OPPO F3 Reviews, Pros, Cons & Price : The New “Front-Selfie Expert” In Town

Chinese phone maker OPPO has become synonymous with selfie camera focused smartphone . A few month’s ago, OPPO has launched OPPO F3 Plus Dual Front-Facing selfie camera smartphone launched at the price tag of Rs.30,990 . Now, Once again OPPO company has came up with another Dual front-facing selfie camera smartphone launche in India, which is dubbed as,“OPPO F3” and is priced at Rs.19,990 . The OPPO F3 smartphone has the slightly stripped downgraded this version compared to OPPO F3 Plus, and arrives with smaller screen display, reduced battery size, and the primary camera be also reduced . The main key highlights of this OPPO F3 smartphone comes with Dual rear cameras setup . Now, let’s a quick highlights of this new OPPO F3 Selfie-expert flagship.

Design & Display Of OPPO F3

In terms of design, the OPPO F3 has just similar design languages as OPPO F3 Plus, except at the antenna band lines present on the two ends on the back panel of the handset . The device has unibody metal design constructions and a fingerprint sensor is embedded into the home button which is quick and accurate to unlock your phone on most occasions . The power button is present on the right side of the device and Volume rocker button lies on the left panel for quick response . It has a 3.5 mm headphone jack on the bottom along with a speaker grille . The company has given a space to adjust two nanoSIM card as well as microSD card slot . Apart from this, the secondary microphone lies on the top of the handset for noise cancellation . At the back panel, the smartphone carries a primary camera along with LED Flash and the OPPO branding logo at the bottom looks very gorgious . With it’s slim design and lightweight, the device gives a premium feels when you hold it in your hand . The smartphone physical measurement be 153.3 x 75.3 x 7.3 mm and weighes be 153 Grams.

Coming to the screen display, the smartphone featuring 5.5-inch Full HD IPS 2.5D Curved Glass display with a screen resolution 1920 x 1080 pixels and is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection that protect your smartphone from unwanted screen resistant, minor damages , drops from hands and many more such types . The large screen looks ver sharp, vibrant and easy to view in bright outdoors and also able to see clear image in direct ray of sunlight . Besides, the Oppo F3 flagship also comes with an “Eye Protect Mode” features, which basically acts as a blue light filter for the screen display and helps alleviate eye strain at night . This device also adjust the screen colour to relieve the visual fatigue.

Processor, RAM & ROM

On the hardware front, the OPPO F3 device is powered by 1.5 GHz MediaTek 6750 Chipset octa core processor which is paired with Mali T860 graphic processor and clubbed with 4GB of RAM . In terms of storage-wise, the device is packaging with 64GB of inbuilt onboard storage capacity . The internal storage capacity can be expandable memory up to 128 GB via dedicated slot to store a large number of stuffs in it . In terms of card slots, the device will hit the market with Dual nano SIM card standby along with one microSD card slot but all three can be used as simultaneously.

Software

This OPPO F3 Dual Front-facing selfie camera smartphone is running on older version of Android v6.0 marshmallow operating system which will be wrapped under company’s own Color OS 3.0 skin on top out of the box . But on the other hand, various mobile manufacuring brand like Vivo, Gionee, Xiaomi company providing latest Android Nougat operating system to the users . So, we might except that OPPO to delivers an Nougat update soon . Apart from this, the device has a new feature called the “Clone Apps” that allows users to use two whatsapp accounts on the handset . You can also runs various apps easily like as Google Chrome, Facebook , Gmail , Youtube etc., the handset does not show any sign of stutters.

Cameras

Now, coming to the USP of the device, the OPPO F3 packs with Dual Front facing cameras setup and a Single camera at the back panel . The dual Front facing cameras setup allows you to taking depth of field (DOF) . The terms DOF is also known as Focus range or effective focus range is the is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appears acceptably sharp in an image.

On the front panel, the device boasts a Dual Front facing cameras setup which is the combinations of 16-megapixel front facing camera comes with f/2.0 aperture lens, 1/3.1 inch sensor size, 76.4-degree wide angle lens and 8-megapixel secondary camera comes with 120-degree wide angle lens that allows users to taking a 105-degree field of viewing group selfies and capturing a decent group selfies as you want.

At the rear panel, the smartphone bears a 13-megapixel primary camera comes with LED Flash, Phase detection autofocus and 1/3-inch sensor size helps to taking brilliant images in low light or poor conditions of light.

Battery & Connectvity Features:

On the battery front, the OPPO F3 device is packaging with powerful 3,200 mAH Non-removable battery which offering user’s to easily lasts for a day on a heavy usage . Further, the device misses a VOOC flash charge technology support but it’s successor version OPPO F3 Plus support VOOC flash charging.

As for the connectivity options, the OPPO F3 smartphone includes Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4GHz and 5GHz) , Bluetooth v4.0 , GPS with A-GPS , 3.5 mm headphone jack , micro-USB port , Dual SIM , 4G LTE with VoLTE support . Additionally, Sensors on this device board are as Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Light sensor and Digital compass . However, some notable omissions from the Oppo F3 handset includes USB Type C, NFC and FM radio.

OPPO F3 Specifications Highlights:

• Hybrid Dual SIM with 4G VoLTE
• 5.5-inch Full HD 2.5D Curved Glass display
• 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution
• Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection
• Android v6.0.1 Marshmallow OS
• 1.5 GHz MediaTek MT6750T Octa Core processor
• 4 GB RAM & 64 GB ROM
• Expandable memory up to 128GB via microSD
• 13-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED Flash
• Dual (16MP+8MP) front selfie sensor with 120-degree wide-angle lens
• Fingerprint Scanner
• 3,200 mAH Built-in battery

OPPO F3 Pros (Advantages & Merits)

• Large & Vibrant Full HD Display
• Fingerprint Sensor
• Dual Front facing cameras setup

OPPO F3 Cons (Disadvantages & Demerits)

• Still Running on Outdated Android marshmallow OS
• Average gaming Performance
• No FM Radio support
• Lack of NFC (Near Field Communications)
• Non-removable battery support

Final Verdict:

This new OPPO F3 smartphone is a slightly smaller selfie smartphone from the OPPO’s house as compared to OPPO F3 Plus . The device seems to a well-build design and overall good looking performance . At the price tag of Rs.19,990, it is slighly higher but it offering some decent specifications and features that stands out from the crowd such as powerful 3,200 mAH battery, large and vibrant 5.5-inch FHD Display, Dual front selfie sensor and much more . Under the 20K price category, the OPPO F3 has a toughly competition to Gionee A1 which is priced at Rs Rs.19,999 and Vivo V5s which is priced at Rs.18,990 . The Vivo V5s arrives with a great 20-megapixel front facing selfie cameras and almost specifcations are identical on this wheras the Gionee A1 comes with a better processor, better battery but with an only single front facing selfie sensor . However, if you are a selfie lovers, then OPPO F3 is the perfect options for you under 20K.