Oppo A79 5G: its advantage is mainly the price

Oppo is often an underrated company. It makes fantastic phones, but is still overshadowed by its rivals. In Slovenia, we face the problem that quite a few excellent brands are not available here or are difficult to get. OnePlus, Google Pixel, Nubia, ASUS and also Oppo... These are companies that could air out what's happening on the market and maybe pinch off a percentage of the other incumbents.

Oppo's latest phone, the A79, could shake things up in the mid-range segment dominated by Redmi phones and Samsung's A-rated aliens. Its main advantage is price. The initial retail price is around 230 euros for the 8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage configuration. There is also support for 5G network. Not bad. Telemach recently released its phone with very similar specifications, but a significantly worse processor - for 180 euros, or 1 euro in the old-for-new promotion. In a direct comparison, Oppo is the winner.

Engineers have equipped the Oppo A79 5G phone with a MediaTek Dimensity 6020 processor. As already mentioned, it supports 5G mobile networks, in addition, the phone is equipped with a screen with a 17.1-centimeter or 6.72-inch diagonal, FHD+ resolution and a refresh rate of 60 hertz or 90 hertz. The phone is understandably aimed at basic users, although we see no reason why it wouldn't also be used for playing mobile games at a lower resolution.

To capture photos and videos, two cameras are built into the Oppo A79 5G smartphone, with a resolution of 50 million and two million pixels. The latter is a depth sensor and can hardly be classified as a camera. Only the main camera will be useful, and more or less only in daylight.

For video calls, the phone has a front camera with a resolution of eight million pixels. There is even a special Ultra-Clear Image algorithm that "changes" photos to an apparent resolution of 108 million points. To see how this will work or look like in practice, we will have to wait.

The Oppo A79 5G smartphone is also equipped with a 5,000 milliampere hour battery with 33 watt fast charging technology. This should be enough for at least a full day of use, if not maybe half a day more.