Oppo A78 5g Full Review - Its Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny 

UPDATE: I've had a bit more playing about with the A78's camera and I wish RU-vid allowed for image posting, because I think the images are self-explanatory. However, I will have to stick with words. So, at normal resolution or 1x, ie standard wide angle, the camera is fine, in fact as far as some beach scenes I made go, I'd say bloody brilliant. One hiccup is handling. I more than once accidently tapped night mode or video without realising it when attempting to snap a pic, so I obviously need to pay more attention, or maybe Oppo need to reconfigure their screen for clumsy buggers like me? Ditto for finger over the lens! Gotta watch that! 😂 Colour processing for landscapes is fantastic at late afternoon and direct sunlight. The coolness I mentioned in my earlier comment was almost entirely absent from more recent exposures. I discovered that the lens can be taken to 10x by nifty finger scrolling. YES! Except... NO. At 2x the zoom is just... okay. There's a little blurring but not too bothersome. Shifting up to 5x and things become noticeably noisier. Beyond that, it's a case of "How do you like your worms?" At 10x, the colour processing remains okay but everything else is an utter mess. Obviously there's no optical zoom lens involved here, it's simple magnification of the image. And it sucks! The question becomes: if the camera components can't handle zooming, why even bother including the function in the first place? The only possible reason I can think of to have it is if I wanted to create a special effect. So, unless there's a camera trick I haven't discovered, the A78's zoom function is an utter fail.

My son just bought this it’s an awesome phone. Does everything my 1000 k phone does and some things better. His last oppo has lasted 4 years flawlessly

I'm gonna get it next week hopefully, it looks amazing for it's price.

All I wanted was an affordable, basic phone. I've only had my one for a couple of weeks and am still getting used to it, but it seems to be fine for what I need (what I don't need is games, movies. streaming, internet etc, so "basic" with a cap. B!) Haven't tried video, but general photos seem adequate. Portraits are nice, though the colour is on the cool side. Actually colour for every mode seems to be cool; I'm not sure if that's adjustable in-device or not. I add warmth in simple photo editing in my laptop and that solves the issue. I was told it didn't come with a charger, but it did! For phone aficionados, this gadget won't make the grade, on any level, but for someone like me, it's fine and will hopefully go the distance.

Good Job I have been looking for a cheap budget for some time but this just sealed the deal for this Oppo A78

Im looking at the Pixel A series but would like Dual sim, Expandable memory and fast charge while keeping the smaller size. Any phones you can suggest?.

Great review again, nice phone for a great price!

Does it have fingerprint sensors on both sides or do right handed people use their thumb?

You can expand 4gb Ram to upto 8 GB ram. Go into settings and up the top type Ram expansion. Look for RAM expansion 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Awesome full review as always Sir

Would have been good if you had opened up to show how the dual sim works, which us what i am particularly looking for.

good review.and it's a good smartphone i have it now for 3 weeks.

Beautiful 😍

Does this have the thing where the 4gb memory can use 2 GB of the storage to make an effect 6gb?

Cheers mate just got one of these today

4gig ram. If you go to about phone you can dedicate some of the rim to the ram up to 12gig.❤

No night photo samples?

i got the 4g version better screen than the 5g version

mines a oppo a78 i like oppo

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mobile no. not save probliems

I got this, horrible battery drainage and im a mediocre user. Extremely disappointed.