New Oppo Reno 15 Pro smartphone reviewed: $1399 digital camera cellphone

With Samsung anticipated to announce the newest additions to its S collection this week, Oppo has launched the Reno 15 collection.

This features a funds Oppo Reno 15F 5G promoting for $679 and the Oppo Reno 15 Pro, pitched at content material creators, for $1399.

We have been testing the Reno 15 Pro, which features a 50MP telephoto portrait digital camera with an 85mm-equivalent focal size, alongside a 200MP foremost digital camera offering excessive ranges of element.

The 50MP ultra-wide selfie digital camera provides a 100-degree discipline of view, which is right for every thing from vlogging to group pictures.

Both telephones supply AI flash images, the place twin rear flashes ship softer, extra pure lighting, whereas the brand new entrance display screen flash helps customers obtain a pure glow in selfies, even in lowlight circumstances.

In enhancing, AI Portrait Glow analyses pictures with imperfect lighting — akin to underexposed, overexposed, or backlit scenes — and applies refined lighting results.

In our testing, the Reno 15 Pro takes spectacular pictures at 3.5 zoom, with AI kicking in from 10 occasions and past to boost picture high quality.

The colors are vivid and the wide-angle lens pictures look notably good. Portrait pictures of our canine centered effectively on eyes and advantageous particulars.

The selfie digital camera has an enormous vary of settings to enhance facial look, from rising eye measurement to eradicating pores and skin blemishes and lowering head measurement.

Playing round with it, I used to be capable of produce a youthful wanting, albeit much less lifelike wanting me.

The foremost digital camera additionally options sensible scene choices akin to stage for live performance pictures, silhouette and fireworks.

We put the silhouette choice to the check throughout a dawn shoot; it produced some good variations, although doubtless not more than may very well be achieved by sliding down the publicity setting.

The digital camera features a vary of filters akin to neon, chilly flash, heat flash, recent, classic, clear, vivid, shine, serenity, pure, meals, cool, heat, vibrant, light, black and white and mono. Users can slide by way of these to see which look appeals most to them.

For video, the digital camera shoots 4K HDR and options an ultra-steady mode that retains footage easy when the consumer is on the transfer.

However, one factor I discovered was that whereas recording, the video appeared shakier on the show display screen than what I’ve skilled when capturing with an iPhone or Samsung digital camera, which was jarring. The output, nevertheless, was good.

Like iPhone and Samsung handsets, you possibly can document dual-view video to seize a response to what you’re filming. Unlike the iPhone, which has a video-in-video look, the Oppo merely splits the display screen in half.

The Reno 15 Pro 5G includes a 6.32-inch show — the identical measurement because the iPhone 17 and Pro fashions, however smaller than the Pro Max, which is my present every day driver. It provides a 120Hz refresh charge and 1,800 nits peak brightness.

The machine will definitely attraction to somebody wanting a premium cellphone with high-end digital camera options in a bundle that’s extra ergonomic for one-handed use.

While the show is great and apps launch shortly, scrolling appeared a bit extra jilted than we anticipated.

It can also be uncommon that the cheaper Reno 15F has a bigger 6500mAh battery than the 6200mAh battery within the Pro mannequin.

Some reviewers have famous that battery life within the Pro mannequin is inferior to telephones with smaller batteries, whereas they observed it heated up an excessive amount of throughout gaming and 4K video capturing.

I left the video on throughout a seaside shoot by accident and observed the cellphone was heat after taking it out of my pocket.

The Reno 15 Pro 5G is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 8450, whereas the Reno 15F 5G runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1.

For those that need extra display screen actual property, the Reno 15F provides a bigger 6.57-inch 120Hz show. Both supply IP69 water and dirt resistance.

Overall, the Pro mannequin is an effective all-round cellphone and will attraction to these wanting selfie enhancing options, however there’s nothing that makes it a standout within the early Android race of 2026.

Pricing and Availability

The Oppo Reno 15 Series is accessible in Australia with the Reno 15 Pro priced at $1,399 and the Reno 15F at $679. Both gadgets embody a protecting case and 80W SUPERVOOC Wall Charger within the field.

OPPO Reno15 Pro 5G

RRP: $1,399

Colours: Aurora Blue, Dusk Black

Available at: JB Hi-Fi and OPPO Australia’s Online Store

OPPO Reno15 F 5G

RRP: $679

Colours: Aurora Blue, Twilight Black

Available at: JB Hi-Fi, Officeworks, Big W, Harvey Norman, The Good Guys and OPPO Australia’s Online Store

Originally revealed as Oppo targets Android rivals with Reno 15 Pro but fails to deliver a knockout