Overview OPPO A5 - glamorous smartphone with a large battery and the portrait camera

Specifications

Design

Appearance - the brightest feature OPPO A5. When unpacking the smartphone cheaper 20,000 rubles did not expect to see the mirror housing and varies depending on the pattern of illumination. It's impressive, the device looks more of their money.

Unfortunately, all this beauty zalyapyvaetsya once or twice, easily scratched. You can hide your smartphone into a silicone cover, which is in the box, but then the gadget will become commonplace.

The front is nothing special - a solid display and "bang"Behind which speaker frontalka and sensors.

OPPO A5 entirely made of plastic, and it is rather a plus: a smartphone easy and sure grip. On the right edge - power button on the left - the volume keys and trohsektsionny tray under two SIM cards and a USB flash drive. At the bottom end - the speaker, microUSB port and a 3.5mm audio jack.

Display

In OPPO A5 is set 6.2-inch IPS-matrix with a resolution of 1520 × 720 pixels, the pixel pitch - 294 PPI. Someone might say that the permission for that kind of money is not large, but the eye is sufficient. Moreover, let us not forget that the FHD-matrix would consume more energy, and the smartphone-thought-lasting.

The quality of the matrix does not cause problems. Natural color reproduction, contrast ratio is high, the bright sun information is read fine. But to treat fotochku for Instagram is better to go into the shadows.

Performance

OPPO A5 is built on a budget chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 450. It consists of eight core Cortex-A53 with a maximum frequency of 1.8 GHz and Adreno 506 graphics chip that supports DirectX 12 and Vulkan. Amount of RAM - 4 GB.

For the average user who does not ship the smartphone games and demanding applications, such a basis is sufficient. The smartphone runs quickly and smoothly, applications run quickly, no lags, no friezes not.

If you still want to play, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 resources enough even for PUBG Mobile. However, at low graphics settings. And the FPS will sometimes fall below 30.

In testing AnTuTu smart dials OPPO A5 76,512 points in PCMark - 5002. By the way, about the same figures showed a cheaper model - OPPO A83 on MediaTek MT6763 with 3 GB of RAM.

camera

At first glance, the characteristics of the cameras OPPO A5 common. Front - 8 megapixel, rear - 13 megapixel plus an additional 2 megapixel to blur the background. Aperture - f / 2.0 and f / 2.2, respectively. The functionality of the camera application is simple: there is not even the manual settings.

In fact, the dual camera OPPO A5 copes with everyday photography. Automation correctly exposes the autofocus is fast and accurate, but the dynamic range is not wide enough: in high-contrast scenes can get glare. However, for this price segment is not a problem.

As for night shots, our test engineering sample too carried away by the suppression of noise - there is a problem in processing algorithms. The OPPO promised to improve.

Portrait Mode works fine. OPPO A5 manages to blur the background without harming the main character shooting: neat head contour.

Frontalki chip - technology improvements selfie AI Beauty 2.0. Customize "uluchshayzer" impossible. You can only turn it off, select the degree of correction or to trust artificial intelligence.

The latter, in our opinion, the best option: Algorithms AI Beauty 2.0 creates face card for 200 points, and then very carefully processed image, with the result that you get a really nice self-portrait without the notorious blur effect gloss. AI Beauty 2.0 works in real time, so you can see what will be fixed without making the picture.

In addition to AI Beauty 2.0, there is augmented reality - ears, horns, cheeks and other Milota. Stickers that can be added to the photos, completely.

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No special chips from smartphone Qualcomm Snapdragon 450, it would seem, do not wait. Plank Wi-Fi, LTE Cat. 4 at a rate of 150 Mbit / s, Bluetooth 4.2, two SIM cards.

But if you use wireless headphones or are planning to go on them, you should know: in the OPPO A5 has support APTX codecs, aptX HD and LDAC. It is these codecs allow you to send Bluetooth audio as the Hi-Res 48 kHz / 24 bit and 96 kHz / 24 bit.

So OPPO A5 can safely take in a couple of expensive Bluetooth-headset and listen to it to music in lossless-format. By the way, the same OPPO A83 only supports one basic Bluetooth-codec SBC.

NFC is not.

Working hours

The coolest feature OPPO A5 - it's autonomy. The smartphone has the battery to 4230 mAh, and this battery lasts for two days in severe mixed mode. For example, a 25-minute roller in PUBG Mobile consumes only 4% of the charge.

Test PCMark Work Battery Life, which drives the smartphone-enabled screen, yet there will be a 20% charge, and simulates the execution of different tasks (by surfing the Internet before rendering FHD-video), gave as much as 17 hours of work! The remaining 20% ​​was able to gently stretch for half a day.

Although Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 supports fast charging Quick Charge 3.0, smartphone comes with a conventional power adapter and charged slowly - only 25% per hour. But with such autonomy is not a problem.

Software

On their latest smartphone OPPO brand sets shell ColorOS 5 on the basis of Android Oreo. Simple interface. However, there are chips.

Hold your finger on the application icon, you open the menu of fast functions. Freeze on the camera icon, and you can immediately make a beautiful selfie or record a video.

You can open just two applications, such as YouTube in a split screen mode and Chrome.

If you do not like touch Android navigation keys can enable gesture commands.

Security

OPPO A5 supports two types of biometric authentication - a fingerprint and face. Both works quickly and accurately. Clasp can be put not only on the entire smart phone, but also on the individual applications, as well as the so-called safe file.

Summary

Pros OPPO A5

1. Design. The smartphone is very effective, even glamorous. Mirrored pattern - fire!
2. Selfie camera. One may speculate on the resolution of the matrix and the diaphragm, but the main thing - the result. OPPO A5 can make beautiful selfie, AI Beauty 2.0 really works as it should.
3. Portrait mode. Thanks to the second chamber and competent smartphone algorithms qualitatively blurs background.
4. Working hours. Two days of intensive use without recharging and the included screen 17 hours - it's cool.
5. Sound. Codecs aptX, aptX HD and LDAC for transmitting high-definition audio through the air - it's cool.

Cons OPPO A5

1. Budget chipset. Unfortunately, the Snapdragon 450 is not a good choice if you like "grafon at maximum speed" and higher FPS in PUBG Mobile type games. Also this chipset can boast the future in mind: a year or two will start to slow down your smartphone.
2. No NFC. OPPO did not zavezot in their smartphones NFC - it is not even expensive flagship OPPO Find X. Yes, without google Pay you can live, but somehow sad.

So, OPPO A5 should pay attention to those who want a beautiful smartphone with a good autonomy and fit cameras. The gadget can be purchased at the official online store ORRO or in "M Video"For the price of 16 990 rubles.

Layfhaker thanks the company "OPPO Russia"For providing a sample for testing.

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