Design and build of oppo k1
Oppo K1 was launched in the Chinese market in October last year. The back panel of Oppo’s 1 comes with gradient design. We have Astral Blue variants available for reviews which are quite strikes. Apart from this, the Piano Black variant of Oppo K1 has also been launched. Its 3D injection-cold back panel is seen to be seen when it comes in contact with light. The fingers on the back panel easily fall. The arrangement of the button and the build quality of the phone is quite good.
The SIM-tray (two Nano SIM and a microSD card) have found a place on the left side of the phone. Oppo K1 comes with dual 4G VoLTE support. The bottom of the phone has a speaker grill, micro-USB port and 3.5 millimeter headphone jack.
The Oppo K1 smartphone has a 6.4-inch full-HD+ (1080×2340 pixels) display, Corning Gorilla Glass 5 is used for screen protection. The in-display fingerprint sensor has got a place for security. Please tell that this phone of Oppo brand has an AMOLED panel.
Oppo K1 has a waterdrop display notch. Selfie sensor has found a place in the notch, notification LED is not present due to low space. As usual, screen guards will already be available on the display. There is a dual rear camera setup on the back of the phone. In the retail box, you have silicone case, SIM Eject Tool, Micro-USB Cable, 10 Wat Power Adapter and Headset.
Specification and features of Oppo K1
The handset uses the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor with a speed of 2.2 GHz. The use of this chipset Realme 2 Pro (Review) And Xiaomi Mi A2 (ReviewIt happened in. Only one variant of Oppo K1 has been launched in India. With 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage variants. The phone includes dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 AC, Bluetooth 5.0, USB OTG, GPS support. The smartphone has compass, accelerometer, ambient light sensor and gyroscope sensor. FM radio is not given in the handset.
Oppo’s 1 out of box will run on Android 8.1 Oreo -based ColorOS 5.2. It is expected that during the Mobile World Congress 2019 (MWC 2019), the company can unveil some new Oppo smartphones with ColorOS 6. For better gaming performance, Oppo K1 comes with Hyper Boost Tech. Apart from this, you will also get many additional features like smart sidebar, smart scan and organ.
Apart from System Apps, Oppo K1 does not have much pre-install third party apps besides Facebook. Due to the Default Browser and Oppo App Store, you will get to see many advertisements. You can disable the app store spam, but this feature will be troublesome even after disabled this feature in the browser. Similar problems were also seen in Oppo A7.
Oppo K1 performance, camera and battery life
We used the handset for several days but we did not have any kind of trouble. The phone’s display is quite large, due to this you may have some problem in using the smartphone with one hand. Despite having a glass texture on the back and side of the phone, the phone does not slip from the hand. The touch response of the AMOLED display is also quite good.
ColorOS is also quite smooth and due to 4 GB RAM, the phone runs without any trouble. Talking about the in-display fingerprint sensor of the phone, it is not as fast as standard capacitive sensor. So touch your finger correctly on the sensor. The face recognition feature given in the phone works fast. With the help of screen brightness in low-light, it easily identifies your face.
The 6.41 inch display is quite good to watch the video. While watching YouTube video, the speaker’s voice was quite loud, but while playing PUBG Mobile Games, the sound on full volume also felt a bit slow.
There was no problem of any kind while playing heavy games in Oppo K1. Asphalt 9: After keeping Legends on high graphics settings and PUBG Mobile on medium graphics, both games went quite smooth. We noticed that even after playing for more than 30 minutes, the phone is not very hot. The benchmark numbers also indicate that this phone of Oppo brand runs games and apps well. Oppo’s 1 has scored 1,28,852 in Antootu Benchmark.
Talking about the camera, Oppo K1 has a dual camera setup on the back. The primary sensor is 16 megapixels and the secondary sensor is 2 megapixels. The front panel has a 25 -megapixel selfie camera. First of all, talk about selfie camera. The selfie sensor is equipped with Artificial Intelligence (AI) beautification system. If the user wants, you can also set the beautification level manually.
Image quality is quite good without beautification in daylight. In selfie you can blur the background, but we found that the edge detection does not function properly. The selfie taken in low-light also became very good. The front camera comes with auto HDR support. A 16 -megapixel rear sensor takes a good photograph even in low light. A 2 -megapixel rear sensor is used only for edge detection when shooting in portate mode.
When there is sufficient amount of light, it takes some time to focus the camera in the portate mode. The camera app will get features like panaroma, AR stickers, expert mode. Talking about the video, Oppo K1 is capable of recording videos up to 4K resolution. Emez quality came better at 1080p resolution. Oppo K1 has a 3,600 mAh battery to revive life. In our HD video loop test, the phone provided 12 hours and 36 minutes backup. Oppo’s 1 Wook does not come with fast charging support, but you will get a power adapter of 10 watts, with the help of which your phone will be fully charged in 2 hours 30 minutes.
Our decision
In this price segment, Oppo K1 is the only smartphone that comes with an in-display fingerprint sensor. The price of this handset in India is Rs 16,990. We liked many things in the phone but there are some things that could have been better, such as USB Type-C port could be given in the phone. Its build quality could have been better. The low-light camera performance could also be a bit better. Apart from this, we hope that the company will remove the problems that are facing many apps in its upcoming coloring version.
Oppo K1 equipped with better gaming performance, sharp display, selfie camera, better battery life and in-display fingerprint sensor is a great option in this price segment.