Oppo Reno 8 Pro review

Value When Reviewed

€799

Oppo lately introduced its Reno 8 line to the UK and Europe – a sequence of mid-range telephones with a give attention to night time videography and quick charging. The road-up is led by the Reno 8 Professional, which has the identical digital camera tech present in Oppo’s flagship Discover X5 sequence.  

I’ve frolicked with the Reno 8 Professional to see how this £599/€799 mid-range mannequin holds up in day-to-day life.

Design & Construct 

The Oppo Reno 8 Professional follows Oppo’s typical design language of wanting premium, clear and distinctive. The cellphone comes with a glass again and curved edges, so it feels premium and has a shiny sheen that catches the sunshine from all angles.  

Nevertheless, the fabric does have a couple of points. Not solely is it vulnerable to choosing up grubby fingerprints, nevertheless it’s additionally slippery, and tends to slip off surfaces if it isn’t propped up correctly.   

The Reno 8 Professional is available in two color choices: inexperienced and black. We examined the latter, however the pastel inexperienced end is the standout possibility of the 2.  

The digital camera module takes up a great portion of rear of the cellphone nevertheless it suits in effectively with the general look. The cellphone is slim and light-weight, at a width of seven.34mm and a weight of 183g. It has an IP54 ranking, that means that it is protected against the odd splash and a few mud particles however you received’t be capable of fully submerge it with out some harm.  

You get a USB-C port on the underside of the cellphone, and a dual-SIM slot. There is no such thing as a headphone jack on the Reno 8 Professional, however Oppo does embrace an adapter within the field. The identical can’t be stated for a case – Oppo has ditched together with one, allegedly to cut back waste. However the Reno 8 Professional isn’t precisely the most typical cellphone available on the market, so getting maintain of a case would possibly show tough.

Display & Audio system 

The display on the Reno 8 Professional is vibrant, massive and daring. It comes with a 6.7in 120Hz FHD AMOLED show with Gorilla Glass 5. The bezels are additionally a number of the slimmest seen on a Reno thus far, delivering a 93.4% screen-to-body ratio.  

The cellphone doesn’t include a variable refresh charge, so you possibly can solely select between the upper 120Hz possibility and the extra battery-saving 60Hz possibility. General, the display appears to be like silky easy and is tremendous aware of the contact. It encounters little glare, and really hardly ever wants whacking as much as full brightness with a view to be readable.  

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There may be an under-display fingerprint sensor on the Reno 8 Professional, which is aware of the contact. Haptics are adjustable, so you possibly can toggle the depth of the contact vibrations to fit your preferences. The default possibility feels snappy and never too overpowering – virtually similar to what’s discovered on the Discover X5 Professional.

The Reno 8 Professional comes with twin stereo audio system. There’s no sound processing software program, so while audio is loud and even from each ends of the system, it lacks the color and depth that different pricier telephones can supply.  

Specs & Efficiency 

The Reno 8 Professional comes with 8GB RAM and 256GB of storage, and that is the one configuration which you could get it in. That is paired with a MediaTek Dimensity 8100-Max, the identical processor seen within the OnePlus 10R.  

This implies fast and environment friendly efficiency, even when working quite a few purposes side-by-side. The cellphone is even able to some gentle gaming – I used to be in a position to play Genshin Affect on medium settings with solely a little bit of lag, although the cellphone did warmth up a good bit. 

The cellphone achieved comparable benchmarking scores to different premium mid-rangers, and even some flagships. Check out these under: 

Battery Life & Charging 

Beneath the hood, the Reno 8 Professional has a 4,500mAh battery. While this isn’t the most important on the market, the cellphone is extra sturdy than what I anticipated it to be. It manages round a day and a half working on max refresh charge – that features shopping social media, streaming and extra. In our battery take a look at, it managed a decent 10 hours and 42 minutes.  

You may allow the battery saving mode, in addition to the 60Hz refresh charge, to assist preserve issues even additional.  

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The Reno 8 Professional boasts Oppo’s fast-charging SuperVooc know-how. Within the field, you get an 80W brick and accompanying USB-C cable. This could cost the cellphone to 98% in half-hour. Pleasingly, the cellphone doesn’t get that sizzling – usually a typical difficulty in gadgets with charging speeds equivalent to this.  

The cellphone doesn’t have any assist for wi-fi charging. While that’s anticipated on some cheaper mid-range gadgets, there are different telephones near the price of the Reno 8 Professional that do have this obtainable.  

Cameras & Video 

The Oppo Reno 8 Professional has a triple digital camera set-up, made up of a 50Mp predominant lens, an 8Mp ultrawide lens and a 2Mp macro lens. That is all backed up by the Marisilicon X NPU, Oppo’s devoted picture processor that beforehand has solely been seen on the flagship Discover X5 sequence.  

The primary 50Mp lens is paired with a Sony IMX766 sensor. It offers out vibrant and vigorous colors with out the oversaturation that’s usually discovered on some mid-range telephones. Textures pop effectively and are nonetheless retained in low-light environments.

At night time, colors nonetheless distinction effectively, although some particulars aren’t fairly as sharp as through the day. The time it takes for a picture to course of can also be on the longer facet nevertheless it’s not an enormous deal.

With no telephoto lens, the zoom on the Oppo Reno 8 Professional sadly isn’t something to shout about. Particulars are nonetheless good as much as X2 zoom, however as you enhance this there’s a noticeable drop within the high quality, with colors changing into far more washed out.   

The secondary lenses don’t fairly match up with the usual set by the hero snapper. The ultrawide lens appears to wrestle with glare, and particulars seem much less refined. It’s doable to get a comparatively okay close-up shot with the macro lens – however once more, it’s nothing to go wild about.  

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You may document in 4K as much as 30fps, and 1080p as much as 60fps. An ultra-steady mode at 1080p minimises handshake however the total impact appears to be like fairly superficial.

The NPU comes into play largely when capturing video at night time. Colors are suitably lifted with the AI mode on – although you received’t fairly replicate the extent of element that you simply’d get when recording through the daytime.  

The 32Mp self-shooter is somewhat spectacular. Oppo has stated that this is similar one seen on the Discover X5, and also you’ll see that the colors are good and daring, and the bokeh impact on portrait mode hits the candy spot with the quantity of blur. It additionally has a wide-angle mode, making it ultimate for group selfies.

Software program & Updates 

The Reno 8 Professional ships with ColorOS 12.1, Oppo’s pores and skin of Android 12. While not inventory Android, this OS is clear and simple to make use of – customising the icons and widgets to fit your preferences in a breeze. There are a couple of annoying pre-installed apps, however nowhere close to the identical degree as what one can find on cellphone manufacturers equivalent to Xiaomi or Huawei.

For multitaskers, the Oppo Reno 8 comes with break up display mode, versatile home windows, fast launch features when unlocking the cellphone, and a sidebar to open apps quicker.

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The Reno 8 Professional will get Android 13 working on ColorOS 13, however this received’t be till the tip of this 12 months, or the start of 2023. This new OS comes with a redesign for folders, new options devoted to digital wellbeing and extra.

You get two years of assured OS updates and three years of safety updates with the Reno 8 Professional. This isn’t as beneficiant as Samsung, which affords 4 years of the primary and 5 years of the second. Oppo ought to contemplate the longevity of its gadgets if it desires to entice clients extra, particularly with the price of residing going up.

For extra Oppo information, you can too learn up on the brand new pill, the Oppo Pad Air, and why the subsequent Discover N foldable could come to Europe.  

Value & Availability 

The Oppo Reno 8 prices £599/€799 and is available for purchase within the UK from Oppo, Amazon, Carphone Warehouse and extra. You may as well get the cellphone on contract from the likes of O2, Vodafone, EE and extra.  

Oppo doesn’t usually promote its telephones in America, and the Reno 8 Professional is not any completely different. Nevertheless, you possibly can nonetheless get it imported from AliExpress.  

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The value of this cellphone isn’t probably the most aggressive within the mid-range house. For a similar value within the UK and rather less in Europe, you might go for the Pixel 6, which affords wi-fi charging and an excellent set of cameras. 

Our favorite midrange cellphone on the time of writing, the Pixel 6a, is available in £200 cheaper and has higher waterproofing. Nevertheless, the efficiency isn’t fairly nearly as good because the Reno, and the charging speeds are a lot slower. The OnePlus Nord 2T can also be a terrific possibility that has the same design and retains the fast-charging tech.  

You’ll find additional choices in our record of the very best mid-range telephones.  

Verdict

The Oppo Reno 8 Professional affords close to flagship-level efficiency, a smooth design and speedy charging, making it a tempting alternative. The primary 50Mp digital camera performs extraordinarily effectively, however it’s a pity that the secondary cameras don’t match that commonplace.

As well as, the brief safety replace promise imply that clients will probably be much less more likely to maintain onto this system for years to come back, and there may be fierce competitors from rivals in relation to value. Regardless, Oppo has as soon as once more delivered a dependable mid-ranger.

Specs

Android 12 with ColorOS 12.1
6.7in 120Hz Full HD (2412×1080) AMOLED show
In-display fingerprint sensor
MediaTek Dimensity 8100-Max
8 RAM
256 storage
50Mp predominant digital camera, f/1.8
8Mp ultrawide digital camera, f/2.2
2Mp macro digital camera, f/2.4
32Mp hole-punch entrance digital camera, f/2.4
USB-C
Twin SIM
WiFi 6
Bluetooth 5.2
NFC
4500mAh battery
Wired charging as much as 80W
183g
161.2 x 74.2 x 7.34mm