Oppo Reno Ace: World's Fastest Charging phone

Oppo announced months back that a 65W fast charging option was possible. This wasn’t given much attention as the chinese firm were yet to implement such claim. Recently, smartphone users were left spell-bound by the introduction of Oppo Reno Ace with it’s 65W SuperVOOC which could re-charge the 4,000mAh battery from 0% to 100% in 30 minutes and from 0% to 27% in just 5minutes!

This is not all that the Reno Ace has to offer, the phone maker,Oppo made sure it comes with an overall premium features like quad camera setup, a superb Adreno 640&Game boost 2.0 for better gaming experience to mention but a few. Going into details of what the reno ace packs, we review it per feature:

Reno Ace Body And Display

The smartphone features an AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with a 1080 x 2400 pixels. To protect the screen against crack, there is a corning gorilla 6 protective glass to serve the purpose.

The device’s weight is 200g while it’s screen size is 6.5 inches.

Dimensions(mm)	161×75.7×8.7
Weight	200g(7.05 oz)
Build	Front glass (Gorilla Glass 6) Back glass (Gorilla Glass 5) Aluminum frame
Display type	AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Screen size	6.5 inches, 102.0 cm 83.7% screen-to-body ratio
Resolution(pixels)	1080 x 2400
Features	20:9 ratio ~405 ppi density Corning Gorilla Glass 6 500 nits max brightness HDR 90 Hz refresh rate DCI-P3 100%
Colour	Psychedelic Purple, Starry Blue

Oppo Reno Ace Software

The device comes with an Android 10 operating system which is based on Oppo’s unique ColorOS 6.1 skin.

Operating system	Android 10
Skin	ColorOS 6.1

Oppo reno ace photo

Hardware

The Reno Ace is powered by an Octa core (2.96 GHz, Single core, Kryo 485 + 2.42 GHz, Tri core, Kryo 485 + 1.8 GHz, Quad core, Kryo 485) processor.

For it’s chipset, the device has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus one.

Chipset

Qualcomm SDM855 Snapdragon 855+ (7 nm)

CPU

Octa-core:

1×2.96 GHz Kryo 485
3×2.42 GHz Kryo 485
4×1.8 GHz Kryo 485

GPU

Adreno 640 (700 MHz)

Oppo Reno Ace Camera Setup

Reno Ace comes with a quad (48+8+13+2)MP camera setup at the rear of the device. This setup features a 20 x digital zoom, dual-LED flash, HDR, panorama, auto flash, and touch to focus.

In a water-drop notch at the upper end of the device’s screen is a 16 MP front camera mainly for taking selfies and face detection & unlock.

Rear Camera	48 MP, f/1.7, 26mm (wide), 1/2.0″, 0.8µm, PDAF, OIS 13MP, f/2.4, (telephoto), 1/3.4″, 1.0µm, PDAF, 2x optical zoom 8 MP, f/2.2, 13mm (ultrawide), 1/3.2″, 1.4µm 2 MP B/W, f/2.4, 1/5″, 1.75µm
Rear camera features	Dual-LED flash HDR panorama Video: [email protected]/60fps, 1080p@30/60/120fps (gyro- EIS); video recording only with main camera
Front camera	single 16 MP, f/2.0, 26mm (wide), 1/3.1″, 1.0µm
Front Camera Features	HDR [email protected]

Memory

Oppo’s Reno Ace has a slot for microSD of capacity of up to 256 GB. For the internal storage and RAM, there are three variant and these makes for the three differing prices.

The RAM and internal storage are tabulated below according to variants which are labelled as; V1,V2, and V3.

~	V 1	V2	V3
Internal Storage	128GB	256GB	256GB
RAM	8GB	8GB	12GB

Connectivity/Sensors

The device packs a dual speaker, USB type c, an optical fingerprint sensor(on the screen), among other sensors tabulated below:

Loudspeaker	Yes (dual speakers)
3.5mm jack	Yes (active noise cancellation & dedicated mic
WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
Bluetooth	5.0, A2DP, LE
GPS	Yes, with dual-band A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO
NFC	Yes
USB	2.0, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-Go
Sim	Dual nano sim cards
Sensors	Fingerprint (under display, optical), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass

Network support

The device supports 2G,3G and 4G.

Technology	GSM/HSPA/LTE
2G bands	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G bands	HSDPA 800 / 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100
4G bands	LTE (unspecified)
Network speed	HSPA, LTE-A

Battery

Reno Ace is a beast of a device when it comes to battery power, in fact that is it’s selling point. No other smartphone could boast of a charge rate of 100% in half an hour. This means less time spent on charging.

The device also supports USB-PD and Qualcomm’s quick charge protocols.

Battery capacity	Non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh battery
Fast battery charging	65W: 100% in 30 min (SuperVOOC Flash Charge)

Price Of Oppo Reno Ace In Nigeria

The Reno Ace is quite expensive as all it’s variants are over N100k.

The 8GB/128GB model sells for about N165,000. For the 8GB/256GB variant, the price is a little bit higher at N176,000. The 12GB/256GB variant is the most expensive at N195,000.

Verdict!

The phone comes with a good display refresh rate, a superb battery charging and an overall premium features for it’s expensive price. If you could query the price, you can’t query the specs delivered.