Oppo R11 has among best battery life of any smartphone, and display is superb
With a great screen, good cameras and the prospect of two days of juice with light usage, Chinese handset maker’s new model has a lot going for it – assuming you’re OK with a very Apple-like interface
The R11 from Oppo makes no attempt to reinvent the wheel or adopt bleeding-edge technologies, but instead focuses on melding the tried-and-tested with a host of subtle refinements and beefed-up specifications.
The Chinese electronics firm also stays true to its reputation for easy, good-enough photography capabilities with its dual camera implementation – Oppo’s first – paired with a top-notch 20-megapixel front-facing camera. At 2,999 yuan (HK$3,470), it’s certainly worth a look.
Oppo lifts the curtain on its latest Apple, Samsung killer – its R11 smartphone series
Design and hardware
The R11 has a gorgeous 5.5-inch AMOLED display that delivers such vivid hues and deep blacks that you might feel compelled to search for vibrant wallpapers to show it off. It supports dual SIM cards (like the R9 and R9s before it), with the ability use a microSD storage card for an additional 256GB in place of a second SIM card.
Except for the dual camera bump on its back, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the R11 as the R9 from a couple of paces away. The dimensions are practically identical, while the design, placement of buttons, front fingerprint reader, speaker grille and even location of screws are precisely the same.
Various improvements are apparent when you look more closely, however. For instance, two slim, almost invisible antenna lines – at least on our black review unit – trace sinuously along the curved top and bottom back of the phone, down from the previous three.