Oppo Find 7

Whether it's a smartphone you're buying these days or looking for a new car, laptop, even a pair of shoes, there's always an overriding factor: brand recognition.

The Find 7 has so much going for it - and so few areas where it falls short - that it's hard not to get excited about what the upstart Chinese company has been able to achieve with its latest flagship.read more →

Despite a smattering of faults, it still stands tall as the company's finest mobile effort to date and Oppo die-hards shouldn't hesitate to pick one up. The tricky truth for everyone else is that the Find 7 doesn't live in a vacuum. There's no shortage of contemporaries like LG's G3 and the tantalizing OnePlus One that will make more sense because of carrier availability or cost -- although the latter is still admittedly tough to get your hands on. What Oppo can do is make a solid device, and that's exactly what we've got here.read more →

The Oppo Find 7 seems to be a stellar flagship on paper – it's got a huge Quad HD display, overachieving processor, plenty of memory, and a high-res camera. It is, however, marred by some mishaps. The body is fairly ergonomic for a 5.5-incher, but still not as compact as the G3 with the same screen size. The display might be with drool-worthy pixel density, but it's dim and very inaccurate in terms of color presentation.read more →

If the LG G3 didn't come with such a high-res screen, the Oppo Find 7 would have been a fantastic showcase of the latest technology. Unfortunately for Oppo, LG's phone offers much more, with a better design and cleaner UI that makes the Find 7 look bland.

The problem here is that the Find 7 is priced only slightly less than the high-end phones from the major brands, so there isn't a big enough incentive to pick it instead of gravitating toward a better-known product.read more →