Oppo produces high-end Android phone
Best known in Australia for its Blu-ray players, Chinese electronics company Oppo has turned its hand to the state-of-the-art Find 5 phone.
Best known in Australia for its Blu-ray players, Chinese electronics company Oppo has turned its hand to the state-of-the-art Find 5 phone.
The Oppo Find 5 was teased several months ago, but recent news from Beijing has made the device official, and revealed some truly impressive specs.
A 5-inch 1080p display is probably the most noticeable feature of the phone, but this is backed with a quad-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 chip.
The primary camera is 13MP with a host of intriguing software features, including super-slo-mo recording at 120fps. The front camera is 1.9MP, and there's the usual array of near-field communication (NFC), Wi-Fi direct and more, all running on Jelly Bean, specifically Android 4.1.2.
It's 8.8mm thick, but this also allows the Find 5 to accommodate a 2500mAh battery, along with Dolby 3D sound, for some reason.
In fact, probably only the big downer is the lack of a microSD slot, meaning that you're stuck with the default 16GB of memory.
The Find 5 is definitely getting a US release, although Oppo phones haven't made it to Australia before. The specs for the spectrum tech used in the phone are GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900MHz and UMTS 850, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100MHz, so parallel importing may be an option for some users.