**Oppo Fine 7A Review: A Solid Option with Super Fast Charging**

I've been testing the Oppo Fine 7A, and I have to say that I'm impressed with this phone. The first thing that caught my attention was the camera, which features a 48 megapixel sensor. But what really sets it apart is not just the high resolution of the camera, but also the enhanced detail mode for still subjects. This feature is similar to HDR mode, but instead of focusing on dynamic range, it enhances the details in regular shots. I've found this feature to be particularly useful when taking photos of static objects or scenes.

In addition to its impressive camera capabilities, the Fine 7A also features a beautiful 6.09-inch screen with a high refresh rate. The design and build quality of the phone are also noteworthy, with a premium feel that's similar to other high-end smartphones. However, it's worth noting that the battery life could be improved, especially considering the phone's fast charging capabilities.

Speaking of which, the Oppo Fine 7A features ultra-fast charging technology that can charge the battery in under 5 minutes. The phone comes with a special white charging brick that is capable of delivering up to 4.5 amps of power, making it one of the fastest charging methods available on a smartphone today. However, I found the included charging cable to be only about 3.5 feet long, which would have been more convenient if it were longer.

In terms of performance, the Fine 7A is powered by a quad-core processor with a clock speed of 2.5 GHz and comes equipped with 3GB of RAM. While this configuration may not be as powerful as some other flagships on the market, I found that the phone handled most everyday tasks without any issues. The camera performance was also impressive, especially considering its megapixel count.

One area where the Fine 7A falls short is in its battery life, particularly when compared to other smartphones with similar battery capacities. During my testing, I found that the phone's standby time was relatively weak, dropping around 10-15% overnight even after a full charge. However, this may be due to software tweaks or other technical issues that Oppo needs to work out.

Overall, I'm impressed with the Oppo Fine 7A and would recommend it as a solid option for those looking for a high-quality smartphone without breaking the bank. The phone's camera capabilities, design, and performance are all top-notch, and its fast charging technology makes it one of the most convenient options available today.

**Comparison to Other Phones**

I've had a chance to compare the Oppo Fine 7A to other smartphones in its class, including the HTC One M8. While the M8 was a more powerful device with a larger battery capacity, I found that the Fine 7A handled everyday tasks without any issues and offered similar camera performance. However, the M8's design and build quality were slightly better, and it had longer standby times.

The Oppo Fine 7A is also comparable to other flagships on the market, such as the Samsung Galaxy S10e. While both phones offer high-quality cameras and fast charging capabilities, I found that the S10e's performance was more consistent, particularly in terms of battery life.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I'm impressed with the Oppo Fine 7A and would recommend it to anyone looking for a solid option without breaking the bank. The phone's camera capabilities, design, and performance are all top-notch, and its fast charging technology makes it one of the most convenient options available today. While there may be some software tweaks or technical issues that Oppo needs to work out, I'm confident that they will address these concerns in future updates.

**Rating**

I would give the Oppo Fine 7A a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. The phone's camera capabilities and design are particularly noteworthy, but its battery life could be improved with some software tweaks or technical adjustments. Overall, however, I'm impressed with this phone and would recommend it to anyone looking for a high-quality smartphone without breaking the bank.

**Software Updates**

I've been testing the Oppo Fine 7A during a period when ColorOS was still receiving updates. It's worth noting that Oppo is constantly working on software updates, and they have already pushed an update during my testing time. This gives us a good idea of how fast the phone will receive future software updates, which should help to address any issues related to battery life.

**Conclusion**

The Oppo Fine 7A is a solid option for anyone looking for a high-quality smartphone without breaking the bank. With its impressive camera capabilities, beautiful screen, and fast charging technology, this phone offers an unbeatable combination of performance and convenience. While there may be some software tweaks or technical issues that Oppo needs to work out, I'm confident that they will address these concerns in future updates.

**Final Thoughts**

I've been testing the Oppo Fine 7A for several weeks now, and I have to say that I'm impressed with this phone. The camera capabilities are particularly noteworthy, but the design and performance are also top-notch. While there may be some software tweaks or technical issues that Oppo needs to work out, I'm confident that they will address these concerns in future updates.

**Recommendation**

If you're in the market for a high-quality smartphone without breaking the bank, I would recommend the Oppo Fine 7A. The phone's camera capabilities, design, and performance are all top-notch, and its fast charging technology makes it one of the most convenient options available today.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what is up guys MKBHD here and this is the Oppo Find 7 a so what Apple actually did recently was they released two phones at the same time the Oppo Fine 7 and the Oppo Fine 7A the seven being the higher end beastly device that we all expected and the 7A being a sort of a step down a $100 cheaper a sort of a little brother the 7 isn't out yet but this 7A is probably the best look we're going to get obviously at what to expect with the Fine 7 so without any more confusion between the two names let's go ahead and take a closer look at the fine 7A the little brother and see what makes us so special so the design of this 7A is going to be exactly the same as the Fine 7 and I really like the way this phone looks and feels in the hand I actually didn't at first but it really grew on me and I'm a fan of it now uh now don't get me wrong it's a big phone you got to realize it has a 5.5 in 1080P display and the Fine 7 will have a 5.5 in 2560 X 1440 display so you you can see next to the Galaxy S5 here which has a 5.1 in display that it looks rather large it's a lot bigger uh in the hand and there's a lot of phone going on here no doubt even next to the notoriously big Galaxy Note 3 you're still looking at a slightly taller phone on the Oppo side so you're definitely looking at a big phone but to tell you the truth I really didn't notice like even if you didn't hold the other phones you wouldn't really think that this is a massive phone they've done a great job keeping the bezels slim and a really trim handsome profile so the phone doesn't actually feel like a 5.5 in phone uh really the main way you know that it's solid and well built is its weight it's 170 G versus the all metal 1 M8 160 uh and it reminds me of that fine five from earlier actually when the build materials are so dense like this the whole glass front the metal frame all around the sides just the way the phone feels it screams quality again reminds me exactly of the fine5 so I really do like the phone's design like I mentioned it is quite thin uh for its size it's got a pretty big battery but it's still pretty light and despite the fact that it's a smooth back material it's still pretty easy to hold it's not slippery like the HTC1 was cuz you have those edges of the phones to hold it's it's square instead of round uh and another awesome point about the design the button placement is perfect you have the power button right where your hand falls nicely on the phone if you're holding in your right hand you can press the power button you can press the volume keys that's really nice but actually what I think is one of the coolest parts of the design of this phone is in the chin of it uh right behind the chin it's what Oppo calls the skyline notification light so there's this big blue glowing LED notification light behind the chin bar of this phone it looks really nice thing is it is only blue so obviously it's a notification light so it would be nice to have like red and yellow and green and different colors to represent different things but uh it is pretty cool it looks beautiful when you're charging when you get a new notification it pulses very vibrantly and it looks really cool along the width of the phone so that's nice and if the Fine 7 doesn't have it at least I think the next version Oppo you should have a multicolor LED cuz that would be super duper useful for a lot of people so this phone is rocking Android 4.3 with oppo's color OS on top and we've seen color OS on their other phones like the Oppo N1 and the Oppo Fine 5 so we expected it again here on the fine7 and it's got a lot of improvements it's got a lot of interesting Nifty pros and cons some cool features uh that really make it a unique experience it's really like no other smartphone skin experience uh and I like a lot of it so one big problem everyone seems to have with one skin or another whether it's TouchWiz or HTC Sense or Sony skin or whatever is just the way it looks Aesthetics uh sometimes things just don't look the way you want them to and I got to be honest out of the box I really didn't like the way color OS looks but what's nice is they have a builtin themer a whole store of free themes to change the look of your launcher and your home screen so I actually have this Jelly Bean theme going on here so you can see all of my icons and the whole launcher resembles the experience of stock Android so pretty simp ilar to a Nexus now this doesn't change the look of inside the applications obviously the notification bar or inside all the stock apps they still look like uh color OS but it definitely changes the feel of the OS just by refreshing the launcher it just feels different uh and same with the lock screen actually the only reason I have this sick lock screen here is because I found it in the lock screen themer which does the exact same thing so you can choose different lock screens download them locally store them and basically switch between them whenever you want you can totally change the look of your lock screen and there are a lot lot of them it's a pretty robust store so Color Me impress there uh and yeah color OS has a bunch of other things going for it one uh is there's no onscreen buttons on this phone so you have these very faint menu home and back buttons that color OSS works with so remember how on the HTC 1 M8 you can double tap to turn the screen on but you still need the power button to turn it off so Oppo has done the same thing where you can double tap to wake but now you can double tap that home button to sleep the display as well so in theory you now really never have to touch the power button at all so that's nice uh you also have some really nice widgets uh some of these go really full screen and hide the notification bar they're super immersive uh we first saw these on the Oppo Find 5 and the selection keeps growing and these things keep evolving every time I see them so that's cool and of course you have access to a ton of awesome wallpapers and you can even change the home screen swiping effect right from that long press menu so lots of nice stuff going on here lots of shortcuts uh and I guess one of the most significant shortcuts is gestures so when you swipe down from the right hand side anywhere on this phone you'll get that regular notification shade of course your quick settings your brightness toggle your notifications Etc but when you swipe down from the left corner down comes your oo colorful gesture panel so it comes programmed with a pair of gestures already but you can basically add anything you want you can draw any shape with your finger and have it mapped to launch any application or call any contact or whatever you want by default drawing a circle Circle will launch the camera from wherever you are and speaking of the camera this phone has an excellent camera I don't want to say it surprised me but I really didn't expect it to be this nice of a camera and that's coming from someone like me who's used the Sony Xperia Z1 iPhone 5S Galaxy S5 Etc so first of all the user interface it's nice it's very clean simple intuitive and that's pretty important to a nice camera experience uh your settings button on the bottom left gets you access to all your normal features like changing the photo resolution up to the Max 13 megapixels or maxing out the 4K video recording capability and this camera will even shoot raw images uh and it has a number of other modes but what's really interesting is the one button called HD picture which is going to be renamed in a software update to be called Ultra HD this is being touted as the button that will give you 50 megapixel pictures though it's some software stitching tricks involved so of course I turned it on and I tried it and it kind of works kind of so here's the thing so this is what an image looks like taken at the normal 13 megapixels right the image here is 4160 by 3120 it's even got some HDR going on so it's very detailed throughout and this is what the crop looks like of that Skyline so when I really get in close to that Freedom Tower that's what it looks like okay so then I press the magic button and take another picture again this time with Ultra HD on so now the resolution is way bigger it's 8160 by 61 120 and for the record yes that is 50 megapixels and the overall picture you can see looks a little flatter but what happens when I crop here well it's definitely got a lot of detail it looks a bit sharper but side by side it's obviously not looking quite as sharp as an actual 50 megapixel camera would but really you wouldn't expect it to it's a phone here basically what I'm saying here is it's a law of diminishing returns this particular feature leaving this mode on uh it'll do as best as it can with software stitching to get as much detail out of the image as it can and it does take an extra second or two of processing to composite this stuff so you might as well leave it on for taking pictures of still subjects but it doesn't look much better than say a panorama photo from the Galaxy S5 which can easily blow up to like 20 megapixels by itself I've done it so what I'm trying to say here is don't think of this as the 50 megapixel photo mode just think of this as the enhanced detail mode for still subjects just like HDR mode is an enhanced dynamic range mode for still subjects and for moving subjects this camera is plenty fast anyway the shutter is damn near instant I was very confident taking photos with this camera and the detail in regular shots is pretty solid to begin with and I'm a fan of the pretty aggressive HDR processing in that mode on this camera so you know what I'm a fan I'm a fan of the camera on the 7A and I'm assuming that will carry over to the Big Brother Fine 7 when that's available so the Oppo Fine 7A uh actually has a slightly smaller battery than the Fine 7 it has a 2800 mAh removable battery but here's what's badass about this you might have heard about it it's got this really really fast charging technology it's really not all that new technology it just has a beast of a charger so there's a special white charging brick that comes with this phone and it's a little intimidating at first but essentially you'll notice that if you look at like your normal phone charger uh it's usually 1 amp maybe 1 and 1/2 amps and if you look at a tablet charger that usually comes in at two maybe 2 and 1/2 amps this one we're looking at here is a 4 and 1/2 amp charger it's going to throw way more current through the battery and that will in turn charge it way faster so you have to use this exact model uh that comes in the phone box if you want to get that super fast charging I kind of wish I could use a different one or maybe a longer cable cuz out the box it's only maybe about a meter long cable I kind of wish it was longer U more than just 3 3 and 1/2 ft but really it's all about using this power brick to charge your phone ridiculously fast so obviously with this ridiculously powerful charger I was able to charge this phone super fast obviously only with this included charging brick but I was able to go from 0% to 13% in 5 minutes uh and if you do the percentage by minute calculation this thing is charging really fast uh so you can charge your phone really quickly it'll go all the way to 100% in just a couple minutes but thing is the battery life actually wasn't all that great uh you know obviously using the phone a lot I'm using it heavily when I'm testing it I'm gaming a lot I'm doing a lot of web browsing a lot of Twitter uh and I found that while that kind of usage was normal that that was all fine uh the standby time was really weak compared to some other phones I've used I just came off testing the Oppo uh the HTC1 M8 that had a fantastic standby time you could forget to charge it overnight and it would have almost the same amount of battery when you wake up not so with this phone this phone's going to drop 10 to 15% overnight I could attribute that to the color OS uh the ROM they have on this phone it could just be some software tweaks they need to work out some stuff running in the background but for now I think they need to work on the standby time and hopefully it'll be able to last as long as other phones with a 2,800 mamp hour battery so overall you know what I'm impressed with the 7A uh a big beautiful screen and a nice design in a phone like this and a well constructed package I really like that obviously color OS will have plenty of software updates and they're constantly working on that we've seen Oppo push updates they've already pushed an update during the time I've been testing the phone so this gives you a pretty good idea of how beastly the Fine 7 is going to be when that comes out with a 2.5k display with uh the 2.5 GHz quad core processor 3 gigs of RAM 3,000 M hour battery that's going to be an even more awesome experience but for now this phone is pretty solid and if you don't want to spend the extra hundred bucks this is a pretty sweet option to consider I like the fine 5 I really like the fine 7A can't wait to check out the Fine 7 so that's been it guys thank you for watching if you enjoyed the video feel free to hit that uh Thumbs Up Button below and also there's a subscribe button below so you don't miss other reviews like this OR tech videos on this channel again thank you for watching and I'll talk to you all in the next one peacehey what is up guys MKBHD here and this is the Oppo Find 7 a so what Apple actually did recently was they released two phones at the same time the Oppo Fine 7 and the Oppo Fine 7A the seven being the higher end beastly device that we all expected and the 7A being a sort of a step down a $100 cheaper a sort of a little brother the 7 isn't out yet but this 7A is probably the best look we're going to get obviously at what to expect with the Fine 7 so without any more confusion between the two names let's go ahead and take a closer look at the fine 7A the little brother and see what makes us so special so the design of this 7A is going to be exactly the same as the Fine 7 and I really like the way this phone looks and feels in the hand I actually didn't at first but it really grew on me and I'm a fan of it now uh now don't get me wrong it's a big phone you got to realize it has a 5.5 in 1080P display and the Fine 7 will have a 5.5 in 2560 X 1440 display so you you can see next to the Galaxy S5 here which has a 5.1 in display that it looks rather large it's a lot bigger uh in the hand and there's a lot of phone going on here no doubt even next to the notoriously big Galaxy Note 3 you're still looking at a slightly taller phone on the Oppo side so you're definitely looking at a big phone but to tell you the truth I really didn't notice like even if you didn't hold the other phones you wouldn't really think that this is a massive phone they've done a great job keeping the bezels slim and a really trim handsome profile so the phone doesn't actually feel like a 5.5 in phone uh really the main way you know that it's solid and well built is its weight it's 170 G versus the all metal 1 M8 160 uh and it reminds me of that fine five from earlier actually when the build materials are so dense like this the whole glass front the metal frame all around the sides just the way the phone feels it screams quality again reminds me exactly of the fine5 so I really do like the phone's design like I mentioned it is quite thin uh for its size it's got a pretty big battery but it's still pretty light and despite the fact that it's a smooth back material it's still pretty easy to hold it's not slippery like the HTC1 was cuz you have those edges of the phones to hold it's it's square instead of round uh and another awesome point about the design the button placement is perfect you have the power button right where your hand falls nicely on the phone if you're holding in your right hand you can press the power button you can press the volume keys that's really nice but actually what I think is one of the coolest parts of the design of this phone is in the chin of it uh right behind the chin it's what Oppo calls the skyline notification light so there's this big blue glowing LED notification light behind the chin bar of this phone it looks really nice thing is it is only blue so obviously it's a notification light so it would be nice to have like red and yellow and green and different colors to represent different things but uh it is pretty cool it looks beautiful when you're charging when you get a new notification it pulses very vibrantly and it looks really cool along the width of the phone so that's nice and if the Fine 7 doesn't have it at least I think the next version Oppo you should have a multicolor LED cuz that would be super duper useful for a lot of people so this phone is rocking Android 4.3 with oppo's color OS on top and we've seen color OS on their other phones like the Oppo N1 and the Oppo Fine 5 so we expected it again here on the fine7 and it's got a lot of improvements it's got a lot of interesting Nifty pros and cons some cool features uh that really make it a unique experience it's really like no other smartphone skin experience uh and I like a lot of it so one big problem everyone seems to have with one skin or another whether it's TouchWiz or HTC Sense or Sony skin or whatever is just the way it looks Aesthetics uh sometimes things just don't look the way you want them to and I got to be honest out of the box I really didn't like the way color OS looks but what's nice is they have a builtin themer a whole store of free themes to change the look of your launcher and your home screen so I actually have this Jelly Bean theme going on here so you can see all of my icons and the whole launcher resembles the experience of stock Android so pretty simp ilar to a Nexus now this doesn't change the look of inside the applications obviously the notification bar or inside all the stock apps they still look like uh color OS but it definitely changes the feel of the OS just by refreshing the launcher it just feels different uh and same with the lock screen actually the only reason I have this sick lock screen here is because I found it in the lock screen themer which does the exact same thing so you can choose different lock screens download them locally store them and basically switch between them whenever you want you can totally change the look of your lock screen and there are a lot lot of them it's a pretty robust store so Color Me impress there uh and yeah color OS has a bunch of other things going for it one uh is there's no onscreen buttons on this phone so you have these very faint menu home and back buttons that color OSS works with so remember how on the HTC 1 M8 you can double tap to turn the screen on but you still need the power button to turn it off so Oppo has done the same thing where you can double tap to wake but now you can double tap that home button to sleep the display as well so in theory you now really never have to touch the power button at all so that's nice uh you also have some really nice widgets uh some of these go really full screen and hide the notification bar they're super immersive uh we first saw these on the Oppo Find 5 and the selection keeps growing and these things keep evolving every time I see them so that's cool and of course you have access to a ton of awesome wallpapers and you can even change the home screen swiping effect right from that long press menu so lots of nice stuff going on here lots of shortcuts uh and I guess one of the most significant shortcuts is gestures so when you swipe down from the right hand side anywhere on this phone you'll get that regular notification shade of course your quick settings your brightness toggle your notifications Etc but when you swipe down from the left corner down comes your oo colorful gesture panel so it comes programmed with a pair of gestures already but you can basically add anything you want you can draw any shape with your finger and have it mapped to launch any application or call any contact or whatever you want by default drawing a circle Circle will launch the camera from wherever you are and speaking of the camera this phone has an excellent camera I don't want to say it surprised me but I really didn't expect it to be this nice of a camera and that's coming from someone like me who's used the Sony Xperia Z1 iPhone 5S Galaxy S5 Etc so first of all the user interface it's nice it's very clean simple intuitive and that's pretty important to a nice camera experience uh your settings button on the bottom left gets you access to all your normal features like changing the photo resolution up to the Max 13 megapixels or maxing out the 4K video recording capability and this camera will even shoot raw images uh and it has a number of other modes but what's really interesting is the one button called HD picture which is going to be renamed in a software update to be called Ultra HD this is being touted as the button that will give you 50 megapixel pictures though it's some software stitching tricks involved so of course I turned it on and I tried it and it kind of works kind of so here's the thing so this is what an image looks like taken at the normal 13 megapixels right the image here is 4160 by 3120 it's even got some HDR going on so it's very detailed throughout and this is what the crop looks like of that Skyline so when I really get in close to that Freedom Tower that's what it looks like okay so then I press the magic button and take another picture again this time with Ultra HD on so now the resolution is way bigger it's 8160 by 61 120 and for the record yes that is 50 megapixels and the overall picture you can see looks a little flatter but what happens when I crop here well it's definitely got a lot of detail it looks a bit sharper but side by side it's obviously not looking quite as sharp as an actual 50 megapixel camera would but really you wouldn't expect it to it's a phone here basically what I'm saying here is it's a law of diminishing returns this particular feature leaving this mode on uh it'll do as best as it can with software stitching to get as much detail out of the image as it can and it does take an extra second or two of processing to composite this stuff so you might as well leave it on for taking pictures of still subjects but it doesn't look much better than say a panorama photo from the Galaxy S5 which can easily blow up to like 20 megapixels by itself I've done it so what I'm trying to say here is don't think of this as the 50 megapixel photo mode just think of this as the enhanced detail mode for still subjects just like HDR mode is an enhanced dynamic range mode for still subjects and for moving subjects this camera is plenty fast anyway the shutter is damn near instant I was very confident taking photos with this camera and the detail in regular shots is pretty solid to begin with and I'm a fan of the pretty aggressive HDR processing in that mode on this camera so you know what I'm a fan I'm a fan of the camera on the 7A and I'm assuming that will carry over to the Big Brother Fine 7 when that's available so the Oppo Fine 7A uh actually has a slightly smaller battery than the Fine 7 it has a 2800 mAh removable battery but here's what's badass about this you might have heard about it it's got this really really fast charging technology it's really not all that new technology it just has a beast of a charger so there's a special white charging brick that comes with this phone and it's a little intimidating at first but essentially you'll notice that if you look at like your normal phone charger uh it's usually 1 amp maybe 1 and 1/2 amps and if you look at a tablet charger that usually comes in at two maybe 2 and 1/2 amps this one we're looking at here is a 4 and 1/2 amp charger it's going to throw way more current through the battery and that will in turn charge it way faster so you have to use this exact model uh that comes in the phone box if you want to get that super fast charging I kind of wish I could use a different one or maybe a longer cable cuz out the box it's only maybe about a meter long cable I kind of wish it was longer U more than just 3 3 and 1/2 ft but really it's all about using this power brick to charge your phone ridiculously fast so obviously with this ridiculously powerful charger I was able to charge this phone super fast obviously only with this included charging brick but I was able to go from 0% to 13% in 5 minutes uh and if you do the percentage by minute calculation this thing is charging really fast uh so you can charge your phone really quickly it'll go all the way to 100% in just a couple minutes but thing is the battery life actually wasn't all that great uh you know obviously using the phone a lot I'm using it heavily when I'm testing it I'm gaming a lot I'm doing a lot of web browsing a lot of Twitter uh and I found that while that kind of usage was normal that that was all fine uh the standby time was really weak compared to some other phones I've used I just came off testing the Oppo uh the HTC1 M8 that had a fantastic standby time you could forget to charge it overnight and it would have almost the same amount of battery when you wake up not so with this phone this phone's going to drop 10 to 15% overnight I could attribute that to the color OS uh the ROM they have on this phone it could just be some software tweaks they need to work out some stuff running in the background but for now I think they need to work on the standby time and hopefully it'll be able to last as long as other phones with a 2,800 mamp hour battery so overall you know what I'm impressed with the 7A uh a big beautiful screen and a nice design in a phone like this and a well constructed package I really like that obviously color OS will have plenty of software updates and they're constantly working on that we've seen Oppo push updates they've already pushed an update during the time I've been testing the phone so this gives you a pretty good idea of how beastly the Fine 7 is going to be when that comes out with a 2.5k display with uh the 2.5 GHz quad core processor 3 gigs of RAM 3,000 M hour battery that's going to be an even more awesome experience but for now this phone is pretty solid and if you don't want to spend the extra hundred bucks this is a pretty sweet option to consider I like the fine 5 I really like the fine 7A can't wait to check out the Fine 7 so that's been it guys thank you for watching if you enjoyed the video feel free to hit that uh Thumbs Up Button below and also there's a subscribe button below so you don't miss other reviews like this OR tech videos on this channel again thank you for watching and I'll talk to you all in the next one peace\n"