OPPO A79 5G

One aspect where OPPO phones usually shine the brightest is cameras. That's why I was particularly excited about using the A79 5G to find out if it can outperform other handsets in its price range. Let's talk about the hardware at offer first. The A79 5G comes with a 50MP primary shooter with f/1.8 aperture, 77-degree field-of-view, a 5P lens and support for AF. The primary camera is assisted by a 2MP secondary camera with f/2.4 aperture, 89-degree field-of-view, and a 3P lens. One thing you will notice right away is that the A79 is capable of clicking some good pictures in the presence of ample light. In daylight pictures, the phone managed to offer decent colour accuracy and even the edge detection was reasonably good. I found that the AI mode in the default camera app amped up the colours to make the images look vibrant and ready for social media. While this affects the colour accuracy, social media-savvy users would likely prefer the images clicked using this mode.Another interesting mode on offer here is 'Extra HD'. This mode aims to offer extra details and manages to click decent pictures, but nothing extraordinary as such. Apart from this, the images with portrait mode turned out pretty decent as well. The 8MP front camera on the phone also managed to click decent selfies, as you can see in the gallery above. However, it is important to note that the pictures clicked in low light conditions lacked detail.

The OPPO A79 5G is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 6020 chipset. In case you get confused by the smartphone chipset nomenclature, as most people are these days, don't worry. I'll give you a fair idea of what you can expect here. The phone is capable of handling day-to-day tasks without any qualms. More demanding tasks aren't really its forte. The phone can heat up a bit if you are playing a game on it for more than half an hour. In the AnTuTu benchmark, the phone scored 3,92,118, which is not too far below its main competitors. In the Geekbench test, the phone scored 1862 in the Multi-Core test and 708 in the Single-Core test. Just like the AnTuTu score, the phone's scores do trail behind its competitors in this benchmark too. Finally, we also ran the CPU throttle test on the phone where it ran 50 threads for 30 minutes and still managed to retain 92 percent of its peak performance, which is better than many other phones in this price range. This is a good indicator that the phone offers a consistent performance. Coming to the software, one of the biggest issues I had was that despite choosing against installing any apps during the setup process, the phone still ended up installing dozens of apps and games that I simply didn't need.   

The OPPO A79 5G comes with a 5,000mAh battery capacity, which is fairly standard these days. In regular usage, I found myself charging the handset by evening when I used it excessively, and the next morning on light usage. If you don't play games on your phone all that often, the phone will easily last beyond a day for you.The handset supports 33W fast charging, which is extremely convenient as it lets you charge the phone fully from 0 to 100 percent in just 74 minutes.