experience one thing you get is accessories thankfully besides the phone there's a phone case which is different there's a phone case which is different from the transparent ones we're used to sort of higher quality which I definitely like we also get a USB a to the USBC charging cable and a pretty chunky charging adapter we're on this a little later so we get every possible accessory except wired earphones and if you're wondering no they did not remove the headphone jack it's still there at the bottom of the phone it's right next type C Port which is then next to one of the two speakers on this phone on the right side you'd find the power butting and volume rockers you notice that we have the regular type parabotting and that's because the fingerprint reader is underneath the display what I really like is that when you pick this phone up the area of the screen where the fingerprint sensor is located lights up so it tells you exactly where to play your finger that way you always get it right and in terms of speed and accuracy it's as fast as an optical sensor can be and works 99 of the time even when your hands are slightly moist thankfully too this has support for expandable storage and even dual Nano Sims the tray for that is on the left side of the phone on the top you find nothing and that's because the second speaker is on the front of the phone just above the screen same spots as the earpiece so we've got dual stereo speakers and I can confirm that they're pretty loud it even has an ultra volume mode which sounds even louder Oppo is apparently going for a minimalistic look with the a78 so if you're a fan of that this would work for
you we've got two camera rings to the top left and a sort of strip underneath with text that says Innovative AI camera and then at the bottom right we have the Oppo branding it looks pretty simple but that strip or Runway as Oppo calls it adds a bit of flair to it but if you want to tone that flare down a bit you could use the case that it comes with and now it looks more minimalistic now this isn't a small phone by any means but somehow it just feels compact I don't know if it's the sides being thin or the width of the phone but it somehow feels small in my hand and my hands easily wrap around it it's a tall but thin phone that's how I would put it so the Design's pretty okay especially if you're into that minimalistic vibe Vibe and that continues when you turn
the phone over they went with a whole bunch cut out for the selfie camera and bezels at the top and sides are fairly sized but the chin you see I'm always going to talk about this let's make it smaller but yeah it's probably not that big a deal it's a good looking screen it's 6.43 inches it's 1080p it's AMOLED and it's a 90 Hertz screen so again it's a good looking display it's sharp colors are accurate blacks are blacks everything just looks as it should it's also fluid when scrolling and navigating through the UI and that's thanks to the higher refresh rate on YouTube you can watch videos up to 1080P and as you can imagine they look great and if for some reason you're not satisfied with how the display looks you can still tweak the display settings to your liking in these settings but I do prefer the default Vivid color mode one thing you would
have to turn is the always on display because by default it's turned off you can also tweak that in a couple ways and that's kind of the story with color OS this is running color OS 13.1 on top of Android 13 and they're just a bunch of customisation options like wallpapers for example there are a lot of them and automatically when you change your wallpaper the colors of the UI elements change as well making your phone feel new every time you change your wallpaper glad they added this you can choose the font you want as well as the size also how you want icons to look how you want the quick settings to look the fingerprint animation there's also Edge lighting and this is the first time I'm seeing this but you can even choose how dark you want dark mode to look there are just way too many customization options but yeah so far I'm enjoying color OS but there's always a bot it does come with a
couple pre-installed apps which thankfully you can uninstall and there are these hot apps and hot games folders that are on your home screen and app drawer that too can be removed by toggling them off in the settings app but other than those two small hiccups I would say I really like color OS it feels new there are no bugs and everything's just been pretty smooth but I would say the processor has something to do with that too this is running the
Snapdragon 680 processor and has eight gigabytes of RAM and while not the fastest processor out there it is designed to deliver performance while conserving power it's a processor built on a six nanometer process and if you watch enough reviews you know that the smaller the nanometer the more efficient it is so essentially battery life is
gamers this comes with the adreno 610 GPU and just like with this CPU it's not the best out there but it will play all games at medium graphic settings and last way longer while gaming thanks to that efficiency it comes with eight gigabytes of RAM which definitely helps with multitasking and memory management and there's also the option of up to eight gigabytes of virtual ram my experience with it has been pretty good apps open relatively quickly I had no issues switching between two to three apps gaming was smooth too and I think overall performance was satisfactory which actually is what most people want so yeah like I said earlier battery life
is really good on the a7a we get a 5 000 milliamp hour battery which is a decent Snapdragon 680 you get these results 30 minutes of gaming took six percent of the battery and that comes out to eight you're just gaming and then when I watched an hour-long movie it took five percent of the battery which is about 20 hours of battery life if you're just watching content so depending on what you're doing on this phone it could take up to two days before you need to charge it up it's okay long lasting battery life what about charging speed glad you asked I asked myself anyway
remember that chunky charger that I said would come back to well that's a 67 watt charging adapter and when I tested it it took 45 minutes to fill up from zero percent in 15 minutes it went from 0 to 47 so essentially you could plug your phone up real quick go take a shower go brush your teeth and by the time you're back you have enough battery for like the rest of the day the combination of great battery life and fast charging is rare but it's here so what I did there oh rare hair there okay now let's talk cameras this has a
50 megapixel main sensor and a secondary 2 megapixel sensor so our focus is just on that main camera I shot a ton of pictures in very different lighting conditions and what I discovered is that in well-lit environments you can get detailed color accurate images from this camera in these two shots you can see so much detail even when you zoom in so I think with the right lighting conditions this is an 8 out of 10 camera for the selfie camera it also does well when there's a ton of light so just make sure to face the light source and you get better looking selfies and then for video it shoots Max at 1080P and has Eis and that means your footage has a bit of stabilization which is great for like when you're moving around I personally think photos are better than videos but and videos of the Oppo a78 okay so let's
talk little things now the a78 has an ip54 rating for dust and water resistance that definitely gives you some peace of mind in the camera app there's a dual view video mode that's pretty cool there's also a leveler which helps you take straight photos pretty there's no front facing flash but the screen acts as your front facing flash also very useful oh and you also get two mods of YouTube premium two months the a78 goes for 188 000 naira so what do you think about it which feature do you like the most for me it has to be the great battery life plus that 67 watt Superbook fast charging I think that's what they call it but either way just let me know what you think thank you guys so much for
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