OPPO Find 7: Price, Specifications , Features and Review

Its not just mid range segment where Chinese brands are giving stiff competition to established market players such as Samsung, Sony, HTC, brands like Oppo and Gionee are eager to capture the market in premium segment as well with their innovative and high end devices. Oppo launched its flagship Oppo N1 with a rotating camera last year and cleared its intentions to compete against premium brands. N1 was the first device to ship with Cynogenmod out of the box however, Indian version of N1 were not shipped with Cynogenmod.

Oppo has recently launched Find 7 with all the high end specifications you would want to see in a premium device. It comes with highest resolution available ( QHD - 1440*2560) , innovative, efficient and best in class charging technology. We will talk about these in details in this post. What's special in this device, how does it compete with other premium brands and their device we will try to get answers to these questions in our review.

Oppo Find 7

Design and Specifications: 

Its not just the device which gives you a premium feel, you can experience that right from when you hold the box for the first time. Find 7 comes in a black plastic case on which company's name is engraved with steel coating on the front side. On the back side of the cover you will find device name Find 7 and high level specifications written on bottom part of the case.

Find 7 weighs around 173 gm , it is 9.2 mm thick despite of having a 3000 mAh battery enclosed in it. On the front there is no branding , most of the area is occupied by a beautiful 5.5 inch display which has resolution of 1440x2560 pixels which translates to 538 ppi . The resolution is best available in market as of now. Screen is coated with fine pixel coating technology and has nature color adjustment features. There are 3 capacitive buttons on the bottom of the screen viz. back, home and options button. On the top we have earpiece in the centre, 5 MP front camera and an array of sensors.

Oppo Display with Notification light on

On right edge you will see volume rocker buttons between two metallic rings sitting slightly above centre of the edge which makes it comfortable to use, on bottom there is small button which allows user to open the back cover when pressed. Left side of the phone carries power button and is placed at similar position as of its right side counterpart. 

Find 7 Side view

Find 7 Side view 2

A 3.5 mm audio jack is placed on the left side of top edge, whereas on bottom edge there is micro USB slot to support data transfer and charging, to the left of charging slot mic is situated.

Find 7 - Audio jack

Find 7 

On  back side every component is placed in centre with respect to width. On top there is a small noise cancellation mic, below which there is 13 MP camera with dual led flash lights below to it. Slightly above the centre brand name Oppo  is written. Speakers are placed on the bottom of the back side. Back cover is removable , on removing the back cover you can see 3000 mAh battery , Sim card slot and micro SD card slot.

Oppo - Find 7  back view

Internally, Oppo Find 7 is powered by a 2.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, 3 GB RAM and 32 GB internal storage which can be further expanded upto 128 GB thru micro SD card. On connectivity front phone has option of LTE connectivity along with other usual options as blutooth, wifi, 3G etc.

The device comes with a 13 MP camera at back fitted with Sony Exmor IMX214 sensor and dual LED flash light on front there is a 5 MP camera. 3000 mAh battery is designed to work with Vooc rapid charge technology.

Outstanding Feature:

In this section we will talk about features which makes device different from other devices. First we will talk about VOOC Rapid Charge technology. Oppo claims that Find 7 is the first device to adopt this technology to charge the device efficiently and rapidly. We have tested this and device charged around 30% from 0% in five to seven minutes. On a charge of around 40 minutes battery was fully charged. Battery backup of device is also good keeping fuel hungry high quality display it has in mind.

Second is the beautiful QHD screen which has a resolution of 1440x2560 , highest available in market only LG G3 along with Find 7 has display of this resolution in India as of now. On bottom of the screen the notification light adds delight to the experience. 

Camera:

Find 7 comes with a 13 MP rear camera which is standard for most of the flagship devices. Image quality is pretty good with adequate details and minimum noise level. You can get high quality photos if using Find 7 in well lit conditions however at low light noise level increases but is still better than many other devices available in market.

Oppo Find 7 has multiple modes like normal, beauty, HDR, Ultra HD, Slow shutter, panorama etc. Ultra HD mode claims to capture shots which can be printed on a 10 sqm poster. 

Find7 - Img1

Find 7 img2 (Low light - outdoor)

In addition there is slow shutter mode which has options up to delay of 32 seconds, which makes it fun to capture shots in night.

Front camera captures great photos , BIS sensor just work as expected , the clarity of the photos surprised us. Its one of the best front cameras available, Selfie lovers would approve this without any hesitation I guarantee you.

Software:

Find 7 runs Color OS which is a tweaked version of Android and based upon 4.3 Jelly Bean. Color OS is highly optimized and is lag free. It comes equipped with usual Google apps along with few of Oppo's own applications. O-clound, Lock now, power management are few of additional apps. There are few games from Gameloft. Outside India its available preloaded with Cynogenmod as well but unfortunately this option is not available in India.

Oppo Find 7 comes with Gesture support , gesture panel can be accessed on dragging notification down from left side. By default options has draw O to open camera, draw V to switch on flash light you can add your own gesture to control an application as draw F to open Facebook etc.

Gesture control

Few other gesture controls include, 3 finger swipe to capture screenshot which really comes handy . Two finger slide down to play music, draw an arrow to skip or rewind tracks.  

One can select local themes or online themes, the take on default music application is interesting and we liked the music player app a lot.

Music Player

Performance: 

As we have seen in other flagship devices there is no lag in the UI at all, Snapdragon 801 processor performs flawlessly. We didn't observed any issues in any of the apps usage and multitasking. On Antutu benchmark test we got a score of 41660.

Find7 - Antutu

As we said earlier device is powered by 3000 mAh strong battery which can last for one day on normal usage however you may have to charge your device if you play a lot of games which is consequence of very high resolution screen. VOOC rapid charge is really appreciated.

Speakers of the phone are loud enough and maxx audio adds pleasant experience to it. Call quality of the phone is also very good and voice from both sides was crystal clear.

Verdict:

Oppo has priced Find 7 very smartly and now it is available on Flipkart for Rs 37990. Oppo Find 7 offers all the features and specifications of a high end phone but perhaps at the lowest price as compared with other Brands Flagships such as iPhone 5S, Samsung Galaxy S5, Sony Xperia Z2 etc. 

On top of that we get best in class display and first of its kind charging technology. If you are looking for a high quality premium device with adequate storage, good camera and good battery backup then definitely Find 7 is the device for you.

Find 7 - Home Screen