The Oppo A92 is the latest smartphone to enter into the company’s list of affordable mid-range phone segment. This smartphone is among the few phones that deliver more bang than it’s price, and it’s among Oppo’s most impressive smartphones. The Oppo A92 is the upgraded and better version of its predecessor – A9.
The two smartphones sport many similarities, but the latest model features an improved and bigger display, processor, camera quality, storage configurations, and battery capacity. With all these upgraded features, the Oppo A92 is undoubtedly more impressive than it’s predecessor. We’ve done thorough research about the A92 and this time around come with a better review on how the hardware and software components perform, alongside its current price in Nigeria markets.
Oppo A92 Key Specifications
- Display: 6.5-inches HD+
- Resolution: 1080 x 2400 pixels
- Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 665
- Front Camera: 16-megapixel
- Rear Camera: 48-megapixel + 8-megapixel + 2-megapixel + 2-megapixel
- RAM: 6GB /8GB
- Storage: 128GB
- Battery Capacity: 5000mAh
- OS: Android 10, ColorOS 7.1
Oppo A92 Review: Design and Build-up
The Oppo A92 is impressively and well-designed that you’ll hardly notice its a mid-range phone. The rear plate is gorgeous with a smooth constellation design that gives the phone a premium feel and better hand grip. The Oppo A92 is available in captivating triple colors of Twilight Black, Stream White, and Aurora Purple with a mesmerizing design inspired by natural light.
The A92 is very comfortable for handgrip which paves way for faster texting weighing 192g and 8.9mm in thickness. The Oppo A92 has a side-mounted fingerprint sensor as one of the security options which also serves as the power button. Other means of security include face recognition and a 6-key password all of which can unlock your phone quickly and faster.
Meanwhile, the Oppo A92 comes with tactile buttons that are well-positioned for easy accessibility. However, instead of the norm right placed volume rockers, the A92 tactile volume buttons are shifted to the left, with the right edge housing only the fingerprint sensor which double serves as the power button. Of course, you’ll experience some difficulties why using the left placement but you’ll get used to them after a couple of days.
Moving down the bottom you’ll find a 3.5mm headphone jack, USB-C charging port, mono speaker grill, and the primary microphone. At the top is the earpiece that also serves as a complementary speaker which gives you quality stereo sound for multimedia consumption.
Oppo A92 Review: Display
One of the things that’ll attract you to the phone is the 6.5-inches LCD Neo display. This is an HD+ display with 1080 x 2400 pixels resolution working at 405-pixel density. Despite not being an AMOLED panel, you’ll still get natural colors in videos and pictures.
The screen paired with stereo speakers will bring out an excellent combination for streaming live content on Netflix, YouTube, or Amazon Prime. Reading outdoors is fantastic too, but not comparable to AMOLED panels. Generally, the screen is decent for all types of environment scenarios, all you’ve to do is manually adjust the screen’s brightness to suit the present scenario.
The Oppo A92 sport slim top and bottom bezels which is normal for most mid-range smartphones. Overall, the Oppo A92 is a great and handy device that will be very handy during the quarantine.
Oppo A92 Review: Cameras
The Oppo A92 comes with a total number of five cameras with excellent photo and video controls.
This five-camera set-up includes a quad rear cam consisting of a 48-MP primary shooter, 8-MP Ultra-wide lens, 2-MP depth sensor for portrait shots, and another 2-MP monochrome lens, alongside a LED flash. There’s also a 16-MP front camera for selfie photos.
The Oppo A92 cameras will best perform under good daylight conditions, giving you well-detailed color reproduction and decent dynamic range. However, night mode comes through with slightly better results when compared to most smartphones of this range. Unfortunately, photo details will be fuzzy and sometimes lack focus. Fortunately, Oppo provided a count-down clock which will make you hold the device still while the camera takes a few shots and accurately stitches them together.
For videos, you can shoot regular 4k and 1080p videos at 30fps or 120fps, while slow-motion videos can be shot at either 720p or 1080p. Oppo also included “Soloop”, a video editing app that allows you to add texts, trim, and add your favorite songs to the video. This is very easy to edit and will be good to share on your different social media handle stories.
Oppo A92 Review: Processor Performance, and Software
The Oppo A92 packs one of this year’s best processors – at least for a mid-range smartphone. The phone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 chipset, Adreno 610 GPU, 6GB /8GB of RAM, and 128GB of inbuilt storage which you can choose to upgrade through SDcard.
The phone runs on the latest Android 10 and ColorOS 7.1 user interface out of the box. This current user interface has seen some major improvements and you’ll experience less bloatware and the addition of customizable options.
This perfect combination of hardware and software ensures system set-up runs efficiently and smoothly especially for heavy multi-taskers. You’ll experience zero lags or slowdowns while swapping through multiple apps on chrome or running multiple apps at the same time.
For gamers, there’s a dedicated Game Assistant and Game Space feature which help to boost power demands and network speeds. This feature also assists to slow down apps that are sucking up data in the background. You can play Asphalt 9, PUBG Mobile, Call of Duty, etc on high graphics settings.
Oppo A92 Review: Battery Capacity
The Oppo A92 is a power loaded smartphone with a massive 5000mAh battery cell. This battery offers exceptional endurance. You’ll get more than 48 hours of active battery mode on average use.
There’s an 18W fast charger out of the box which will quickly power the phone from empty to 45% in half an hour. Just give it a good one hour, thirty minutes to completely juice up the smartphone.
Oppo A92 Review: Price in Nigeria and Availability
The Oppo A92 is one of the best mid-range smartphones from the China-based phone brand. The Oppo A92 plays indifferently to the company’s strength and offers possible value of ₦130,000 (roughly $341). The phone is available for purchase at any leading phone outlet nationwide.
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Oppo A92 Full Specifications
General
- Brand: Oppo
- Model: A92
- Release Date: May 04, 2020
- Operating System: Android 10, ColorOS 7.1
- Weight: 192G
- Colors: Twilight Black, Stream White, Aurora Purple
Display
- Touchscreen: YES
- Type: IPS LCD
- Screen Size: 6.5-inches
- Screen Resolution: 1080 x 2400 pixels
- Dimensions: 162 x 75.5 x 8.9 mm
- FaceLock: YES
- In-display fingerprint scanner: NO
- Fingerprint sensor: YES (Side-mounted)
Processor
- CPU: Octa-core (4×2.0 GHz Kryo 260 Gold & 4×1.8 GHz Kryo 260 Silver)
- Chipset: Qualcomm SM6125 Snapdragon 665 (11 nm)
- GPU: Adreno 610
- RAM: 6GB /8GB
- Inbuilt Storage: 128GB
- SD Card slot: YES
Camera
- Rear Flash: Quad-LED Flashlight
- Rear Camera: 48-MP f/1.7 (wide), 8-MP f/2.2 (ultra-wide), 2-MP f/2.4 depth sensor, 2-MP f/2.4 (monochrome)
- Front Camera: 16-MP f/2.0, (wide)
- Front Flash: NO
Connectivity
- Wi-Fi: YES
- Bluetooth: 5.0
- USB: USB-C
- GPS: YES
- WLAN: YES
Number of Sims: Two (2)
Sim 1
- SIM Type: Nano-SIM
- 3G Support: Yes
- 4G/ LTE Support: Yes
- 5G Support: NO
Sim 2
- SIM Type: Nano-SIM
- 3G Support: Yes
- 4G/ LTE Support: Yes
- 5G Support: NO
Battery
- Capacity: Removable 5000mAh battery
- Fast Charge: 18W
Price
- Price in Nigeria: ₦130,000
- Price in Dollar: $341
