Oppo Find 7a Vs Samsung Galaxy K Zoom: Choosing the Best in a Segment

By Prarthito

| Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 17:42 [IST]

Smartphone makers vary in numbers but, as far as the Indian handset market is concerned, the numbers point toward a potential boom that has happened in the country in the last few years.

There have been a host of smartphone makers coming into the scene with a number of handsets that have their own special offerings. And while the native makers keep growing in number, they have also been joined by other big names such as Samsung and Sony in the race.

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Oppo Find 7a Vs Samsung Galaxy K Zoom: Specs Comparison

While players like Samsung and Apple have been successful in projecting their respective premium offerings, a slew of Chinese makers too have found success in the high-end market. In this case, we are dealing with the rise in popularity for Chinese handset maker Oppo.

Oppo is one of those numerous companies hailing from China and finding a perfect market in India. Joining the likes of Gionee and Xiaomi, Oppo has successfully made it into the market and holds a lot of potential.

While the company has successfully managed to release the new Find 7a handset into the market, it knows that it will face a tough time from a host other similar handsets. One such device is the new Samsung Galaxy K Zoom.

So if we were to keep all others out of the contention for the moment and keep our focus fixed on only these two, who do you think will receive most of the traction? We take a closer look.

Oppo Find 7a Vs Samsung Galaxy K Zoom: Operating Systems
There's hardly any distinction here sonce both the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom and the Oppo Find 7a run on the Google-based Android operating system. However, the Galaxy K Zoom has an upper hand since it runs on the latest Android KitKat.

Oppo Find 7a Vs Samsung Galaxy K Zoom: Display and Dimensions
The Oppo Find 7a sports a 5.5-inch IPS LCD (1080 x 1920) capacitive touch screen. The device's overall dimensions measure up to 152.6 x 75 x 9.2 mm, while it weighs in at 170g.

The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom, on the other hand, sports a 4.8-inch super AMOLED capacitive touch screen, while rendering 720 x 1280 pixels resolution. The device's overall dimensions measure up to 137.5 x 70.8 x 16.6 mm, while it weighs in at 200g.

Oppo Find 7a Vs Samsung Galaxy K Zoom: Camera
In the camera department, the Find 7a features a 13-megapixel camera, having a resolution of 4160 x 3096 pixels, with autofocus and dual LED flash. The device also has a secondary 5-megapixel camera on board.

The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom, in the camera department, offers a 20.7-megapixel primary camera, sporting a mammoth pixel resolution of 5248 х 3936 pixels, with autofocus and LED flash. The device also has a secondary 2-megapixel camera on board that's more than enough for conducting video chats.

Oppo Find 7a Vs Samsung Galaxy K Zoom: Processors
While the Find 7a is equipped with a quad core 2.3 GHz Snapdragon 801 CPU, the Galaxy K Zoom comes bearing a brilliantly powered Hexa-Core (1.7 GHz Dual Core + 1.3 GHz Quad Core) Exynos (5260) processor and Mali-T624 GPU.

Oppo Find 7a Vs Samsung Galaxy K Zoom: Storage and RAM
The Find 7a offers 2GB of RAM and 16GB on-board storage. Also, there's the option to expand the phone's memory up to another 128GB as an external microSD slot for additional memory has been given.

The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom, in this respect, offers 2GB of RAM with the devcie arriving in 8GB internal memory variant. Also, there's the option to expand the device's memory up to another 64GB as an external microSD slot for additional memory has been provided.

Oppo Find 7a Vs Samsung Galaxy K Zoom: Battery
While the Find 7a offers a massive 2800 mAh battery, the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom juices up the device via a slightly lesser 2430 mAh battery.

Oppo Find 7a Vs Samsung Galaxy K Zoom: Price
While the Oppo Find 7a has been listed at Rs. 31,989, the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom is available at Rs. 29,999.

Oppo Find 7a Vs Samsung Galaxy K Zoom: Verdict
Both the devices come with their own special offerings. Both have been made with a lot of precision and sports their own special specs and features. However, if we are to actually find a winner out of the two, we have to say that the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom stands as a topper among the two.

And with its powerful processor, mega camera and the latest Android KitKat, the handset only gets better.