Oppo R5 Review: Beautiful, but no one needs a phone this thin
Dec31
Before the fight for the biggest screen size, prior to the battle for the best specs or camera, there was the one great, very volatile feature phone manufacturers warred over: thinness. The R5 is Oppo’s 4.85mm stab at making the world’s skinniest phone – so thin they couldn’t fit a headphone jack. Although that title was quickly claimed by the also-chinese Vivo X5 Max (which beat it by an entire 0.1mm), there’s no denying the R5 is impressively engineered. Unfortunately, and unlike Oppo’s wonderfully crazy N3, those design feats leave you with a phone with too many compromises. Design Let’s get my biases out…
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