The dust for Oppo R15 has barely settle, but already, Oppo is pushing out the next R phone, the R17. Not only that, the China handset maker has also sort of announced a new device called F9. Both devices, while differing in design and specifications, have one thing in common: water drop notch. Oppo is coining the display with this notch as “waterdrop screen.” It could be the next trend in smartphone design. As you can see, it is still a notch, but now, it is a lot less Apple iPhone X-like and resemble more of that Essential Phone’s. Continue reading Next Smartphone Trend: Waterdrop Notch, Starting With Oppo R17 And F9 →

It seems like Oppo is emphasizing on EU and North America more today when it announced the new flagship called Find X before its official revealing in China on June 29. But that’s not the reason why our attention is Oppo Find X. It is the all screen and no notch design that drew us to it. Sadly, there’s nothing revolutionary in achieving this true edge-to-edge display. There’s no camera hidden behind the display. Well, technically, it has, but not in the way you thought it is. Continue reading Oppo Find X Is All Screen, No Notch And Pop-up Selfie Camera →

Slightly over a year ago, Chinese handset maker Oppo wowed us with the world’s first swiveling camera smartphone and to be honest, we kind of swept it to the “novelty” category. Meaning we never thought it will go further than on the N1. I guess we were wrong, because the successor to last year’s flagship, dubbed N3, retains the same swiveling camera offering 206^o of rotation, but this time it tops the megapixel race with a 16MP shooter paired to f2.2 lens and it is motorized. The latter is kind of a big deal. Why? Because it is a high-tech geeky feature, allowing to quickly flip the camera with a flick on the screen, or with the Touch Access (aka fingerprint scanner), or with the O-Click 2.0. Like its predecessor, the keychain-friendly O-Click 2.0 connects to your N3 via Bluetooth and also serves as a remote shutter, music controller, phone finder, and it can be used to take calls too. This part of the camera also gets a cosmetic tweak; it appears to dressed in fancy stitched leather, likely to be faux leather, though we can’t be sure if it so. Continue reading Oppo N1 Successor, N3, Has a Motorized Swiveling 16MP Camera →

Chinese handset maker Oppo has not been that quick in jumping onto the mini bandwagon, but it has finally done so with not one but two minis of its recent flagship smartphones, the Find 7 and N1. the Find 7 mini here is not actually a Find 7 mini, but rather a R6007. however it is no doubt that aesthetically, it is looking like the larger Find 7. the R6007 sports a 4.7-inch HD multitouch display and is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 with 1.6GHz quad-core processor and 1GB RAM. on the imaging department, it has a 8MP f2.0 main camera and a 2MP front-facing item, plus a la Samsung image with sound capability. HDR comes as standard and so is barcode scanner, GIF animation, panorama, and high-speed multiple shooting. details of the R6007 include, 8GB internal storage, microSD expansion up to 128GB, 4G LTE radios, a 2,140 mAh battery, WiFi, WiFi Display, Bluetooth 4.0 and the usual garden variety of sensors. Continue reading Oppo Joins The Mini Bandwagon With N1 mini and a Find 7 Lookalike mini →

even before the dust of 1080p settles on smartphones, Chinese handset maker joins the likes of the Vivo XPlay 3S in offering 2K display-equipped phone with the new Oppo Find 7. no wait. there are actually two models of Find 7; the first is the a premium Find7 which is the one with the said QHD display touting 2,560 x 1,440 resolution and the second is a more ‘regular’ model known as Find 7a aka Find 7 Lite. the premium Find 7 is powered by a 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor with 3GB of system RAM and offers 32GB onboard storage, expandable up to 128GB (!) via microSD card, and has a removable 3,000 mAh battery for the device to milk from. Continue reading Oppo Find 7 Smartphone →