Oppo Find Way has a feminine exterior,
middle class price and configuration, but it attracts the attention for being
the first smartphone having 5 "pixel" front camera along with
shooting capability that is best suited for the youth and women.
Find Way is the 2nd smartphone of
Oppo that is officially released in Vietnam after the Full HD-screened Find 5. The
device sits on a segment that is one step under its brother when possessing
lower configuration and the official price of 350 USD.
The product uses 1.2GHz dual-core chip, 1GB
RAM with 16-GB internal storage. The most noticeable equipment is that it owns
the front-facing camera with the resolution of up to 5 megapixels, delivering
sharp shooting quality, integrating with auto skin-smoothing and facial-gracing
features, suitable for the habit of shooting with front camera of the youth and
women.
Find
Way, the middle-range smartphone comes out at 350 USD, running Android 4.1.1.
Meanwhile, the rear camera is packed with
resolution of 8 megapixels, suitable for the common shooting features such as HDR,
Panorama, high-speed shooting… and recoding HD 720p video with 30fps.
Being not equipped with Full HD screen,
however, Find Way still owns the OGS screen tech of Hitachi, uses LCD background
panel with the size of 4.5 inch and res of qHD 540 x 960 pixel. The device uses
Android 4.1.1 with personally customized interface.
Design
Find Way possesses a mainly woman-oriented
design. Right from the box, Oppo has made it look sophisticated as if it were a
box containing luxurious cosmetics with lots of trays and coats. Find Way is
put on a small rectangle-shaped tray and allows to revolt like a dock.
The middle-class smartphone of Oppo has the
exterior with reproduces the woman lipsticks when having monolithic design,
with the top and end highlighted by 2 glossy metal-colored plastic strips. Meanwhile,
most of the frame and the case are made of white plastic with matte-painted
material, which can avoid getting dirt.
Find
Way has nice design.
The
device is thin with the slightly curved back, the coat is not glossy with the
ability to reduce scratch and dirt.
The
bottom and the top of the device have glossy metal-colored edges.
microSIM
tray is hidden under the metal-colored plastic which stays on the top.
The device is thin with a slightly curved
back, which offers a tight feeling when holding in hands and looks thinner than
the actual thickness of 9 mm. Possessing 4.5-inch screen, however, Find Way has
pretty neat size of 127 x 63.7 mm, slightly higher than iPhone 5 and smaller
than lot of other phones having the same screen size, thanks to the screen
being pretty thin-made and not using the touch or hard buttons on the front
face.
In general, Find Way is the middle-class smartphone
having solid, stunning and woman-attracting design. The details such as the main
camera with the metal border, the tiny dots on the exterior of the back or the
edged, the bottom edge with SIM slots are all well and fine nursed. However,
the hard key sitting on the sides and the speakerphone haven’t created a
feeling of being sophisticatedly made. This is a small limitation on the design
if taking a close look at it.
Screen
Having no HD or Full HD resolution, instead
of which is 540 x 960pixel qHD so Find Way can’t cause strong impression in
terms of the ability to display as sharp as the senior Find 5. However, with
pixel density reaching 245 ppi and the screen size of 4.5inch wide, Find Way delivers
good, sharp and detailed display capability at regular viewing distance when
using (15 - 20 cm away from the eye).
Owning
qHD res but the screen of Find Way is pretty nice, sharp enough at grabbing
distance and use regularly.
The advantage of the Find Way is the use of
OGS screen tech of Hitachi with the structure combining the touch screen slab
with the display slab, making the screen look thinner. Actually, the screen of
the device is pretty close to the protective glass of the front, create a
feeling of the images looking more highlighted and closer to the eyes.
Besides, the display colors of Find Way is
pretty standard, the color tones are pretty close to the screen of iPhone 5 and
create a neuter feeling, not too blazing or washed-out. The viewing angle the
smartphone of Oppo is pretty wide, rarely changes in color or gets blazed when
tilting.
Though, the screen is slightly
yellow-stained line iPhone. Under strong light, Find Way provides medium
display capability when felling a little dazzled and unclear if you don’t let
the device adjust the brightness automatically.
3
virtual keys for Android are placed inside the screen, occupying a part of
display space on the bottom.
A point that doesn’t satisfy us about the
screen and design of Find Way is the use of the virtual keys inside the screen
instead of using the touch or hard keys. This makes the display space shrunken,
only about 540 x 888 pixel, at the same time the controlling operations are
sometimes uncomfortable.
Interface and feature
Using Android 4.1.1 but similar to Find 5,
Oppo also equips Find Way a specific re-customized interface which looks much
different from the original Android of Google. Interface is strong point on smartphone
of Oppo, especially attracting woman kind, because it’s no longer wordy,
technological dense and somewhat masculine as the original Android.
Find
Way has convenient, eye-catching interface. The unlock screen has variety
kinds.
There’s a total 10 different sets of theme
preinstalled on the device with the dissimilar icon and graphics layout. The
entire icons are changed with new style, looking larger and more eye-catching
than the old-fashioned icon of Google. The lock screen is changeable with 6 different
available styles, depending on each taste as well as style.
The diverse, attractive but pretty simple
customizability is the strong point at the using interface of Find Way. Oppo also
rearranges the space in the notification bar, app-controlling folder or Widget,
Settings on the home screen, allowing users to be able to manipulate faster and
more conveniently with the device.
Features
are pretty sufficient.
Being the female-oriented smartphone, Find
Way is packed with good and complete features. The device runs Android Jelly
Bean with most of the pre-installed common software, from the Vietnamese
keyboard, music, movie player software to the common apps such as making note,
saving or creating shooting effects, downloading mode backgrounds, listening to
radio. The product is also pre0integrated with the security tools, anti-virus
and power-saving mode.
The music controller on Find Way has the
same interface as on Find 5, which is clear, easy to see and control but pretty
compelling for allowing swapping between 3 different interfaces. The video
player is simply arranged, easy to use, integrated with viewing mode with
separate subtitle and Dirac Sound effect, with Dolby Mobile. The limitation of
the device is the only 16-GB inner storage and having no card slot, or the
version with bigger capacity.
Considering the middle-range Android smartphone
segment, Find Way is the smartphone with good and valuable features in such
price range despite not too prominent.
