Amazon India recently teased the arrival of the Oppo K-series smartphone in the Indian market, which was later confirmed to be the Oppo K3. Earlier this week, we reported that the phone could get launched in India on 19th July.
Now, the landing page of the Oppo K3 (Details) on Amazon India confirms that the smartphone will indeed get launched in India on July 19. The Oppo K3 is the successor of the Oppo K1 which was launched earlier this year in India through Flipkart.
Coming to the features, the OPPO K3 features a 6.5-inch AMOLED display. The predecessor model had featured 6.4-inch AMOLED screen. The notch-less screen of the OPPO K3 supports full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels and 19.5:9 aspect ratio. The display is protected by Gorilla Glass 5 and it is embedded with an in-screen fingerprint sensor.
Under the hood, the device is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 octa-core chipset, coupled with up to 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of native storage. There is a microSD card slot on the device for expanding the storage capacity.
On the optics side, the phone comes with a dual-camera setup on the back panel, consisting of a 16-megapixel primary sensor and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. It has a pop-up selfie snapper of 16-megapixel.
The ColorOS 6.0 based Android 9 Pie comes preloaded on the device. The smartphone is backed by a 3,765mAh battery that comes with support for 20W VOOC 3.0 Flash Charge fast charging technology.
The Oppo K3 comes in three color options — Nebula Purple, Morning White, and Farm Black but it remains to be seen if all three options will be introduced in India. As for the pricing, we expect the phone to have a starting price of around Rs. 15,999 (~$233).
