Oppo shows midrange smartphone with pop-up camera and OLED screen

The Chinese smartphone maker Oppo has announced the Realme X, a smartphone with a pop-up camera and OLED screen. The device is the most expensive and most luxurious phone to date under the Realme brand of cheap smartphones.

According to the specs, the Realme X has a 105cm2 large OLED screen with a resolution of 2340×1080 pixels. The 19.5:9 screen has dimensions of 15.1x7cm and a diagonal of 6.53″, without a notch. The phone runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 710-soc, a 10nm-soc for midrange smartphones from the American processor designer.

The phone has 4, 6 or 8GB of lpddr4x memory and 64GB or 128GB of ufs 2.1 storage. Oppo is co-purchasing with OnePlus and the companies already have ufs 3.0 storage, but only the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro announced Tuesday use the faster and presumably more expensive storage.

The camera setup is the same as the OnePlus 7. The pop-up camera is a Sony IMX471 with 1.0 micron pixels and a maximum resolution of 25 megapixels. On the back is a Sony IMX586, a 48-megapixel sensor with quad-bayer layout, assisted by a second camera that serves as a depth sensor. Unlike the OnePlus phones, the Realme X does have a 3.5mm jack.

The phone will initially only be available in China, but Engadget reports that it will also be available in Europe at a later date. The cheapest 4/64GB option costs 1499 yuan, which is about 195 euros. The most expensive version is converted about 233 euros. Realme is the budget brand of smartphone maker Oppo and mainly focuses on countries such as India with online sales of devices in lower price ranges. Prices remain relatively low by saving on overheads such as offices and distribution channels.