The Oppo A78 5G is one of those smartphones destined to finally sanctify the “democratization” of 5G that started a few years ago. It has just gone on sale in India and has plenty of arguments to compete in the contested middle class.

The world’s largest mobile phone seller, which we use as an example, Samsung, is selling more foldable devices than ever before, and in a few weeks it will introduce its new flagship Galaxy S23. But the smartphone market is much broader and the largest number of sales occurs in another cheaper price range.

Oppo A78 5G, cheap and with enough features

Here comes the touch screen based novelty from Oppo 6.56 inches diagonal, with a native resolution of 720 x 1612 pixels and a refresh rate of 90 Hz. It supports 96% of the NTSC color gamut and 100% of the DCI-P3 gamut, while its 600 nits of brightness should make it easy to use with warranties outdoors in lots of light.

It is powered by a chipset MediaTek Dimensity 700It is a proven development and sufficient performance for this market series with an eight-core CPU (two Cortex-A76 cores at 2.2 GHz and six Cortex-A55 cores at 2 GHz) and support for fifth-generation broadband networks, which is expanding in almost all regions of the world .

She is accompanied by 8 GB of RAM (expandable to 16 GB via virtual memory) and 128 GB for internal storage, which in this case can also be expanded using microSD cards. The camera system is more modest with a dual sensor, although the main one will show good capabilities with 50 MP plus another 2 MP for depth. The selfie camera is 8 MP.

Other interesting specs include IPX4-certified water resistance, a side-mounted fingerprint sensor, stereo speakers, and battery with a capacity of 5000 mAh which according to Oppo can be charged from 0 to 100% in 67 minutes via the included 33W SuperVOOC charger.

Oppo A78 5G is available in India and we expect it in the international market very soon. It is distributed in black and blue finish for a trade-in price of around 230 dollars. Oppo supplies the terminal with the latest version of Google’s system, Android 13, and its own ColorOS 13 user interface.