OPPO F27 Pro Plus

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The OPPO F27 Pro+ 5G features a 64MP primary shooter (6P lens) with an f/1.7 aperture, a field-of-view of 81 degrees, autofocus support, and an open-loop focus motor. This is assisted by a 2MP portrait camera (3P lens) with an f/2.4 aperture, a field-of-view of 89 degrees, and with fixed-focus.The phone's default camera app offers Pro, Video, Photo, Portrait, Night, Extra HD, Pano, Slow-Motion, Time-Lapse, Dual-View Video, Sticker, and Text Scanner modes. There is also an AI-assisted Flash Snapshot feature that allows the handset to click clearer and more detailed images of moving subjects. The brand claims that it excels at capturing high-quality portraits even in low-light conditions. This is not a dedicated mode as such and acts in the background to provide you with better images. In my experience, I didn't find the feature to work that well with moving subjects. Shots clicked in the dark were decent but not particularly impressive.The phone notably makes use of some AI features that help you make fixes/edits to the original photos with ease. The OPPO F27 Pro+ 5G offers AI Eraser and AI Smart Image Matting features. The former lets you get rid of unwanted subjects from your photos after you have already clicked them while the latter lets you crop out subjects from your photo for use elsewhere. I found the AI Eraser tool to be a hit-and-miss. While in certain photos this feature worked almost magically, in some others, it struggled to produce a decent shot.However, this is a well-known issue with AI erasing tools available on most modern phones. The AI Smart Image Matting feature on the other hand worked really well and allowed me to pull out subjects from my photos effortlessly.The front-facing 8MP camera sensor is also helped with the use of AI as there is a dedicated Portrait Retouching feature that helps you improve the quality of your selfies. This feature lets you retouch your facial features to make them look better, but I'm not a big fan of tinkering with original photos in such a substantial manner. However, those of you who like to look social-media ready at all times might appreciate this feature more. Check out the camera samples I clicked from the phone below.DaylightIn the daylight shots, the handset managed to click pretty decent shots with a good amount of detail and colour accuracy. While many recent phones boost the colours to a point where the images look unnatural, the F27 Pro+ delivers precise and true-to-life colours and preserves details well. One issue that I noticed with the handset while capturing images in daylight was that it struggled with capturing outlines in certain cases. I compared the phone's daylight shot with that of the Vivo V30e and the F27 Pro+ managed to deliver a more detailed and colour-accurate shot as you can see below.In the portrait shot, both the F27 Pro+ and the V30e ended up blurring the backgrounds quite aggressively but here too, the OPPO handset consistently clicked more detailed shots and better skin tone than its Vivo counterpart.Low lightIn the low-light/night scenarios, the handset didn't present any banding issues. As this issue plagues even some of the better camera phones, it is good to see that you don't experience it with the OPPO handset. However, the downside here is that the phone struggles with capturing details in low-light scenarios (in comparison to some higher-priced handsets). As a result, some of the dark areas end up as dark patches in your pictures. However, in this price range, I compared the phone with the POCO F6 and the OPPO handset consistently produced better results in low-light situations. You can see the direct comparison below.I even compared the phone with Galaxy F55 and V30e in low-light conditions and the OPPO handset's pictures were more detailed each time.SelfiesWhile the selfie camera can capture facial details well, it struggles in portrait shots. The edge detection offered by the OPPO handset was not particularly impressive in the portrait mode. While the F27 Pro+ does a good job at capturing skin tones, the edge detection was hit-and-miss. I compared the phone's selfie camera with the one on Galaxy F55 and again, the skin tones and details were still better on the former's camera sample.VideoThe F27 Pro+ is capable of recording videos in 4K resolution at 30fps and the video quality on offer is pretty good. My only gripe in this department was that despite the presence of OIS, the phone could not manage to record stable videos when shooting with hand. 

OPPO F27 Pro+ 5G is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 7050 chipset with a maximum frequency of 2.6GHz, assisted by ARM Mali-G68 MC4 GPU. While this is a capable processor, it seems like an underpowered choice for the price segment as we already have Snapdragon 8s Gen 3-powered POCO F6, MediaTek Dimensity 8300-powered POCO X6 Pro 5G, and Snapdragon 7s Gen 2-powered Realme 12 Pro+ in the same price bracket. The OPPO F27 Pro+ 5G is available in two configurations - 8GB+128GB and 8GB+256GB. The handset also offers 8GB of extended RAM to help it deal with some of the more demanding tasks better. With UFS 3.1 storage, the handset offers good read and write speeds. In the benchmarks, as you might expect, the reliable MediaTek Dimensity 7050 did well but it could still not match the likes of the POCO F6.As you can see, the POCO F6 dominates in any performance benchmark with its extremely capable Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset. While the OPPO F27 Pro+ 5G puts up a decent fight against the Vivo V30e, the latter performs better in all key parameters. While this means that the Vivo and POCO handsets will handle more demanding tasks efficiently and offer you more horsepower, I can share that in my usage, the OPPO handset did really well. While playing games or multitasking, I didn't face any stutter issues or random app crashes, which is always a good sign. The handset didn't present any heating issues either.As far as software is concerned, the OPPO F27 Pro+ 5G runs ColorOS 14 (Based on Android 14) out of the box. I would like to point out that the phone comes with a lot of pre-loaded apps (73 to be precise). Although some of these are essential apps, I personally prefer when a handset allows me to curate the apps I want to choose from scratch. The brand is offering 3 years of OS upgrades and 4 years of security features, which is fairly standard in this price range.PHONEPRE-LOADED APPSOS UPDATESOPPO F27 Pro+733 years OS, 4 years securityPOCO F6583 years OS, 4 years securityVivo V30e523 years OS, 4 years security

The F27 Pro+ 5G ships with a 5,000mAh battery with 67W SuperVOOC Flash fast charging support. In the PCMark battery benchmark test, which evaluates the time it takes for a smartphone's battery to drain from 100 percent to below 20 percent at 80 percent screen brightness level, the handset lasted 10 hours and 46 minutes.In this price segment, it is towards the lower side. In our charging test, the phone took 48 minutes to charge from 20 percent to 100 percent. In comparison, the POCO F6 is considerably faster but the V30e is slower to refuel fully.