Oppo Reno With Shark Fin Selfie Camera Launched In India

Chinese smartphone maker, Oppo has finally launched its highly anticipated smartphone duo, the Oppo Reno in India. The smartphones were originally launched in China in the month of April 2019. The more affordable and less feature rich variant carries the ‘standard’ tag whereas the high-end variant of the device carries the ’10x Zoom’ suffix. The highlight of the smartphone is the shark fin style pop up camera, which is one of a kind. Except for the price, the main differences between the two newly launched smartphones are battery capacity, screen size, processor and number of rear camera sensors. 

Oppo Reno Lineup: Features And Specifications 

The Oppo Reno smartphone lineup, including the standard variant and the 10x zoom variant, has an attractive design. The large screen display of the smartphones is surrounded by narrow bezels on all four sides. The standard variant has a 6.4 inch AMOLED display while the elder sibling has a large 6.6 inch AMOLED display. Both smartphones have an impressive screen to body ratio of 93.1% which is attainable due to the aforementioned shark fin styled selfie camera.

The shark fin style extension houses a 16 MP camera sensor. The company claims that the selfie camera has a life cycle of more than 3,00,000 pop up which can be used as an indicator for its durability. The ‘standard’ variant of the newly launched smartphone has 2 rear facing cameras while the ’10x zoom variant’ has an additional 13 MP periscopic camera which offers 10x lossless zoom capability. Except for the periscopic camera, both variants have a 48 MP Sony IMX586 sensor and an 8 MP ultra-wide sensor.

The Oppo Reno ’10x zoom’ variant is kitted with the Snapdragon 855 SoC while the ‘standard’ variant is kitted with Snapdragon 710 SoC. Chipsets on both the smartphone variants have octa-core CPUs which can perform intensive tasks smoothly. The more affordable variant is powered by a 3765 mAh battery while the premium variant is powered by a 4065 mAh battery. Notably, both the variants support Oppo’s proprietary VOOC 3.0 charging technology. VOOC 3.0 allows the device to be charged with a maximum power of 20W which is equivalent to OnePlus’s Dash charge technology. 

Both variants of the Oppo Reno run on ColosOS 6.0 based on top of Android 9 Pie. Connectivity options on both smartphones include Bluetooth v5.0, 802.11 ac Wi-Fi, 4G VoLTE, NFC and a bottom mounted USB Type-C port. Both the ‘standard’ and ’10x zoom’ variants of the Oppo Reno also have an in-display fingerprint sensor, which is becoming the norm for mid range to premium-range smartphones these days.

Oppo Reno Lineup: Price And Availability 

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Both the models of the Oppo Reno are available in two colour options which includes Jet Black and Ocean Green. The pricing of different storage variants is listed below: 

Click here to purchase the Oppo Reno 10x Zoom (8GB+256GB)