Smartphone Oppo A9 (2020) - advantages and disadvantages

Every consumer wants to have a popular smartphone model from the best manufacturers with huge memory, a camera like a good DSLR, and a powerful processor. But I want to pay for it no more than 20,000 rubles.

Thanks to Oppo products, the purchase of such a miracle is quite possible. This year, the brand will delight us with the new Oppo A9 (2020) smartphone, the characteristics of which are worthy of detailed consideration.

Read below a review of new items from a reliable manufacturer. We will talk about the price, functionality, advantages and disadvantages of the smartphone.

A little about the company

The Chinese company OPPO Electronics Corporation was founded in 2004. The brand is a subsidiary of BBK Electronics, it quickly gained popularity both in the Middle Kingdom and in other countries.

And in 2012, the company made an interesting marketing step: it made the face of its brand not just anyone, but Leonardo DiCaprio himself.

Every year, OPPO reaches new heights: for example, in 2019, the company's hardworking employees developed the world's first 10x hybrid optical zoom.

Specifications:

Camera

The trend of the season is a quad camera, few of the leading electronics manufacturers have not released such a model. Oppo is not far behind. The A9 model is equipped with a rear quad camera with the following features:

• main module 48 MP;
• wide-angle - 8 megapixels with a viewing angle of 119 degrees;
• two 2 megapixel cameras, which are used for determining the depth of the scene and macro photography, and the latter is possible from a distance of 4 cm.

For night shooting conditions, there is Ultra Night Mode 2.0, darkness is no longer a problem even when shooting wide-angle photos. In this mode, people are processed separately from the background, so they look more detailed.

Illumination is provided by LED flash. The electronic image stabilization system EIS is responsible for stabilizing the picture when recording movies.

The front camera has a fairly serious resolution of 16 megapixels. And the face detection function will be very appropriate when creating group selfies. The camera is located on a drop-shaped ledge in the center of the top of the screen.

• quad camera;
• face recognition function;
• Ultra Night Mode 2.0.

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Filling

The smartphone is based on the eight-core Snapdragon 665 processor, which, although not a top-end solution, will still provide a comfortable user experience.

The Adreno 610 chip is responsible for the graphics. The manufacturer offers devices with 4 or 8 GB of RAM. If it is assumed that modern, resource-demanding games will be launched on the device, then the choice is obviously for a model with 8 GB of RAM.

The amount of built-in memory for all models is the same - 128 GB, but it can be easily increased using a memory card that supports flash drives up to 256 GB. An external drive is inserted into a three-card slot, which is quite convenient - a full-fledged Dual Sim + memory card is implemented.

• three-card slot;
• large amount of RAM.

• not the most powerful processor.

autonomy

With this case, the Oppo A9 model is all right. A non-removable 5000 mAh battery is installed. With such a supply of energy, you can not worry that by the evening the smartphone will be left without charging. According to the manufacturers, it is capable of non-stop displaying HD video for 11 hours. Accordingly, such a capacity affected the weight of the device, it is almost 195 grams.

Also at the service of future owners there is a reverse charging function, with which you can forget about the Power Bank. In other words, the owner of the same device can share his battery charge with you.

Wireless and fast charging, apparently, are not present, since they were not announced in the press release. The device is charged via USB Type-C, Oppo decided to put it at the last moment before the release, and not the outdated micro USB.

• powerful battery.

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Design

The device has a classic monoblock form factor. The front of the case is occupied by a screen with a cutout for the front camera and a speaker grille.

All navigation buttons are touch sensitive. The display is frameless, occupies 89% of the surface area of ​​the smartphone.

On the left side there is a triple SIM and memory card slot, under it there are separate volume control buttons. On the right sidewall, closer to the center of the device, there is a power button. The bottom edge is occupied by a mini Jack headphone jack, a microphone hole, a charging jack and a speaker grille. The rear panel has placed on itself a block of cameras and a fingerprint scanner.

The newfangled trend among smartphone manufacturers - to paint the back cover in a gradient, has not bypassed Oppo. The buyer is offered a choice of two colors: blue-violet and dark green. Both colors look stylish and impressive.

• stylish design.

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Display

The screen is the first thing the buyer sees and pays attention to, so all manufacturers pay maximum attention to the display device.

The diagonal of 6.5 inches is not the smallest, and the device will not lie comfortably in every hand. The aspect ratio of the Oppo A9 - 20:9 - is almost standard at the moment, only a few manufacturers produce smartphones with a "cinematic" screen of 21.5:9.

This device uses an IPS liquid crystal matrix, which is quite acceptable for a budget performance, although Oppo guarantees excellent readability in bright sunlight.

Resolution 720*1600 dots. The pixel density of 270 ppi is clearly average.
For this price category, you can't wait for more, but the viewing angles are excellent.Also in the official presentation, a special screen coating is noted, which filters out harmful blue light to reduce eye fatigue during long work with the device.

• viewing angles;
• special screen cover.

• average pixel density.

Sound

The audio system in the Oppo A9 is a full-fledged stereo system with two speakers spaced apart at the top and bottom of the case. This separation will clearly separate the sound of the left and right sound channels. Dolby Atmos is supported.

There are two options for connecting headphones: wireless via Bluetooth and wired via analog mini Jack.

• full stereo system;
• mini jack for connecting headphones.

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System

The user interface is presented by the Color 6 system based on Android 9 Pie. The shell is quite well thought out and does not cause any complaints in the work of the owners. There is no information about a subsequent update to the recently introduced Android 10.

Communication interfaces

On board we have: dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4G GHz + 5G GHz) 802.11 b / g / n / ac allows you to maintain a connection at speeds up to 7.65 Mb / s. and Bluetooth version 5.0.

The NFC module also appeared at the last moment before the release. Rarely in any devices of the middle price category it is present. So it was not in the pre-production sample, but the function is quite popular and the manufacturer went to meet the wishes of customers.

The device supports the main navigation systems: A-GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS.

• dual-band Wi-Fi.

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Price

According to announcements, the average price for a product with 4 GB of RAM on board will be $238, and with 8 GB - $280.Quite a tempting offer, but if you search you can find rivals cheaper and with similar characteristics. Because the Oppo A9 (2020) model cannot be called inexpensive and budget.

The model will be available for order from the end of September 2019. It remains only to find where it is more profitable to buy a smartphone.

conclusions

The output turned out to be quite an interesting device. All the main functions are present in the device, something even from the flagship range. Although in general, this smartphone is completely “average”.

Of the distinctive abilities - a quad camera and a capacious battery. Everything else is at the level of competitors in the same price group. Accordingly, it is unlikely that this model will be able to conquer the market, but the Oppo A9 will definitely find its customers among those who like to take high-quality photos and videos.