Oppo has always wanted to be the first one to increase pixels, whether it comes to screen resolutions or cameras. This time the company has announced Oppo R9 and R9 Plus, a camera combo that’s surely a first on a smartphone. Oppo’s both upper midrange phones come with a 16MP front camera. Take that selfie shooters! No need for using the back camera for high quality selfies.
Both smartphones share the same design language, but come with plenty of changes under the hood. The R9 comes with a 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED display. The screen sits in a 6.6mm thin aluminium body with 1.66mm side bezels.
Oppo R9 is powered by a Mediatek Helio P10 which comes with 4 Cortex A53 cores clocked at 2.0GHz and the other four clocked at 1.0GHz. There’s 4GB of Ram and 64GB of internal storage on board. There’s a microSD card slot with support for up to 128GB using a hybrid slot (which can also be used as a second SIM slot). 4G LTE support is also built-in.
The most interesting bit is the front camera, which has a more high-res and brighter sensor than the rear one. The front camera uses a Samsung made 16MP ISOCELL sensor while the rear camera uses a 5-element 13MP Sony IMX298 sensor, like the Huawei Mate 8. The front camera has a field-of-view of 78.1 degrees while the rear camera has a FoV of 80.6 degrees.
The phone runs on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop and carries a mediocre 2,850 mAh battery unit. There’s VOOC Flash Charge support as well. It is priced at Rs. 45,000/- (approx.) while availability info remains to be detailed.
Oppo R9 Specifications:
Oppo R9 Plus comes with a similar metal design and a fingerprint sensor integrated with the home button but improves in the screen size and some important specs. The screen size increases to 6 inches using the same AMOLED panel with FHD resolution. Side bezels are ever so slightly wider at 1.76mm but the screen to body ratio is higher at 79.3% compared to R9’s 77.7%.
Running the phone is a Snapdragon 652 chipset with quad-core Cortex A72s clocked at 1.8GHz and four Cortex A53s running at 1.2GHz. The RAM stands at 4GB while the storage is the same 64GB with an optional 128GB version as well. There’s a hybrid microSD/second SIM slot and support for 4G as well.
The camera department makes use of the different camera sensors; i.e. 16MP front and 16MP rear cameras. The rear camera uses the IMX298 sensor and a 6 element setup with an aperture of f/2.0 at the rear. Unlike the R9, its Plus version can shoot 4K videos as well. The battery sees a big boost over the smaller version and boasts a 4,120mAh size. Oppo R9 Plus starts at a price Rs. 53,400/- (approx.).
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