Chinese smartphone maker Oppo today launched a special Diwali edition of its selfie smartphone Oppo F3 for Rs 18,990. Originally, the Oppo F3 was launched in May this year at Rs 19,990. The smartphone will come in red with preloaded festive themes and wallpapers. Users will also get a cricket bat with the purchase of the latest smartphone.
The limited edition Oppo F3 will be available on the e-commerce website Amazon and Oppo stores starting from September 29. Notably, the brand also launched the OPPO F1s Diwali Edition smartphone last year. In terms of specifications, the Oppo F3 smartphone features a 5.5-inch Full HD 2.5D curved glass display with Corning Glass 5 protection and a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels.
The device is powered by a 1.5GHz octa-core Mediatek MT6750T processor along with Mali T860-MP2, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, which can be expanded up to 128GB via a microSD card slot. The Oppo F3 runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow with the company’s ColorUI 3.0 running on top of it.
The smartphone gets its power from a 3,200mAh non-removable battery. Similar to the previous version, the special edition comes with a dual front camera setup, which includes a 16-megapixel primary sensor and an 8-megapixel secondary sensor with a 120-degree wide-angle view for group selfies. It has built-in Smart Facial Recognition, that will notify users to switch to ‘Group Selfie’ mode if there are more than three people in the frame. For the rear, it has a 13-megapixel shooter with Dual PDAF, and full HD 1080p video recording.
The smartphone also comes loaded with a front-facing fingerprint sensor. On the connectivity front, the device supports 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS and Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano + Nano). The phone measures 153.3 x 75.2 x 7.3mm and weighs about 153 grams.