The AX7 also boasts the same outstanding battery as the AX5, a ludicrous 4230 mAh. Anecdotally, I got the AX7, played with it a bit, and then had some family stuff come up; life is a ride, friends. I remembered five days later that I was reviewing it, cursed, and pulled it out of the bag. It still had 12% battery left after 5 solid days on standby. How is that even possible? How have Oppo managed to circumvent Newton\u2019s second law of thermodynamics? It\u2019s either astonishingly efficient engineering or witchcraft, and I\u2019m willing to bet both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oppo make excellent phones. The R17 Pro is sitting beside me right now as my everyday handset, and I adore it. The AX7 doesn\u2019t have all the bells and whistles like NFC, but it\u2019s a reliable, accessible, and beautiful device. I\u2019m even coming around to the notch, which is now a much less intrusive teardrop design. Although, if I am going for the notch I personally prefer the sharper edges of the traditional notch over the teardrop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You want negatives? Well, there aren\u2019t many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve been spoiled by VOOC or fast charging like I have with my R17 Pro, the hours it takes to recharge the AX7 will be excruciating. That said, you apparently only need to charge it once a decade, so you\u2019re probably OK with just doing it at night, yeah? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than that, the issue I had with my first Oppo remains; if you\u2019re not used to the ColourOS, it can be frustrating to begin with. Once you get to grips with it, though, you\u2019re away and laughing. Differences exist between this and the AX5, but they are very minor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AX7 is basically the AX5 again with a couple of minor changes, tweaks, and improvements so, if, you\u2019ve already got an AX5, this isn\u2019t much of an upgrade. That being said, if you\u2019re in the market for budget smartphones, I\u2019m gonna assume you have more sense than to upgrade each year. As such, basically everything I said in my review last year stands. With a price tag of just $399, you categorically will not get as good a phone as this for the same money anywhere. In fact many $700 phones aren’t even this good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AX7 may cost $399 but it looks, feels, and handles like a $1000 phone, and I will never understand how Oppo make a profit off it. I\u2019m going to say about the AX7 what I\u2019ve said about every Oppo phone I\u2019ve laid hands on; this is too good to be this inexpensive. If you\u2019re in the market for a budget smartphone, the Oppo AX7 edges out everything else in its class. It\u2019s AXactly what you\u2019re looking for. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oppo AX7 An AXcellent device, but almost AXactly the same Look, there are only so many puns I can make with this name, and I\u2019m sticking to it. The Oppo AX5 that I reviewed last year was a truly remarkable device, costing a mere $400 and feeling like twice that. The new AX7 takes what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[203,220],"tags":[185,495,494,496],"yoast_head":"\n