Despite releasing just months after the iPhone X, the Oppo A73 shares a lot in common with Apple's flagship handset. It, too, has ditched physical face buttons in favour of a screen that almost fully encompasses the front of the handset. Said screen clocks in at a massive 6 inches and sports an 18:9 aspect ratio with a resolution of 2160 x 1080. That's a little ways behind the "Super Retina HD" display of the iPhone X, but it's still sharper and more expansive than many other phones at its price point. Better yet, the screen is made using Gorilla Glass 5, certifying it for protection against drops, scratches and other forms of contact damage.
As part of Apple's move to a full-face screen with the iPhone X, it decided to ditch the fingerprint sensor entirely. Oppo, on the other hand, has simply shifted the sensor to the back for the A73. This is good news for anyone concerned with keeping their phone secure.
At the same time, the Oppo A73 also offers a facial unlocking feature similar to the iPhone X. Unfortunately, it's not quite as advanced as Apple's technology, and Oppo itself warns that the feature is less secure than both the fingerprint sensor and a regular PIN.
The Apple aesthetics extend beyond the hardware. While the Oppo A73 is built upon Android 7.1, it uses Oppo's proprietary ColorOS to give Android a look and feel far more in line with iOS. This includes tweaks like the removal of an app drawer such that all apps appear on the phone's home screen, a quick settings toolbar accessed by swiping up instead of down (a la the iOS control centre) and a more rigid security policy that favours Oppo's built-in apps over ones downloaded from Google Play. This might seem antithetical to the spirit of the Android operating system, but it's likely to appeal to fans of the simplified nature of iOS.
For as streamlined as ColorOS is, the Oppo A73 still benefits from many Android-centric features unavailable on Apple's smartphones. You've still got a 3.5mm headphone jack for one, giving you the freedom to listen to music on a regular pair of wired headphones as well as through wireless headsets connected over Bluetooth 4.2. You've also got the advantage of expanding the Oppo A73's 32GB of internal storage by purchasing a microSD card, with support for cards as large as 256GB.