OPPO A72 Review: This is What A £200 Budget Smartphone Look Like

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OPPO smartphones have got to be one of the most underrated smartphone manufacturers out, well in the UK anyway. The OPPO A72 joins the list of smartphones that packs a punch when it comes to specs without hurting your bank account. I’ve been using it for a while and here are the most important things for me that it does very well for you to consider.

Starting with its no-nonsense packaging, it tells you all the bells and whistles worth considering, so you have 4GB RAM, 128GB of internal storage, flip it around you have 1080p Neo-display which won’t mean much to anyone outside of tech, 48MP AI quad-camera, I feel like by now most people know what AI is, a 5000 mAh battery which is huge! Not even my sub-1000 pounds Note 20 Ultra have that and finally, you even get an 18W Fast Charge. That’s basically a lot for your buck. I don’t normally mention product prices in videos, I place it in the description as it may change from time to time, but this one is just £199.99, very affordable, but does it equate to good real-life performance?

First the A72’s design; you have a gorgeous looking device that doesn’t feel cheap in any way, the aurora purple colour looks great. You get a case in the box, a three-pin charging brick, a USB C cable and a pair of in-ear headphones. To the right is a power button with a fingerprint reader integrated and to the left are your volume rockers and your SIM card tray, down at the bottom you get a speaker, USB C port and a 3.5mm headphone jack which I think should now be standard on budget smartphones due to its target audience. On the back, you have a quad camera setup in a neat array, it consists of a 48MP F1.7 main camera, 8MP F2.2, 2MP F2.4 and another 2MP F2.4 lens. Flip it around and you have a 16MP Front Sensor at F2.0. Around the front camera is a big 6.5” FHD+ display at 2400 x 1080 pixels and 480 nits of peak brightness.

Next performance: It runs on a Snapdragon 665 processor, Android 10 with Color OS 7.1 and over time Color OS has improved a lot besides that notification tray I could never get used to. It’s smooth, easy to find settings and operate it in general, it feels very clean. You still get some of OPPO’s own apps pre-installed, but not overwhelming that it becomes annoying. I know what you’re thinking but it's rocking a Snapdragon 665, well for £200, it’s unlikely you will find any phone with a better processor, in fact, most competitors compromise on RAM or Display resolution. To see how well it handles, I put it through a bit of call of duty mobile and to my surprise, it did really well, no stutter and it didn’t burn my fingers off under pressure.

Although you get a FHD+ display, you don’t get 90Hz or 120Hz refresh, something a lot of people are now looking for in smartphones, but again for £200, you better be ready to settle for 60Hz refresh rate and the ability to change the display’s colour temperature. Otherwise, colour reproduction is decent, it’s sharp enough and it’s actually one of those devices that feels like a bargain or a good find in an auction where you go home feeling like you did well.

Onto the camera, it carries OPPO’s DNA here and the pictures look great, you have a wide-angle lens that can shoot at higher res of 48MP, it has AI to help you get the best shots, it can shoot night mode, although not the best I’ve seen, you have no telephoto lens so when zooming, its digital zoom struggles a little. It focuses very quickly surprisingly for a budget smartphone and put it this way when you spend £200 on a phone like this, the pictures are more than useful for social media and for collecting memories.

What not to like about it? It’s haptic and vibrator motor is not good, it feels cheap, it’s not 5G-ready, so it’s not futureproofed, and no waterproofing certification so you will have to pay extra attention. Although it has 5000 mAh battery, yes it’s large but doesn’t equal to say two day’s use, but it lasts a whole day, into the night comfortably before needing a top-up and you don’t get wireless charging.

Although I’d definitely recommend the OPPO A72 if you have another £150, then definitely consider getting the Pixel 4a, otherwise, the A72 has you covered.

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