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Manila Bulletin devider Technews devider OPPO Reno 8 5G: The gift that keeps on giving

OPPO Reno 8 5G: The gift that keeps on giving

Published Nov 20, 2022 06:26 am

It was purely unintentional that we're coming up with this review of the recently launched Reno 8 5G just now that the season holidays is just around the corner. But if you're seeking our opinion on the best choices to gift your loved ones, get the Reno 8 5G into your list. 

You might encounter a problem though finding the best wrapper to hold the surprise of a brand new Reno 8 5G which, as a smartphone, is already worthy of a spot under the Christmas tree with its design. Choose your recipients holidays mood between Shimmer Gold and Shimmer Black.

The Reno 8 5G’s color-changing rear shell should match the holidays glitters -- it can show shades of gold, pink, blue, and green from different angles. The back is also  resistant to fingerprint marks and smudges.

It has flat edges and a unibody design, the top edge has the microphone, the right edge the power button, the volume buttons on the left; the bottom hosts a SIM card slot, another mic, USB-C port and a speaker grille.

It weighs a very light 179 grams and measures only 7.67mm in thickness.

The Reno 8 5G greets you with a 6.43-inch punch-hole display with an in-screen fingerprint scanner. The OLED panel, which comes with Gorilla Glass 5, and the screen supports a Full HD+ resolution, a 20:9 aspect ratio, a 90Hz refresh rate, and up to a 180Hz touch sampling rate.

We had no problem using the Reno 8 5G outdoors, even under bright sunlight. The screen is integrated with an optical in-screen fingerprint scanner. 

It is powered by ColorOS 12.1, based on Android 12, and is fast and fluid. The ColorOS offers apart from the stock Android-like experience a “Personalisation” in Settings, where you can find customisation options for Always-on Display, wallpapers, themes, icons, quick settings, modifications for font and display size, fingerprint animation, and edge lighting.

The OPPO Reno 8 5G has two muscled cameras: a Sony IMX709 32-megapixel on the front and a 50-megapixel Sony IMX766 camera with 1/1.56-inch sensor size and 1.0µm pixel size on the rear. The front camera boasts of an RGBW filter, a 1/2.74 sensor size, a 0.8m pixel size, and an f/2.4 aperture.

The Reno 8 5G cameras offer night mode, portrait mode, Pro mode, panorama, macro mode, time-lapse, dual-view video, sticker, text scanner, and Soloop templates.

The Reno 8 5G also boasts of features like AI enhancement, background blur, and enough filters to shoot 1080p videos at 30/60 fps.

We're already joined the holidays frenzy with the Reno 8 5G and started piling up photos for our Christmas 2002 albums. And we've taken it far, and too long.

The 6nm MediaTek Dimensity 1300 chipset of the Reno 8 5G is way above par and comes with 8GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage.

The 80W SuperVOOC charger brings fast power back to the device and, according to OPPO, its proprietary Battery Health Engine ensures 1,600 charging cycles (roughly 4 years) of peak battery performance.

Actually, the list of cons for the new Reno 8 5G should go on as we continue using it before the great big rush of the holidays. But for now, we recommend the few cons we have, and try to find out more good things that should help you decide why the new Reno 8 5G deserves a spot underneath that Christmas tree.

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