That makes the Oppo A54 cut-cost 5G value, but also cut-cost 5G with a catch. Simply put, performance is the catch, and you may want to be a little patient with the A54 when it comes time to use it. Under the plastic case, Oppo has provided an interesting assortment of specs, with some thing you mightn’t expect. As far as numbers go, the A54 5G offers a 48 megapixel camera, plus three other cameras less likely to matter. The 48 megapixel camera is the better of the bunch, and works acceptably in low light, but not fantastic. You’ll get the shots if you hold still, but it’ll be blurry otherwise. Fortunately, daylight is hardly an issue at all. You can say more or less the exact same thing about the Oppo A54 5G’s battery as you can the Redmi Note 10 5G’s and the Realme 8 5G’s. It’ll clear a full day of usage with ease, even with an excess of screen-on time, and will likely stretch through a second day under moderate conditions. You also get something that neither the Redmi Note 10 5G nor the Realme 8 5G provide – an ultra-wide sensor. It’s no great shakes of course, at a mere 8MP and f/2.2. There’s a marked drop-off in detail and dynamic range compared to the main sensor, but it’s far from a total write-off, and I’m glad Oppo included it.

The Oppo A54 5G is powered by a Snapdragon 480 5G SoC. This is a considerably more mainstream choice than the MediaTek Dimensity 700 5G chip adopted by the Realme 8 5G and the Redmi Note 10 5G, but also a marginally slower one in certain ways. The Oppo A54 5G's display is bright and clear, even in iffy weather conditions and lighting. With a 6.5-inch edge-to-edge display, it's ideal for watching your favorite streaming shows on the move, with the 1080 x 2400 resolution keeping things fairly sharp.

On the chip and memory side, there’s Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 480 5G processor, a budget eight-core 5G processor paired with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage, the latter of which can be upgraded uses a microSD slot found in the phone alongside the nanoSIM tray.

Hopefully the camera fares better, though Oppo’s four camera setup may impress in numbers before you experience what it has to offer. The dimensions of the phone are 162.9 x 74.7 x 8.4mm, with the Oppo A54 5G weighing 190g. It's not a small phone but its design means it feels easy enough to hold. It's worth it for the screen which we'll get into shortly. The other three cameras are less important, though, with the 8 megapixel camera giving you an ultra-wide but somewhat soft camera, while the remaining two — a 2 megapixel for macro and another 2 megapixel monochrome — hardly being interesting enough to warrant a look. The Oppo A54 5G offers a very similar display to the Realme 8 5G. Indeed, given that Oppo and Realme are owned by the same parent company, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s exactly the same component.Make sure that your USB cable is plugged in and turned on before beginning. In the Device Manager part of your PC, you can see the COMPort version. minutes of PUBG, meanwhile, sapped just 6% of a charge. That’s about half what a mid-range or flagship phone would consume, though of course such phones will be running When it comes to media consumption, the Oppo A54 5G lost about 9% of its juice after an hour of Netflix streaming and 2% after an hour of YouTube Music streaming, which is a single percentage point worse than the Realme 8 5G in both cases. Allowing a certain margin for error, we can probably call that a draw.