After 3 months of watching all reviews and comparisons in a search of the best camera with phone, got my choice.
This phone is the best of the best cameras. Was funny last week also dxomark ranked it on 1st place despite I do not fully trust the site.
I was quite disappointed buying it with no eSim feature, while I do travel and need this to be present on my phone.
The good news is:
OPPO have some of its good Solutions.
There is ORoaming app
Doing similar to eSim. I was able to activate it. the challenge is how to pay the service. I was unable to do this via Alipay, but wia WeChat payment system this is working
!!!!!!
This was big surprise as everyone duing reviews was reporting no eSim, while this service is doing same thing. ?
Another good thing is, was afraid the device could be too large in my hand. Got the horror while testing S24 Ultra.. little tablet, not suitable for normal size hand..
So have been reading about dimensions, but was worry. The phone is larger than my old 1+ 8t, but not much larger. Closer to 8t than the s24 U.
Hate the curved screen, not easy to protect it, but hope will be able to enjoy the device for some time.
Got fw update a couple of days ago. Very smooth update.
Camera has improved further.
I am in love with the camera also for videos in low light.
Display is amazing.
Another surprising thing, testing Sony experia 1V and Samsung S24 ultra, got unpleasant finding, both devices started to get warm, just because the phone was in camera mode. Was prepared will need to live with this also for the oppop, but this device does not get hot at all using the camera. I am not a gamer so can not report about, but in any condition the device does not get too warm.
Responsiveness is amazing quick.
Was able to very easy clone my previous device apps and settings via phone cloner to this new device. Was easy to put Google apps on it.
I did not remove all Chinese bloatware as I find nice apps present on the device as is. I am.a curious person always looking to learn and explore, so using some of the chinese apps I found on the phone.
I am disappointed, because oppo, gives very limited Chinese apps to users outside China. Probably this is to avoid copyrights they did potentially violate or else. Anyway the phone without the chinese bloatware looks empty as the global versions are. So you can not get disappointed.
There is a lot of AI features like conversation summary, this only works in Chinese, maybe a future global version will provide this in English, but still will not be available on my country language..
The AI remover of the pics works great, very funny, as for me is a new way to play.
Audio quality during a call is superb.
Speakers are good for YouTube videos. Very well balanced left vs right.
The lass frequency is not that good as on the iphone speakers, but everything else is better than Iphone.
Network.coverage was another worry I had.
As living in area of very poor coverage, and had my OnePlus 8T with very good radio modem (good radio sensitivity) so was easy to get worse with the new unit, but good surprise. Despite the device is China only, it somehow has almost all bands. ..even more than some global versions. It only missing 1500mhz that in Bulgaria is not even used so far.
Anyway
With my 8T OnePlus, needed to get outside of the house to get minimum signal toanage a call and 5G was appearing only on the upper floor. Now with the x7u, I get signal inside the house and many times can see 5G connected from inside the house and in 1st floor already.
So the radio modem and the antennas are another very important feature to me, and here score is 10 of 10.
To me taking the risk by taking this phone turned in very happy experience. And I am not easy to be satisfied by a phone, have many needs.
Some advice
Here is not just to protect the display, cameras can be broken easier than other models. Take a case where you get protection on cameras too.
Not only the screen.
Good luck
Hope this review helping you
