Oppo A53 refreshed as budget smartphone with Snapdragon 460

Shortly after the launch of Oppo A52 in April this year, the company had started working on the successor. The successor is going to debut as the Oppo A53 followed by the Oppo A series naming convention. But the Oppo A53 was already in the market since December 2015, then why it shares the same name? It’s been 5 years since the old Oppo A53 is in the market, perhaps it won’t make any confusion among in the consumers the company might be thinking. Anyways the new Oppo A53 does not relate to the old Oppo A53 rather it relates to the Oppo A52.

The phone already went through major certification authorities including NBTC, FCC, BIS and GeekBench. Since then the rumours around the phone has ranted up, we can expect the launch around the near corner. Through the certification process, the outlines of the device have been leaked. Design-wise the phone looks similar to the Oppo A52, but feature-wise you could see the difference.

Oppo A53 Features and Specs (rumoured)

Upfront, the device is built around an FHD+ LTPS LCD display of size 6.5″ beside a speaker grill on top and a punch hole on the top left. Further, it will have 20:9 aspect viewing experience alongside 90Hz refresh rate alongside some sort of Corning Gorilla Glass protection on top. Underneath the punch hole, there you could see a 16MP selfie camera sensor.

While at the backside of the phone, there is expecting an array of triple camera modules along with a LED flash. Besides the fingerprint scanner. Oppo A52 uses an array of quad-camera modules instead of the triple camera module. The triple camera module on the Oppo A53 will combine a 13MP main sensor, a 2MP macro sensor, and a 2MP depth camera sensor.

Under the hood, there we could see Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 460 SoC instead of the Snapdragon 665 in the Oppo A52. The Snapdragon 460 SoC combines 8XKyro 240 CPUs at 1.8GHz fabricated in the 11nm process. Further, it bundled with Adreno 610 GPU and LPDDR4x RAM alongside UFS 2.1 storage support. Furthermore, we may have expandable storage support via microSD card. The system runs on ColorOS7.x on the top of Android 10, while it fueled by a 5000mAh battery. That support 18W fast charging mechanism onboard.

Connectivity-wise the phone has dual LTE 4G SIM support alongside dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac. The other connectivity options will including, USB Type-C connector, 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth 5.0, Fingerprint Scanner, and other necessary sensors including GPS, Proximity, etc.

Price, storage variant and availability

The phone will have two variants in 4GB-64GB and 6GB-128GB storage configuration. The Oppo A52 was priced at ₹14,990 for the 4GB-128GB variant, hence we can expect the Oppo A53 4GB-64GB variant to be priced in between ₹12,490 to ₹13,999. As of now, these are just speculations we have to wait until the announcement to have a clear view.