OPPO is changing the game by democratizing AI features with its Reno12 5G so everyone can use fancy tech. The new AI capabilities of the Reno12 Series show how AI can facilitate our day-to-day activities. We have been testing all these OPPO AI features on the new OPPO Reno12 5G. It’s fascinating to see the results. In this article, we will highlight all the AI features that impressed us.
Capture the World with AI-enhanced photography
The OPPO Reno12 Series camera is loaded with AI features, from AI Clear Face to AI Best Face and Natural Tone to AI Portrait Retouching for selfies. Let me address them one by one:
AI Eraser 2.0
You’re at a stunning scenic spot, posing for that perfect postcard photo, but the result is photobombed, and your memory is ruined. Enter AI Eraser 2.0, a true game changer. With a touch, it lets me remove unwanted people or objects from the image, like some magical Harry Potter transformation.
So, what’s the secret sauce? It’s powered by a diffusion model trained on billions of public domain images, offering up to 98% accuracy in image recognition. And it’s not just limited to spotting people; it can identify and erase almost any everyday object—trash cans, lamp posts, you name it.
The OPPO Reno12’s AI Eraser 2.0 doesn’t just remove distractions; it fills in the gaps so seamlessly you’d think a professional edited it.
AI Clear Face and AI Best Face
Testing the OPPO Reno12 during our group outing, I noticed cool AI features called AI Clear Face and AI Best Face. Once you click on a group photo on OPPO Reno12 editing, you can open the album and use its AI Clear Face feature, which enhances facial details, including contours, hair, and eyebrows, for up to 10 people. Each of my friends was happy as they could zoom into their image, crop it, and use it on social media.
Unlike editing on much pricier smartphones, which use cloud services, AI Clear Face leverages the OPPO Reno12’s AI processing power for on-device processing, completing edits in just 1.8 seconds. This makes it not only faster but also more private for users.
During our outing, I also dove into the AI Best Face feature on the Reno12. This tool is a game-changer for group photos. It can identify closed-eye expressions and correct them using AIGC. No more throwaway shots because someone blinked at the wrong moment. Just perfect group photos every time!
AI Studio
Lately, I’ve breathed new life into my otherwise dead college friends’ WhatsApp group. How? I use OPPO Reno12’s AI Studio to create digital avatars of my friends and post them in our group. The AI Studio lets you transform your photos into unique digital avatars using the latest GenAI technology. I’ve been inviting friends to join group AI photos through a link, regardless of their phone brands, so we can all create each other’s digital avatars in cowboy or other designs.
AI Portrait Retouching for Selfies
AI Portrait Retouching for selfies ensured my selfies looked flawless, while my friends cursed low light for poor selfies on their phones. The OPPO Reno12 camera intelligently uses AI to retouch 296 facial features, including skin tones, remove blemishes, and more to highlight your best features. The result is that my selfies look effortlessly perfect every time.
Natural Tone
The OPPO Reno12’s Natural Tone feature is impressive. Intelligently adjusting exposure based on the scene, the camera captures realistic lighting effects and natural skin tones. It detects everything from diverse skin tones to buildings and ambient lighting, ensuring you get the most natural look, whether it’s an individual selfie or a group photo.
Maximize Efficiency with the AI Tools
AI Toolbox
Let’s dive into the OPPO Reno12’s AI Toolbox, which is nothing less than a companion in your day-to-day life. This AI Toolbox lives conveniently in the sidebar and is smart enough to recognize what you’re doing on your phone. Then, it recommends the most relevant AI features, making your experience smoother, more productive, and more intuitive. Here are all the AI Tools that you can access from the sidebar:
AI Writer
I often struggle with captions for my social media posts, but with the AI Writer on the OPPO Reno12, life has become so much easier. It lends me a helping hand by suggesting smart and relevant things to say, suggesting grammar corrections, alternative phrasing options, and adding style to my sentences. Whether I’m writing posts or comments, AI Writer provides me with real-time writing support, helping me write polished and professional messages or social media comments.
AI Speak and AI Summary
I also explored two more features of the AI toolbox: AI Speak and AI Summary. These features are seriously handy. The AI Summary can take a long article in your web browser and condense it into something much more digestible, saving you from slogging through 2000+ words.
And if you’re not in the mood to read, OPPO’s got you covered with the AI Speak feature. Just a single tap on the sidebar, and it’ll read the article out loud for you. It’s like having a personal assistant who handles the reading while you sit back and listen.
AI Recording Summary
The AI Recording Summary tool transcribes and summarizes voice recordings, making it easy to capture and review important information from meetings, lectures, and interviews. It’s a game-changer for people like us who need to keep track of detailed discussions without the hassle of manual note-taking.
OPPO AI Smart Charging
OPPO Reno12 also has this exciting AI Smart Charging feature you should know about. This feature intelligently recognizes your sleep cycle and adapts the charging speed accordingly. So, when you wake up, your phone is fully charged and ready to go. This is perfect for people who plug in their phones at night and forget about it. Thanks to AI Smart Charging, not only is your phone juiced up when you need it, but the battery life is also extended. It’s a smart way to keep your battery healthy in the long run.
AI Linkboost
The OPPO Reno12 has AI LinkBoost, which uses advanced AI to ensure you always have a strong and reliable connection, even in places where your signal usually drops. It has antennas and smart tech that scan the network and switch between connections super-fast, so you never miss a beat, even if you’re using two SIM cards at once. Plus, it sorts out any Wi-Fi and Bluetooth clashes, so your internet stays speedy and smooth. OPPO’s AI isn’t just about making things faster – it’s about keeping you connected no matter where you are.
BeaconLink
I was digging into the OPPO Reno12 settings and found this cool thing called BeaconLink. OPPO created this tech to let you communicate in ad-hoc networks, so you can stay in touch with friends in places where the usual networks don’t reach, like on a flight, in a remote area, or at a crowded event with spotty signals.
How does it work, you ask? BeaconLink supercharges Bluetooth so you can make device-to-device voice calls over Bluetooth for up to 30 meters, even when you’re totally off the grid. Want to enable it? Just head to Settings → Mobile Network → BeaconLink.
AI Clear Voice
Recently, before boarding a flight, I attended a Zoom call on my phone at a crowded airport terminal. Before I started my call, I apologized to my team for the background noise, as it was a busy time at the airport. What was a pleasant surprise for me was the response I received from my fellow Zoom call participants. They told me my voice was clean and without any ambient noise. Surprisingly, OPPO Reno12’s AI Clear Voice technology isolates your voice from the surrounding noise, ensuring every word you say comes through crystal clear.
Trinity Engine
The OPPO Reno 12 is all about keeping things running smoothly without draining the battery. It’s powered by the Dimensity 7300-Energy platform and ColorOS’s Trinity Engine, which work together to manage computing resources, memory, and storage in a super detailed way. The CPU Vita, an AI-powered engine, figures out what you’re up to and manages the phone’s resources efficiently. This keeps the performance stable while saving the battery.
Additionally, there’s OPPO’s RAM-Vita tech, ensuring that the phone uses its RAM effectively, making apps launch super-fast, and keeping background apps running for up to 72 hours. And when you need an extra performance boost, ColorOS’s RAM Expansion can turn 8GB of storage into extra temporary RAM. Lastly, ROM-Vita technology optimizes performance and storage by compressing unused apps and managing duplicate files. All in all, these features work together to give you a reliable and efficient user experience no matter what you throw at the OPPO Reno12.
Beyond AI
Thinking about the OPPO Reno12 5G? It rocks a 6.7-inch 120Hz 3D Curved Infinite View display with an FHD+ resolution of 2412 × 1080. This display is AMOLED, with a dynamic refresh rate of 60/90/120Hz and a typical brightness of 600 nits, reaching 1200 nits outdoors. It’s also HDR10 and HDR10+ certified and protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 7i.
Under the hood, it’s powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 7300-Energy processor, with 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage and 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM. It runs on ColorOS 14.1 based on Android 14, and you get 3 years of OS upgrades and 4 years of security updates. The phone comes in cool colors like Sunset Peach, Matte Brown, and Astro Silver. It’s slim, lightweight, and rated IP65 for dust and water resistance.
The 5,000mAh battery supports 80W SUPERVOOC fast charging and it offers dual SIM support, up to 1TB microSD, Bluetooth 5.4, Wi-Fi 6, an IR Blaster, and 5G. It also features in-display fingerprint sensing and face unlock for security. For photos, there’s a 50MP main camera with OIS, an 8MP ultra-wide camera, and a 2MP macro camera. Selfies are covered by a 32MP front camera. So, the OPPO Reno12 packs a punch with style and functionality, making it a solid choice for anyone wanting a feature-packed smartphone.
Conclusion
OPPO is on a mission to bring AI to the masses, with 50 million users worldwide. The OPPO Reno12 is a key part of this mission, packed with cool AI tricks for photography, productivity, and efficiency. It’s a great everyday companion with features like AI Clear Face and AI Best Face, AI Eraser 2.0, and AI Studio, as well as handy tools like AI Writer and AI Smart Charging. It isn’t just a great daily driver; it changed how I use my phone. The OPPO Reno12, with 8GB+256GB, is priced at INR 32,999 and will be available on Flipkart, the OPPO E-store, and other mainline retail outlets starting July 25th.
Checkout the offers below applicable on the first sale of the OPPO Reno12 Series
- Customers can enjoy an instant cashback of up to INR 3,000 on the OPPO e-Store, Flipkart, and mainline retailers with leading bank cards from SBI, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, One Card, Kotak Bank, Bank of Baroda and DBS, coupled with no-cost EMI for up to 9 months
- Customers can avail of Zero Down Payment and low-down payment schemes from leading financiers like Bajaj Finserv, TVS Credit, HDB Financial Services, IDFC First Bank, and Home Credit.
- New customers get 3 months of YouTube Premium and Google One free on the Reno12 Series.
- Customers who pre-book their Reno12 5G before 25th July, will receive a special 6-month One-Time-Screen Replacement (OTSR) service
New buyers who purchase the Reno12 series and activate the My OPPO app between 18th July and 26th July also stand a chance to win an international holiday among other prizes that include OPPO Reno12 devices, family dining vouchers, and OPPO Enco Buds 2. For more details, customers can check “Buy Now & Win International Trip & Other Exciting Rewards”
OPPO Reno12 5G's AI video stabilization is smooth.