OPPO yesterday unveiled the much-anticipated OPPO K3 premium smartphone. The K3 has been a regular in leaks which had shown us the renders as well as the key specs. But in real life, the design and build beat our expectations. Chinese news blog MyDrivers have published a hands-on review of the K3. We bring you the pictures, showing the K3 captured from all angles. 
OPPO K3 could be confused for a flagship phone, considering the premium build alone. However, the Snapdragon 710 chipset that fires up the mobile phone clearly places it in the upper mid-range category. The full-screen display is notch-less due to the use of a pop-up selfie shooter. Thus, the bezels at the top and sides are almost non-existent. The bottom chin has a sizeable amount which isn’t too wide. This design gives users an expansive 91.1% screen area to play with. The device features a 6.5-inch FullHD+ OLED display with a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels and an aspect ratio of 19.5:9. The phone also packs an in-display fingerprint sensor.
At the rear, there is a dual camera setup, with each of the sensors lying in isolation instead of being housed in a single ring. The main sensor is a 16MP Sony IMX519 sensor with f/1.7 aperture and a 2MP depth sensor. The pop-up camera is a 16MP AI sensor located at centre of the top edge. The sensor will open as fast as 0.74s, which is pretty fast. The pop-up camera also has a lifecycle of over 200,000 times usage. Thus, even if it is used up to 100 times a day, it will still last up to five years before the need to replace arises. The rear panel is made of glass with a colourful 3D gradient body.
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To recap about the internals, the K3 features 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM and comes with up to 256 GB of UFS2.1 flash storage. There is a dedicated microSD card slot on the gadget for expanding its storage but that functions also as a second SIM card slot. The K3 equally crams a 3,765mAh battery with support for 20W quick charging through OPPO’s VOOC 3.0 Flash Charge innovation.
On the software end, the device runs on Android 9 Pie-flavoured ColorOS 6.0. Check out more pictures of the OPPO K3 from below.
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