Oppo Find X5 Lite review

TechRadar Verdict

The Oppo Find X5 Lite isn’t a paragon of value or hugely powerful, but fast charging and a slimmer frame than most lend it an easy-going appeal for those less fussed about the finer points of the tech inside.

Pros

• Slim and easy to handle
• Solid primary camera with mostly tasteful image handling
• Features a headphone jack and microSD slot
• Super-fast charging

Cons

• Cheap-feeling haptics
• Far more power is available at the price
• Mono speaker is harsh at higher volumes
• Realme and OnePlus offer better value

Two-minute review

The Oppo Find X5 Lite is the more reasonable option in contrast to the Oppo Find X5 Pro. Name to the side, the two share little practically speaking.

This is a functional mid-range Android with a small bunch of resources that make it simple to coexist with. The Oppo Find X5 Lite isn’t thick or weighty. It charges instantly and accompanies an earphone jack. Its battery duration is strong and the fundamental camera works effectively by and large, despite the fact that it doesn’t have top-level equipment.

On the off chance that you’re offered an Oppo Find X5 Lite at a decent value when now is the right time to update your agreement, there are not many ridiculously obvious problems to prevent you from going for it. In any case, it’s a more troublesome offer to those wanting to purchase a telephone by and large, with a significant part of the top rivalry coming from Oppo sister brands like OnePlus and Realme.

The Oppo Find X5 Lite’s video is disheartening: 4K film is flimsy, and the balanced out mode’s recording doesn’t look even close as great, since it utilizes an optional camera. Note that the gadget’s plastic back and sides cause it to feel less expensive than the OnePlus Nord 2T. The impact is deteriorated by the bad quality haptics – the telephone’s vibration engine impact.

A lot of handsets at the cost offer more power than the Oppo Find X5 Lite. While this will not be as apparent for essential everyday use, it’s awful information for gamers – and those hoping to get as much telephone per dollar as possible.

Also, the Oppo Find X5 Lite’s speaker can sound reckless at higher volumes. This large number of little issues mount up to cause the telephone to feel like a decent upper section level Android instead of a top mid-range unit.

Be that as it may, the idea of significant worth is the primary barricade here. In the event that you find the Oppo Find X5 Lite selling at the right value, its combo of quick charging and a genuinely minimal casing are probably going to be cheerfully gotten by the less tech-driven telephone purchaser.

Oppo Find X5 Lite: cost and accessibility

• Out at this point
• Costs $499/£399/AU$799

The Oppo Find X5 Lite was delivered in March 2022 as a less expensive option in contrast to the leader Find X5 Pro.

As may be obvious, it likewise seems, by all accounts, to be indistinguishable from the Oppo Reno 7 5G. Nonetheless, the two handsets are probably not going to be sold all the while in a similar domain.

Right now, there’s just a single spec of Oppo Find X5 Lite, containing 8GB of RAM and 256GB of stockpiling for $499/£399/AU$799.

• Esteem score: 3/5

Oppo Find X5 Lite: plan

• Wonderful serene shimmering finish
• Plastic back doesn’t feel costly
• Mono speaker is clearly, yet can sound unforgiving

Mid-range telephones, for example, the Oppo Find X5 Lite struggle. Nowadays, less expensive gadgets frequently look similarly as costly from a manageable distance and, not at all like a long time back, glass backs and metal sides aren’t typical even at $500/£400.

The Oppo Find X5 Lite accompanies a plastic back and plastic sides, spruced up through a plan cycle called Oppo Glow. This alludes to the shimmering back finish. It copies pearly glass; however it’s plastic, and feels like it.

You have a decision of two completions. The Starry Black completion (on survey here) is portrayed as a blue-dark slope, however in a sufficiently bright room it’s more dim blue-to-dim. It’s charming and genuinely elegant. Startrails Blue is a lot more splendid, becoming purple as it gets the light.

The look and feel of the Oppo Find X5 Lite could undoubtedly have a place with a less expensive telephone. Its presentation borders are thicker than some, and albeit all around made, that standard all-plastic shell was never going to intrigue really.

Notwithstanding, there are a few valid statements to note. The presentation glass is Gorilla Glass 5 – not Corning’s best hardened glass, but rather not excessively far off. This telephone is additionally genuinely limited, light and thin.

The Oppo Find X5 Lite weighs 173g and is 7.8mm thick. It’s not difficult to deal with by the guidelines of this cost class, and furthermore has a 3.5mm earphone jack. Nerds out there may likewise appreciate the double SIM in addition to microSD card plate, which offers more prominent adaptability than a lot of undeniably more costly telephones.

There’s no water-opposition rating by any means. Yet, at this cost you’d ordinarily just see IPX4 in any case, which will not shield a telephone from anything over downpour.

In any case, coming from utilizing telephones from the Realme GT 2 series, we find the Oppo Find X5 Lite plan somewhat frustrating. It has extremely simple haptics and this is, maybe shockingly, a major differentiator in mid-range telephones.

It alludes to the vibe of the vibration criticism when you open the telephone, press the keypad or get notices. The Oppo Find X5 Lite’s vibration is financial plan grade.

Its speaker doesn’t dazzle, by the same token. Of course, it’s clearly; yet there’s just a solitary driver on the base, and it misses the mark on bass we’ve heard in less expensive telephones. At greatest volume it can sound somewhat rough.

The mono driver and more slender sound are possible results of the thin casing. Thin handsets can sound great, however this experience is commonly had from telephones that cost more. In the Oppo Find X5 Lite’s approval, we immediately became used to the not exactly refined tone, and the way that it can make digital recordings perceptible while you cook is a huge upside.

• Configuration score: 3/5

Oppo Find X5 Lite: show

• 90Hz showcase, not 120Hz, however this has its advantages
• Top brilliance in daylight could be higher
• Great tone, yet Vivid mode distorts your photographs

The Oppo Find X5 Lite has a 6.43-inch OLED, 2400 x 1080 goal screen. This is a fair size show, and has a major impact in keeping the telephone sensibly light and simple to utilize.

It’s a fair OLED board. You get every one of the standard related benefits, for example, amazing difference and super clear off-point seeing, in addition to there’s tiny coloring of the screen as the telephone is shifted. Some OLED boards can seem a piece blue or pinkish at an outrageous point.

Variety is perfect, as well. At the point when you first enhancer the Oppo Find X5 Lite, it will be set to its default Vivid mode. It’s punchy, yet not unreasonably so. There’s likewise a Natural mode that carries variety adjustment a lot nearer to the exemplary sRGB standard.

We like the two modes. There’s only one issue: the Photo Gallery application doesn’t supersede the screen profile to show photographs as they are. Your pictures will regularly seem oversaturated in Vivid mode. Move them across to a PC and they’ll show up more exact – it’s motivation to stay with the more curbed Natural presentation mode.

Oppo hasn’t pushed up the revive rate as much as Xiaomi, for instance. The Oppo Find X5 Lite has a 90Hz greatest invigorate rate, where bounty have 120Hz showcases at the cost.

For looking over, 120Hz will make Android look even smoother; yet it’s anything but a 100 percent triumph for 120Hz. Large numbers of the longest-enduring telephones we’ve utilized throughout recent months have included 90Hz showcases, and their rather lower power utilization additionally implies you need to contemplate the decision about whether to utilize the high invigorate rate mode.

Simply alright most extreme brilliance is less simple to pardon. Like each great mid-range telephone, the Oppo Find X5 Lite has a “super” high splendor mode that flicks on when you’re in a brilliant climate, yet it’s just barely about sufficient to rival direct daylight. Could we have seen on the off chance that we weren’t contrasting the Find X5 Lite straightforwardly and rivals? Maybe not. It’s still entirely acceptable for use outside.

• Show score: 4/5

Oppo Find X5 Lite: cameras

• Generally classy picture handling
• Strong HDR, however it can slant photographs’ personality excessively much
• Unfortunate full scale sensor and fair however mediocre super wide

The Oppo Find X5 Lite accompanies three back cameras and one front camera. In the same way as other telephones at the cost, and those that are altogether less expensive, only one of the cameras on the back is any benefit.

The third camera is a 2-megapixel large scale, which takes undersaturated and delicate pictures; it’s there to make up the numbers. The Oppo Find X5 Lite super wide has only 8 megapixels of goal to work with, and its pictures convey essential looking tone and delicate detail in less ideal light. Yet, dissimilar to the large scale, super wide pictures are essentially worth taking, and can look perfect areas of strength for in.

Oppo doesn’t express the sensor the essential 64-megapixel camera utilizes, yet in the wake of recovering the sensor aspects utilizing information scratching application Hardware Info, the 1/1.97-inch Samsung GW3 is the most probable up-and-comer.

This is certainly not a very good quality sensor, and we’ve seen pretty blended results from it in different telephones. Notwithstanding, Oppo has done a very great job here.

The Oppo Find X5 Lite’s camera adopts an impartial strategy to sound decrease and differentiation while shooting in genuinely in any event, lighting. Surface detail is shockingly strong, and the telephone permits some granularity in moderately level looking articles, as opposed to distinguishing it as picture commotion and shooting it into obscurity. This is a more tasteful handling profile than you’ll see in Realme telephones.

Green tones in grass and trees look normal, showing a glow you won’t find in the lower-end super wide camera. Shots may not right away “pop” however much those taken on with the Google Pixel 6 or very good quality Samsung, yet you can add a portion of this impact post-shoot by expanding contrast a bit.

We originally thought the Oppo Find X5 Lite had a significant propensity to oversaturate variety, however this is to a great extent due to the screen adjustment issue referenced in the Display segment of this survey.

The Oppo additionally catches nice – amazing, even – 2x zoom shots, taking into account they’re caught involving a similar center data as 1x photographs; the Oppo Find X5 Lite doesn’t have a real long range focal point. Looking at 1x and 2x shots one next to the other, the different way to deal with handling prompts a lot of extra fine and surface detail that is lost in the standard 16-megapixel pictures.

There’s no reasonable giveaway that the 2x shots are computerized zooms until you look at the shots all the more intently on a bigger showcase, which is an incredible outcome for a telephone without an “optical” zoom.

Issues really do manifest somewhere else, be that as it may. The Oppo Find X5 Lite’s HDR handling works effectively of holding features in mists while causing the closer view to show up sensibly brilliant. In any case, its HDR tone planning can prompt their personality seeming different to those taken in different circumstances.

The telephone has a propensity for easing up/lighting up the mid-tones excessively, while leaving the shadows somewhat dull. This can affect the authenticity of pictures, which is very great in most different circumstances. To a degree, we’re criticizing here; until the photographs were taken a gander at on a PC, we generally just saw the telephone’s thorough feature maintenance in standard photographs, which is a discount positive.

Another HDR issue is that the Oppo Find X5 Lite can’t hold features even close also at 2x as it does at 1x. This appears to be legit: HDR consolidates various openings, and the more detail-chasing style of the zoomed mode will be less lenient of any slight hand development between outlines.

Note that this telephone doesn’t have OIS, optical picture adjustment, to compensate for it.

Notwithstanding this, the Oppo Find X5 Lite catches honorably great pictures around evening time – assuming you utilize the correct mode. Auto shots in low light are poor; yet you’ll see an emotional improvement utilizing the Night mode.

There’s a critical expansion exhaustively, as there is in unique reach. Pictures are fuzzier and noisier than the best, however the Oppo Find X5 Lite’s outcomes are strong. Once more, however, you really do miss OIS every so often, since the photos can look somewhat hazy on the off chance that you don’t keep your hands genuinely still for the required ~2 seconds.

The Oppo Find X5 Lite isn’t perfect for video, by the same token. You can shoot at 4K, with the image looking perfect, sharp and energetic in light. Yet, it simply isn’t that valuable in light of the fact that 4K catch is unstabilized, making it look a juddery wreck.

Moreover, 30fps is the cutoff at 4K – a limitation of the MediaTek Dimensity 900 processor. In the event that the telephone has, as we accept, a Samsung GW3 sensor, it’s equipped for 4K/60fps catch.

Video looks a lot of smoother in the event that you connect with the Ultra Steady mode, yet this seems to change to utilizing the super wide camera. Detail and variety constancy endure an immense shot, and, surprisingly, in light, you’ll see obscuring of the picture in time with footfalls. This is brought about by the shade speed not being quickly enough to make up for the shocking movement. You’ll see a comparable impact in low light with a better quality sensor, however it happens essentially constantly here.

Furthermore, selfies? The Oppo Find X5 Lite incorporates a respectable 32-megapixel front camera that involves 4-in-1 pixel binning to allow it to manage unfortunate lighting all the more successfully. While none of the selfies we took were valid standard-setting thump outs, pixel binning considers more predictable outcomes in evolving conditions, and the telephone takes full advantage of HDR to tame illuminated scenes.

• Camera score: 4/5

Oppo Find X5 Lite: camera tests

Oppo Find X5 Lite: execution and specs

• Strong everyday execution
• A lot more grounded CPUs are accessible at the cost
• Not the most ideal choice for enormous portable gamers

The Oppo Find X5 Lite is a long way from the most impressive telephone you can get for this cash. It accompanies a MediaTek Dimensity 900 CPU – while the Dimensity series is incredible generally speaking, the ordinary 900 series is more qualified to a less expensive telephone than this one.

All things considered, it’s quickly enough to cause Android to feel responsive. The contrast between this telephone and either a more costly model, or one of the genuinely punch telephones for comparable cash, is generally restricted to the speed at which applications load. Furthermore, there is certainly not a tremendous difference. We’d be glad to utilize the Oppo Find X5 Lite as our regular telephone, in this regard in any event.

How can it pile facing the opposition? In Geekbench 5, it scores 2154 focuses (697 for every center). This is essentially better compared to the Samsung Galaxy A53’s 1800-odd, yet lower than the Realme GT Master Edition (2880), and a ton lower than the Realme GT2 (3350), which includes the leader Snapdragon 888 CPU.

The OnePlus Nord 2T is the handset that appears the Oppo Find X5 Lite the most, notwithstanding. It’s marginally less expensive than the Oppo, and its Dimensity 1300 is miles better in both CPU and GPU execution.

The interesting part here is that Realme and OnePlus are essential for a similar gathering as Oppo. They share a similar parent organization, letting us know that Oppo telephones simply have to a lesser degree an emphasis on “esteem”.

You see this presentation hole work out in games like Fortnite. The Oppo Find X5 Lite can deal with it fine and dandy, yet you’re restricted to 30fps on the Medium designs setting. There are additionally more edge dunks than in the Realme GT 2.

It’s no extraordinary shock when you take a gander at a GPU execution benchmark like 3DMark’s Wild Life: the Oppo Find X5 Lite scores 2024 focuses; the Realme GT 2 very nearly three fold the amount of at 5730.

However, there is a slight advantage. The Oppo Find X5 Lite never needs to choke its exhibition, and following a 20-minute GPU stress test, it was just somewhat warm.

• Execution score: 3/5

Oppo Find X5 Lite: programming

• Utilizes Android 11 at send off
• Generally harmless programming layer
• ColorOS 12 might seem a piece firm without visual changes

ColorOS 12 is the connection point utilized by the Oppo Find X5 Lite. It runs on top of Android 11 at the hour of survey, where a couple of different telephones are beginning to get Android 12.

That most recent rendition allows you to tweak a portion of the varieties utilized in center components like drop-down menus, so hopefully this telephone in the long run gets the update.

ColorOS 12 has a stiffer style than most, to some degree because of its utilization of square symbols of course, and the restricted straightforwardness of the application cabinet foundation. In any case, it’s harmless in the fundamental, and bunches of components – including symbol shapes – can be modified with a couple of taps of the screen.

However, note that the Oppo Find X5 Lite accompanies a couple possibly undesirable applications pre-introduced. These are Amazon’s Music, Video and Shopping applications, TikTok (or possibly, we don’t remember introducing it) and a sub-par game called Tile Master 3D. These ought to most likely be uninstalled on the very beginning, except if you buy into Amazon’s administrations.

However, there is an intriguing Oppo-made consideration with regards to O Relax. This offers a variety of unwinding and focus soundscapes based around encompassing sound – different shades of background noise. It likewise incorporates sounds kept in different spots in Tokyo, Reykjavik, Bangkok, Shenzhen and Beijing – the clamor of a city planned to consume your brain, so you can “get in the zone” all the more without any problem.

It’s the principal maker made application in some time that we’d really consider giving a shot routinely. Be that as it may, it isn’t excessively perfect from a specialized perspective, with the streams getting some margin to stack. In any case, we’re down with the idea and aim – which isn’t something we can say again and again about this kind of application.

The Oppo Find X5 Lite offers 256GB of stockpiling, so there’s a lot of space to eclipse these pre-introduced bits with your own applications.

• Programming score: 3/5

Oppo Find X5 Lite: battery duration

• Quick 65W charging
• Great endurance for a 4,500mAh telephone
• No remote charging

The Oppo Find X5 Lite incorporates a 4,500mAh battery, 500mAh lower limit than the mid-range standard of 5,000mAh, possible because of Oppo holding back nothing and light plan with this specific model.

In any case, the gadget outlives a huge number of this limit, meaning endurance simply is certainly not a critical concern for everyday use. The gadget came to sleep time in any event, during a weighty day of testing, which incorporated a lot of YouTube web based and a 20-minute gaming pressure test, with commonly around 25-30% charge left on a normal day.

We can thank two or three elements for this genuinely great outcome. The Oppo Find X5 Lite’s 90Hz screen may not sound that great in 2022, yet it’s probably going to be to a lesser extent a channel than a 120Hz board.

The board’s simply nice pinnacle brilliance outside will help, as well. The mediocre force of the processor will settle channel, as well; the Dimensity 900 can’t fire up very as hard as a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, for instance.

Charging is quick, as well: with a 65W charger, the telephone can get to 60% shortly, 96% in a short time, and 100 percent at the 33-minute imprint. You’ll have to utilize the right link to see this speed, yet it makes a 10-minute top-up a genuinely successful insurance contract before an evening out on the town.

The Oppo Find X5 Lite doesn’t offer remote charging, which is a typical oversight at this level. Eventually, however, it wouldn’t be all that engaging if it somehow managed to trundle along at ~10W at any rate.

• Battery score: 4/5

Should you buy the Oppo Find X5 Lite?

Buy it if…

You need a light, simple to-deal with telephone

The Oppo Find X5 Lite is more slender and lighter than most mid-range telephones, and its sensibly restricted outline makes it simple to deal with.

You esteem an earphone jack and expandable stockpiling

A significant number of the Oppo Find X5 Lite’s opponents don’t highlight an earphone jack or expandable stockpiling, which is very commonplace in non-passage level Android telephones. Here, you get both – a reviving change in 2022.

You esteem quick charging

The Oppo Find X5 Lite charges undeniably more rapidly than mid-range iPhones and Samsung handsets. Its 65W connector takes the battery from level to half in less than 15 minutes.

Don’t buy it if…

You’re a gamer who values execution

While the Oppo Find X5 Lite runs fine and dandy everyday, you can get undeniably more impressive telephones costing this much. This effects the visual settings you can use in better quality games, so they just won’t look very as great played on this Oppo.

You need a telephone that feels costly

The Oppo Find X5 Lite’s “Sparkle” finish looks great, however it has a plastic back. This, and the modest inclination haptics framework, implies you can get a more exceptional looking gadget at a comparable cost.