It's not easy being a smartphone maker these days. Jump on the latest fad and you'd be called a copycat. Hold off and you're branded as a dinosaur. So what's an OEM gotta do Follow what makes sense. For OPPO, that means giving the OPPOR R15 and R15 Pro an admittedly somewhat useful notch.

Well-balanced performance and battery life; Vivid and vibrant camera output

Slippery glass texture; Creamy AI Beautification; Proprietary VOOC fast charging

Oppo is a company consistently adopting the latest trends to stay relevant in the market. The R9 added dual cameras to compete head-to-head with flagships from Huawei and Honor , and the R11s slimmed down its bezels to compete with other narrow-bezeled devices on the market.

Big bright display Smart navigation Beautiful colors Fantastic selfie camera Lots of storage and RAM

Expensive for what you get Screen resolution Buggy software Expensive for this tier of device micro-USB

OPPO has combined a stellar camera with a ceramic back and an OLED display to create what might be the best "mid-range" smartphone on the market. OPPO is one of the largest smartphone makers in

Great Camera performance in low light; Great build quality; Incredible display; Stellar battery life

Availability; Still Using a Micro USB Connector; Sports a notch and a chin; it should ideally be one or the other

Oppo R15 Pro also known as Oppo R15 Dream Mirror Edition in some countries is the advanced version of the Oppo R15 flagship smartphone. The Pro version is known for packing 6GB RAM and a massive 128GB storage. As usual, there are two rear cameras with amazing aperture for clear photographs.

After about a week of using the OPPO R15 Pro on a daily basis, here's what I think about the new release. The R15 Pro currently has one of the slimmest bezels out there with a screen to body ratio of 89% while it's sibling, the R15 has 90%. The phone also features a little notch on the top.

If you've only seen Xiaomi and Huawei as the top Chinese-made phones until now, Oppo wants you to also consider its new R15 Pro as a well-made alternative as well.

The Oppo R15 Pro is an interesting smartphone, but not for the reasons you might think. It's an all-around solid phablet with a huge OLED screen, great cameras on both front and back, and stellar battery life.

Solid performance and battery life; Great selfies; Nice big screen

Some software bugs; Should be cheaper; Fumbles on the details

The R15 Pro is an appealing phone from the design to the hardware specs. It feels like a better phone than the R15, deservedly so. But the price positioning on both the R15 and R15 Pro is on the high side, and with all the me-too design elements like the notch, curved glass back, dual cameras, there...

Arguably the coolest phone brand among Android enthusiasts is OnePlus . It's both powerful and stylish, with a scarcity that makes it feel special. OnePlus, you may not know, has a lesser-known (in the US) sibling called Oppo . Oppo's phones are also worthy of your attention.

The Oppo R15 Pro is a strong all-rounder, giving you solid cameras, battery life and power for a reasonable price; It also looks less like an iPhone than previous models, and it comes with a headphone jack

Oppo's operating system is still a blatant iOS clone, and portrait photos can look washed out; They charge through the outdated Micro-USB port

The Oppo R15 Pro is a terrific midrage phone, but it lacks the OnePlus 6's processing power, more interesting operating system and battery life.

The Oppo R15 Pro is a strong all-rounder, giving you solid cameras, battery life and power for a reasonable price; It also looks less like an iPhone than previous models, and it comes with a headphone jack.

Oppo's operating system is still a blatant iOS clone, and portrait photos can look washed out; They charge through the outdated Micro-USB port.