OPPO has quietly launched a new budget smartphone in China called OPPO A36. The latest handset from the brand offers a high-refresh-rate display, a dual-camera setup, a Qualcomm processor, a matte glass finish on the rear, and a large battery.
OPPO A36 Specifications and Features
The newly unveiled OPPO A36 flaunts a matte glass panel on the rear with a rounded rectangular camera island on the top left corner. The rear glass features millions of crystalline structures, like on the OPPO Reno series.
On the front, the device sports a 6.56-inch LCD panel with a resolution of 1612 x 720 pixels (HD+), a 90Hz refresh rate, a 180Hz touch sampling rate, and a punch-hole at the top left corner. The screen covers 96% of the NTSC color gamut, 100% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, and its brightness can go up to 600 nits. Finally, the display has an 89.9% screen-to-body ratio, can output 16.7 million colors and has a pixel density of 269 PPI.
As for optics, it houses a dual-camera setup on the back consisting of a 13MP primary sensor and a 2MP depth sensor. Whereas, for selfies and video calls, it uses an 8MP shooter.
The phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 chipset paired with LPDDR4x RAM and UFS 2.2 storage. It runs ColorOS 11.1 based on Android 11 and has a MicroSD card slot to further expand the storage by up to 1TB.
On the connectivity front, the handset supports dual-SIM, 4G, dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth 5.0. GNSS (BeiDou, GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, QZSS), USB Type-C, and 3.5mm headphone jack. It has all the required sensors like an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, gyroscope, proximity sensor, compass, and a side-mounted fingerprint sensor.
As far as the size and weight are concerned, the smartphone measures 164.4 x 75.7 x 8.4mm in dimensions and weighs 185g. Last but not least, it gets its juice from a 5,000mAh battery with support for 10W charging.
OPPO A36 Price and Availability
The OPPO A36 comes in a single 8GB + 256GB memory configuration in China priced at ¥1,599 ($251). It can be availed in either of these two color options – Cloudly Black and Qingchuan Blue.
The phone is up for pre-order at a discounted price tag of ¥1,499 ($235). It will start shipping to customers from January 14.
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