OPPO Find 7a

The Find 7a is a high-end phone with attractive specification by Chinese manufacturer Oppo. The device has been released with slightly more powerful model, Oppo Find 7. The Find 7a is almost identical to its more expensive sibling, Oppo Find 7. The smartphone features a 5.5-inch IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with Full HD resolution (1080 x 1920 pixels) and pixel density of 401 PPI. The device has a simple and sophisticated design which looks sturdy and provides easy grip. Just like all the other devices in this price range, the Oppo Find 7a comes with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It weighs around 170 grams and measures 9.2 mm around its waist. It is available in Black and White colors.

Oppo Find 7a runs on an impressive 2.3 GHz quad-core Qualcomm MSM8974AB Snapdragon 801 based on Krait 400 and Adreno 330 GPU. The inbuilt sensors of the device are accelerometer, gyro, proximity and compass. In terms of memory, the Oppo Find 7a has 2 GB RAM and 16 GB internal memory, which can be extended to 128 GB using a microSD card present on board.

The smartphone comes with 13-megapixel rear-facing primary camera with dual-LED flash and autofocus. It can click images of 4160 x 3120 pixels resolution and record 2160p videos at 30 frames per second. The other useful features of the camera include Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, panorama and HDR. The device also boasts of a 5 MP secondary camera which can capture quite decent self-portraits apart from facilitating video-calling. As far as the multimedia experience of the device is concerned, the sharp screen of Oppo Find 7a comes handy while watching videos stored on the device or YouTube. It also supports most audio and video formats.

Oppo Find 7a runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, which could prove to be a downer for some as there are many devices which are available with the latest KitKat OS. The device has ColorOS UI on top of Android OS, which is quite simple and useful. A double tap wakes up the screen as well as puts it to sleep. There are several customizable gestures which can launch various applications. The messaging needs of the smartphone are taken care by SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email and IM.

The connectivity options of the device include Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot, LTE 800 / 1800 / 2600 / 2300 / 2100, HSPA+, NFC, Bluetooth v4.0, A-GPS and microUSB. The phone houses a 2800 mAh Li-Po battery which can last the whole day even after heavy usage.