Oppo R9 Hands On

Oppo had announced R9 smartphone in China in March this year. We got a chance to check out the phone at the recent Mobile World Congress in Shanghai. Let’s take a quick look at the specs and hardware of the phone.

The Oppo R9 sports a 5.5-inch (1080 x 1920 pixels) Full HD AMOLED display and is powered by an octa-core (4 x 2.0 GHz + 4 x 1.0 GHz) MediaTek Helio P10 (MT6755) processor with 700MHz Mali T860MP2 GPU. It has a 4GB RAM, 64GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD. The phone runs Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) with ColorOS 3.0.

It has a 16MP front-facing camera, f/2.0 aperture, 78.1-degree wide-angle lens. Also present at the front are earpiece and usual set of proximity and ambient light sensors. There is a physical button below the display which comes equipped with a fingerprint sensor.

The power/lock switch is present on the right side along with a hybrid Dual SIM  (nano + nano/microSD).

The left side houses volume rockers. The phone measures 151.8×74.3×6.6mm and weight 145g.

You have a microphone at the top.

Loudspeaker grills, micro USB and the 3.5mm audio jack is present at the bottom.

The phone has a unibody metal design with Oppo branding at the back. There are antenna bands at the top and bottom.

It has a 13MP rear camera with f/2.2 aperture, 5P lens, LED Flash, 80.6-degree wide-angle lens, 4K video recording. Connectivity options on the phone include 4G LTE with VoLTE and WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n (dual-band). It has a 2850mAh built-in battery with VOOC Flash Charge.

The OPPO R9 and R9 Plus come in Rose Gold and Golden colors.

Sneha Bokil contributed to this post


Varun Krish: Varun Krish is a Mobile Technology Enthusiast and has been blogging about mobile phones since 2005. His current phones include the Apple iPhone 13 Pro and Google Pixel 6. You can follow him on Twitter @varunkrish and on Google+ You can also mail Varun Krish
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