Compare Oppo phones to get more for your money from your next smartphone

31 July 2018

There's an Oppo phone for every budget and our guide can take you through what you need to compare to make the right choice for you.

Updated August 21st, 2018

Name	Processor type	Display size	Display resolution	Internal storage
Oppo R11s Plus	Snapdragon 660	6.4	2160 x 1080	64GB	View details	Compare	loading Fetching your data...
Oppo R15 Pro	Snapdragon 660	6.28	2280 x 1080	128GB	View details	Compare	loading Fetching your data...
Oppo A73	MT6763T	6	2160 x 1080	32GB	Buy at Amazon View details	Compare	loading Fetching your data...
Oppo R11s	Snapdragon 660	6	2160 x 1080	64GB	Buy at Amazon View details	Compare	loading Fetching your data...
Oppo A77	MT6750T	5.5	1920 x 1080	64GB	Buy at Amazon View details	Compare	loading Fetching your data...
Oppo A57	Snapdragon 435	5.2	1280 × 720	32GB	Buy at Amazon View details	Compare	loading Fetching your data...

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Fast Oppo phone facts

Oppo is one of the biggest phone brands in China, with its own retail stores and a wide range of phone accessories.
The company that owns Oppo is also the owner of the OnePlus range of premium-challenging smartphones.

What to consider when choosing a Oppo phone

Oppo is a relative newcomer to the Australian mobile market, having only launched its first phones here back in 2014, but it's taken Australia by storm, with a range of handsets, largely in the mid-range space.

Oppo's positioning has long been described as making "iPhone clones", because so many of its phones shared design ideas with Apple's popular lines, but at a much lower price point. It's also one of the few Android manufacturers still to put significant resources into comprehensively reskinning the Android operating system with what it calls "ColorOS". ColorOS provides a more iOS-like experience than stock Android, which often makes it a favourite of ex-iPhone users looking to switch with minimal fuss.

There are many aspects to Oppo's wide range of available handsets to consider when you're comparing its phones to find the right smartphone for you. We've detailed what you should consider below.

Oppo has rarely offered humongous storage capacities in its handsets for the most part, tending towards phones with either 32GB or 64GB of storage onboard, although there are exceptions for its more premium handset offerings, such as the Oppo Find X, which features a hefty 256GB of internal storage.
Most of Oppo's phones also feature support for external storage via microSD card, although it's wise to check the precise specifications of each handset, as not every Oppo phone can take the larger capacity microSD cards.
Oppo's positioning in the Australian market is largely with mid-range phones, but that hasn't stopped it from releasing phones with a wide variety of screen sizes, from the smaller 5 inch models right up to models with pleasing 6 inch displays, and up to the 6.4 inch "all-screen" display of the Oppo Find X.
What's pleasant here is that while the Find X sits in the premium space, you don't always have to sacrifice screen size for price, with plenty of Oppo's lower-priced phones still featuring large displays if that's what you like.
Oppo has used LCD displays for its phones to date and there's not much sign of that changing. LCD displays are typically cheaper to produce than AMOLED or P-OLED screens, but they've typically got slightly less contrast than the OLED types. Oppo often cranks up the brightness on its phones to compensate, which is very much a taste matter. Some users love a vibrant screen, while others may find it a touch oversaturated as a result.
Oppo's entire market positioning to date has largely been around providing phones that look like their premium handsets, but without the pesky asking price. While it's somewhat moved away from providing true budget handsets in the Australian marketplace in recent years, its mid-range phones can be had for around $500 or less, while its more premium R-series phones command more serious prices. While we're yet to see precise Australian pricing for the Oppo Find X at the time of writing, it's likely to be Oppo's first handset to tip the scales at over $1,000 locally.
Up until recently, all of Oppo's phones have featured full headphone jacks, along with Bluetooth audio support if you prefer wireless audio. The one exception to this is the Oppo Find X, Oppo's first phone to ditch the headphone jack. That's a matter of spacing, with the pop-up camera at the top and SIM card slot at the base not giving Oppo many choices when it came to placing a standard headphone jack.
Oppo has provided fingerprint sensors for most of its recent phones, as well as an emerging software capability for facial recognition to unlock your phone. However, much of this has been based on flat 2D photography rather than detailed scanning, so it's more a matter of convenience rather than security.
If you're after more than that on an Oppo phone, you'll need to look at dedicated Android encryption and VPN applications.
Most mid-range phones tend towards cameras that are merely adequate, rather than exceptional for their price point.
Oppo's usually an exception to this rule because it does sell itself as a "camera phone" company and that means it's always offering new features at the mid-range price point. That includes dual lens cameras on many of its phones and unlike competitors, that secondary lens is there for more than just bokeh-style portrait effects. They're usually telephoto lenses for zooming in on shots as well.
Oppo is promising big things in the camera space, having shown off the industry's first 5x optical zoom lens at MWC 2017 – although we're yet to see a phone with that lens on board.
Most of Oppo's phones in Australia have been sold on an outright basis and that's meant that they've typically been dual-SIM LTE phones, usually with one 4G and one 3G SIM card slot. As is generally the case with most dual-SIM phones, the secondary SIM card slot also does double duty as a microSD expansion slot.
Network category speeds is an area where Oppo usually doesn't push what's possible at this price point. Don't expect great category speeds on an Oppo phone, although for most users in good 4G LTE areas, they're entirely adequate.
If you're keen to know more about the real performance of a given phone category speed, read our complete guide to Network Category speeds.
Oppo's primary marketplace is in China and that's an area where wireless charging just doesn't seem to be a big feature. As such, we're yet to see an Oppo phone that supports wireless charging here in Australia.
While most mid-range phones similarly skip out on fast charging, the same isn't true of Oppo. It has its own fast-charging standard, known as VOOC, and it's supported by all of its handsets for ultra-fast charging of your handset in 30 minutes or less. The one catch here is that VOOC only works from the supplied charger because it's quite a specific standard. Plug your Oppo phone into a regular charger and you'll be waiting a while for its battery to fill up. We've also noticed that Oppo's VOOC chargers are sometimes picky about charging phones from other companies, so you may find you can't charge friends or workmates' phones happily from an Oppo charger.
Oppo's phones have had battery life that, in our tests, has always tended towards the middle ground. There's rarely a situation where they have what we'd call bad battery life, but equally, we've rarely been blown away by how long their phone batteries last in test conditions.
Test conditions are of course regulated and your own usage may vary. There are typically few issues with single day usage of most Oppo phones and that VOOC fast charging ability means that it's usually trivial to top them up quickly if you need to.
Most of Oppo's designs to date haven't featured IP-rated water resistance, although we have seen Oppo's test facilities up close, and it's definitely something it's capable of.
The one exception to date here isn't the flagship Oppo Find X, because its pop-up camera would make that very hard to manage indeed, but instead the Oppo R15 Pro, which also features NFC (which isn't found on other Oppo handsets). Hopefully that's a sign that in the future, Oppo's range will adopt wider water resistance features.
Oppo builds its smartphones to look like premium phones, but it keeps the costs low by utilising more modest internals for the most part. Leaving aside the premium Oppo Find X, what you'll find in most Oppo phones are that year's mid-range Qualcomm or MediaTek processors and a moderate quantity of RAM.
As such, what you get are phones that are entirely adequate performers, but not much more. There's then the added complication that Oppo's own "ColorOS" overlay substantially changes the way Android works, making for something of a learning curve if you're used to regular Android operation. On the flipside, if you're coming from iOS, it's rather more familiar than the way that Android works.
If you're interested in an Oppo phone, you should read reviews of Oppo smartphones to get a better idea of how each phone works.
Benchmarks of the type we use at finder are one good metric for comparing a phone, but they're rarely the complete story.

Which Oppo phone is best?

Oppo's range of handsets covers a range of usage cases and price points, which makes the search for the "best" handset a somewhat subjective one, not just to personal bias but also personal circumstance.

As always, it's wise to weigh up our recommendations against your own personal situation and preference. Our expert team has many years of experience reviewing smartphones, but your tastes, preferences and dislikes could vary from ours, making a phone that we don't rate more valuable to you, or vice versa.

finder's pick

Oppo R15 Pro

Oppo's best handset

The Oppo R15 Pro is, to date, the best handset that Oppo's ever released in Australia.

Oppo's current flagship, at least until the Oppo Find X is released is the Oppo R15 Pro. It brings with it NFC and water resistance features, as well as a sub-$1000 price point, which you won't likely get with the Find X.

Read our full review of the Oppo R15 Pro here

Looking for an Oppo phone on a plan?

There's only a handful of manufacturers not called Apple or Samsung who manage to crack the local telco market, but Oppo is one of them, having phones regularly placed with Optus, Vodafone, Telstra and most notably Woolworths Mobile, where a wide range of Oppo phones have been offered over the past few years. Pricing will vary by model and availability, but as an example, here's what you'd pay for an Oppo R15 Pro on contract right now:

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