Chinese smartphone maker OPPO is rapidly expanding its influence on the east european smartphone market, introducing more and more new product lines. The A—series mainly includes low-cost smartphones, the K—series includes mid-range devices, and Find smartphones are purebred flagships with advanced equipment. And somewhere between them are representatives of the Reno family, who meet all the requirements of a modern smartphone, but slightly fall short of the flagship status.


The equipment of the average Reno device includes a high-quality AMOLED or Super AMOLED display with an increased refresh rate, powerful fast charging, a high-quality camera with canonical Sony sensors, fast internal memory of the UFS 2.1 class and the most current communication modules at the moment. The 5G receiver was still in the OPPO Reno 4, which was presented in the spring of 2020. We add a premium-class case to the list, spice it up with advanced software features like simultaneous video recording from two cameras and get a direct competitor to the "affordable flagships" from OnePlus and Xiaomi.

By mid-2021, the Reno model range has five generations, and the sixth is already on the way. The presentation of new models takes place in the usual way: first, a new numbered Reno smartphone is rolled out to the public, and immediately after it, a tuned Reno Pro and a fat-free Reno Lite go on sale. However, OPPO is not limited to traditional marketing patterns and allows itself to produce non-format smartphones such as Reno 2Z or Reno 5F with slight simplifications of the camera and audio track.