Meet OPPO’s newest star
After weeks of teasing, OPPO has officially announced their new F5 smartphone. The new phone is the company’s first ever device that has an 18:9 display, and comes with AI smarts designed to make you look as beautiful as possible in the selfies that you take.
OPPO F5 Specs
- 2.5GHz MediaTek MT6763 octa-core processor
- 4GB of RAM
- Mali-G71 GPU
- 6-inch Full HD+ Full-Screen IPS LCD Display; 1080×2160 resolution, 402 pixels per inch
- 32GB of expandable storage
- 4G, LTE
- Dual SIM
- 16-megapixel rear camera with f/1.8 aperture with LED flash
- 20-megapixel front camera with f/2.0 aperture with AI Beauty Mode
- WiFi, Bluetooth
- GPS, A-GPS
- Fingerprint scanner
- 3200mAh battery
- Android 7.1.1 Nougat with ColorOS 3.2
The phone’s 18:9 aspect ratio gives it a display that’s 6-inches big in a body that’s only as large as a regular 5.5-inch smartphone. As for the sharpness of the display, you’ll be happy to know that the F5 has a full HD+ panel, giving it a screen resolution of 1080 x 2160.
The rear camera is a 16-megapixel deal with an f/.18 aperture lens, while the front camera has a 20-megapixel shooter with an f/2.0 aperture lens and AI Beauty mode. You can read all about the selfie smarts of the OPPO F5 in our unboxing article, but in a nutshell OPPO uses AI to determine the best settings for your face when you take a photo, and applies artificial bokeh as well to blur out the background.
The OPPO F5 is priced at Php 15,990. The F5 will be available for pre-order from October 27 until November 3, 2017 and will go on sale starting on November 4, 2017. All pre-ordered F5 units will come with an Olike Bluetooth Speaker priced at Php 2,990.