The R7 Lite offers a 5-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 720, and Corning Gorilla Glass 3. It looks sharp, colorful and crisp, although not quite as bright as the Xiaomi Mi4. The phone ships with the company’s native ColorOS v2.1, based on Google’s Android 5.1 Lollipop. It is hugely customizable thanks to a dedicated Themes store – you can download several colorful themes depending upon your taste and choice, add free widgets, lock screens, widgets and even camera modes. In addition, the UI lets you take advantage of gesture shortcuts (double tap to wake up the screen or draw Oto start the camera). Interestingly, you can also create your own gesture shortcuts to spice up the user experience.

The R7 Lite uses a Snapdragon 615 quad-core processor coupled with 2GB of RAM, which is not the latest or the most powerful available chipset, but is the same used in the Lenovo Vibe Shot and the Motorola Moto X Play. In day-to-day use, it’s snappy. Apps open quickly and there’s no noticeable lag while opening web pages. We hardly experienced slow down during games, though Need for Speed: No Limits proved unplayable.

There’s a healthy 16GBof internal storage, but Oppo’s heavily skinned software knocks over 5.84 GBoff the total, leaving 10.6 GBavailable for your own apps and media, which makes the expandable memory slot a welcome addition to the spec list. When it comes to connectivity the Oppo R7 Lite includes Wi-Fi , 4G, dual SIM(Micro-SIMand Nano-SIM) and Bluetooth 4.0. Calls sound fine and the stereo speakers on the R7 Lite deliver crystal clear and loud sound. The phone’s 2,320mAh ( non-removable) battery lasted between 8 to 9 hours on a single charge, so you need to charge it every night – not the greatest, we are afraid.