Oppo Reno 10 Pro 5G Review: Many Hits, but a Few Misses

The widespread issue between the OnePlus Nord 3 (Review), OnePlus 11R (Review) and iQoo Neo 7 Pro (Review) is that they’re all priced beneath Rs. 40,000 in India, and concentrate on offering flagship-grade efficiency. The premium mid-range section has witnessed a surge of telephone launches recently, and if these choices weren’t sufficient, there may be the brand new Oppo Reno 10 Pro 5G so as to add to the checklist. Priced at Rs. 39,999, the Reno 10 Professional 5G sits between the baseline Reno 10 5G and the top-of-the-line Reno 10 Pro+ 5G (Review).

Whereas many of the competitors goals at providing value-for-money efficiency, the Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G has a number of methods up its sleeve to face out within the crowd. Must you take into account shopping for it? Right here is our full evaluation that will help you determine.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G value in India

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G has been launched in India in a single storage choice. It comes with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, priced at Rs. 39,999.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G design and show

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional has been launched in two color choices — Silvery Gray and Shiny Purple. We have now the latter, which appears to be like fairly distinctive in comparison with most different latest telephones launching in shades of inexperienced and black. The telephone has a curved rear panel and body. The glass again of the Oppo Reno 10 Professional affords a premium in-hand really feel. What contributes to this additional is the pretty slim and light-weight construct. The Reno 10 Professional is about 7.89mm thick and weighs 185g. That being mentioned, there are occasions when the telephone has slipped out of my fingers as a result of easy end of the again.

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional is sort of a looker for my part. The selection of colors and design mixed make it appear to be a way more costly smartphone. The shiny metallic end additionally does a very good job of hiding fingerprints and smudges. Whereas the rear panel is manufactured from glass, the chassis is manufactured from plastic. The telephone has its energy and quantity buttons on the best edge, that are simply accessible you probably have pretty massive fingers.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional affords a premium in-hand really feel with its glass again

On the entrance, the Oppo Reno 10 Professional has a 6.7-inch AMOLED show with a full-HD+ decision (2412 x 1080 pixels) and a 20.1:9 side ratio. Similar to the Vivo V27 Pro (Review), OnePlus 11R (Review) and some reasonably priced choices such because the Motorola Edge 40 (Review), the show on the Reno 10 Professional 5G is curved in direction of the sides. I didn’t expertise any ghost or unintentional touches whereas scrolling or enjoying video games on the telephone.

What I did have a difficulty with was the single-speaker setup. For a smartphone under Rs. 40,000, it is vitally fundamental to have a very good dual-speaker setup, and it’s a whole bummer that Oppo selected to solely provide a single speaker within the Reno 10 Professional 5G. Plus, there isn’t any 3.5mm headphone jack both. The brilliant aspect is that the speaker is sort of loud however the audio expertise is just not as immersive.

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G has pretty slim bezels across the show

On the brilliant aspect, the 120Hz show affords as much as 950 nits of peak brightness whereas consuming HDR content material. There may be assist for HDR playback on YouTube however not on Netflix on the time of penning this. The colourful 10-bit show affords assist for a billion colors. Oppo has opted for an AGC Dragontrail Star 2 glass, which is alleged to supply 20 p.c improved drop resistance in comparison with Corning Gorilla Glass 5.

I didn’t expertise any main stutters whereas scrolling by way of the consumer interface when the refresh fee setting was set to Auto Swap. There have been some software-related points although, which we are going to speak about within the subsequent part.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G specs and software program

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G incorporates a Snapdragon 778G SoC with an Adreno 642L GPU. The telephone packs a 4,600mAh battery and affords 80W SuperVOOC quick charging. It affords connectivity options resembling Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, dual-SIM, IR emitter, and so forth. The Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G comes with 14 5G bands in India.

By way of software program, the Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G runs the most recent ColorOS 13.1, based mostly on Android 13. Oppo’s ColorOS has advanced over time and has been one of the vital most well-liked choices for personalisation and customisation. The Reno 10 Professional continues to offer customers the choice to alter wallpapers, modify entrance form and measurement, change icon form and measurement, and so forth.

There may be additionally assist for Android 13’s Materials You theme, which matches the system and UI colors with the wallpaper’s colors. Additionally, Oppo additionally lets customers select when a bunch of featured color choices for the UI and system icons within the Settings app. Extra particulars about ColorOS 13.1 have been shared in our Oppo Reno 10 Pro+ 5G review.

Whereas ColorOS 13.1 is feature-rich, it’s plagued with app suggestions and adverts by way of the consumer interface,  be it the set-up display, bloatware-loaded app drawer and residential display, or app suggestions within the default browser app. There are additionally a bunch of not-so-popular video games and third-party apps preinstalled. App Market, Oppo’s native App Retailer, additionally spams you with a number of notifications, suggesting you put in sure purposes.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional comes with over 50 preinstalled apps

Oppo appears to have taken suggestions and has said that undesirable apps asking for set up permission when first establishing the telephone will likely be eliminated to supply a greater expertise within the subsequent software program model. Nevertheless, Scorching Video games and Scorching Apps, that are Oppo’s native app suggestion folders will proceed to be accessible. Customers can cover these folders by going to App Market > Common > Faucet Settings on the prime proper nook and disabling the toggle for Scorching Apps and Scorching Video games. You may as well disable the suggestions spam by long-pressing on one of many notifications, tapping on ‘Extra Settings’ and disabling the ‘Enable Notifications’ toggle.

Nevertheless, there appears to be a necessity for optimisation as I seen the display orientation altering routinely even when the Auto-rotate choice was disabled. There have been occasions once I seen minor jitters whereas going again to the homescreen. Hopefully, Oppo fixes these points quickly. The Oppo Reno 10 Professional is promised to get two main Android updates and safety assist for 3 years.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G efficiency and battery life

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional incorporates a mid-range Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G SoC, which we’ve got seen in a number of smartphones priced at round Rs. 30,000 in India. The Reno 10 Professional 5G is clearly not essentially the most highly effective telephone within the section. Nevertheless, in terms of routine duties resembling scrolling by way of social media, messaging, content material consumption, app loading, and so forth, the chipset can nonetheless get the job completed.

Informal gaming, too, is doable. Nevertheless, for the value, the likes of the OnePlus Nord 3 (Review), OnePlus 11R (Review) and iQoo Neo 7 Pro (Review) provide much better gaming efficiency and worth. Battlegrounds Cell India (BGMI) helps ‘HDR’ graphics and ‘Extremely’ framerate settings. I seen some stutter when enjoying with the very best settings however the gameplay was barely higher when the graphics settings had been dropped to ‘Balanced’ or ‘HD’. Asphalt 9: Legends, alternatively, ran fairly easily.

RAM administration is sort of good and apps continued to load from the place I had left them. The Reno 10 Professional additionally affords assist for as much as 8GB of digital RAM, which is borrowed from the 256GB of inner reminiscence.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional’s in-display fingerprint scanner is positioned fairly low for consolation

I additionally ran a number of benchmark exams on the Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G. It scored 5,89.206 factors on AnTuTu (v10). In Geekbench 6, the telephone scored 1,013 (single-core check) and a couple of,669 factors (multi-core check). It will get demolished by the competitors, with the iQoo Neo 7 Professional scoring 1,263,884 factors in AnTuTu (v10). Whereas benchmarks will not be the one metric to guage a telephone’s efficiency, it does spotlight that uncooked efficiency is just not the Reno 10 Professional’s forte.

Nevertheless, in terms of battery life, the Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G can final a full day. My common screen-on time (SoT) was about 8 hours and 20 minutes. When there was greater than two hours of gameplay concerned, the telephone returned a SoT of about 6 hours and 50 minutes. In our HD video battery loop check, the Oppo Reno 10 Professional lasted for 20 hours and 44 minutes. The 80W SuperVOOC charger refills the battery utterly in about 29 minutes.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G cameras

The Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G incorporates a triple-camera setup on the again. It has a 50-megapixel Sony IMX890 main digital camera with assist for optical picture stabilisation (OIS). The identical sensor is discovered within the flagship OnePlus 11 (Review) and the Oppo Reno 10 Professional+ 5G. The Reno 10 Professional additionally options an 8-megapixel ultra-wide digital camera and a 32-megapixel telephoto digital camera with 2X optical zoom. For selfies, there’s a 32-megapixel entrance digital camera sensor.

Beginning with the first digital camera, you get good high quality photos with true-to-life colors. The dynamic vary efficiency is sweet usually. There have been occasions when the publicity within the shadows was not optimum. Night time mode pictures had been well-exposed with little-to-no noise in lots of eventualities. The highlights weren’t blown out whereas making an attempt to retain particulars within the shadows. For my part, the Reno 10 Professional’s main digital camera’s low-light efficiency is among the many greatest within the section.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional main digital camera samples (High row: Photograph mode, backside row: Night time mode)

The ultra-wide digital camera’s color temperature varies in comparison with the principle digital camera with barely hotter tones. There may be positively an absence of particulars, particularly across the edges however the digital camera does a very good job with colors and dynamic vary.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional ultra-wide digital camera pattern

You additionally get a 2X telephoto digital camera which isn’t as widespread within the section. I actually preferred the telephoto digital camera’s efficiency, though there may be room for enchancment. You get good particulars and the dynamic vary efficiency can be fairly good. Once more, the color temperature is completely different as telephoto photos are barely cooler in comparison with the first digital camera’s samples.

Portrait mode’s edge detection is great. Nevertheless, the first digital camera’s portrait mode makes human pores and skin look a bit crimson. The telephoto digital camera’s portrait mode efficiency, alternatively is fairly spectacular in terms of colors, edge detection and particulars. A factor to notice although is that there’s a shutter lag whereas taking portrait mode pictures, so it’s essential maintain the telephone regular and make it possible for the topic doesn’t transfer till you hear the shutter sound.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional portrait mode digital camera samples (left column: 1X zoom, proper column: 2X zoom)

The entrance digital camera does a good job in terms of getting the pores and skin tone proper. Edge detection in portrait mode pictures is a hit and miss as I seen the algorithm blurring out my ear and hair. Low-light portrait mode pictures expose the topic fairly nicely and provide good blur, however the particulars are barely mushy.

Oppo Reno 10 Professional entrance digital camera samples (Photograph mode vs Portrait mode)

By way of video, the Oppo Reno 10 Professional can report as much as 4K 30fps movies utilizing the rear digital camera and 1080p 30fps on the entrance. The rear digital camera’s footage affords good stability, particulars and publicity. Video high quality from the entrance digital camera takes successful in terms of dynamic vary efficiency.

Verdict

Oppo Reno 10 Professional is probably among the best designed smartphones beneath Rs 40,000. It not solely appears to be like good however it’s also well-built and has a very good in-hand really feel. The telephone scores huge factors for its good show and battery life. The efficiency unit is satisfactory for the value because the competitors affords much better worth. The place the Reno 10 Professional 5G has a slight edge over the competitors is its versatile digital camera system, which additionally incorporates a good high quality telephoto lens.

Nevertheless, the one space the place it struggles is the software program expertise, which at present doesn’t match the premium value. The telephone can be not IP-rated and solely has a single speaker.

All in all, if you’re in search of a telephone which has a flagship-grade design and show, and a flexible digital camera setup, you may take into account getting the Oppo Reno 10 Professional 5G. Then again, in order for you premium efficiency, a very good software program expertise, and are okay with lacking out on a telephoto digital camera, you’ve gotten loads of choices such because the OnePlus 11R (Review), OnePlus Nord 3 (Review) and iQoo Neo 7 Pro (Review).