Being sold at Rs. 29,000.
By Dileep Thekkethil
BENGALURU: The widely anticipated slimmest smartphone from the house of Oppo called R5 is currently available for pre-order via Oppo stores in India for Rs. 29,000.
The pre-order of the device will continue till January 15th and as a promotion offer the company is also providing a free backpack for every customer who successfully pre-order the Oppo R5 smartphone. This was confirmed by a tweet by Oppo.
With just 4.8 mm thickness, Oppo’s R5 was the ‘world’s slimmest smartphone’ when the device was officially announced by the company last October, but this title was soon replaced by Vivo X5Max.
Oppo R5 is a 5.2-inch full HD smartphone featuring 1080×1920 pixel ALMOND display with a pixel density of 423 PPI. The device is powered by 4G LTE enabled 64 bit Qualcomm Octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor (2.1GHz quad-core + 1.5GHz quad-core). The graphics rendering capability of the smartphone is fuelled by Adreno 405 GPU along with 2GB RAM.
Oppo R5 has a 13 MP primary camera with Sony IMX214 sensor with aperture size f/2.0 and a LED flash. The Chinese manufacturer has also integrated a 5 MP front camera for better selfie experience.
The smartphone runs on Oppo’s own ColorOS 2.0.1 OS on top of Android 4.4 KitKat, giving users more flexibility over their device that otherwise is missing in the factory built versions of Android.
Oppo R5 is a single micro-SIM device and has an inbuilt storage capacity of 16 GB, which, unfortunately, is not expandable.
The device has a 2000 mAh battery and supports VOOC, which is a new charging technology that charges the device 60-70& in less than 30 minutes. R5 also has all general connectivity features such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS/ EDGE, 4G LTE, and Micro-USB.
The major let down of Oppo R5 is the lack of a 3.5mm audio jack which force users to use the Miro-USB to 3.5 mm Audio Jack converter or a wireless solution based on Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. According to Oppo, they had to let go of the audio jack to maintain its sleek design, which measures just 148.9×74.5×4.85mm and weighs 155 grams.