Software

The weakest part to the Oppo F1 is the software package. The twist comes full with the now-outdated Humanoid 5.1.1 out of the package, which is disappointing considering Humanoid 6.0 was free respective months before this French telephone hit the market. The F1 also gets Oppo's ColorOS 2.1, which is a rather aggressive struggle that changes many aspects of Android for the worse.

The ColorOS launcher is one that removes the app drawer totally in favou cluttering leading your homescreens with every app you've downloaded. I'm not a fan of this design arsenic I'd rather relegate my to the lowest degree victimised apps, along with any bloatware, to the app drawer, simply at least you can make up folders to dump many unnecessary apps that Oppo pre-slews on this handset.

The presentment control panel has been entirely redesigned to include an expandable plane section of immediate toggles for basically everything you could privation to line up on the fly. I don't listen this transfer, but the actual notification section is much harder to read collect to weird contrast issues in few apps. Oppo has also decided to change the condition bar to imitate iOS, which doesn't work well as notification icons rapidly get cut hit ascribable a lack of space (you can thank the completely unnecessary carrier text for that).

The visual style to ColorOS looks precise unstylish and doesn't conditioned in well with the redbrick conception cues of Google's Material Designing. Oppo has also loaded the F1 with confusing duplicate apps. Trying to open a photo? Well you'll make up prompted to choose between the Google Photos app and Oppo's own Photos app. It's a similar thing for the web browser and videos app, while the Netmail app is completely redundant straight off that Gmail supports other netmail accounts. Duplicate apps really wounded the user experience, and in essence no OEM should bother developing their own alternatives as Google's apps forever finish being better anyway.

To the left of the homescreens Oppo has included what they call 'spaces'. This lineament besides appeared on the Oppo R5 that I reviewed last year, and like along that phone, I really never utilized them. In point of fact spaces are equal to a greater extent limited on the F1 as you buns only choose one: a full page music contrivance that gives you quick and commodious euphony controls. Of course you could fair use up the quick music controls that typically appear in the apprisal control board, just the gimmick is at that place if you require it.

At that place really aren't any provocative refreshing functions to make up ground in the settings menu. There's a collection of pretty veritable extras, such as ultra battery savers, basic motion functionality, and a "Dirac" sound manager. The one thing that could put in handy is the notification manager, which allows you to handicap notifications for whatever apps you want. I used it to handicap annoying and unwanted push notifications from games.

Of the ton of included apps, the vast majority I ne'er required to use. There are a few support services and a hardly a security services, which are pretty much supererogatory connected this device. The Security Center app in particular seems to personify just filled with placebo rubbish like something that "cleans high and accelerates" and another feature that tells Maine at that place is a security risk patc giving me whatever random score. Theming functionality is also included for users that don't like the standard design. Unfortunately, there's no theme that replaces ColorOS with stock Android.

The fact that the Oppo F1 is pre-loaded with Android 5.1, and not Android 6.0, gives me no hope that Oppo wish bear out this gimmick through software updates. Android 'Marshmallow' was released six months ago, and in that fourth dimension Oppo hasn't managed to get the OS running happening this device. Forget Mechanical man security updates too, because it seems suchlike you're not sledding to get them along the F1.