On a particularly light 15 hour day with just 2 hours 20 minutes of screen on time, we were left with more than 70% left in the tank. Days with more regular usage would drain closer to 50%. This is all comparable with its rivals, but it remains impressive within a wider smartphone context. While I still wouldn’t call ColorOS my favourite Android skin, it’s undeniably clean and functional. There’s no app tray by default, which keeps things simple and rather iOS-like in its total focus on the home screen. The Oppo A54 5G attains something like parity when it comes to the GPU tests, which is an area where the Dimensity 700 chip isn’t quite so commanding. In 3DMark’s snappy one-minute Wildlife and Wildlife Extreme tests, the Oppo fell around 10 to 15% behind the Realme 8 5G. But in the more prolonged Wildlife Extreme test, it scored 2417 to the Realme’s 2308.

Topping all of this is a 6.4 inch Full HD+ touchscreen display offering a bit of a surprise, with a Full HD+ panel running at 2400×1080. That’s a surprise simply because it’s so high, delivering 405 pixels per inch (405ppi), and higher than the usual HD+ panel seen in phones at this price point. Oppo has even included support for 90Hz, making the screen smoother than your typical phone at this price point. Both the Redmi Note 10 5G and the Realme 8 5G took better shots in lesser lighting than the Oppo A54 5G, both with and without the use of Night mode. In low ambient lighting conditions the Oppo captured less detail and didn’t always seem to focus so well on subjects, while in darker night time conditions the Oppo A54 5G tended to produce a bagful of grain. The Oppo A54 5G runs off a 5000 mAh battery, which can be considered large when taking in the smartphone field as a whole. It’s exactly the same size as its budget 5G rivals listed above, however. However after spending time with our Oppo A54 review unit, it’s pretty clear that Oppo wins the A54 on value alone. Armed with only 4GB RAM, the Oppo A54 5G struggles to hit a stride, with a good half second to a second delay in some operations. Snap a screenshot and you’ll see it, and you might even see it when you jump from app to app. Even if it doesn’t become a problem while you type, it appears the 4GB RAM is just too small for Android and ColorOS to get its act together.Hopefully the camera fares better, though Oppo’s four camera setup may impress in numbers before you experience what it has to offer. As such, you’re getting a 6.5-inch 2400 x 1080 IPS LCD with a 90Hz refresh rate. This is the first point of compromise, as you can typically either get a more vibrant OLED panel (the Realme 8) or a more fluid 120Hz LCD (the Poco X3 NFC) at the same price if you’re willing to forego 5G. Even the 5G didn’t quite feel as strong as it has been on other phones, with the blistering speeds hard to find. Granted, we’re at the mercy of the telcos with these results, and your experience will likely vary from our own, but we found it near impossible to hit faster than 200Mbps in out tests on Telstra’s 5G network across Sydney. The Oppo A54 5G has a quad-lens camera setup, with its main camera offering a resolution of 48MP and a digital zoom of up to 5x. That's the phone's greatest strength when it comes to photography.

That’s cheaper than it’s ever been to get connected to broadband-like data speeds. The question I ask with each of these phones, though, is: at what cost? With a host of hardware compromises over similarly priced 4G phones, you have to really want that 5G functionality for this approach to make any sense. The dimensions of the phone are 162.9 x 74.7 x 8.4mm, with the Oppo A54 5G weighing 190g. It's not a small phone but its design means it feels easy enough to hold. It's worth it for the screen which we'll get into shortly. Bloatware is fairly minimal too, with just a regular roster of basic tools and apps (Music, File Manager, Weather etc.) to contend with. Facebook is the only third party app to come preinstalled on the phone. Battery Life In other words, the Oppo A54 5G is likely to perform a little better than its budget rivals when playing high-end 3D games for extended periods. Think PUBG Mobile and Genshin Impact. Make sure that your USB cable is plugged in and turned on before beginning. In the Device Manager part of your PC, you can see the COMPort version.Yes. The tool is entirely secure for your PC, laptop, and mobile devices. There is no harmful code in the software, and it is suitable for users of all ages.

Elsewhere there's an 8MP ultra-wide camera, a 2MP macro camera, and a 2MP depth camera. While the ultra-wide camera isn't bad, the other two are fairly weak and not really worth your time. General navigation is reasonably smooth regardless. As with the Oppo A54 5G’s rivals, apps can take a little long to boot up, though of course that’s only really noticeable if you’re coming from a more capable phone. Rather than chug along at a nice pace and run apps smoothly, our testing of the A54 revealed numerous slowdowns as we jumped from app to app, or even tried to use some of the standard functionality, though it was intermittent at best.Together with a particularly bland camera module, however, it’s nowhere near as appealing or premium-feeling as the Redmi Note 10 5G. Its shiny plastic rear material attracts greasy prints like nobody’s business, too. The following devices Oppo A3, Oppo A5, Reno 3, Find X2 Pro, Find X2, Oppo A31, Reno 3 Youth, Oppo A91, Oppo A8, Oppo A11, Oppo K5, Oppo Reno Ace, Oppo Reno A, Oppo A5 (2020), A9, Oppo A3s, Oppo Reno 2, Oppo Reno, Oppo A1K, Oppo A7n, Oppo F11, Oppo F11 Pro, Oppo A7, Oppo R15x, Oppo R17, Among other things, Oppo A5s, the Oppo F7 Youth, the F7, the Oppo R15 Pro (R15), the Oppo A1, the Oppo A71, the Oppo A83, the Oppo F5 Youth (Oppo F5, the Oppo R11s ( Oppo A71), the Oppo A77, the Oppo R11+ (R11), the Oppo A77, the Oppo A39, the Oppo F3, Oppo F3+ (A57), the Oppo F1s (R9s), the Oppo R9s+ (A37, A59), the Oppo F1+ (F1), the Oppo A33, Oppo F15, the Oppo Neo, Reno 3 Pro. We’re not sure if that would have been helped by a better speed of memory or just more of it, but it’s the sort of thing you can bet we’re surprised Oppo didn’t just optimise itself. It would have been easier and better all around. The Oppo A54 5G comes with Android 11 overlaid with Oppo's own ColorOS, but it's far from bloated. The only non-standard pre-installed app here is TikTok, so it's ideal if you prefer a streamlined experience that you can customize yourself.

At 162.9 x 74.7 x 8.4mm, this is the very definition of a regular-sized phone. It’s pretty chunky for a budget phone at 190g, which matches the Redmi Note 10 5G and tops the 185g Realme 8 5G. On the chip and memory side, there’s Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 480 5G processor, a budget eight-core 5G processor paired with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage, the latter of which can be upgraded uses a microSD slot found in the phone alongside the nanoSIM tray. Oppo, of course, has had a productive year further up the smartphone table with its Oppo Find X3 family. So can it work some of that same magic and make the Oppo A54 5G a fully rounded budget contender? Design and Screen The other three cameras are less important, though, with the 8 megapixel camera giving you an ultra-wide but somewhat soft camera, while the remaining two — a 2 megapixel for macro and another 2 megapixel monochrome — hardly being interesting enough to warrant a look.We didn't spot any noticeable lag while playing a game and watching videos, and even in bright weather we didn't feel like we were suffering. Start playing with the A54 5G and you’ll find Android is pretty easy to use, making it ideal for either folks familiar with Android or iPhone. ColorOS has often leaned to the iPhone friendly folks, but much in line with what we’ve seen on both last year’s Find X2 Pro and this year’s Find X3 Pro, it’s easy really for anyone to get behind: home screens, widgets, app drawers, it’s all here. Unsurprisingly, there’s no dedicated telephoto. Oppo does achieve usable 2x results by cropping in on that high-pixel-count sensor, but I wouldn’t advise pushing further to 5x. The results aren’t pretty. A photo at 2x zoom When it comes to media consumption, the Oppo A54 5G lost about 9% of its juice after an hour of Netflix streaming and 2% after an hour of YouTube Music streaming, which is a single percentage point worse than the Realme 8 5G in both cases. Allowing a certain margin for error, we can probably call that a draw.