Oppo A93 Unboxing and Review By Eric Okafor

Hey guys, it’s Eric here and this is my Oppo A93 unboxing and review. I have been using it for about 2 weeks now. First of, let’s get through the unboxing real quick. 

We’d take out the sleeve. When you open the box, you’re greeted with the smartphone wrapped in plastic. Let’s peel this right off.

This is the matte black color, it also comes in metallic blue. you have an envelope that houses the sim ejection tool, a safety guide, a quick guide, We can see all the 4G/LTE band available here including Glo 4G band 28. A clear TPU case, this one fits nicely, has all the necessary cut outs and even has a lot of raisivity, slam boy certified. 
There’s a very visible screen protector on here, I’m just going to take this out. Better to use a glass one instead.



In the bottom compartment, we have a really thick 18 watt charger, a USB type C cable and a pair of earphones, I still use Oppo earphones, the one from the Reno 3 Pro to edit my videos, these are actually really good. On the front, you have a 6.43 inch FHD+ Super AMOLED display with 20 by 9 aspect ratio. On the top left corner, it has a dual punch hole cut out that houses the 16 megapixel dual camera. 

On the back, you have a 48 megapixel quad camera set up with a single flash. I could have sworn it was more than one flash in there.

On the left you have your volume rocker and a 3 in 1 tray that holds 2 4G/LTE Nano SIM cards and an SD Card. On the right you have a power button

On the top you have a microphone On the bottom you have a speaker, a USB type C port, a microphone and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The Oppo A93 has a really slim sleek looking design and my first impression was that the camera layout looks exactly like the early renders of the iPhone 12 pro. It is super light weight, it is relatively compact and even with a case on, it is great for one handed use. The back is a dual tone matte color and we can see a the reflective material on the camera bump, which is as premium looking as it gets for smartphones in 2020.


Surprisingly, the back and frame are made from plastic. Not sure about that camera bump tho, still skeptical, I mean it looks just the same as the iPhone. On the front, you’d notice that the dual punch hole is really tiny compared to the size of the average pill cut out. The form factor is almost the same as the Reno 3 Pro. The screen is also brighter and I think colours look quite punchy on the A93.

We can also see how that matte color shows less fingerprint smudges on the back 
The Oppo A93 comes with 128 Gigs of storage and a whopping 8 gigs of ram. You get about 113 Gigs of available storage. 

We’re running on Android 10 with ColorOS version 7.2 slapped on top of it. Yes there’s bloatware on here but no ads. Shared a lot about color OS in my Oppo Reno 3 Pro review, and these 2 have a lot in common.

One feature that I haven’t shown before is Multi user which basically lets you set up another profile, as in a second space that you can switch to for privacy reasons without anyone else knowing that it’s not your main profile. This is different from the App cloner feature on here as well, which is basically having 2 Facebook or 2 Instagram apps in your app drawer. For Multi user, go to Settings, scroll down, User and account, Multi User, you can create a new user or use guest. I’m going to use guest. Now you have a whole new fresh set of apps that can you can sign into.

You can set up a different passcode and key a different finger to unlock your phone on this profile.. 
The Oppo A93 uses the Mediatek Helio P95 Octa-Core CPU clocked at 2.2GHZ and it is the same one on the Reno 3 Pro. I like how this chipset runs cool throughout the day, running your everyday apps and powering through multitasking. Even though it’s not one of those flagship-killer type gaming midrange chipsets, the average user will find it quite snappy. The fingerprint sensor is situated underneath the display.

It doesn’t support locking and unlocking in quick succession and under display fingerprint sensors are generally not the fastest but it unlocks quickly enough for me so no complaints there. The less secure face unlock is pretty fast and unlocks with outdoor lighting. Indoors, it’s hit or miss and it does not unlock in pitch darkness. Here’s how the speaker compares side by side the Reno 3 Pro’s. 

When it comes to gaming, as usual I played PUBG on HD graphics and High frame rates, the highest PUBG setting for this phone.

It’s 2 steps above the highest setting of its predecessor, the A92 and It ran pretty smoothly. Like I said about this chip in my Reno 3 Pro review, it has its advantages over the Snapdragon 730 with games like Call of Duty and also disadvantages coz it won’t run games like Fortnite. The Oppo A93 is powered by a 4000mAh battery which is a step down from the 5000mAh battery of the A92 but seeing how small and light this phone it, the battery is pretty adequate. I put it through my usual battery test, about 5 hours of PUBG, 4 hours on Instagram, 2 hours on Twitter all on WiFi. 
This gave me nearly 12 hours of screen on time with 15% left to spare, which actually translates to a full day of battery life + change.



It took me 1 hour to charge to 70 percent and 1 hour and 43 minutes for a full charge with the quicker charger that came in the box. 
The Oppo A93’s camera comes packed with pro mode, time lapse, slow mo and night mode. The Pro mode is pretty interesting because there’s a feature called XHD that basically captures 108MP resolution and It’s all software based. I’d call this one an over kill but if you ever need to show phone pictures on a really big screen maybe for a presentation or to print them on a banner, this would be the feature to use. It also seems to have a richer more contrasty tone, compared to the 48Megapixel shot.

The images take up to 40% more storage space. 

Dynamic range on here is great and we can see the AI mode making the sky look bluer ever so slightly + everything else looks nicer with AI turned on. 

With a human subject, outdoors, this camera is super crispy, the skin tone is excellent, the exposure level is quite balanced and I think there’s some sort of beautification going on here. I cannot quite place my finger on it because it’s so subtle and it’s not the usual softening we’re used to seeing. If you watch a lot of my reviews, you’d know what I mean.



As for portrait mode, here we see the actual softening beauty thing but the depth sensing is above average, only misses a few spots here and there. Using the selfie camera outdoors, the complexion is consistent and as for quality, it isn’t as detailed as the back camera but I think these will look great on social media. 

With portrait mode, the depth sensing is actually excellent and for many front facing midrange cameras, that’s hardly ever the case. 

Indoors, here the cameras really shine. There’s a certain dullness that comes with low light or indoor pictures from some midrange smartphone cameras but these look very much on the high end spectrum as far as indoor shots go.



Using portrait mode in low light, the back camera is serving sweet sweet bokeh like it’s day time but the selfie camera while having that great sense of depth, struggles a bit more to keep the image looking sharp. The greyed out background is a bokeh feature in the camera settings. 
 I compared the night mode with the iPhone 11 Pro and while the iPhone has it beat at first glance for having more accurate crispier colors, you can actually see a couple of areas where iPhone misses the mark like the shadows on the roof and highlights from the light source. A simple Lightroom vivid color preset brings the A93 photo so close, which is crazy for a phone that costs one third of the iPhone’s price. The A93 also spots night mode for the front facing camera and you can combine it with screen flash but in pitch darkness, the results look rather ghostly.

There are some outcomes that only actual LED lights can give you. It’s better to use this when there’s some form of light source in the room but still, don’t expect anything drastic. 
 It records videos in 4K from the back camera and 1080P from the front but the image stabilisation only kicks in on the primary while recording in 1080P. Oppo A93 is definitely that midrange phone for everyone who doesn’t care for bulky phones but still wants a premium design, good camera, great battery life and a very capable midrange processor on a budget. There are not many sleek looking budget phones in 2020 and A93 is undoubtedly the slimmest phone I’ve ever reviewed on this channel.

It is every bit an upgrade over the A92 in terms of speed, the beautiful AMOLED display and camera quality. The A92 users however get the benefit of GCAM compatibility, a bigger screen and bigger battery. If you haven’t seen my review yet, see link above. 
Oppo A93 is priced at N125,000 Naira which converts to $275. 

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Source : Eric Okafor