Everyday smartphone market in India is getting overcrowded and tough for existing players, now Oppo has launched a new smartphone under its Realme series, the Oppo Realme 1 which is specially targeted towards the youth of the country. Realme 1 will be exclusively available on the online marketplace. It features the design language of some of the recently launched Oppo smartphones like Oppo F7 and Oppo A3. It comes with glossy diamond-cut design which do look stylish and nice.
When it comes to specs, it flaunts a 6-inch full HD+ (1080×2160 pixels) display screen with an 84.75 percent screen-to-body ratio and has aspect ratio of 18:9. Under the hood, it is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Helio P60 SoC clocked up to 2GHz along with 3/4/6GB of RAM and also has a dual-core AI-specific chip. It has 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB of inbuilt storage, depending upon which variant you go with.
When it comes to photographic front, Oppo Realme 1 comes with 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, and there is a 8-megapixel front camera for selfies and video calling. Camera on this phone is powered by Oppo’s AI Beauty 2.0 feature that not only comes with beautification mode but also has 296-point facial recognition.
One major drawback of this smartphone is that it does not comes with finger print scanner which is a basic feature on phones nowadays, however company has said it comes with Face Unlock which can unlock device in just 0.1 second.
For connectivity, it supports WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Micro USB, Dual SIM, LTE, and VoLTE, it houses a 3410mAh battery, and when it comes to software front, it runs on Android 8.1 Oreo wrapped under ColorOS 5.0.
Price Of Oppo Realme 1 –
Company has priced this phone very aggressively, The Realme 1 price starts at Rs. 8,990 for the 3GB RAM/ 32GB variant, while 4GB RAM and 64GB storage variant is priced Rs. 10,990, and the top-model of 6GB RAM/ 128GB storage variant is priced at Rs. 13,990. At this price range, it will compete with Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro and Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1.
The first sale of Oppo Realme 1 will held at 12pm IST on May 25 on Amazon India, and in this sale with the Realme 1 6GB RAM/ 128GB and 3GB RAM/ 32GB variants will be available in this sale in Diamond Black and Solar Red colors option, while 4GB RAM/ 64GB storage variants in Moonlight Silver and Diamond Black colors will come to India after a month later.