[SPECS] Oppo R5 Specifications - Members Thoughts - Oppo R5

Hey all
Oppo's R5 claims to be the worlds thinnest smartphone, at 4.85mm its certainly slender. Its so thin it cant accommodate a 3.5mm jack for headphones! But hey, we're in a world of Bluetooth headphones anyway. Throw in a 5.2" AMOLED display and a Octa-core processor, this looks like a sleek smart purchase. What would other members thoughts be on the specifications or design of the Oppo R5?
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Specifications:
Display - AMOLED, 1080 x 1920 pixels, 5.2 inches (~423 ppi pixel density)
Chipset - Qualcomm MSM8939 Snapdragon 615
CPU - Octa-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU - Adreno 405
RAM - 2GB
Memory - 16GB
Camera - 13 MP, 4128 x 3096 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Secondary Camera - 5MP
Sensors - Accelerometer, proximity, compass
Connectivity - Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v4.0
Battery - Non-removable, 2000 mAh
Dimensions - 148.9 x 74.5 x 4.9 mm
Weight - 155g
Source: gsmarena

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I actually think this phone is beautiful, no audio jack doesnt matter to me. When it comes to android nowadays all phones are just another android until someone does something somewhat different like what oppo has done with the r5 and really make a phone stand out not by specs (which no one I know really knows about in phones anyways) but by design. I really hope this phone will work in the us and that i can at least buy it. I would imagine that the 64bit snapdragon 615 and the 2000mah battery in it would fare just fine if it were updated to 5.0 lollipop with 64bit support which leads to my only concern with this phone... When the hell would it get lollipop??? Idk how good oppo is with there updates to new versions of android

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That's my main concern. I read that Oppo makes good hardware, but update-wise they are rather bad.
Some people in the Oppo forums even asked for AOSP http://www.oppoforums.com/threads/c...ject-hosted-by-oppo-a-la-sony-z-series.22028/ but there is no reaction to it yet.

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Polarfuchs said:
That's my main concern. I read that Oppo makes good hardware, but update-wise they are rather bad.
Some people in the Oppo forums even asked for AOSP http://www.oppoforums.com/threads/c...ject-hosted-by-oppo-a-la-sony-z-series.22028/ but there is no reaction to it yet.
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They're working on improving that, with multiple approaches, but these things take time to play out. For example, staffing up competent developers and/or training ones without experience with Android takes time. Official AOSP support requires staffing manpower which, at least right now, they simply don't have.
You have to keep in mind that Oppo is new to the mobile industry, and also that the Find5 was their first device released in the West. (Chinese users seem to care FAR less about updates than Western users.) They're definitely willing to learn from their mistakes.

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Thanks for the inside information, from a developers poin-of-view. I still keep an eye on the R5. (in the official forums, the German ambassador told that Oppo plans to release the R5 world-wide in Q4 2014/Q1 2015. And on their facebook page Oppo wrote, that they release it in the Philippines in December 2014).

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Limited feature smartphone!
No NFC
No Micro SD Card slot only 16GB storage
Wi-Fi is old "N" standard no "AC".
No headphone jack!
It already obsolete!

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It is not obsolete at all, If you read what is the package content of the phone so u can see that it has earphones which instead of classic jack can be attached to the phone via an usb adaptor. The adaptor is included in the starting package of the phone. I don t know how many users need internet speeds higher than 450Mbs which is the standard for the N wifi and where can u find hotspots which have AC standard. I think less than 1% of the users can really use an AC standard wifi on it s full capacity. I have a three years old telephone which has an NFC built in but I never used it.There are just a very few country in which u can use the NFC and even in those countries in a very few cases. The 2000 Mah battery that could be a disadvantage but most of the other phones have just one day battery life so that remains a question how will oppo behave with a such battery. It depend a lot on settings and on the manufacturer. And the SD card slots absence it could not be a problem in these days when u get gigabytes and gigabytes free cloud storage accessible from all u r it devices. I think the sd card is more obsolete: u need move manually all the data from it around u r devices.

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Love the hardware but wish it had more internal storage. To put only 16gb of storage in such a beautiful phone is a damn shame.
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