OPPO Reno 2 is a smartphone that features a motorized pop-up selfie camera and quad rear cameras with up to 20x zoom capability. The four cameras are 48 Megapixels, 13 Megapixels, 8 Megapixels, and 2 Megapixels.
It also has a 6.5-inch FHD+ display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G chipset, 8GB of RAM, Android 9 Pie operating system, and 4G LTE connectivity. Meanwhile, security is handled by an under-display fingerprint sensor as well as facial recognition.
A 4,000 mAh battery powers the device with support for the company's VOOC fast charging technology.
 
After launching the Oppo Reno series of smartphones in June 2019, comprising the Oppo Reno, Oppo Reno 10x Zoom (and later the Oppo Reno Z affordable device), it only took Oppo four months to follow them up with the Oppo Reno 2 series, consisting of the main device and the Oppo Reno 2Z.
The new devices aren’t upgrades on the four-month-old devices per se; instead they’re new entries to the Reno line-up that sit alongside the older phones, but at different price points.
So, you may be wondering, what’s the difference between the Oppo Reno 2 and the Reno 2Z? Well, barely anything really – this review is of the Reno 2, but we’ve also tested the 2Z alongside it, so where phones differ we’ll point that out. 
 
If you’ve seen the Oppo Reno or Reno 10x Zoom, you know almost exactly what the Oppo Reno 2 looks like, as there are very few changes. That’s not necessarily a bad thing though – those handsets are good-looking phones, although after seeing several similar-looking handsets the novelty is starting to wear off a little.
The key feature of the Oppo Reno 2 design-wise is its pop-up camera, housed in a ‘shark-fin’ segment that rises from the top of the phone. It’s certainly a novel solution to the problem of how to incorporate a front-facing camera in an all-screen handset without taking up valuable screen space (and good-novel, not bad-novel like the Samsung Galaxy A80). It’s pretty sturdy too, with drop detection built in so that the phone retracts the camera when it senses that it’s falling.
 
The Oppo Reno 2Z doesn’t have the shark-fin segment, and instead has a ‘standard’ (although this design is itself still fairly novel) pop-up rectangle like several other recent smartphones. It feels just as durable as the shark-fin.
The Oppo Reno 2 has the same rear design as the previous Reno phones, so instead of having a camera bump that sticks out, the cameras are nestled in the Gorilla Glass back, and the rear is smooth – smooth, that is, save for the O-Dot, a small bump on the back that protects the lenses from being scratched when you lay the phone down flat.
The volume rocker is on the left of the phone and the power button on the right, with a USB-C port and 3.5mm headphone jack on the bottom of the device. The Oppo Reno 10x Zoom doesn’t have the headphone port, so it’s a welcome inclusion here if you like to use wired headphones for gaming or watching movies.