Oppo F1 Plus goes on sale in India at Rs 26,990

Oppo Mobiles has started the sale of its ‘selfie expert’ F1 Plus in India from today. The phone will be available in stores across regions including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai at a price of Rs 26,990. Oppo shares that this phone was announced in the Indian market to give a satisfying selfie experience for its consumers. The pre-order for the F1 plus started from April 11 across India and the company claims it has a good response. Sky Li, Oppo Global VP, MD of International Mobile Business and President of OPPO India said, “The smartphone self-portrait or ‘Selfie’ has established itself as a form of self-expression and we are only looking to support this fact with our OPPO F1 Plus with 16MP front camera. We would like to thank our Indian consumers for giving OPPO F1 Plus such a warm welcome and are confident of the performance of the new camera phone in the Indian market.”.  The company shares in a statement that according to research done by Sino-MR in China, the Oppo F1 Plus sold 1,80,000 units in China on its first day of sales on March 24 this year, and after four days the numbers grew to 4,00,000 units. (Also Read:  Oppo F1 Plus review: More than just a selfie smartphone ) Talking about the phone’s specifications, there is the 5.5-inch, 16 million colour AMOLED, Full HD display with a pixel density of 401ppi and it comes with Gorilla Glass 4 screen with rounded edges. Inside, we get a MediaTek MT6755 (Helio P10) that is a relatively new piece of silicon. It is clocked at 2.0GHz and packs in 8x Cortex-A53 cores. There’s 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage that is expandable up to 128GB using a microSD card (via the SIM card slot). The graphics are handled by a Mali-T860MP2 GPU.    Coming to the cameras we get a 13MP f/2.2 unit with PDAF, LED flash on the back and a massive 16MP fixed-focus f/2.0 unit up front. As for connectivity, the smartphone packs in Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth V4.0, microUSB v2.0 port and an A-GPS unit. All of the above is fueled by a non-removable Li-Po 2850 mAh battery with Oppo’s Color OS 3.0 masking Google’s Android 5.1 Lollipop for the software.