whereas many of the competitors goals at providing value-for-money efficiency, the Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G has a couple of tips up its sleeve to face out within the crowd. Must you think about shopping for it? Right here is our full evaluate that will help you determine.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G value in India

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G has been launched in India in a single storage possibility. It comes with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, priced at Rs. 39,999.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G design and show

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional has been launched in two color choices — Silvery Gray and Shiny Purple. Now we have the latter, which appears fairly distinctive in comparison with most different latest telephones launching in shades of inexperienced and black. The cellphone has a curved rear panel and body. The glass again of the Oppo Reno 10 Professional gives a premium in-hand really feel. What contributes to this additional is the pretty slim and light-weight construct. The Reno 10 Professional is about 7.89mm thick and weighs 185g. That being stated, there are occasions when the cellphone has slipped out of my palms because of the easy end of the again.

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional is sort of a looker for my part. The selection of colors and design mixed make it appear like a way more costly smartphone. The shiny metallic end additionally does a superb job of hiding fingerprints and smudges. Whereas the rear panel is manufactured from glass, the chassis is manufactured from plastic. The cellphone has its energy and quantity buttons on the suitable edge, that are simply accessible if in case you have pretty giant palms.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional gives a premium in-hand really feel with its glass again

 

On the entrance, the Oppo Reno 10 Professional has a 6.7-inch AMOLED show with a full-HD+ decision (2412 x 1080 pixels) and a 20.1:9 side ratio. Identical to the Vivo V27 Professional (Assessment), OnePlus 11R (Assessment) and some reasonably priced choices such because the Motorola Edge 40 (Assessment), the show on the Reno 10 Professional 5G is curved in direction of the perimeters. I didn’t expertise any ghost or unintended touches whereas scrolling or taking part in video games on the cellphone.

What I did have a problem with was the single-speaker setup. For a smartphone underneath Rs. 40,000, it is vitally fundamental to have a superb dual-speaker setup, and it’s a whole bummer that Oppo selected to solely supply a single speaker within the Reno 10 Professional 5G. Plus, there isn’t a 3.5mm headphone jack both. The brilliant facet is that the speaker is sort of loud however the audio expertise just isn’t as immersive.

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G has pretty slim bezels across the show

 

On the intense facet, the 120Hz show gives as much as 950 nits of peak brightness whereas consuming HDR content material. There’s assist for HDR playback on YouTube however not on Netflix on the time of penning this. The colourful 10-bit show gives assist for a billion colors. Oppo has opted for an AGC Dragontrail Star 2 glass, which is claimed to supply 20 p.c improved drop resistance in comparison with Corning Gorilla Glass 5.

I didn’t expertise any main stutters whereas scrolling via the person interface when the refresh charge setting was set to Auto Change. There have been some software-related points although, which we are going to speak about within the subsequent part.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G specs and software program

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G encompasses a Snapdragon 778G SoC with an Adreno 642L GPU. The cellphone packs a 4,600mAh battery and gives 80W SuperVOOC quick charging. It gives connectivity options akin to Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, dual-SIM, IR emitter, and many others. The Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G comes with 14 5G bands in India.

By way of software program, the Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G runs the newest ColorOS 13.1, primarily based on Android 13. Oppo’s ColorOS has advanced over time and has been some of the most well-liked choices for personalisation and customisation. The Reno 10 Professional continues to present customers the choice to alter wallpapers, regulate entrance form and dimension, change icon form and dimension, and many others.

There’s additionally assist for Android 13’s Materials You theme, which matches the system and UI colors with the wallpaper’s colors. Additionally, Oppo additionally lets customers select when a bunch of featured color choices for the UI and system icons within the Settings app. Extra particulars about ColorOS 13.1 have been shared in our Oppo Reno 10 Professional+ 5G evaluate.

Whereas ColorOS 13.1 is feature-rich, it’s plagued with app suggestions and advertisements via the person interface,  be it the set-up display screen, bloatware-loaded app drawer and residential display screen, or app suggestions within the default browser app. There are additionally a bunch of not-so-popular video games and third-party apps preinstalled. App Market, Oppo’s native App Retailer, additionally spams you with a number of notifications, suggesting you put in sure functions.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional comes with over 50 preinstalled apps

 

Oppo appears to have taken suggestions and has acknowledged that undesirable apps asking for set up permission when first organising the cellphone will likely be eliminated to offer a greater expertise within the subsequent software program model. Nevertheless, Sizzling Video games and Sizzling Apps, that are Oppo’s native app suggestion folders will proceed to be out there. Customers can conceal these folders by going to App Market > Normal > Faucet Settings on the prime proper nook and disabling the toggle for Sizzling Apps and Sizzling Video games. You too can disable the suggestions spam by long-pressing on one of many notifications, tapping on ‘Extra Settings’ and disabling the ‘Enable Notifications’ toggle.

Nevertheless, there appears to be a necessity for optimisation as I observed the display screen orientation altering mechanically even when the Auto-rotate possibility was disabled. There have been occasions once I observed minor jitters whereas going again to the homescreen. Hopefully, Oppo fixes these points quickly. The Oppo Reno 10 Professional is promised to get two main Android updates and safety assist for 3 years.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G efficiency and battery life

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional encompasses a mid-range Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G SoC, which now we have seen in a couple of smartphones priced at round Rs. 30,000 in India. The Reno 10 Professional 5G is clearly not essentially the most highly effective cellphone within the phase. Nevertheless, in terms of routine duties akin to scrolling via social media, messaging, content material consumption, app loading, and many others, the chipset can nonetheless get the job performed.

Informal gaming, too, is doable. Nevertheless, for the value, the likes of the OnePlus Nord 3 (Assessment), OnePlus 11R (Assessment) and iQoo Neo 7 Professional (Assessment) supply much better gaming efficiency and worth. Battlegrounds Cell India (BGMI) helps ‘HDR’ graphics and ‘Extremely’ framerate settings. I observed some stutter when taking part in with the best settings however the gameplay was barely higher when the graphics settings had been dropped to ‘Balanced’ or ‘HD’. Asphalt 9: Legends, alternatively, ran fairly easily.

RAM administration is sort of good and apps continued to load from the place I had left them. The Reno 10 Professional additionally gives assist for as much as 8GB of digital RAM, which is borrowed from the 256GB of inner reminiscence.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional’s in-display fingerprint scanner is positioned fairly low for consolation

 

I additionally ran a couple of benchmark assessments on the Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G. It scored 5,89.206 factors on AnTuTu (v10). In Geekbench 6, the cellphone scored 1,013 (single-core check) and a pair of,669 factors (multi-core check). It will get demolished by the competitors, with the iQoo Neo 7 Professional scoring 1,263,884 factors in AnTuTu (v10). Whereas benchmarks are usually not the one metric to guage a cellphone’s efficiency, it does spotlight that uncooked efficiency just isn’t the Reno 10 Professional’s forte.

Nevertheless, in terms of battery life, the Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G can final a full day. My common screen-on time (SoT) was about 8 hours and 20 minutes. When there was greater than two hours of gameplay concerned, the cellphone returned a SoT of about 6 hours and 50 minutes. In our HD video battery loop check, the Oppo Reno 10 Professional lasted for 20 hours and 44 minutes. The 80W SuperVOOC charger refills the battery utterly in about 29 minutes.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G cameras

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G encompasses a triple-camera setup on the again. It has a 50-megapixel Sony IMX890 major digicam with assist for optical picture stabilisation (OIS). The identical sensor is discovered within the flagship OnePlus 11 (Assessment) and the Oppo Reno 10 Professional+ 5G. The Reno 10 Professional additionally options an 8-megapixel ultra-wide digicam and a 32-megapixel telephoto digicam with 2X optical zoom. For selfies, there’s a 32-megapixel entrance digicam sensor.

Beginning with the first digicam, you get good high quality photographs with true-to-life colors. The dynamic vary efficiency is nice usually. There have been occasions when the publicity within the shadows was not optimum. Evening mode pictures had been well-exposed with little-to-no noise in lots of eventualities. The highlights weren’t blown out whereas attempting to retain particulars within the shadows. For my part, the Reno 10 Professional’s major digicam’s low-light efficiency is among the many greatest within the phase.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional major digicam samples (Prime row: Photograph mode, backside row: Evening mode)

 

The ultra-wide digicam’s color temperature varies in comparison with the principle digicam with barely hotter tones. There’s undoubtedly an absence of particulars, particularly across the edges however the digicam does a superb job with colors and dynamic vary.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional ultra-wide digicam pattern

 

You additionally get a 2X telephoto digicam which isn’t as widespread within the phase. I actually preferred the telephoto digicam’s efficiency, though there’s room for enchancment. You get good particulars and the dynamic vary efficiency can be fairly good. Once more, the color temperature is completely different as telephoto photographs are barely cooler in comparison with the first digicam’s samples.

Portrait mode’s edge detection is great. Nevertheless, the first digicam’s portrait mode makes human pores and skin look a bit pink. The telephoto digicam’s portrait mode efficiency, alternatively is fairly spectacular in terms of colors, edge detection and particulars. A factor to notice although is that there’s a shutter lag whereas taking portrait mode pictures, so it’s good to preserve the cellphone regular and ensure that the topic doesn’t transfer till you hear the shutter sound.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional portrait mode digicam samples (left column: 1X zoom, proper column: 2X zoom)

 

The entrance digicam does an honest job in terms of getting the pores and skin tone proper. Edge detection in portrait mode pictures is a hit and miss as I observed the algorithm blurring out my ear and hair. Low-light portrait mode pictures expose the topic fairly properly and supply good blur, however the particulars are barely comfortable.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional entrance digicam samples (Photograph mode vs Portrait mode)

 

By way of video, the Oppo Reno 10 Professional can document as much as 4K 30fps movies utilizing the rear digicam and 1080p 30fps on the entrance. The rear digicam’s footage gives good stability, particulars and publicity. Video high quality from the entrance digicam takes successful in terms of dynamic vary efficiency.

Verdict

Oppo Reno 10 Professional is maybe probably the greatest designed smartphones underneath Rs 40,000. It not solely appears good however it is usually well-built and has a superb in-hand really feel. The cellphone scores massive factors for its good show and battery life. The efficiency unit is satisfactory for the value because the competitors gives much better worth. The place the Reno 10 Professional 5G has a slight edge over the competitors is its versatile digicam system, which additionally encompasses a good high quality telephoto lens.

Nevertheless, the one space the place it struggles is the software program expertise, which at present doesn’t match the premium value. The cellphone can be not IP-rated and solely has a single speaker.

All in all, if you’re on the lookout for a cellphone which has a flagship-grade design and show, and a flexible digicam setup, you possibly can think about getting the Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G. Then again, if you need premium efficiency, a superb software program expertise, and are okay with lacking out on a telephoto digicam, you’ve gotten loads of choices such because the OnePlus 11R (Assessment), OnePlus Nord 3 (Assessment) and iQoo Neo 7 Professional (Assessment).

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