NEW DELHI: The selfie smartphone
Oppo F3 Plus has received a temporary price cut in India. The Chinese smartphone maker launched the
Oppo F3 Plus in March this year at Rs 30,990, now the smartphone is selling at Rs 24,990 after the price cut of Rs 6,000. The smartphone received a similar kind of price cut in June also.
Customers who wish to purchase the Oppo F3 Plus can buy it on Flipkart.
To recall, the highlight of the smartphone is its dual selfie camera setup. Oppo F3 Plus is the first dual selfie camera smartphone from the company. Its front camera setup includes a 16MP regular lens and an 8MP wide-angle lens.
In terms of specifications, Oppo F3 Plus has a 6-inch full HD IPS LCD display of 1080x1920 pixel resolution. It's powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 SoC, paired with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. There's support for microSD cards of up to 256GB in size as well.
Having hybrid dual-SIM functionality, the Oppo F3 Plus has all standard connectivity options such as 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and microUSB. The smartphone is backed by a 4000mAh battery with 'VOOC Flash Charge' fast-charging support.
The F3 Plus' dual-front camera system is complemented by Oppo's Beautify 4.0 feature, which lets users enhance their selfies by doing everything from softening the skin to making it 'Rosy'. In addition to the highlight selfie snappers, the F3 Plus has a 16MP primary camera with two-tone dual-LED flash.
Equipped with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) and Phase Detection Autofocus (PDAF), the smartphone's rear camera is capable of shooting 4K videos at 30fps.
Oppo F3 Plus runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow out-of-the-box, with the company's ColorOS skin layer baked on top of it. Even though the Android version is dated, ColorOS comes with handy features like gestures, app lock, universal search and more. The smartphone also has a pill-shaped fingerprint sensor and two backlit capacitive keys, below the display.
World's 7 biggest smartphone companies
World's 7 biggest smartphone companies
Chinese smartphone brand seems to be ruling the world. As per the latest report from research and analytics company Counterpoint, as many as four companies in the list of the world's seven biggest smartphone companies are Chinese. The report ranks companies as per the global smartphone shipments' market share during the second quarter (Q2) of the year 2017. While global smartphone shipments grew a modest 3% year-on-year, they declined 2% quarter-on-quarter. Here's over to the world's seven biggest smartphone companies...
Samsung - 22%
Samsung remained at top position in Counterpoint's list for Q2 2017. Except for Asia, the company lead the race in all other regions in smartphone market share. These include Latin America, MEA (The Middle East and Africa), North America and Europe. In Asia, Samsung ranked at fourth position after Oppo, Huawei and Vivo.
Apple - 11%
Apple held exactly half of Samsung's market share in terms smartphone shipments. The iPhone maker ranked at second position in North America and Europe. It was at 4% and 5% in LATAM (Latin America) and MEA regions.
Huawei + Honor – 11%
Huawei (including its sub-brand Honor) ranked neck-to-neck with Apple in terms of smartphone shipments' market share, as per to Counter Point in Q 2017. The company stood at second position in Asia and MEA region. In Europe, it ranked at No. 3 and at No. 4 in LATAM.
Oppo - 8%
Oppo held 8% market share in global smartphone shipments. Regionally, it stood on top in Asia with 15% market share. It did not rank in the top five in any other region globally.
Vivo - 7%
Vivo held 7% market share as per Counterpoint Research, almost a percent below its sister company Oppo. Vivo stood at top in the Asia region with 13% share, same as that of Huawei.
Xiaomi - 6%
Xiaomi held 6% market share globally in smartphone shipments during Q2 2017. The company stayed in the top five regionally only in Asia. The Chinese smartphone brand ranked below Oppo, Huawei, Vivo and Samsung.
LG - 4%
LG too made an appearance on the list with 4% market share. The South Korean tech firm held 3% share in Europe and 10% share in LATAM, according to Counter Point.
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