Reports about a new phone called Oppo A53
emerged earlier this week (not to be confused with the five-year-old Oppo A53),
and the device has suddenly appeared for pre-order on the Indonesian version of
Lazada, a popular online retailer in the South-East Asia region. The phone is
listed with a full specs sheet, renders and price tag - it will be officially
on sale on August 27 for IDR 2,499,000, which is about US$ 170/€ 140.
The leaked specs sheet from Monday got
most of the specs correct - we’re looking at a Snapdragon 460 chipset with
octa-core CPU, Adreno 610 GPU and 4 GB RAM to keep it company. Storage is 64
GB, but the listing says Oppo has provided a microSD slot for up to 256 gigs
more. The screen is 6.5” LCD with 90 Hz refresh rate, HD+ resolution, and tall
20:9 ratio. There’s a single punch hole in the upper left corner where the 16
MP f/2.0 selfie camera is sitting. One thing Oppo hasn’t put on the front (or
the sides) is the fingerprint scanner - it is on the back, right next to the
main camera setup.
Speaking about the cameras, we have three
snappers in a big black rectangle - the main sensor is 13 MP, coupled with two
more, both of which are 2 MP. While the official listing of the Oppo A53 does
not say what is their job, we’re pretty sure one is a macro snapper for closeup
shots and the other is a depth sensor for better portrait photos. Every
affordable phone needs to have a big battery, and this one does not disappoint
- we’re looking at a 5,000 mAh cell with support for 18W fast-charging through
the USB-C 2.0 port.
The phone can be pre-ordered in two colors
- Electric Black or Fancy Blue, the latter bringing a neat gradient going from
white to dark blue, just like the bottom of the ocean. Lazada is already
gathering pre-orders, with shipping promised for the day after the end of the
campaign, which is next Thursday. Oppo Indonesia have urged users down in
comments to purchase the phone before it is out of stock, suggesting there is a
limited number of units for the pre-order period and they might be gone before
the official launch.