Introduction and design
The Oppo F1 is a phone with a mission. It wants to trick people into thinking you spent £300 ($400, AU$500) or more on a handset when you actually only forked out £160 ($249, AU$285).
It does a good job too. Thin and with lots of metal on show, it comes across as quite a bit more expensive than the Moto G, even though it’s actually around the same price.
If you want a budget handset that people won’t instantly recognise, the Oppo F1 is a top choice. And in the UK at least, it’s much easier to get hold of than most Oppo phones techradar has reviewed to date.
Design
How do you make something cheap seem expensive? That’s a tough one for many designers, because if you get it wrong, you might end up with a phone encrusted with plastic diamonds that you couldn’t even sell on eBay.
Oppo has nailed the “cheap expensive” look here, though. It’s all about putting in 20% of the effort/cost for 80% of the returns.
The top Oppo F1 tactic is using champagne-finish gold metal for the back, but sneakily switching to plastic for the sides. You …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Phones
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