First introduced in Jelly Bean 4.1, Google Now is one of the most interesting additions to the OS. Google's voice-activated personal assistant is in the same neck of the woods as Apple's Siri, but it learns constantly from your daily routines.
It's accessed by holding the home button and gives you short overview of information it believes is relevant to you right now in the form of cards. Going to work in the morning? Google Now knows this and lets you know there's a big traffic jam on your usual way to the office, so it offers you a re-route.
It can interpret a lot of things from your search history as well. If you've
been searching for, let's say, your favorite football team, Google Now will prepare a card showing you the next match the team is playing and will provide you score updates once the game begins.
Google Now
Google Now has been getting smarter and, if you allow it, can scan your email for upcoming flights, deliveries or restaurant reservations and duly notify you. There are also numerous kinds of cards like birthdays (yours and those of your contacts) and what distance you've walked in a particular month. The last one could definitely feel creepy for some users, but it's easily turned off in the Google Now settings menu. The latest addition to Google Now cards are TV and Offers.
Google has also integrated Voice Actions. They can handle stuff like sending messages (SMS or email), initiating a voice call, asking for directions, taking a note or opening a site. Google Now can also launch apps, check and manage your calendar and look for nearby places of interest and stuff like movie openings in theaters.
Google Now settings
One big advantage of since Jelly Bean is that dictation doesn't require an internet connection to work. You can dictate text anywhere in the interface where the on-screen keyboard is available - be it Messaging or a note taking app - without the need for a data connection as long as you have the required language packs installed (and those only take about 20-25MB of your storage per pack).
Google Now
Making voice typing available offline also made it faster as it's not dependent on your connection. What's even more impressive is that the transition hasn't cost it anything in terms of accuracy.
Synthetic benchmarks
The CyanogenMod Oppo N1 has a Snapdragon 600 chipset, which is not exactly top of the range any more. The Snapdragon 800 is already powering a dozen flagships, while its Snapdragon 805 successor is just around the corner.
Not that four Krait 300 cores is something to frown at, but they don't allow for the same instantaneous loading times or stuff like 4K video recording.
So let's dig right into it. Starting off with BenchmarkPi and Linpack. Both focus on the processing skills - BenchmarkPi focuses on individual cores while Linpack measures multi-threaded performance. In both cases the Oppo N1 performed as expected - matching its Snapdragon 600 peers and falling somewhat short of the Snapdragon 800-powered beasts.
Benchmark Pi
Lower is better
LG G Flex 99
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 99
LG G2 99
Sony Xperia Z1 115
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 115
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 130
HTC One Max 131
Oppo N1 131
CyanogenMod Oppo N1 131
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 132
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 132
HTC Butterfly S 135
LG Nexus 5 146
LG Optimus G Pro 147
HTC One 151
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 166
Sony Xperia Z 264
HTC Butterfly 266
Oppo Find 5 267
HTC One X+ 280
LG Optimus G 285
HTC One mini 293
Samsung Galaxy Note II 305
Meizu MX3 307
HTC One X (Tegra 3) 330
LG Optimus 4X HD 350
Samsung Galaxy S III 359
Nexus 4 431
Linpack is putting all four Krait 300 cores to the test and the CyanogenMod Oppo N1 didn't do as well as its ColorOS sibling.
Linpack
Higher is better
LG G Flex 1102
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 1081
LG G2 1054
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 1034
Sony Xperia Z1 1004
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 818
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 791
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 788
LG Optimus G Pro 743
HTC One Max 723
Oppo N1 688
HTC Butterfly S 669
HTC One 646
Sony Xperia Z 630
HTC Butterfly 624
LG Optimus G 608
Oppo Find 5 593
CyanogenMod Oppo N1 544
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 413
LG Nexus 5 393
HTC One mini 320
Meizu MX3 289
Samsung Galaxy Note II 214.3
Nexus 4 213.5
HTC One X+ 177.7
Samsung Galaxy S III 175.5
HTC One X 160.9
LG Optimus 4X HD 141.5
The next benchmark we ran is GeekBench 3. It measures CPU and memory performance and, interestingly, the CyanogenMod version of the Oppo N1 scores significantly higher than the ColorOS one here.
Geekbench 3
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 2937
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 2670
Sony Xperia Z1 2638
Apple iPhone 5s 2561
LG Nexus 5 2453
LG G Flex 2254
LG G2 2243
CyanogenMod Oppo N1 2032
HTC One 1972
HTC One Max 1899
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 1869
LG Optimus G 1623
Meizu MX3 1579
Huawei Ascend P6 1315
LG Nexus 4 1288
HTC Butterfly 1257
Oppo N1 1207
Oppo R819 1047
HTC One mini 887
Quadrant and AnTuTu gauge the overall device performance. Here CyanogenMod Oppo N1 scored close to the regular version. In AnTuTu 4 it managed to get almost exactly the same result as the Snapdragon 800 packing Nexus 5.
Quadrant
Higher is better
LG G Flex 20521
Sony Xperia Z1 20388
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 20052
LG G2 19815
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 18177
HTC Butterfly S 13130
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 12446
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 12376
LG Optimus G Pro 12105
HTC One Max 11914
HTC One 11746
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 11346
CyanogenMod Oppo N1 11079
LG Nexus 5 8844
Oppo N1 8099
Sony Xperia Z 8075
HTC One X+ 7632
LG Optimus G 7439
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 7153
Oppo Find 5 7111
Meizu MX3 6116
HTC One mini 6048
HTC One X 5952
Samsung Galaxy Note II 5916
Samsung Galaxy S III 5450
Nexus 4 4567
AnTuTu 4
Higher is better
LG G Flex 35831
LG G2 35444
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 31109
Sony Xperia Z1 30850
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 29185
Samsung Galaxy S4 27613
Oppo N1 26598
HTC One 26389
HTC One Max 26348
LG Nexus 5 25097
CyanogenMod Oppo N1 25091
Meizu MX3 24391
LG Nexus 4 17006
It's time to test the Adreno 320 graphics performance. The CyanogenMod Oppo N1 scores a solid 20fps under the ColorOS variant of the phone and is ranking near the HTC One.
We ran the GFXBenchmark off-screen at 1080p resolution in order to test the raw power of the Adreno 320. It turned out just as powerful as the regular Oppo N1.
GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt (1080p off-screen)
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 68
Sony Xperia Z1 60
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 60
Oppo N1 58.8
LG G Flex 58
LG Nexus 5 57
Apple iPhone 5s 56
LG G2 54
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 43
HTC Butterfly S 42
Meizu MX3 42
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 41
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 41
HTC One Max 41
CyanogenMod Oppo N1 38
HTC One 37
Oppo Find 5 32
Google Nexus 4 32
Sony Xperia Z 31
Sony Xperia ZL 31
Sony Xperia SP 31
Apple iPhone 5 30
LG Optimus G Pro 30
LG Optimus G 21
Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 17
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 17
Samsung Galaxy Note II 17
HTC One mini 15
HTC One X 11
GLBenchmark 2.7 T-Rex (1080p off-screen)
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 26
LG Nexus 5 23
Sony Xperia Z1 23
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 23
Apple iPhone 5s 23
LG G Flex 22
LG G2 22
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 17.1
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 17.1
Apple iPad 4 16.8
HTC Butterfly S 16
Oppo N1 16
CyanogenMod Oppo N1 16
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 16
HTC One Max 14
Google Nexus 10 13.9
LG Optimus G 13.9
Sony Xperia Z 13.5
Meizu MX3 13
Sony Xperia Tablet Z 13
Sony Xperia ZL 12.8
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 6.4
Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 6.3
HTC One mini 5.6
Samsung Galaxy Note II 4.9
Epic Citadel
Higher is better
CyanogenMod Oppo N1 59.4
Meizu MX3 58.8
Oppo N1 58.8
LG G Flex 56
Sony Xperia Z1 54.9
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 54.9
LG G2 51
LG Nexus 5 49.1
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 47.7
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 37.2
HTC One 35.6
HTC One Max 34.9
HTC Butterfly 29.6
The JavaScript performance of the CyanogenMod Oppo N1 stock browser is good enough for us, but certainly not the best we've seen.
SunSpider
Lower is better
Apple iPhone 5s 403
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 587
Apple iPhone 5 694
Apple iPhone 5c 704
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 750
LG Nexus 5 827
Sony Xperia Z1 845
LG G2 908
LG G Flex 911
CyanogenMod Oppo N1 955
Oppo N1 1012
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 1046
Meizu MX3 1085
HTC One 1174
HTC One Max 1295
LG Optimus G 1293
HTC One mini 1375
LG Nexus 4 1379
HTC Butterfly 1397
Oppo R819 1423
The CyanogenMod Oppo N1 did well at the compound BrowserMark 2 test, and even managed to get very close to the more powerful Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
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