A decade ago Oppo was one of the unknown brands in the Spanish market, but things have changed and now, both globally and in the Iberian market, it occupies one of the highest positions: within the five manufacturers that sell the most. And it is not strange: good design, good camera, battery, processor and now it adds a very useful AI and with a great advantage over the competition. This is What OPPO’s new Reno12 family members, the 12 F and 12 FS, bring
Visually it attracts attention. Both by sits colors (gray, orange and dark green) as well as its straight-edged profiles on the sides and a ring surrounding the camera module that Oppo has dubbed Halo. Advantage number one: it barely protrudes from the body, which prevents it from becoming unbalanced when resting it.
But the halo is not only decorative: Its perimeter is a circular LED that can change color depending on whether we receive a call, a message, or if we are listening to music.…And all of these options are customizable, something similar to what Nothing proposed with its back.
The screen is a 6.67-inch OLED, 1,200 nits maximum and a refresh rate of 120 Hz. It performs very well even in extreme conditions and provides very good visibility both in games and other multimedia content. As for sound… it’s fine. It’s not very powerful and distorts at maximum, but with headphones it is adequately resolved.
As far as the brain is concerned, it has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 (in the 4G version) and a MediaTek Dimensity 6300 (5G), RAM up to 12GB (okay, not great, but okay), storage up to 512GB and a 5,000 mAh battery (45v charge. Same as above: good, not great, but good). The whole system works properly for 99% of the users who put it to the test with social networks, multimedia content, camera and little else. With video games? If it is not very demanding in the graphics and processing section, there will be no problems.
The eye of this mobile is worth taking into account: a 35 MP front and three on the back: 2 MP (macro), a second (wide angle) of 8 MP and a main one of 50 MP. Here we have to be honest: Oppo has never sought the best camera, but rather the balance of all the componentsAnd the Oppo Reno 12 F are an example of this: they are more than good in all sections, but they are not the best in any.
That said, the cameras perform very well, both in portrait mode and in the landscape section, night version and so on. Final grade? It’s close to 8. Especially when we add Oppo’s AI that allows you to edit images by erasing people or objects in a way that is almost imperceptible in the final result or taking us to the world of fiction by converting portraits into works of fantasy, very similar to the AI image editors available online.
But Oppo’s real advantage in this section is that AI does not run directly on the devicebut in a data center of the brand that does not have to limit its power to that of the mobile. This is an important leap when it comes to future updates: AI will never depend on the microchip and the improvements will be carried out on a very high-power computer, which extends the useful life of the mobile.
For this reason, limiting AI in this mobile to image editing is a waste, since there are other equally or more interesting functions. So much so that in the last decade Oppo has presented More than 5,000 patents related to AI. Thanks to this we have AI Writer, which allows us to generate textual content, responses or comments based on certain premises, or AI Recording Summary, which converts voice into text and summarizes the most important things. To this we add AI Speaker, a function that reads articles or blogs to us when we don’t want to read them ourselves.
Verdict: Its price, depending on the memory and processor (4 or 5 G) ranges between €270 and €370. With this in mind, it is one of the most tempting mobiles of the moment and in many aspects (battery and AI mainly) one that will last for several years. It is also a mobile that is very difficult to pigeonhole in the low- or mid-range sector, due to its inverse relationship between price and performance.