It has been more than six months since Oppo F1 launched. And to compete the company in design and feature Oppo F1S For example, there was a lot of need to introduce an upgraded phone. However, like the previous smartphone, this phone also has a focus on front camera. Today we will know all the characteristics and shortcomings of this smartphone in the review of this smartphone.
Design and look
If you keep the F1S and F1 Plus together, then it will be very difficult to differentiate them because both phones look very similar. On holding the F1S in hand, the curved edge of the display gives a good feeling and its slim bezel makes it a stylish smartphone. The phone already has a screen guard installed on which scratches are scratched very quickly. We feel that it could be removed by giving Gorilla Glass 4 for safety.
The 5.5 inch IPS display given in Oppo F1S is quite rich color produce. And the screen at the maximum brightness level is much better than the Oppo F1. We did not see any problem with the display even in direct sunlight. Although the display panel is good but we are not happy with HD resolution which is quite low for this screen size.
The F1S has a fingerprint sensor while F1 did not have it. The fingerprint sensor works quite well in F1S. The screen is immediately unlocked like F1 Plus. There are two backlit capacitive buttons on either side of the sensor. Oppo has also given a notification LED at the top. This smartphone made of metal body looks quite good to see and this device looks quite premium with Glossy Gold Trim.
The button has been placed in an ergonomic manner, although it would have been easier to identify them if there was a little more space between the volume button. The headphone shock with micro-USB port and mono speaker is given downwards. But it would have been better that the headphone shock would have been upwards because the cable comes in the middle when typed.
The rear has a 13 -megapixel camera with LED flash. The battery is non-removable. The sim trave on the right side supports dual sim. Apart from two Nano-SIM slots, a separate card slot has been given for microSD cards up to 128 GB.
The box with Oppo F1S will get a 10 watt charger, data cable, silicone case, a SIM Easeer Tool, Headset and some manual instructions. Overall, F1S is a needy upgraded phone that can now give a tough competition to another smartphone. The exact and sharp fingerprint sensor and separate microSD cards are similar to a bonus in the phone. This phone with a 7.3 mm thickness is 160 grams of heavy.
Specification and feature
Oppo has given 15 GHz MediaTek MT6750 octa-core processor in this smartphone with eight ARM Qortex-A53 core. This is the entry -chip launched by MediaTek this year with LTE integrated.
Apart from this, F1S has 3 GB RAM, 32 GB storage, dual band Wi-Fi B/G/N, Bluetooth 4.0, USB OTG, GPS and FM Radio. Oppo has not given NFC or Wi-Fi AC in the phone. The F1S supports VoLTE with 4G LTE on the Indian band.
Like the F1 Plus, the Oppo F1S color runs on the OS 3.0 which looks like a little Android and a little iOS. But we did not like giving Android Lollipop to the phone by the company because now it has become older. It is possible that we got to see Marshmallow updates in the phone later, but it is always good to have the latest version at the time of launch.
We saw some shortcomings in the software which need to be told here. Some third party apps like Telegram notifications will show you in the notification shed but you will not be able to see them from there. Apart from this, the interface is quite smooth and most of the time goes on without any trouble.
Oppo has made some changes in the Setting App. The submission of the display has a blue light filter. The lock-screen wallpaper can be replaced by unlocking the phone from lockscreen magazine every time. Apart from this, the phone also has a gesture like one-handed mode. However, this feature did not support us when we tried.
The phone has several apps with Google several apps, Kingsoft Office, Security Center, File Manager and a video player already installed. With O-Cloud, you can make your SMS and contact backup on Oppo’s cloud service.
Performance
Oppo F1S is a very good smartphone and we did not see any major problem while using it for about a week. We can do everything on the phone easily. These include 3D games and it is not too hot while playing games. However, sometimes the smartphone is a bit hot but not so that it has problems in running. The phone does not have any problem on the 4G network and even in the noise, there is a very good sound from the earrpace. The phone only has a tissue keyboard installed which works well.
HD media files run well in the phone. Oppo has given its dyrock software enhancement for speakers and headphones, which works quite well when low frequency.
A very easy reason to buy this smartphone is its camera performance. First of all, the matter of front camera which is also the most special feature of this phone. This phone has a 16 -megapixel front camera with aperture F/2.0, which brings quite good quality photos with detailing. You can get rid of any kind of ‘stains’ with beautification 4.0 software.
Like the previous F-Series smartphone, you can take selfies only using palm or voice command. The screen flash has a significant effect due to the bright display. However, it is still a bit weak. A video can be recorded up to 1080 pixels from the front camera and has some other shooting mode like Jiff, filter and double exposure.
The 13 -megapixel rear camera also has all these shooting modes. Apart from this, an expert mode has also been given in the rear camera. For this, you have to choose between a second to 16 seconds. The image quality of landscape and macro shot is quite good. The rear camera comesra comes with detection autofocus (PDAF) to lock the subject very well. We liked the simple interface of the camera app and it is very easy to switch from one option to another.
battery life
Talk about battery life, we got 10 hours 11 minutes in the video loop test from the 3075 mAh battery given in Oppo F1S. At the same time, during normal use, its battery runs a little more than a day. However, the F1S does not have VOOC fast charging technology like the previous phone. And it takes a long time to fully charge the phone with a charger of 10 watts.
Our decision
Oppo has introduced another good product in the form of F1S. But we feel that the company could make it a better smartphone by paying more attention to some small things. We are talking about fast charging, Wi-Fi AC and NFC which are probably not very important but we expect these features from smartphones coming in this price.
F1S is an attractive phone that has its own characteristics. Its classy design, look and texture is very good and some new features in it. The phone’s display is good and cameras have also been claimed to be good.
The biggest problem of the phone is its price. The F1 smartphone now has no place in the market, so it would have been better that the company launch F1S at the price of F1 only. But it is very difficult to succeed in Rs 17,990 as smartphones with strong and good features are already available in the market for less than Rs 15,000.