Oppo Mobiles has started the sale of its 'selfie expert' F1 Plus in India. The phone is priced at Rs. 26,990 and will be available in stores across regions including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai among other. It comes in two colors, Gold and Rose Gold. Customers who pre-booked the F1 Plus will get a special gift pack and will also stand a chance to win one more special version of Oppo F1 Plus signed by Yuvraj Singh, Oppo's brand ambassador.
Since the phone is targeted at selfie lovers, the Oppo F1 Plus gets a 16-megapixel Hi-Light selfie camera with f/2.0 aperture, 5-element lens and 78.1 degree field of view. The rear camera is 13-megapixel that is accompanied by LED flash and features f/2.2 aperture, PDAF, 5-element lens, 80.6-degree field of view and 4K video recording. The phone also utilizes the brand's Smart image stabilizer, which is touted as the world's smaller optical image stabilizer.
The F1 Plus sports a metal body and features 5.5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display having physical home button which doubles as fingerprint scanner. Under the hood, it houses MediaTek Helio P10 octa-core processor backed by 4GB RAM, 64GB inbuilt expandable storage, 4G LTE, hybrid dual-SIM slot and 2850mAh battery with VOOC flash charge technology. It runs Color OS 3.0 based on Android 5.1 Lollipop.
Oppo has launched what it calls as 'selfie expert', the F1 Plus in India. It is an upgraded version of F1, but interestingly it is a re-branded Oppo R9 which was recently unveiled in China. The R9 will also launch in other markets as F1 Plus.
Since the phone is targeted at selfie lovers, it comes with a higher resolution front 'Hi-light' camera. The Oppo F1 Plus gets a 16-megapixel selfie camera with f/2.0 aperture, 5-element lens and 78.1 degree field of view. Oppo claims that the Hi-light front facing camera "is four times more sensitive, has twice
the dynamic range, and captures shots with four times less noise,
compared to cameras without the technology. As a result, the Hi-light
Camera produces exceptionally clear and bright images, and excels at
low-light, back-lit and night-time photography."
The rear camera is 13-megapixel that is accompanied by LED flash and features f/2.2 aperture, PDAF, 5-element lens, 80.6-degree field of view and 4K video recording. The phone also utilizes the brand's Smart image stabilizer, which is touted as the world's smaller optical image stabilizer.
The Oppo F1 Plus sports a 5.5-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) AMOLED display protected by a layer of Gorilla Glass 4 and is powered by octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 (MT6755) processor paired with Mali T860 GPU and 4GB RAM. On-board storage is 32GB/64GB (two storage variants), and supports storage expansion via microSD card (up to 128GB).
It runs Color OS 3.0 based on Android Lollipop and houses Hybrid dual-SIM slot, meaning that the second slot supports microSD cards. For connectivity it supports 4G LTE with VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS. It is backed by 2850mAh battery which supports the brand’s VOOC Flash Charge technology, that will offer 2 hours of talk time with just 5 minutes for charge.
Also on-board is a fingerprint sensor which works even with wet fingers and is capable of unlocking the phone in 0.2 seconds. The phone sports a premium metal unibody design.
The Oppo F1 Plus is priced at Rs. 26,990 and will be available across the country from mid-April. It comes in Gold and Rose Gold colors. Oppo also plans to roll out the F1 Plus to Southeast Asia, Middle East and North Africa later this month, followed by Europe in May.
Besides launching the F1 for the Indian market, Oppo introduced a high-end model of the same smartphone, the F1 Plus. It is priced at Rs. 26,990 and will go on sale sometime in April in the country.
The Oppo F1 Plus comes with 5.5-inch 1080p display and 4GB RAM, compared to the 5-inch HD display and 3GB RAM on the F1. Since the specs are bumped up, we can expect the device to pack higher battery capacity. The brand said that the F1 Plus will have more sophisticated front camera, but did not reveal any details about the sensor.
And since Oppo highlighted only these features in the Mumbai event, we can expect the rest of the specs to be same as Oppo F1. The Oppo F1 Plus will come with Snapdragon 616 SoC, 32GB internal storage, 13MP rear camera, Hybrid Dual SIM slot, 4G LTE and will run Android 5.1 Lollipop with Color OS 2.1 on top.
