Oppo Find 7a

Necrolezbeast

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Just got a Midnight Find 7a to replace my expiring HTC One-X (Tegra 3 international model). Since it's the Chinese model without google services I rooted and threw those on there right after an OTA update.

So far I love the hardware, more details in a moment... as for the software; the launcher is also not terrible as far as I've experienced. I'm still working on getting my keyboard worked out (was using sense and liked it), and my google calendar widget is being strange and seemingly won't let me have it in month view a the moment.

Hardware build quality is phenomenal, imo. I love the Midnight color, but the white version feels better with the textured surface. While playing with them at the store I swapped backs and even with the slight coloring on the side it looked nice, so if needed I can swap to the white cover for the surface later. First impression is that it looks gorgeous and the build quality feels greater than the One-X. The shape and feel of the onscreen buttons leaves me unaware that the phone is huge compared to the one it replaced. Camera takes great pictures and is fast as can be. And the screen is beautiful!

After a few hours of playing around I definitely think I'm going to be happy with the phone and I'm sure the software kinks can be worked out by just poking around and finding which apps I need to make everything feel at home like I'd made the One X feel for the last couple years.

Any suggestions of keyboards? I prefer the swype-typing style and I know I replaced my swype with the HTC Sense keyboard for some reason that made sense at the time. Maybe it's time to try Swype again and see why I decided to retire it? As for the calendar, I'll attempt to work out google's issue, if not the one that came in ColorOS looks and seems to function nicely, but it's just not what I'm used to :(

Oh yeah, I picked the phone up for about $480 and they threw in 3 cases, a portable battery, t-shirt, and about $50 of credit on my account... so not too bad, I reckon.

I can post some pictures or what-not later on if ya'll want, let me know.
 

gorcorps

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Try swiftkey. They have a feature called "flow" which is their Swype equivalent, and I've prefered it over Swype ever since it was released.

I haven't really looked, but which store had them on display for you to handle them? Where are you located?
 

Red Storm

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The Google Keyboard is free and does gesture typing too. Personally I think it does a better job of it than Swiftkey, especially with short words whose letters are close together.
 

Necrolezbeast

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I live in Ningbo, China. They're available to play with in pretty much every store. I spent the last couple days going from shop to shop to make sure I would be happy with the purchase and to haggle the best deal... Which ended up being the first shop I went to, because they had the most friendly and seemingly non foreigner abusing staff along with a competitive package ;)

As for the Google keyboard, yeah that's what I've been using since getting this up and running. I just don't like the look of it compared to the sense keyboard. It feels like there is so much wasted space or something.. But it does seen to be working well, so I guess I'll get used to it until I find another solution. Swiftkey never impressed me. I didn't like the swyping in it last time I tried, but I'll try again to see if it's changed.

Thanks for the suggestions
 

Mel-Solememo

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Ohh cant believe u guys using OPPO too, thought it's been only sold in china. Mine is OPPO Ulike 2, so far so good been more than a year. I love the front cam with such high pixel and the automatically beauty face function to beautify the photos. And i've dropped it a few times been so worried if it's still fine, and u know what, it works like nothin' happened. What a durable babe. ^^
 

Necrolezbeast

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Ohh cant believe u guys using OPPO too, thought it's been only sold in china. Mine is OPPO Ulike 2, so far so good been more than a year. I love the front cam with such high pixel and the automatically beauty face function to beautify the photos. And i've dropped it a few times been so worried if it's still fine, and u know what, it works like nothin' happened. What a durable babe. ^^

I do live in China. But, I believe this year Oppo is pushing the Find 7/7a in the USA and other foreign markets more aggressively. I can't speak for their phone other than the N1 and my current Find 7a, but both of those phones are of excellent build quality and they've challenged the norm of the boring android phone. Like I said before, aesthetically I find the Find 7/7a to be ahead of the curve in design, it's stunning. For once I think the buy guys will be copying Chinese design in the not too distant future.