Oppo has finally announced the Oppo R7 and Oppo R7 Plus smartphone; both devices were announced at a dedicated press event which took place in Beijing.
Both smartphones would be available in China starting tomorrow on JD.com; the R7 sells for CNY 2499 (around $400) and the R7 Plus sells for CNY 2999. An international launch is slated starting June for the R7 and around August for the R7 Plus.
The Oppo R7 and R7 Plus are no strangers to the rumour mill and most of their specs are already known while they share some specs together the R7 Plus still shows why it has the Plus advantage. Both smartphones were teased to be bezel-less however the former has a regular face and the latter has a stretched edge-to-edge display.
Both midrage phone come with the same body design – a metal unibody design with contoured edges and 2.5D glass on the front. Both devices are powered by an octa-core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor with Adreno 306 GPU paired with 3GB of RAM. While their display sizes are different 5-inches on the R7 and 6-inches on the R7 Plus; they both uses a Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) resolution and AMOLED panels.
Both devices uses the same Camera, 13MP F/2.2 on the rear and 8MP F/2.4 on the front. The R7 however has Phase Detection Autofocus (PDAF) and Single LED flash; the R7 Plus has Laser Autofocus, Dual LED flash and a fingerprint sensor on the back. There is 16GB space of internal storage on the R7 and 32GB space on the R7 Plus; there is a microSD card slot on both for storage expansion but also doubles as the second SIM slot.
The Oppo R7 measures 143 x 71 x 6.3mm in dimensions, weighs 147g and is backed by a 2320mAh battery , while the Oppo R7 Plus measures 158 x 82 x 7.75mm, weighs 203g and is backed by a 4100mAh battery. Both devices support VOOC fast charging feature, supports 4G LTE (LTE Cat.4), Dual SIM slots and runs on Oppo ColorOS 2.1 which is based on the Android 5.1 Lollipop OS.
Youc can checkout the promotional video for the Oppo R7 Below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqMFXq_FI9o
