OPPO N3 Pro Reviews

For $649 (around £400, AU$800) the Oppo N3 is a considerable amount of phone for your money, and has some well executed features. The most obviously of which is the swivelling camera that'll wow your friends and change the way you use a smartphone camera. Of course, you may be afraid to go for a brand that is relatively unknown in the western world, but in its native China, Oppo is fast becoming a household name, and are renowned for building quality electronics with novel features: the N3 is no exception. Yes, there are a few quirks and bugs in the Color OS interface. I'm not generally a fan of third-party Android skins, and that hasn't changed with the N3, but I can certainly say that at all times it felt speedy and responsive. Want a phone with a party trick, big screen and novel features? The Oppo N3 should at least be in your 'maybe' pile.

The Oppo N3 is definitely not a bad phone, but it leaves a prominent “meh” aftertaste in our mouths. While it's certainly an improvement over the Oppo N1 in certain areas, it also proves to be a serious downgrade in some substantial ones. We can't help but feel that Oppo is running in one and the same place with the Oppo N3, and although it has several noteworthy merits, it generally failed to woo us. We tried to get to like it, but it has some serious drawbacks, like the under-performing display and the mediocre battery life, among others. Considering its flagship price, the Oppo N3 should have been way more refined than it currently is – it can hardly hold a candle to the contenders in the same price range. The sum of money we are dealing with is $649 – that's the same price tag that a Google Nexus 6 or an unlocked Apple iPhone 6 flaunt. Oppo's track record of making polished and slightly more affordable phones, like the Oppo Find 7a, makes us think that it could have definitely made a better N3 – it's beating us what prevented it from achieving this.