It seems that OPPO N1 is created for taking selfies with its special 206 ° rotating camera and powerful beauty system. In fact, N1 also has features such as O-Touch, O-Click and its own Color OS. So is OPPO N1 your dish?
The OPPO N1 parameter is not very special. The Snapdragon 600 processor used can only be considered as the mid end at present, but it is enough for daily use. The attraction of OPPO N1 is that it has many new features, such as O-Touch, O-Click and 206 ° rotating camera, which is also the focus of the evaluation.
Appearance design:
The appearance design of OPPO N1 is not classic and elegant. Because of its special three circumference and double layer frame design, even if it uses a 5.9-inch screen, the frame is too exaggerated. The overall matte free surface material is matched with a metal frame, which has a good visual and feel. OPPO N1 adopts a metal frame design and is specially sprayed with white paint.
The white on the top of OPPO N1 and the black on the bottom form the illusion of being light on the top and heavy on the bottom, but when holding it, the center of gravity is on the top, and there is always a feeling of falling when holding it with one hand. The weight of N1 reaches 213g, and its 170.7 * 82.6 circumference is relatively supportive, and the feeling of holding is ordinary. In addition, the fog surface material adopted by N1 is good in hand feel and finger mold prevention, but the negative effect is that it is easy to slide. With the weight of 213g, you should pay attention to the falling machine.
In terms of interface, 3.5mm, mircoUSB and speakers may be set at the bottom due to the design of metal frame. On the left and right are the SIM card slot, volume key and power key. The volume key, power key and metal frame are also painted with white paint. The texture is quite similar, unified and coordinated.
Interestingly, although OPPO N1 is not comfortable to hold with one hand, its symmetrical design and rounded corners make it very comfortable to hold with both hands horizontally. Moreover, OPPO N1's redundant position design, whether holding hands to watch movies or PSP simulator, has a very good experience.
There is a back touch panel called O-Touch on the back of N1. Its center and edge are designed with corresponding protrusions, which is a good finishing touch in terms of visual effect and touch. Unfortunately, I can't use O-Touch comfortably when I use it normally. Normal grip use requires bending fingers or adjusting the grip posture. Although the two handed holding operation will be more convenient to a certain extent, there will be many mistakes in daily operations.
Camera capability:
OPPO N1 uses 13 million stacked sensors and F2.0 large aperture. There are also Fujitsu ISP image chips, 6P lenses and blue glass/AR/AF coating, which are rich in science and technology, and the actual effect is really good. In terms of starting time, OPPO N1 is also fast enough. The official claims that it can reach 0.6s at the earliest, and if it rotates more than 120 °, it will start the self timer mode. At the same time, the maximum rotation is 206 °, so that N1 has a special waist level position.
The most amazing thing about OPPO N1 is its 206 ° rotation, which includes the front earpiece and sensor, the rear camera and two LED flash lights. Let's talk about these two LED flash lights first. The two flash lights of OPPO N1 are not the dual flash lights of iPhone 5s. The upper part is responsible for light compensation and the lower part is responsible for flash, but it is almost impossible to light up at the same time.
The rotary module that has attracted much attention is also quite good. Although it is not the first creation of OPPO, it is difficult to compare the various technologies behind it. When the 206 ° rotation is used, the selfie camera is in the center when it is held normally, while other mobile phones are placed at the bottom. Of course, in terms of service life, OPPO claims that it has been used for 100000 times, and in actual play, this part is really solid and reliable enough, even if it is swinging, there is no pressure.
On the shooting interface, N1 continues OPPO's usual white water in sunny spring, which is quite simple and even simple. There is not much that can be adjusted for N1. There is no adjustment for ISO, metering, white balance and focusing mode. Fortunately, N1 performs well in automatic mode this time. The upper part is for setting items, flash and scene mode, and the lower part is for recording, shutter and image. In addition, there is a folded mode selection. N1 also supports a slow shutter, which can last up to 8s, which is quite powerful.
The flash process of OPPO N1 is also special. For other mobile phones, when the flash light is turned on, the shutter flashes. For N1, there is a brightness adjustment process, and then the shutter flashes. In such a process, even if the flash is turned on, there will be no white or strange color temperature phenomenon, and the use effect is quite remarkable.
The figure above shows the comparison before and after the flash is turned on. OPPO N1 uses soft light with special treatment instead of ordinary LED light. This allows the LED flash to maintain its brightness while ensuring the uniform scattering of light, which makes the effect of both landscape shooting and portrait shooting quite good.
In terms of HDR, OPPO N1's performance is a bit hard to say whether it is good or bad. The details of N1 HDR photos in light and dark locations are well preserved, but the actual effect will appear darker. At the same time, due to the serious noise of N1 during night shooting, the visual effect of HDR sample is worse.
In terms of daytime shooting, OPPO N1 performs well. N1 is not picky about daytime white balance and focusing speed. Its high color saturation makes the film more eye-catching, but some people may not like the unreal way of expression.
At the same time, due to the problem of color saturation, large areas of color are easy to overflow, which makes the details of the performance general. As shown in the figure above, the details of the stamen center have been saturated and covered.
Speaking of night, let's talk about focusing first. Since N1 has no focus mode selection, it is basically used for auto focus+touch focus. In the case of complicated light sources at night, N1 auto focus is difficult to get right, and it is often necessary to touch focus again, and it is easy to overexpose and underexpose. (However, N1's light spot is quite round, which is also an unexpected gain.)
In terms of night performance, OPPO N1 is really good. Although there are many noise and glare, the detail performance and depth of field are quite good. What's more, N1 has a lot of noise at night, so it is easy to feel film. Is this a small success? In addition, try to avoid strong light sources. The glare of N1 is too dazzling.
It is worth mentioning that OPPO N1 provides a slow shutter of up to 8 seconds. As long as 8 seconds of shutter time, there is more creative space in shooting, and the night shooting effect will be quite good. Unfortunately, N1 does not provide aperture contraction and exposure adjustment, so you need to avoid strong light source when using a slow shutter, otherwise it is very easy to overexpose or the picture is pale.
If the slow shutter is used without light source, the effect is quite remarkable. As shown in the figure above, the shutter time is 1/10 second and 2 seconds respectively, which has greatly improved the purity of the picture. Of course, there are more ways to play with slow shutter speed, and it's basically goodbye to handheld.
The shutter with a maximum of 8 seconds has more creative space in shooting, for example, common tracks, light painting and transparent people are created based on long exposure. As shown in the figure, it is a sample of 4-second exposure time. Of course, because N1 cannot adjust the aperture and cannot adjust the exposure, it is necessary to pay attention to the picture light source for a long exposure, which is easy to cause overexposure and other phenomena.
The most special aspect of OPPO N1 is its 206 ° rotating camera, which is quite special. The common front camera is 180 °, but what's special about the actual effect of 206 °? The above figure shows the 180 ° and 206 ° view effects of N1 respectively. It can be seen that under the same grip, 206 ° view is an elevation angle, and the upper and lower jaw will be sharper. And 206 ° makes the viewing position better without adjusting the grip. As shown in the above figure, the 180 ° and 206 ° views are taken respectively, and the 206 ° view is better for the sister.
Before talking about the most eye-catching beauty system of OPPO N1, let's take a look at the performance of the soft light that has been praised before. The above figure shows the contrast between the soft light before and after it is turned on. It can be seen that the soft light of N1 is really "soft". Compared with the flash of other mobile phones, it does not appear hard or pale, and the effect is quite good. As shown in the above figure, the left and right are respectively before and after the soft light is turned on. It can be seen that the face is more ruddy and natural.
OPPO N1's beauty system is quite good, and its success rate of face recognition is quite high. After face recognition, the beauty effect is even better. In general, the effect of the beauty system is in place, basically following the principle of "one white, two sharp and three big", that is, white skin, sharp chin and big eyes. The effect of pointed chin is more natural, while that of large eyes is less obvious. The white skin can easily erase the fine hair and shadow.
Of course, some people are still dissatisfied with the beauty system when they are in the mood of entertainment and becoming more and more brave. Then there is beauty makeup to save them. In fact, the beauty system is under the beauty system. If a face is recognized in the photos taken, the corresponding icon will be displayed, and click to enter the beauty system.
There are seven different types of beauty makeup and different degrees of taste, whether sexy or elegant temperament can be chosen. Although face recognition can accurately recognize the position of eyes and mouth, most of them still need to be fine tuned. But frankly, the process of fine-tuning is too cumbersome.
More samples:
Long time exposure proof:
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System design:
OPPO N1 is equipped with its own Color OS based on Android system, which can be experienced in Find 5 before. Color OS does not follow the trend, but still adopts the design of desktop and program list. Desktop up to nine pages and order customization. As for common plug-ins, wallpapers and themes, etc.
What is more special is its "exclusive space" and "free weather", of which "exclusive space" currently only has mood album and mood music. It provides a single function page, and simplifies the function options to a certain extent. It can be displayed and used through a better interface. For example, the photos in the mood album are small in size and have their own photo frames, while the playing interface of mood music is quite elegant. The following four keys can be used to access the corresponding function interface, avoiding jumping.
"Free weather" has seven dynamic options: dandelion, sunny, rain, snow, fog, cloudy and thunderstorm. For example, the special effects of rain and snow will pile up on the icon, while the fog will be clearer after sliding, improving the use experience to a certain extent. The associated weather is a very good idea to directly connect the local weather and integrate it with life.
The Color OS settings are divided into three tabs: general tab, sound tab and display tab. Special functions are in the general tab. Let's talk about security services first. In the security service, there are common pure background, virus detection and holiday modes, especially visitor mode and program encryption. The photos, videos and applications can be hidden by setting the visitor unlock password for visitor mode. The program encryption is to enter the password when entering the program. The combination of these two functions can well protect personal privacy.
OPPO N1 adds a large number of gestures and body senses. Gestures include custom gestures, black screen gestures and track sensing, which correspond to three types of gestures: gesture board, off screen gestures and track sensing. Frankly speaking, except for the double click in the black screen gesture to light the screen, other gestures are unnecessary. They are slow in sensitivity, and the experience is average.
Compared with the gesture of chicken ribs, OPPO N1's body feel is much more practical. The somatosensory is divided into communication somatosensory, camera somatosensory and system somatosensory, which are quite practical function options. The flip mute and intelligent answering functions in the communication sense are quite practical. Other functions such as multi finger starting camera, double finger adjusting volume and screen anti touch screen are also quite special and creative.
In terms of multimedia, Color OS cooperates and integrates with different suppliers in video and music. The online video and online music libraries it has joined are quite good in use and experience. The integration and addition of such functions are also the main content of many domestic OSs.
In other aspects, Color OS has added many functions that are suitable for domestic situations and are quite practical. For example, pinyin and stroke dialing, microblog avatar import and power saving mode in smart dialing. Personally, I think Color OS has achieved a fairly good degree of completion and function, and it has no copycat flavor of other domestic OS, which is quite good.
Performance and endurance:
OPPO N1 uses the 1.7GHz Snapdragon 600 processor, which is currently a high-end configuration. Although it is one level lower than the Snapdragon 800, its daily applications and less picky game experience are still under no pressure. The above figure shows the score comparison of different scoring software and models with similar configurations. (Z1 is for entertainment)
The actual game session was tested with Wild Racing 8 and MC4 respectively. Although the frame number is slightly lower than that of the Snapdragon 800 model, it is still smooth enough to use as long as it is not a performance enthusiast. However, there may be optimization problems. In the course of a week's use, there are problems such as crash, most of which are concentrated in the process of turning on the camera to take photos.
Due to the large area and the hardware configuration, the heating of OPPO N1 is relatively slight. The temperature of the back frame and back during the half hour game is shown in the above figure. The maximum heating temperature of only about 35 ° C is much better than that of Snapdragon 800. Although the metal frame is only 30 ° C, it feels warm in winter.
OPPO N1 uses a 3610mAh battery, which is quite good in the Android camp. However, due to the 5.9-inch screen or optimization problems, the endurance of N1 is only average. As shown in the figure above, when I don't have a card to use, and there are more standby than on screen, the performance of 25 hours is reasonable under this capacity.
O-Click：
O-Click is a small accessory that comes with the machine and is the same size as a coin. It is quite simple to use. After the CR2016 battery is installed, it can be directly used after Bluetooth pairing with OPPO N1. In shape, O-Click can be changed into a key ring, pendant or bracelet through different lanyards. It's very conscientious and creative to send this small item randomly.
O-Click adopts Bluetooth 4.0 BLE technology, with low power consumption. At present, only the clock function is provided, which are remote photo taking, mobile phone searching, mobile phone loss prevention and information communication. In fact, it realizes the function of Bluetooth remote control and indicator light. Of course, the best use is its remote control photo function, so that even if it is Valentine's Day, there is no pressure to take self portraits of single people. In addition, the use of remote control photography for long exposure can avoid shaking.
O-Touch：
The shortcomings of the O-Touch position design were mentioned above. Here are the functions of the O-Touch. O-Touch provides the above functions, which are actually realized by clicking, double clicking and moving in different programs. However, it is not easy to handle and use, and the accuracy is not enough. It is really difficult to say how easy it is to use.
Although O-Touch is quite special and outstanding in function and design, it is quite confused in actual use. The actual experience will feel that the function is missing, and not every app can be used perfectly. Although the design is good, the practicability is relatively general, and we can only hope that OPPO's future firmware updates can be further optimized.
matters needing attention:
The shooting interface of OPPO N1 is quite interesting. You can view the photos taken by sliding right during shooting, which is a good interaction. In the view interface, you can also add notes. Although it is not a special function, it is a good idea.
The three dimensions of OPPO N1 are really exaggerated. According to my habit of holding with one hand, I can only flexibly control the volume key, while the power key is slightly higher. However, N1 provides O-Touch and various gestures. There are many different ways to open the screen, which can solve this puzzle to some extent. (You should have the mentality of operating with both hands.)
What bothers me most about OPPO N1 is its huge weight of 213g. Although it may be caused by 5.9 inches and metal frame, the weight is really exaggerated. Almost equal to the weight of two iPhones 5s, which is really tiring in actual use.
It should be noted that OPPO N1 has no information light. I can't figure out such a design. Although O-Click can be used as an information light reminder, the lack of information light still brings me a lot of confusion due to usage habits.
Summary:
In terms of appearance design, OPPO N1 takes a moderate route, which is neither beautiful nor ugly. At least most people will not dislike it. However, its exaggerated circumference and huge weight, I personally feel too sorry for the girls who are full of expectations. If OPPO N1 will launch a "mini" version with small frame and light weight in the future, I won't be surprised at all.
Although its Snapdragon 600 processor is not perfect in performance, it can meet the requirements of daily use and film and television entertainment. Don't worry about this. The Color OS is a domestic OS that I do not exclude except MIUI. Although it is not very good in optimization, it is quite good in completion and hands-on experience.
In terms of feature functions, O-Click and O-Touch are "too beautiful to think about, too frustrating to use". They are optional, but they add color. The most interesting thing is its 206 ° rotating camera. Whether it is the soft light of hardware or the beauty system of software, the shooting of OPPO N1 is really good, and it is enough to start with impulsively.
To sum up, OPPO N1's advantages are slightly more obvious than its disadvantages. If you like the 206 ° rotating camera, consider the huge circumference and weight. If you like to play games with both hands, consider the configuration of Snapdragon 600. However, I feel that if OPPO N1 introduces a "mini" version that reduces the size of the frame, reduces the weight, removes the O-Touch, and adjusts the position of the keys, I will not hesitate to recommend it.
