Revisión de OPPO Find X3 Lite 5G: ¿qué tan bueno es este guardabosques medio?

Breve resumen

Como se mencionó en la introducción, el Oppo Find X3 Lite está dirigido a personas que no quieren derrochar en modelos más caros y les gustaría tener un teléfono rico en funciones por menos de $ 500. El teléfono tiene una pantalla AMOLED de 6.43 pulgadas. panel a 90Hz, soporte 5G y obtienes el poderoso procesador Snapdragon 765G con 8GB de RAM. El teléfono también tiene una configuración de cámara cuádruple competente que está a la par con lo que el resto de la competencia suele ofrecer en este segmento.

La batería es lo suficientemente grande y, sobre todo, se recarga muy rápidamente gracias al soporte para la tecnología SuperVOOC 2.0 de Oppo que puede cargar el teléfono a 65 vatios. El teléfono también ejecuta la última versión estable de Android 11 bajo la máscara ColorOS de Oppo.

A pesar de la parte posterior de plástico, es un teléfono inteligente de aspecto agradable y adecuado para cualquiera que quiera tener un teléfono inteligente sólido y asequible. Sin embargo, a $ 449, se enfrenta a la competencia de muchos otros teléfonos que también ofrecen una buena relación calidad-precio.

¿Para quién es OPPO Find X3 Lite 5G?

¿A quién va dirigido OPPO con Find X3 Lite? En mi opinión, el público objetivo son las personas que quieren tener algo de glamour OPPO en sus hogares pero que luego no están dispuestas a desprenderse de los 1149 € del Pro o incluso del precio de 799 € que impone el Neo. A 449 €, el Oppo Find X3 Lite es notablemente más barato y mucho más atractivo.

Luego está la combinación probada de Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G y 8GB de RAM que asegura que el usuario promedio pueda salirse con la suya sin ningún problema. La GPU de este teléfono también es bastante potente y el teléfono también tiene una excelente configuración de cuatro cámaras, incluso sin la cámara “Periscope” que encontramos en el buque insignia.

Básicamente, Oppo quiere que los usuarios piensen que Find X3 Lite es un todoterreno decente que cuesta menos de la mitad de lo que paga por los buques insignia actuales.

Lo que me gusta de OPPO Find X3 Lite 5G

Diseño y acabado

El Oppo Find X3 Lite es un teléfono inteligente atractivo. La variante que recibí para su revisión era de color azul astral. Aunque ciertamente no es tan llamativo como sus hermanos más caros, creo que Oppo hizo un buen trabajo con el diseño del Find X3 Lite. Las otras opciones de color ofrecidas incluyen: Galactic Silver y Starry Black.

Considerándolo todo, estoy bastante contento con la apariencia del teléfono. Hubiera sido genial si hubieran usado vidrio en el panel posterior, pero el respaldo de policarbonato también ayuda con un mejor agarre que los respaldos de vidrio y definitivamente es algo bueno tener. Ah, y este panel trasero también es excelente para resistir las huellas dactilares. No hay nada de qué quejarse cuando se trata de la calidad de construcción general, y el OPPO Fid X3 Lite ofrece casi todos los puntos de vista. El control de volumen a la izquierda y el botón de encendido a la derecha están bien diseñados y emiten esos ruidos de clic satisfactorios cuando los usa.

Me sorprendió gratamente ver un conector de 3,5 mm en la parte inferior. Esta fue una buena adición, ya que la mayoría de los teléfonos inteligentes de gama media también han comenzado a abandonar esta tecnología analógica antigua pero muy útil. El altavoz inferior también es bastante bueno y también bastante ruidoso. Pero entonces, es solo un altavoz mono. Me hubiera gustado tener una configuración estéreo aquí.

Software: Android 11 con ColorOS 11

En cuanto al software, me he convertido en un fanático de Color OS desde que regresé al juego de prueba de teléfonos inteligentes. Me gusta la simplicidad de la interfaz, que combina una experiencia de Android relativamente natural con características de valor agregado. Solo los gestos versátiles de las capturas de pantalla lo hicieron por mí. Puede usar tres dedos para deslizar el dedo por la pantalla y obtener una captura de pantalla, pero también puede usar variaciones de gestos para crear instantáneamente una captura de pantalla deslizante o simplemente seleccionar una sección.

También es bueno que Android 11 ya se esté usando aquí, porque incluso con la vista previa para desarrolladores de Android 12 ya disponible, muchos teléfonos inteligentes todavía se envían con Android 10. Oppo también ha confirmado que la serie Find X3 recibirá dos actualizaciones importantes de Android.[dates and in that way, this phone is quite future-proof.

Performance: Game on!

Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage – sound familiar? Then maybe that’s because it’s not the most uncommon combination in this price range. For example, the OnePlus Nord also gets a similar setup. In fact, so does the Find X2 Lite which is this phones predecessor from 2020. Even though you may question the rationale behind using the same processor on a successor, the fact remains that the Snapdragon 765G even today, is a very capable mid-range chip.

I installed games like Genshin Impact, Real Racing 3 and Call of Duty and was able to play very all of these titles relatively smoothly (okay, it was a bit jerky in Genshin) and without the device heating up indecently. The SoC is absolutely sufficient for pretty much everything we do on our smartphones. The SoC is also so popular because of the built-in 5G modem and even if you can’t use 5G yet: This also adds to the future-proofing of the smartphone.

The battery: fast, faster, OPPO

With a capacity of 4,300 mAh, you’ll not only get through the day smoothly but with a bit of stretching it’s even good enough for the second day. What makes the Fid X3 Lite special, though, is that it can charge itself at the same speed as its more expensive siblings at a blazing 65W. 

While many smartphone users charge their phones overnight, the Find X3 Lite’s SuperVOOC 2.0 technology can help you charge the phone from 0 to 100 per cent in just 40 minutes! Now if you do have concerns surrounding fast charging, you might us read up on the true facts about this technology.

AMOLED, you pretty thing

Also on my ‘like’ list is the superb display used on the Find X3 Lite 5G. This AMOLED screen – at 6.4-inches has grown slightly in size compared to its predecessor. It retains the FHD+ resolution and the 20:9 aspect ratio from the said predecessor. The refresh rate also remains unchanged at 90 Hz.

The Find X3 Lite 5G also offers an always-on display that can be configured very extensively. A fingerprint sensor is integrated into the lower part of the display I found this fingerprint scanner to be very responsive. However, there were occasional missed unlocks. But then my fingers are much larger than that of the average smartphone user. I find it funny that the software even offers you different animations that accompany the unlocking process.

The only tiny point of criticism: The display edges could have been a bit slimmer. In return, the panel is nice and bright and claims over 600 nits, and I’d guess that it’s still easy to read in the sun. I couldn’t check this because the weather has been really bad where I am and I couldn’t really use the phone under direct sunlight. 

The cameras

Apologies in advance but here in Dortmund where I live the weather was not so great at the time I tested the Oppo Find X3 Lite. Hence these ‘gray’ sample pictures!

These less than stellar weather conditions also tells a lot about the camera capabilities of this phone. Even with the weather going against it, the 64MP f/1.7 primary camera, the 8 MP, f/2.2 ultrawide camera, the 2 MP, f/2.4 macro and black and white camera did end up taking some really good photos.  My point is that for the conditions being what they were, the camera delivered pretty well.

During the day, the images look very realistic and are rich in detail. This is probably not surprising for most people, as most smartphone cameras achieve excellent results during the day, even on cheaper models. The zoom and night photos are great as well

In the following picture, you can see our legendary U-tower, which I think they only built there so I could find my way home drunk at night. Anyway, I tried the tower with the OPPO zoom and lo and behold: Not only 2x and 5x look good, even 20x offers an amazingly clear result. All this works without optical zoom because we don’t have a telephoto sensor on board and by we I mean the smartphone, of course.

To be honest, I don’t even miss the telephoto sensor, because all too often some of the sensors don’t really get us anywhere and therefore seem to me as if they’re only installed for marketing reasons, because quad-cam or triple-cam just sounds better.

Fortunately, Dortmund looks less grey on the night pictures and OPPO delivers here as well: Even in normal photo mode, the pictures don’t lose too much detail and the noise also stays within a tolerable range. Better still, however, is the night mode, which makes the images look brighter and more powerful without overdoing it. Often enough, color fidelity is lost with night modes and/or images become overly bright.

Neither is the case here and so with this €450 handset, you get a camera that will serve you really well in everyday life. If you like, you can switch to Expert HD mode, which takes 108 MP images, and of course the other usual suspects – Panorama, Pro mode, Portrait, etc. – are all there. – are all in on the action as well.

Sample photos from the Oppo Find X3 Lite

 

Selfie camera

We come to the ghost train aka selfies department. This is the category where I’m usually not a good judge of what the shooter is good for because this face unleashes its full image-ruining potential on even the most expensive camera.

Compared to the main cam, the 32MP front-facing snapper is okay but doesn’t blow me away as much. In portrait mode, the camera blurs too messily for my liking. Nevertheless, I have a few snapshots for you here as well. The more squeamish will have a quick drink before looking at them.

Here’s the portrait mode again – insiders at OPPO report that because of this face, they’re supposedly working on an anti-portrait mode that automatically blurs only the face.

What I like less about the OPPO Find X3 Lite 5G

Seeing that we’ve already talked about the camera, SoC, battery, and more, you can guess that there’s not really much left that I don’t like about the OPPO Find X3 Lite.

Wireless charging, second speaker, MicroSD card slot – where are you guys?

Personally, I miss wireless charging because I already drape my daily driver directly on my charging pad at my desk out of habit, and now I have to reach for the cable again after all. More annoying is that you can not expand the 128 GB memory via card. Why there isn’t a hybrid slot for either a second SIM or microSD is beyond me.

I can understand why OPPO does not offer stereo sound in the Find X3 Lite. Unfortunately, the mono speaker has to suffice for me, but it delivers a rich, pleasantly clear sound that still sounds good even at low volumes and the volume is sufficient.

A little more courage would have been nice, OPPO

Then I actually have only one criticism on my list and that is the lack of courage to innovate.

That OPPO is bold and innovative, we know not only since the OPPO X 2021 with rollable display or OPPO’s Wireless Air Charging
. But the Find X3 Lite doesn’t reflect much of that, and while it’s been improved in a meaningful way, it’s also very shy.

The predecessor already relied on a very similar display with identical resolution and refresh rate, and the storage size, RAM, and SoC have also remained identical. Yet, I actually hardly want to rant about it, honestly. I will explain why further down in the conclusion.

Conclusion