Oppo A53 | Unboxing & Full Tour By Tech Spurt

Now this, my friends, is the Oppo a53. It's one of the cheapest Oppo smartphones of 2020 at just 169 quid costing roughly the same as the Motorola motor g9 play and the Realme seven and like those handsets, it's probably not going to win any awards for best phone of the year, but what it does do is deliver some solid specs for a price under 200 quid, which you really can't quibble with. If money is a bit tight, you can grab your very own Oppo e53 direct from Oppo and from the likes of Amazon here in the UK right now. So, let's whip it on out of the box. Take you on a full tour of the hardware in the software and for more on the latest greatest set. Please do pop subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers, and before I even open the box, I just got to point out.

I love the way that Oppo and Realme and all the other Chinese manufacturers are trolling the hell out of Huawei. With this easy access to the Google apps, you use more sticker, which now seems to be appearing on all of their smartphones. Like a big old screw, you guys we haven't been banned yet so there is the Oppo a53, let's just chuck that aside see what else is bunged in here it's got our old friend Mr porky pin device. You've got your condom case to chuck on there and protect the Oppo a53 from life. Dangers.

You've got your power supply unit. Your USB type-c charging, cable, and you've even got a basic pair of hard shell earphones banged in the box as well, and the great news is that they've actually got a 3.5 mil connection because, yes, you do actually have a headphone jack on the Oppo a53 Haley freaking Luna, so there in the flesh is the Oppo e53, and certainly it's not going to win any awards for originality of design or anything like that, but so far I'm quite liking it. This is the electric black model, although you can also pick up the Oppo a53 in mint cream, which is the version I actually expected, because that's the color on the box and mint cream sounds kind of disgusting. It basically sounds like the kind of confectionery your Nan would stuff into your pockets whenever you went around to a house or whatever, but it's kind of hard to tell what it really looks like without seeing it in the flesh to be fair. Now, apparently, the design here is inspired by the shining translucent glimmer of ocean waves.

That's opposed onwards, not mine, and what that basically means is. It throws off the same psychedelic kind of light patterns that we've seen on quite a lot of budget smartphones from the likes of Oppo and real me, and you know what for a 169 pound smartphone, it looks decidedly smart, and it is just a plastic finish around back, like basically all the rivals around this price point. But I believe you get a bit of gorilla glass, 3 action up front. You do actually get a pre-installed screen protector on the Oppo a53 as well. Just to keep it in good nick for that little longer, of course, you've got your rear mounted fingerprint sensor as well, but besides that not much else to report on the design front got a respectable heft at around 186 grams, without feeling too cumbersome uh nice rounded corners for a comfortable grip, but of course it is a 6.5 inch beast like pretty much every other smartphone released in 2020. So if you're looking for something compact bums so anyway, hopefully we've got some power in there already we can get it all set up.

Yes, you beauty and just gonna quickly, jab open that sim tray as well see what we're working with there and the good news is. You've got a dual sim setup. You've also got a separate tray entirely for the micro SD memory card. If you want to expand the onboard 64 gigs of storage and that'll support cards of up to 256 gigs in size, you should have plenty of space for your files media and what have you alright so spend a bit of time with the Oppo a53 and so far no real surprises. To be perfectly honest, it's your typical sort of budget phone experience that you would find on the likes of a Realme or an Oppo or smartphone.

That's because what you get here is android 10, it's not the fresh new android 11, unfortunately, but very few smartphones, actually rock that latest version just yet and of course slathered on top of that is color OS, but it is again version 7.2, not the latest color OS 11, which I only just reviewed, but hopefully android 11 and color OS version 11 will be coming to the upper ear 53 soon. It just helps to organize the settings menu a bit more neatly and adds a few extra bonus features which are well worth checking out, but as it is, color OS is perfectly customizable dive on into the set engine play around with all kinds of different options. Uh you've got themes. You can set different kinds of wallpaper, including of course, good old, live wallpapers like this. We afford here just like being back in a pub in the 1980s, but of course, as a bit of an anime geek, I will be adding my own wallpaper on there.

Instead and thankfully, even with the older colorway 7, you can get a fairly stock android look and feel. If you want you get your apps tree on the go, you can get. Your google discover feeding, pull down that notifications bar from anywhere on the screen. You've got your dual-band. Wi-Fi support on there as well, and you've also got a good bit of NFC, which supports, as you can see there, google place that's great to see from a budget blower, but anyway, as I say, if you want a closer look at some of those color OS features, I've done a full tips and tricks guide for color os7, as well as the latest version 11 as well, so go check.

Those out absolutely bugger. All complains with that rear mounted fingerprint sensor as well seems to absolutely do the job perfectly fine, just tap your digit, and you are basically straight in there as well. No hanging around no waiting about book straight in you've also got a nice dependable bit of face. Recognition as well certainly seems to be dependable, so far, just tap that power button and, as you can see, you better even see the lock screen. It's sort of swift, and you've also got a bit of raise to wake action as well.

So just pick up the phone and again straight in there now the display itself again pretty standard for a budget blower, it's a perfectly flat, 6.5 inch IPS panel. It's not a full HD plus resolution. Unfortunately, it's 1600 by 720, so standard HD. If you want a bit full HD, then check out the Realme seven instead. But the good news is that if you dive into something like Netflix you'll see that you've got full HD stream and support in there all the wide vines.

Definitely in order and it's a perfectly fine, a bit of budge tips fare fairly natural. Looking colors a little on the warm side, you can dive into the display settings on your kind of little tweak of the color temperature. If you want something a little cooler and the good news is that, like most budget friendly smartphones, the Oppo a53 does have a variable refresh rate as well. You can have it at standard 60 hertz, if you like, otherwise you can bump it all the way up to 90 hertz, or you can have it on auto, refresh rate which just bumps it up when required. So there you go apple, something to aspire to with your phones that cost about six seven times as much and quite surprisingly, you do actually get a stereo speaker output on here as well, which is found on very few subs 200 pound smartphones uh, the pocket x3 NFC was, I think it was the last uh cheap one I had that did a stereo speaker output.

Sadly, the stream bar is an e arc compatible, so you don't get to enjoy that glorious, Dolby, Atmos audio with another device. Okay, so on the top volume, the audio is a bit gritty and grainy and not fantastic. But I tell you what that top speaker does actually pull its weight fairly. Well, just bump up the volume again and then cover the bottom speaker. You'll see TV probably earns quite a bit of money from the likes of racking ton to get that button on there.

So, as you can see, there's still pretty good clarity as well for a budget smartphone at least even when that bottom speaker is muffled up. As I mentioned before, you do get a headphone jack on there as well as most other budget friendly smartphones, and you've got a good bit of Bluetooth 5.0 on here as well for your wireless connections and that's got full DAC support as well, so hopefully decent quality audio. So I've hugged the Oppo a53 up to my uh sound core life q30s. Let's just uh, stick on the AAC support and jump to a bit of the new like monster flames, album yeah sounding pretty bloody good to me. Let's budge on performance, and we got shoved inside the OPPO.

A53 is Qualcomm's snapdragon, 460 chipsets, something that you don't encounter very often in the wild. That's for sure, and as you can see from these geek bench results, it is fairly basic performance, but it's definitely a step-up compared to a lot of the 400 series. Uh chipsets and the major advantage here is that you actually get the same arena 610 GPU, packed in there as the snapdragon 665. What that means is you should be able to play games like Call of Duty pub g mobile, all that kind of stuff on low detail settings, admittedly, but with a nice smooth frame rate, so they will be perfectly playable, especially as you get four gigs of ram in there, which generally means that it'll handle life. Absolutely fine and apps seem to load up so fairly fast as well as you can see not too much of an uh a weight so yeah, if your everyday shenanigans and if you just want something to play a lot, I see a light, better game and here and there on and everything should do the job, absolutely fine.

As for the battery life, well, Oppo or smartphones rarely disappoint in that area and the air 53 packs in a 5 000 Williams, which is actually pretty standard amongst these uh budget-friendly smartphones, and you've got the usual power saver mode, superpower, saver mode and all the other shenanigans that you can play around with too and the Oppo f53 supports 18 watt, fastest kind of charging as well again, fairly sort of standard for phones at this sort of price point now, let's finish up with a gander and that their triple lens rear camera and what you've got here is a 13 megapixel primary lens, backed by a simple two megapixel macro lens and two megapixel depth sensor. And it's basically going to be your standard budget. OPPO camera experience. So it should be absolutely fine as long as the conditions are pretty good, but as soon as things start to get a little dingy, it will be a bit more of a struggle, especially as you don't appear, to have a dedicated night board on here as well. You can zoom in if you want to uh like so, but again, that's only really recommended in very bright conditions, and I'm guessing by the time you get to the five times level.

Even in daylight. It's going to offer up quite grainy results anyway, and certainly in this fairly uh dim studio, we've already got quite grainy. Uh results there. So yes, so certainly in the low light conditions, it's going to be a bit of a struggle, but at least you do get a HDR mode for if you've got a high contrast, shot you're trying to shoot against a bright sky or something but yeah, no ultra-wide angle, uh lens here and no telephoto lens either. So it's a bit limited as far as the flexibility goes.

You do just, of course, have that a macro lens and if you dive on into the more camera features you'll find the macro mode in there. So you can get a bit of an extreme close-up and then, of course, there's also a portrait mode, making full use of that 2 megapixel depth sensor just to keep your subjects nice and crisp and just blur out everything behind them. And if you jump on into the video settings as well, you can shoot up the full HD resolution, video, which is the default set, there's no 4k option. Sadly, and then, if we just flip around to that front facing camera, it's an 8 megapixel, a megapixel selfie, snapper uh. So hopefully it should be all right just for simple shareable shots.

Although again I wouldn't exactly expect the moon on a stick with this thing, uh, probably again going to struggle quite badly in low light. Oh, can you tell it's been a bit of a long week so that right there in a nutshell, is the Oppo a53, a budget friendly smartphone, one of the cheapest OPPO's around right now and fairly strong competition for the likes of the real me. Seven, of course, you've got the uh, the 90 hertz refresh rate nice little IPS panel on it. You've got a 5 000 William battery should last you a day or two between charges, no worries whatsoever, hopefully respectable performance for your games and everything thanks to that arena 610, that's packed in there and good old color OS is just as charming as ever, if also slightly messy in places. So that's what this baldy northerner thinks anyway, but what do you think if you've actually been using the Oppo f53? Definitely please leave your mini review down in the comments below be great, to hear your own thoughts and experiences and from all the latest greatest tech.

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