Oppo N3 review: A motorised auto-rotating camera flagship with VOOC and a metal frame.
The motorised swivel-cam flagship.
Oppo N3 upgraded the swivel-camera idea with a motorised module you could rotate by gesture or fingerprint swipe, wrapped in a metal frame with Schneider optics and VOOC charging. Inventive and well-built, if mechanically risky and niche.
01Display
64/10064/100 puts it above the 60-point average for flagship phones of 2014.
02Camera
62/100At 62/100 this is one of the strongest camera showings among flagship phones of 2014 — 12 points above the cohort average.
03Performance
60/100At 60/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among flagship phones of 2014 — 21 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
64/100At 64/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among flagship phones of 2014 — 11 points above the cohort average.
05Build
70/100At 70/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among flagship phones of 2014 — 8 points above the cohort average.
06Value
56/100At 56/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among flagship phones of 2014 — 8 points above the cohort average.
- Motorised auto-rotating camera with a fingerprint trigger.
- Schneider-Kreuznach optics.
- VOOC fast charging.
- Metal frame + microSD.
- Motorised hinge added bulk and a failure point.
- Mono speaker.
- Color OS rough.
- Only 2 GB RAM.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 2-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .