Oppo presents smartphone with automatically rotating camera
Oppo has presented its smartphone N3. The Android device has a camera that can rotate automatically. This allows the user to take a selfie with the same camera that is used to take landscape photos.
The N3 is the successor to the N1, a phone that Oppo released last year had a manually rotating camera. The camera has a 1/2.3″ sensor with 1.34 micron pixels and a maximum resolution of 16 megapixels. The camera can also shoot images in RAW; the file format that Oppo uses is most likely dng. The camera can rotate automatically by a built-in motor and can rotate 206 degrees, making it useful for taking photos at many angles and automatically following users and keeping them in view, claims the manufacturer.
The phone is equipped with Android 4.4 and runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 soc, the same soc as in the Samsung Galaxy S5, HTC One (M8) and Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, among others. The soc is assisted by 2GB RAM, while the storage is 32GB. Oppo has reduced the screen compared to the N1: where last year’s device has a 5.9 “screen, the new N3 is equipped with a 5.5” screen with full HD resolution. Like Oppo’s previous Find 7, the notification LED shines across the width of the device below the screen to alert users to new messages.
Oppo has not yet announced when and where the phone will go on sale, but is quoted a price of $ 649. Converted and including VAT, the price of the device will probably be around 600 or 620 euros.
The Chinese manufacturer also presented its R5 smartphone, the thinnest smartphone to date. The R5 is 4.85mm thick, a hair thinner than a recent Gionee device that is 5.1mm thin; many devices are between 7 and 9 mm thick.
Oppo has been able to put a 2000mAh battery in the metal housing. The screen is a 5.2 “amoled screen with full HD resolution. The Android 4.4 smartphone has a 64-bit Snapdragon 615-soc from Qualcomm, with eight Cortex A53 processor cores. The R5 should fetch $499 at release, converted and including VAT probably around 450 euros.