Reno series is Oppo’s mid-priced offering and comes only about six months after the Reno 5 Pro debuted. The Reno5 Pro was a competitive device that ticked all the right columns even though it did not have any significant edge over the competitors in this segment. But the Reno6 Pro offers some necessary refinements over the Reno5.
The Oppo Reno6 Pro is designed similar to the Reno 5 Pro. The device has a slim design with curved front and back glass. The back has a nice shiny textured design. The top is flat, similar to the Reno5 Pro. The power button is on the right-hand side and the volume buttons on the left. The base has the microphone array, SIM tray and USB Type-C port. Overall, Oppo has once again stuck to the tried-and-tested design. The SIM card tray accepts dual 5G SIM. The phone does not offer a headphone jack, but Oppo has bundled a Type-C earphone with the device. The Reno6 Pro is available in Aurora and Stellar Black colours. The phone is slightly heavier than the Reno5 Pro, but still light and slim enough for single-handed operation.
The phone uses a 6-nanometer octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 1200 5G chipset clocked at 3 GHz. This is one of the most powerful from MediaTek. The device uses an Arm Mali-G77 MC9 GPU. The device is available in a single configuration of 12GB RAM and 256GB internal memory and does not support memory expansion. RAM can be expanded up to 7GB in three steps. The device uses a 6.5-inch FHD+ (2400 x 1080) AMOLED display supporting 60 and 90 Hz refresh rates and 180 Hz touch sampling rate. The screen offers 100 percent DCI-P3 colour gamut. The screen appeared bright and responsive. The Reno6 Pro offers an in-display fingerprint sensor and face unlock. It uses a ColorOS 11.3 skin over Android 11. The software brings its share of extensive bloatware, some of which can be uninstalled. The phone supports 11 popular 5G bands, to ensures connectivity once 5G is introduced in India. Other wireless connectivity features include Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac), 802.11a/b/g/n/ and Bluetooth 5.2.
The Reno6 Pro houses a 64 MP main camera, an 8 MP Ultra Wide-angle camera, a 2 MP Macro camera and a 2 MP Monochrome camera at the rear, while the front camera is a 32 MP module. The rear camera can record videos up to 4K at30 fps while the front camera offers up to Full HD resolution at 30 fps. In the Reno5 Pro, we had mentioned some fine-tuning required in the the Reno6 seems to have rectified about cameras, and all that. The photos were excellent, reproducing colours true to the original.
Night mode performed flawlessly, rendering shadows and highlights with enough detail, while not overdoing it. Portrait mode produced soft bokeh, while the Bokeh Flare Portrait filter gave a rounded glow to light sources, simulating a fast portrait lens with circular aperture. AI mode pops up the colour as expected, though the effect was not too overpowering. Videos were a pleasure to shoot with Focus Lock and a virtual zoom lever that facilitates smooth zooming.
With HDR10+ and Dolby Atmos, the phone boasts excellent media playback. However, we still miss stereo speakers in the device.
The phone houses a 4500 mAh battery with series- connected 2250 mAh cells. Oppo bundles a 65W SuperVOOC 2.0 charger, which tops up the battery from zero to 100 percent in under 45 minutes. The battery lasted over a day even with some intense gaming sessions during our review period. The device is in fact, a gaming powerhouse, though it carries the bane of Reno5 Pro, which was the single speaker array that gets obstructed most of the time while holding it in landscape orientation.
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