While phones are getting more expensive at the high end (up to £2,000 thanks to the Galaxy Fold), it’s worth remembering that you can pick up a hell of a lot of phone for around £200-£300 too and the A9 2020 looks to be a testament to that.
It has a 6.5in LCD capped at 720p but this is one of the few giveaways of its affordability. With a Snapdragon 665 processor, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage and three slots that let you use two SIM cards and a microSD card at the same time, we can’t call this phone light on features. It can record 4K video at 30fps, which for context is the same as the Pixel 4 and 4 XL.
Add to that dual stereo speakers, a basic night mode for the cameras, traditional capacitive fingerprint sensor on the back and a headphone jack, and there’s little missing apart from the obvious things at this price like waterproofing and wireless charging – features that you also don’t get on the £699 OnePlus 7T Pro.
The Oppo A9 2020 in green or purple is on sale now in the UK from Carphone Warehouse and EE.
Henry is Tech Advisor’s Phones Editor, ensuring he and the team covers and reviews every smartphone worth knowing about for readers and viewers all over the world. He spends a lot of time moving between different handsets and shouting at WhatsApp to support multiple devices at once.
