Oppo India has announced the launch o
its slimmest smartphone, the R5, in a
limited edition avatar. The Oppo R5
Gilded Limited Edition will be available
for the Indian market priced at Rs.
29,990, the same as the original R5
variant.
The limited edition model will be availabl
to pre-book starting Friday in India. The
company touts that there are only 10,00
units of the Oppo R5 Gilded Limited
Edition smartphones available globally.
The highlight of the Oppo R5 Gilded
Limited Edition is its gold frame.
The company in a press statement
claims that the limited edition Oppo R5
will be available in India via pre-
bookings only. Unfortunately, the
company has not revealed the number o
units available for the Indian market.
Commenting on the launch, Tom Lu, CEO
Oppo India, "This phone has been
developed with the end user in mind. We
used cutting edge manufacturing
techniques to create a phone that fits
perfectly into the users' hands, and that
feels incredible. The gold frame has bee
forged nine times and then finished by
hand to give a perfect sheen and feel. It
has a quality that is not available
anywhere else in the industry. The R5,
like the rest of the R series delivers a trul
stylish, exquisite and distinctive design
and will continue to delight our
customers with its innovative yet practic
functions."
The Oppo R5 Gilded Limited Edition
comes with identical specifications as th
original . With a thickness of a mere
4.85mm, the Oppo R5 is one of the
'slimmest smartphones' currently
available in India.
The R5 sports a 5.2-inch full-HD
(1080x1920 pixels) AMOLED display tha
offers a pixel density of 423ppi. It is
powered by a 64-bit octa-core Qualcom
Snapdragon 615 (MSM8939) processor
(2.1GHz quad-core + 1.5GHz quad-core
alongside with 2GB of RAM and Adreno
405. The R5 features a 13-megapixel
rear camera with Sony IMX214 sensor;
f/2.0 aperture, and a LED flash. There is
a 5-megapixel front-facing camera also
onboard. Running the company's
proprietary ColorOS 2.0.1 (based on
Android 4.4 KitKat), it supports a single
Micro-SIM and comes with 16GB of
inbuilt storage which is non-expandable
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