OPPO Reno11 F 5G (2024)

An excellent all round phone – The Oppo Reno 11F, made in Guangdong, China, is a great phone. It is not small, with a 6.5 inch screen which is sharp, clear, and bright enough to use outdoors. It has 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM built in; and runs Android 14 out of the box. It is very responsive and fast in day to day use. Unlocking is done with an under-screen fingerprint sensor which is very reliable and better than Samsung phones I’ve used in the past. Face detection is also available and it often beats the fingerprint sensor.

You can run two SIMs on this phone, or one SIM and expand your storage with a micro-SD card. It comes with a 45W USB C charger and cable which makes for very fast charging if you want that. I am using an old 20W USB C PD charger and that works just fine.

The main camera is a 64MP sensor which combines 4 pixels to produce a 16MP image. The quality is pretty good, although it can’t compete with an actual camera. No phone can do that, sorry! Night mode can produce very pleasing images. Images sometimes look a bit over-sharpened. There is also a High-Res mode which produces 64MP images but I can’t say that they are any better than the standard images.

I bought this phone to replace a folding screen phone as they just are not as reliable as a conventional phone. The Oppo Reno 11F is much bigger than I’m used to but it is as good or better than phones costing twice as much.

Smooth! No complaints – 2nd Oppo I have owned. Solid performance, intuitive navigation, great camera! Purchases June 2024 from JB HiFi for $499 and I used it for six months. Was very easy to transfer apps and data from my old Oppo A57. I usually find some faults with a device because I expect devices to be well designed, but not this phone. Camera is well featured and many people comment how good the photos are. Easy and solid Bluetooth connection to hearing aids and Sennheiser Momentum TW 4 ear buds. Banking apps work very fast and the finger print security works very well.

NFC is a great feature, loaded my Debit Cards into Google Wallet and makes tap payments a breeze. Google integration is so much better on the Reno11 than it ever was on the Oppo A57. Wi Fi Hot Spot is fast enough to stream on my TV when home internet has an outage. Especially like the phone feature that warns of incoming spam calls in red so I can flick them immediately.

The photo shows the phone in a clear case, this did not come with the phone. But I do recommend it, I got it from mycasecovers.com.au

The only caveat I have is OPPO try to steer you to use their "App Market" for app updates. Not sure if I should trust it, so never use it and ALWAYS use the GOOGLE PLAY STORE.