As we reported earlier, Oppo has today launched a new mid-range smartphone in the Indian market — Oppo A83. The phone was originally launched in China last month. Priced at Rs. 13,999 (approximately $219), the device will go on sale in India from 20th January.

The phone will be available through Amazon India and Flipkart as well as through offline stores. The device will be available in two colour options — Black and Gold.

According to the company, the Oppo A83 has been designed in line with its UFO Curve Design Philosophy. The phone comes with a full-screen display with thin bezels and comes preloaded with the company’s AI Beauty Recognition technology to enhance selfies and group shots.

The Oppo A83 sports a 5.7-inch HD+ LCD display with screen resolution of 1440 x 720 pixels and 18:9 aspect ratio. The phone is powered by a MediaTek MT6763T processor, clocked at 2.5GHz. It is coupled with 4GB RAM and 32GB of internal storage.

There is also a microSD card slot, enabling users to further expand its storage capacity up to 256GB. It comes with a 13-megapixel camera sensor on the back with an LED flash and an 8-megapixel front camera sensor. The rear camera sensor supports Ultra-HD mode that can create an image of 50-megapixel resolution.

The front-facing camera sensor also supports face unlocking. Through its proprietary technology, the camera is touted to capture more than 200 facial points to refine features and compose the face contour with precision.

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Connectivity options on the device include Dual SIM, 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.2, GPS/ A-GPS, Micro-USB, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The phone is fuelled by a 3,180mAh battery.

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OPPO seems to be on a roll in the last few days to the end of the year. After announcing the OPPO A75 and A75s duo in Taiwan yesterday, it has returned to China to unveil the OPPO A83.

OPPO A83 Design

The A83 has a design similar to the A75 released yesterday. The key difference only being the absence of a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. You won’t find the scanner in front too as OPPO has decided to go the iPhone X route by completely ditching the biometric scanner and sticking to Face Unlock.

The OPPO A83 has a metal back that curves at the edges for better handling. The primary camera is raised and there is a LED flash on its right. OPPO’s logo in silver chrome sits in the middle.

Up in front, we get another full-screen display with reduced white bezels on the gold variant and black on the black variant.

OPPO A83 Specs

OPPO’s A83 comes with a 5.7-inch HD+ display. It packs 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage and is powered by a 2.5GHz octa-core processor. OPPO didn’t disclose the processor type but this should be the Helio P23.

The phone has a 13MP rear camera that OPPO says can shoot up to 50MP. This is most likely achieved by stitching several shots together. There is an 8MP sensor with AI beauty mode for selfies.

The selling point of the OPPO A83 is its face unlock feature. Unlike its other recent releases that have Face Unlock and a fingerprint scanner, the A83 ditches the fingerprint sensor.

OPPO claims the phone scans for 128 different facial features and unlocks in just 0.18 seconds! To get a clearer picture of the speed, the OnePlus 5T which has one of the fastest face unlock features unlocks in 0.4 seconds.

Is it secure enough to replace the fingerprint scanner? We will have to put it to the test to find out. OPPO also doesn’t mention if it supports payments which is a bummer.

The A83 rounds up its specs with a 3180mAh battery and runs ColorOS 3.2 out of the box.

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OPPO A83 Price and Availability

The OPPO A83 is priced at ¥1399 (~$214) and comes in Champagne and Black color variants. Pre-orders are live on the official online OPPO shop already and sales will commence on the 29th of December. Those who pre-order will get a free pair of QY7 bluetooth headphones.

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