Another day, another budget-beater smartphone hits the market. Only this time, it isn’t coming from Realme, Honor or Vivo – all three have already blown the lids off their budget-centric smartphones for 2024, leaving the path clear for the last piece of the puzzle – Oppo. The Chinese manufacturer has officially released its R6,000 Oppo A60 in South Africa, hoping to nab your attention away from the rest.
Let’s get down to business
Whether it’ll manage the feat is another matter altogether. Oppo’s wading into a sea of far-too-similar (and frequently cheaper) smartphones that we could easily see eating up the A60 if it came down to it. True, we’ve yet to handle the device for ourselves, so we’ll reserve judgment until that happens.
Up first is the 6.67in display that matches the 90Hz refresh rate offered in Honor’s R3,500 X6b, 950-nits peak brightness, and a choice of two colours to plaster the rest of the phone around it – Midnight Purple or Ripple Blue. It’s backed up by an IP54 rating, keeping the A60 safe from smaller splashes and… not much else.
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A 6nm Snapdragon 680 SoC sits at the device’s heart, with 8GB of system memory and 128GB or 256GB storage if you feel like bumping that R6,000 starting price up a little. Oppo’s stuck with a standard 5,000mAh battery, coupled with a slightly impressive 45W charger you rarely see in this price range.
Rounding out this clone of a phone is the 50MP main sensor handling all the photographic gruntwork, while a 2MP depth sensor and 8MP selfie-shooter make up the rest of the camera’s features. It wouldn’t be a smartphone launch without the promise of AI fiddling with your photos, and Oppo hasn’t disappointed.
The Oppo A60 is available in South Africa today for R6,000 – or R300/m from “all major network providers and select retailers.”
