Oppo A96

The Oppo A96 price in Kenya is Ksh 35,500. The Oppo A96 has a 6.43 inch AMOLED display, Android 11, ColorOS 11.1, Qualcomm SM6375 Snapdragon 695 5G (6 nm) chipset. Oppo A96 also comes with 128 GB of internal storage and 8 GB RAM, a triple 48 MP main camera, and a 5000 mAh battery. It is available in the color Black, Blue, and Pink.

Oppo A96 features and specifications in Kenya

• RAM: 8 GB
• Internal Storage: 256 GB
• Battery: 4500 mAh
• Main camera: 48MP + 2MP
• Front camera: 16MP
• Display: 6.43 inch
• Processor: Snapdragon 695 5G
• Connectivity: Dual sim, 3G, 4G
• Colors: Black, Blue, Pink
• OS: Android 11, ColorOS 11.1

Display

This basically is the same display as the one present on the Oppo A95. One would say that one is AMOLED and the other OLED. To which we respond, what difference is there? Well, what we have got here? A very nice 6.43 inch OLED display with 2,400 by 1080P resolution and what equals 409 PPI. It’s got the standard 60 Hertz refresh rate and 120 Hertz touch sampling rate. Well, the display is bright enough to use indoors and outdoors. It has crisp screen colors are vibrant and offers good viewing angles.

The screen can also go up to a total brightness of 600 nits. As usual, the display of Oppo A96 5G is customizable from your usual night mode and screen color mode to dark mode settings that can let you set how dark you want to go. You can also get an Always-On display and low brightness flicker-free iComfort option. As for the ratio of the display to that of the body of the phone, it is an 85.3% screen-to-body ratio. Also note that the Fingerprint is under this display and it is an optical one.

Cameras

This model consists of a dual-camera setup featuring a main 48 MP, f/1.7, 26mm (wide), PDAF, and a 2 MP, f/2.4, (depth). Meanwhile, for selfies, you get a 16 MP, f/2.4, 27mm (wide), 1/3.06″, 1.0µm shooter. In natural daylight, the photos come out decent with present details. It is definitely worthy of your social media uploads. You can zoom up to 2X, 5X, and up to 10X. For selfies, it performs pretty well, especially in bright conditions.

Oppo A96 5G can capture some sharp selfies with a natural-looking skin tone. The selfie also supports portrait shops. There’s also a front night mode that lets you take clear and brighter selfies even in dark areas. For videos, users can shoot up to 4K@30fps, 1080p@30/60/120fps, gyro-EIS, and the impressive. This is with the main camera since videos of the selfie are capped at 1080p@30fps. Video stabilization is also present so you don’t have to worry about shaky videos.

Platform

Fixing our attention now to the software department of Oppo A96 5G is ColorOS 11.1 which is based on Android 11. There are tons of customization options here where you can change icon styles, app layout, fingerprint style, change font, and colors. There’s also an app drawer option in the settings and you can easily adjust the navigation buttons the way you want them to be arranged. Storage-wise out of the A96 5G’s 256 GB that you get. what you are left with is 229 GB out of the box.

The Oppo A96 5G has a Qualcomm SM6375 Snapdragon 695 5G (6 nm) chipset which is brand new. It has been totally revamped in comparison to its predecessor and has both more powerful cores and 5G connectivity. This one is great for day-to-day tasks and it is also pretty good with games. Present here also is an Octa-core (2×2.2 GHz Kryo 660 Gold & 6×1.7 GHz Kryo 660 Silver) CPU and an Adreno 619 GPU. Its, GPU, performance is 60% better compared to the Adreno 612 graphics card and in our benchmarks on par with the 700 series cards.

Battery and more

So then how’s the battery life. Well, the Oppo A96 5G has an endurance rating of 93 hours. It does pack a heft Li-Po 4,500 mAh, a non-removable battery which is an improvement. Of course, fast battery charging is available on this one. The same is Fast charging 33W, 100% in 63 min (advertised), and present also is Reverse charging and USB Power Delivery. For audio, loudspeaker quality is okay. There’s a 3.5-millimeter audio jack on the phone for headphones but only a mono-speaker.