Oppo Electronics Corporation from China has announced a new smartphone, named as Oppo R3. The handset from the company was unveiled in the presence of media personals at their Press Conference, that took place in Beijing, China, a couple of days back.
The Chinese based firm boasts their new Android powered smartphone to be "the world’s thinnest 4G handset", as reported by the sources. The new unit comes out of the box measuring only 6.3 millimeters in it's thickness. Yeah, we too call it thin, but not the thinnest, if you haven't forgotten the 5.55 millimeters thick Gionee's Elife S5.5 smartphone, that was announced back in February, you will know which is really the thinnest 4G LTE handset available in the markets.
Anyways, let the companies sort out the thickness issue with some lawsuits, eventually. So, talking about the new handsets internals, Oppo R3 will come toting the company's N1 Mini like specifications on board, as read from the words. Accordingly, the phone features a Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, clocked at 1.6GHz, five-inches High Definition IPS LCD screen of 1280 x 720 resolution display, eight gigabytes of expandable internal storage, one gigabyte of Random Access Memory, eight megapixels main camera on the back with a 1/3.2-inches sensor, aperture rate of f/2.0 and 1.4 micron pixels, there is also a five megapixels secondary camera on the front for clear 'Selfies'. It is equipped with a 2,420mAh powered battery and will run an unconfirmed version of Android with Oppo's own ColorOS.
Oppo R3 will be available in both Black and White color options with the whole body dimensions of 142.3 x 70.4 x 6.3 millimeters, weighing about 140 grams in total. The phone is tipped to start it's retail sales later this month for a price of 2299 Chinese Yuan, that is around 369 United States Dollars.
Source: oppo, G4GAMES, Pocketnow
