First Impression of OPPO A53 – Review / Unboxing By HardReset.Info

Welcome in front of me, I have an Oppo a53, and today I'll go over unboxing along with a quick overview of this device. Now without further ado, let's pop it open. So the phone in front of me is the four gigabyte 64. Uh version, as you can see over here, so flip it over. Actually, it looks like it's going to be in this paper, so open it from here. So obviously nothing in here, apart from some information um, it gives us the info that it's a 90 hertz, the refresh rate, 18 watts, charging 5 000 William hour battery and that's about all we get from the import and stuff so just put that to the side and let's open up the phone itself, and there we go so in here there you can see uh right at the front.

We have well same info over here, a phone and something that I like to always see, which is the case. So if I take it out some paperwork along with the case now, I'm not going to be bothering with the paperwork, so just slap it back in here, and then we also have a charger. So that's the believe, 18 chargers, probably yep 18 watts, not sure if it's visible um. Hopefully it is as a boulder um. So that's the charger and also the cable, let's type c, to type a and that's all we get in the box.

So let's close that put it to the side again. So there we go uh, that's all we have in the box. Now, let's pop it open now, the packaging obviously can see nothing really special. Here there we go there's the phone, let's turn it on there we go for a second there. I thought that might be not charged so there's the case for it.

As you can see it's a typical silicone case. It covers the camera bump. So you don't. You won't scratch your lens uh as a whole for the fingerprint sensor, which obviously can it has a fingerprint sensor and then something that I'm not a big fan of it, creates these bumps on the edges. You can see it over here yeah, so you can place your phone on the screen, and it won't be scratched up because they will be protecting it.

I'm going to go through a quick setup here, let's just select whatever here now, while I'm setting it up, I will say that this phone has a 6.5 inch display. Now it is just a HD display, so 720 pixels by 1600 um, not the densest display, but honestly, looking at it right now it looks fine, it's vibrant! It's its! Okay, I would say, especially for the price that it comes in. Um also has a 90 hertz, refresh rate, which is one of the oops, not what I wanted to, which is one of the nicer things that I really like when budget phones actually come with a high refresh rate that is super nice to see. I commend whoever went with that decision. It's just amazing! So I'll just go through it now it does have an 82.9 screen to body ratio, so not the best one uh, but I would say for the price that it comes in its more than good enough. Then, honestly, apart from that, it's just an aesthetic, it doesn't really give anything apart from smaller bezels.

So the biggest one is right here, as you can see this black bar, and that is the primary one. Everything else is basically really nice and modern. Looking along with the whole punch camera, even so now that the device is set up, let's just also max out the brightness, but this is maxed out brightness right now, and it looks okay, honestly um, not the brightest one honestly, but it's okay. After all, it's just an LCD IPS display. So I would say it is fairly decent for an IPS here now at the front.

Also, uh, the glass here: isn't a gorilla glass, 3. , so oops, sorry, so not the best one uh, but again for a budget price range. I would say this is more than adequate here and when it comes up that resolution uh, it's 270 pixels per inch like I said it's, not the densest one, but I know honestly it's okay, I don't see any kind of like pixels, uh, glaring ones at me when I'm looking at up close. It looks completely fine to me and I can't even bring it up closer to the camera, so you can get a look at it. So, in my opinion, it looks completely fine.

Now moving on to the camera setup at the front uh, as you can see that cutout over here. This is a 16 megapixel wide sensor, which uh that's going to be a little of a weird kind of thing that uh that I've seen here. So the selfie is a 16 megapixel, while the back one, the main lens is a 13 megapixel, so the higher uh quality lens on the front rather than on the back, would kind of threw me off not really sure why but yeah um, so the 16 megapixel uh at the front shoots out 1080p 30 frames. Obviously, nothing really special here and lock it and go to the back, not the back with the triple camera setup um. The main one, like I said, is a 13 megapixel here um like I also said its kind of weird, then we have what I'd call two useless lenses, but we will see.

Sometimes they do happen to actually be better than the main sensor. So we have the 2 megapixel macro and 2 megapixels adapt now, obviously the depth one is flat out just useless uh, no matter what phone I looked so far that that sensor is it just has no place. It does nothing to improve the picture quality and even certain cases, I've seen it make the photos come out worse, so, so yeah uh, but that the macro lens sometimes does hold up and captures better photos than the 13 megapixel. Now this is fairly rarely and most of the phones that actually include uh. These two useless lenses are the phones that actually come with a higher main sensor, like 64 megapixels, instead of 13 so um in those cases, uh micro is useless but 13 megapixels we'll see.

So I have my little subject right here plenty and let's pop open the camera and see how it will deal with it now. This is a fairly well lit environment, as you will probably see the reflections of a light right over here over here and also over there. So this should come out fairly good and if the photos is bad, it's not because of the lighting. So first off we have micro lens that apparently pops up, as you can see over here writing. So I guess we're going to go with the macro, and apparently I cannot get super close to it.

Otherwise, it just loses focus or loses macro. I'm not sure. Let me go to actual micro here. I'm going to start off with it now right now, I'm testing how close I can get to the subject before I lose focus, and it looks like it's about right here. So this will be the macro and I didn't want to close it.

So, let's close out macro and go to portrait, a portrait will be using, I believe, uh the depth sensor, which will try to create this fake both effect and that's some times when the photos just come out like other garbage because of it. So, let's see if this will be the case here as well now without actually moving, I'm going to go just to photo which will remove the both there. We go okay, so this is without the both, the first one that we're gonna look at least without using the depth sensor, and it looks almost respectable uh when you zoom in its grainy uh. It lacks quality in my opinion and just kind of gets blurry just because of the 13 megapixel sensor. Now next photo is gonna, be the one with the bouquet, so we can zoom in now straight off the bat.

It looks a little lighter and honestly uh, like I said I in this case that sensor breaks the photo. So the way you can, I would say you can see it. If we zoom in really closely you can start to see uh the needles on the cactus are blurry, especially over here. Uh, there's, no reason for them to blur be blurry, considering, there's a pot behind which is still uh, not really they should be in focus I'll. Just put it this way, simple terms, and they are mainly in focus right here, while the pot actually becomes blurry on the background, though the white, as you can see, it's not in focus really, but the needles here are- and this is the photo that didn't use the didn't, use the depth sensor.

So obviously that sensor crap um just creates fake both, which makes the photo look bad. It doesn't have. The phone doesn't have enough processing power to even or even hardware to distinguish how far an object is and where it's supposed to apply the both. So in here it just kind of comes out like a garbage now. Lastly, we're gonna look at the macro, which um looks to be actually yeah already captured it.

So, let's? Where was it there? We go. So that's the macro and now getting super close to it. Honestly, it looks almost as good as the 13 megapixel uh there's this quality up there, that's because it wasn't as focused. So primarily the focus was right here and just to compare it to the other one. The 13 so macro can capture better photos than the 13 megapixel, but this is just a like a minuscule one.

It's not really by much uh. If you get lucky, you probably might capture better photos with the 13 megapixel than the macro, and vice versa. So, just I guess probably will depend on but, like I said, the macro here is barely any better. It does have a little of a different color to it, temperature, but other than that the quality of it isn't anything to brag about. Now I will bring out my phone as a contender here now.

It's probably not going to be a fair fight here, but I just want to make it make a take a photo and show you how actual macro looks like, so you can see it over here um. So this is already a super macro. Now the benefit of my phone is the fact that I can actually get super close so as you've probably also seen my hand, was fairly shaky, but obviously the comparison of this is just on a whole new level uh. This is a macro shot. That's how it's supposed to look like whatever we have here as it's just a poor excuse all that wasted money on a lens that doesn't really bring up anything, so, let's just a little subject to the side, because we're done with it now.

Lastly, I guess we can go into a selfie and quickly see how it looks like now under we go, let's fix it. So there we go um now on the camera, it looks even worse, so it looks a little better to me than it actually does on the camera. So just consider that, from what I see on a camera, it makes it way too exposed which isn't the case when I'm looking at it. It is a little, maybe but other than that, it's okay, it's a bad photo. If you look specifically right here, you can see here being focused right here and then just completely done.

The focus is just nowhere, and that goes to basically half of the face. Like anything up outside this main point right here over here. It's just completely gone out of focus, so it does look terrible in terms of focus. I think even my shirt isn't in focus, although it's not even visible on the camera, because it's a little of a dark scene but yeah, I can see that not sure if you can, maybe you can see it uh over here it just this part right here is still in focus, while everything outside that starts to blend. Basically, with the background, so this is a bad selfie um there.

I don't really know what else to say: it's not not the greatest um, so I'm quickly, so moving on further um, the phone itself comes with a snapdragon 460. So in a mid-range snapdragon has two variants, so you have four and six gigabytes ram and depending on which ram you go, you also have will have two different versions of storage. So, like I said, the phone that I have right here is the four gigabyte 64. But if you go with six gigabytes, uh ram you'll get the 128 gigabyte storage. Now, apart from uh, 128 or 60 for storage, you can expand it further by a SD card, so always nice to see the ability to actually extend storage further and then the phone itself has a 5 000 William hour battery and, like I said before, the 18 watt charger, which will allow you to fairly quickly charge that battery and, lastly, there's only uh three different colors of it.

They all have their own uh ideology behind concept of colors instead of actual colors. So we have the fairy white electric black and a fantastic blue. I'm not really sure why electric is black, but I guess it is so that's kind of how it comes in and the one that I have right here looks to be black actually quickly check on the box, because I'm not exactly sure red yep. So this is the electric block and if I take off the cover there we go, so we can see that's kind of how it looks like now. Honestly, it looks okay.

This is completely glossy, but the back is plastic, along with the frame being plastic as well. So uh the phone looks nice, but in terms of durability, it's not going to last uh any kind of strong durability tests, and now there's not much more to say, as you can see, we do have a fingerprint sensor. We do have a headphone jack on the bottom speakers' microphone at the top. We got nothing apparently um power, key and volume records, along with the sim tray, and one thing that we cannot see that I consider really important is NFC and the phone actually has no NFC. So that's a bit of a shame, but lastly uh like you said it is a budget phone, and it comes around 220 dollars and for that price I would say that it's a fairly okay device uh.

Now, if you like it or not, it's completely up to you at the end of the day, the UI might not be for everybody. As you can see, it does have a completely different um interface UI, how the icons look like the colors of them uh compared to a normal android, and that extends basically everywhere so settings even dialer has actually now the other looks to be fairly stock. But you can see that there is several places where the icons uh, how they look like the colors of them are well seen and not everybody will be a fan of that so yeah. Now that being said, uh this will conclude the overview of the device. That is a fairly good device.

So not much more to say if you found this very helpful, don't forget to hit like subscribe, and thanks for watching.

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