OPPO K7x has been in the news for the past few weeks and now the company has finally made the smartphone available for purchase in China. This is the company’s second device in the K-series after the launch of OPPO K7 a couple of months ago.

The smartphone features a 6.5-inch Full HD+ LCD display that offers a 90Hz refresh rate and 180Hz touch sampling rate. Under the hood, it is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 720 chipset which supports 5G connectivity.

As of now, there’s just one variant of the phone in terms of memory configuration — 6GB RAM and 128GB internal storage. It also comes with a side-mounted fingerprint sensor for added security on the device.

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In the camera department, the smartphone features a triple-camera setup on the back that includes a 48-megapixel primary sensor, an 8-megapixel sensor, and two 2-megapixel camera sensors. On the front side, there’s a 16-megapixel snapper for taking selfies.

The device is running the Android 10 operating system out-of-the-box with the company’s own ColorOS 7.2 on top. It is powered by a 5,000mAh battery that supports 30W VOOC fast charging technology.

The OPPO K7x smartphone comes in two color options — Mirror Black and Shadow Blue. The phone is priced at 1,399 yuan which roughly converts to $209. It is currently up for pre-order in China for 100 yuan (~$15) and will start shipping from 11th November.

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Earlier this year, Vivo had launched a new smartphone under its S-series of selfie-centric devices — Vivo S7. Today, the company has announced a new variant of the same, dubbed as Vivo S7e which is now listed for pre-order in China.

The smartphone features a 6.44-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display with 2400 x 1080 pixels screen resolution and a 90.1 percent STB ratio. Under the hood, the device is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 720 SoC that supports 5G connectivity.

It also comes with an in-display fingerprint sensor for added security. In terms of memory configuration, it comes packed with 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB of UFS 2.1 internal storage, along with a microSD card slot for expanding the storage capacity.

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As for the camera department, the phone features a triple-camera setup on the back that includes a 64-megapixel primary sensor, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide macro lens, and a 2-megapixel sensor. On the front side, there’s a 32-megapixel snapper for taking selfies and video calling.

The device is running the Android 10 operating system out-of-the-box with the company’s own FunTouch OS 10.5 on top and Multi-Turbo 3.0 for advanced features. It is powered by a 4,100mAh battery that comes with support for 33W fast charging technology.

The Vivo S7e smartphone is being offered in three color options — Phantom  Blue, Mirror Black, and Silver Moon. The phone is currently up for pre-order in China but the company has not yet revealed its pricing details.

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MediaTek recently launched its all-new chipset under the Dimensity lineup — MediaTek Dimensity 720 5G, which is aimed towards mid-range smartphones. The launch of this new chipset introduced the new Dimensity 700-series of processors from the company.

At the time of launching the chipset, MediaTek had not revealed details about which manufacturers will be among the first to launch devices powered by this new chipset. Today, the company has revealed that information.

MediaTek has confirmed three Chinese smartphone makers — Huawei, OPPO, and Xiaomi as the first brands which will launch devices powered by the Dimensity 720 SoC, reports China-based Economic Daily. However, there’s no timeline for this, but we expect something in the coming weeks.

Coming to the chipset, it is manufactured using TSMC‘s 7nm process. It comes with an integrated 5G modem that supports 2CC carrier aggregation, VoNR, 5G/4G Dual SIM dual standby, and sub-6GHz 5G.

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It packs two ARM Cortex-A76 big cores operating at 2GHz in the octa-core CPU, which the company claims to improve the responsiveness of applications for fluid user experience. It also packs an ARM Mali G57 GPU, up to 12GB fast LPDDR4X memory and UFS 2.2 storage for fast read/write speeds.

This MediaTek Dimensity 720 SoC has support for 90Hz high frame-rate displays along with enhanced video streaming capabilities like MiraVision and HDR10+. It supports up to 64-megapixel single sensor or a dual-camera setup consisting of a 20-megapixel and 16-megapixel sensors, with AI-backed features powered by integrated APU.

It also comes with MediaTek 5G UltraSave technology which uses both network and content awareness intelligence to manage the modem’s operating mode in real-time to further extend the battery life. To minimize the power consumption of always-on voice assistants, the company has included a feature called Voice Wakeup.

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MediaTek has launched a few chipsets under its Dimensty lineup of 5G SoCs. Today, the company has announced yet another chipset which is aimed towards mid-range smartphones — MediaTek Dimensity 720.

The chipset is slotted just below the Dimensity 800 and the flagship chipset in the lineup Dimensity 1000 and 1000+. It seems that MediaTek doesn’t want to leave any stones unturned and launch a chipset for every possible price range, similar to Qualcomm.

The MediaTek Dimensity 720 is manufactured using TSMC‘s 7nm process. It comes with an integrated 5G modem that supports 2CC carrier aggregation, VoNR, 5G/4G Dual SIM dual standby, and sub-6GHz 5G.

It also has MediaTek 5G UltraSave technology which uses both network and content awareness intelligence to manage the modem’s operating mode in real-time to further extend the battery life.

The chipset packs two ARM Cortex-A76 big cores operating at 2GHz in the octa-core CPU, which the company claims to improve the responsiveness of applications for fluid user experience. It also packs an ARM Mali G57 GPU, up to 12GB fast LPDDR4X memory and UFS 2.2 storage for fast read/write speeds.

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This new Dimensity 720 SoC has support for 90Hz high frame-rate displays along with enhanced video streaming capabilities like MiraVision HDR10+ with support for Dynamic Range Remapping.

As for the camera configuration, it supports up to 64-megapixel single sensor or a dual-camera setup consisting of a 20-megapixel and 16-megapixel sensors. It packs a range of AI-related features that are powered by MediaTek’s integrated APU.

To minimize the power consumption of always-on voice assistants, the company has included a feature called Voice Wakeup (VoW). It also supports dual-mic noise suppression so that voice assistant can hear the audio more clearly.

With the launch of Dimensity 800-series and Dimensity 1000-series, the company was focused on gaming-related features as well, which doesn’t seem to be the case for this Dimensity 720. The focus of this new chipset seems to be global sub-6GHz 5G support.

The company has confirmed that the MediaTek Dimensity 720 chipset will be powering the mid-range smartphones in regions like North America, Europe, and Asia. However, the company has not provided any timeline for the launch of devices powered by this SoC.

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