The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo has showcased its new selfie-centered high-end smartphones Oppo R9 and R9 Plus in its motherland, China. Both the devices sports an identical metal-clad design and run on Android 5.1 Lollipop based Color OS 3.0. Like Samsung Galaxy S7, these two smartphones also integrate home button with a fingerprint sensor.
Under the hood, Oppo R9 comes fitted with an octa-core Helio P10 chipset in which half the cores are ticking at 2GHz while remaining four are at 1GHz. On the other hand, its taller sibling features a 64-bit Snapdragon 652 chipset which consists of four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 1.8GHz and other four Cortex A-53 enthralling at 1.2GHz. Both the smartphones features 4GB RAM and 64B ROM with an additional hybrid microSD card support up to 128GB.
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The Oppo R9 houses a 5.5-inch fullHD AMOLED display with minimal 1.66mm bezel on the sides. Similarly, the Oppo R9 flashes a 6-inch 1080P AMOLED display with 79.3 percent body-to-screen ratio. Both R9 and R9 Plus sports a 16MP front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture and 78.1-degree wide-angle lens as per company claims.
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The only major difference in optics of both the phones is in their rear camera. Oppo R9 comes with 13MP rear camera with f/2.2 aperture, a 5P element lens, LED Flash, and also support 4K video recording. The Plus variant comes equipped with a 16MP rear camera with Sony IMX298, PDAF, f/2.0 aperture, 5P lens, and LED Flash.
Key Specifications and Features:
| Model | Oppo R9 | Oppo R9 Plus |
| Display | 5-Inch, AMOLED Display, 1080p FHD resolution | 5-Inch, LCD Display, 720p HD resolution |
| Processor | Octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 (MT6755)SoC; 700MHz Mali T860MP2 GPU | Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 SoC; Adreno 510 GPU |
| RAM | 4GB | 4GB |
| Internal Storage | 64GB, microSD card supported up to 128 GB | 64GB, microSD card supported up to 128 GB |
| Software | Android Lollipop with Color 3.0 UI | Android Lollipop with Color 3.0 UI |
| Primary Camera | 13MP, f/2.2 aperture, 5P lens, LED Flash, 80.6-degree wide-angle lens, 4K video recording | 16MP rear camera with Sony IMX298, PDAF, f/2.0 aperture, 5P lens, LED Flash |
| Secondary Camera | 6MP front-facing camera, f/2.0 aperture, 78.1-degree wide-angle lens | 16MP front-facing camera, f/2.0 aperture, 78.1-degree wide-angle lens |
| Battery | 2,850mAh with VOOC flash charge | 4120mAh battery with VOOC flash Charge |
| Others | 4G, Dual SIM LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS | 4G, Dual SIM LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS |
| Price | 2799 Yuan (28754 approx.) | 3299 Yuan (Rs. 33860 approx.) |
