Oppo phones

Oppo, or Oppo Electronics Corporation in full, is a Chinese consumer electronics company. It is one of the largest manufacturer of smartphones in China and India but hardly known outside. Because of that large market share in China, Oppo ranked #4 among the world's largest smartphone manufacturers in 2017. Oppo was owned by BBK Electronics until 2023; a multinational that also owned Vivo and OnePlus. These are now standalone companies. Except OnePlus which has merged with realme at Oppo.

Oppo history

The Oppo company was founded in 2001 but only started operating from 2004. It first made Blu-ray and DVD players, then smartphones. Oppo mainly specialised in camera phones. For instance, the Oppo N1 was the first smartphone with a motorised rotating camera. In 2018, it released the Oppo Find X with a retractable selfie camera. Besides camera technology, the company is also focusing on fast charging. For instance, with VOOC and SuperVOOC, it owns one of many fast-charging technologies for mobile phones.

Oppo Netherlands

Despite its great popularity in China, the models are hardly known in the rest of the world. This is slowly changing. First, some Oppo phones were imported to the Netherlands by adventurous webshops. By now, they are also officially available here from a select group of providers. In early 2019, Oppo announced that it was partnering with T-Mobile to sell its phones here.

Oppo series

It was only in 2018 before the first Oppo mobiles reached the Netherlands. Back then, the company was already carrying entire series that would never eventually reach Europe. Think of the Oppo F series aimed at the selfie generation, N series with rotating cameras and the K series consisting of gaming phones. The series below did come out here;

• Oppo A series - Entry-level series
• Oppo Reno series - Camera phones
• Oppo Find X series - Premium flagships with innovative features
• Oppo Find N series - Foldables

ColorOS

Oppo uses the ColorOS operating system for its smartphone. This is based on Google's Android and, as its name suggests, is a colourful interpretation of it. The features Oppo has added to ColorOS and the look it has given it makes it very similar to Apple's iOS. You can just download Android apps from the Play Store and Oppo tries to release a new version of ColorOS every year.