It has been touted as the “world’s thinnest 4G smart phone.” (TD-LTE 4G-supported) Now, we review the OPPO R3. It was designed with alloy frames and a metal rear case. It also supports laser engraving for the owner to add a text or picture to maintain the phone’s uniqueness.

The Oppo R3 sports a 5-inch 720p display screen that was designed using in-cell technology. Its processor is the Snapdragon 400 (MSM8928) quad-core chipset with a frequency of 1.6GHz. It also has 1GB RAM and 8GB internal memory storage which can be expanded to 128GB. It has a 5mp/8mp camera and runs on a 2420mAh battery. Its OS is the Android 4.3-based Color OS 1.4.

       The OPPO R3 is only 6.3mm thick making it the thinnest 4G smart phone out right now.

This phone also uses a metal rear case with alloy frames adding more stability when playing videos. It won’t affected by fingerprints.

Its rear camera has 8mp which is pretty good.

OPPO does not often use pointed cameras. But this phone is so thin that you can see the camera and light pointed out. This definitely affects the phone’s evenness. However, the camera is kept intact by the metal frames and the camera’s diameter is small so there’s no need to worry about scratches on the lens.

The OPPO R1 promoted night photography and the R3 will continue to do so. It uses the IMX179 sensory chip. It has a Sony 8mp rear-camera sensor with an F/2.0 aperture. The sensor can cover an area of about 1/3.2 inch. In addition, the OPPO R3 has a “UHD Photo Quality” feature like the Find 7, which can pick the best photos out of 10 shots and put them together into a 24mp UHD photo.

As these samples show, the R3 has an outstanding photo resolution. The image and colors are all very bright and beautiful. Its exposure and permeability are incredible too.

Here’s a look at OPPO’s Color OS.

       The Color OS’ desktop has always been pretty grandiose. The Dock and notification bars are completely transparent. 

       4.86GB out of the OPPO R3’s 8GB internal memory space can be used for saving. Not a lot will be left after installing a couple of games, but since it can be expanded to 128GB, the user will not have to worry about this.

It scored more than 200000 points at the Antutu V4.5 benchmark test, so the performance is so-so.

Summary:

This is the first instalment of the OPPO R series to support 4G internet. It is compatible with TD-LTE, TD-SCDMA, and GSM and could become OPPO’s next big star.

If you’re looking for excellent video hardware and a good benchmark score, then forget about it. What’s notable about the OPPO R3, though, are the fact that it’s the thinnest 4G phone around, and has excellent camera specs and outstanding OS.

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Last month, OPPO held a launch event for their new 4G products. One of them was the OPPO R3, the world’s thinnest 4G cell phone. Here we have photos of the R3 unpackaged and also an analysis of OPPO’s new phone.

As the world’s thinnest 4G phone, the R3 is only 6.3mm thick. It uses an alloy frame and a metal back cover making the R3 a very compact phone. One interesting feature it has is its laser marking service which users can use to carve an image of text on the phone before they buy it, preserving its uniqueness.

As for its specs, the R3 is a mid-end phone, sporting a 5-inch 720p display screen and running on the Snapdragon 400 quad-core chipset. It has 1GB RAM and 8GB internal memory storage which can be expanded up to 128 GB. It also has a 5mp/8mp camera and it runs on a built-in 2450mAh battery. Its operating system is the Android 4.3-based Color OS 1.4.

The biggest selling point for the R3 is its support for 4G internet. It is compatible with TD-LTE, TD-SCDMA, and GSM networks. As of now, it costs 2299 RMB and is already listed online. As of now, there is none in stock.

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During the recent 4G wave with all kinds of new products released that use China Mobile and China Unicom, almost everyone has forgotten about China Telecom, but recently, more companies decided to release Telecom editions of their products. OPPO announced that they will release a China Telecom edition of the OPPO R3.

OPPO vice-CEO Li Wuqiang announced the news in his Weibo account after the release of the OPPO N1 mini and OPPO R3. The OPPO R3 has been called “the world’s thinnest 4G cellphone,” being only 6.3mm thick. It has a nightshot feature and a 1/3.2-inch scanning area. It has 1.4 micron pixels and f/2.0 aperture. Users can take more pictures of light at night.

The R3 has a 5-inch display screen and runs on the Snapdragon quad-core processor. It has 1GB RAM and has a 5mP/8mP camera. It’s operating system is the Android 4.3-based ColorOS 1.4

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OPPO has already release the new OPPO R3 smartphone recently, the phone is packs with 4G network connectivity. The new OPPO R3 is only has 6.33 mm body thickness, this becoming the thinnest 4G Android smartphone on the market. And now we want to show yu some aspect that available in this phone. (All picture in this article is taken from PConline website.)

OPPO R3 is the one of flagship smartphone that comes from OPPO, the phone has slim body and using the metal body material. The phone is powered by Snapdragon 400 and support with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of ROM, the phone is also coes with 5 inch 720 screen display and equipped with 2,420mAh battery capacity.

The phone is capable for night shot, since the camera specifications very good, while the rear camera is using with 8 megapixel camera but the lense is capable to take the better picture in low light environment, reducing the number of pixels to enhance the image sensor area, increasing the capacity per unit of light into pixels, while F/2.0 large aperture also pledged to strengthen its night shooting ability. Also for the night shoot also joined the PI original painting engine, a bright night shoot, O-Video and other camera functions. The new OPPO R3 is offers with 2,299 yuan or about $370 USD price tag per unit, will be officially listed on the market in this month.

OPPO R3 has a slim body, as we mentioned on the first paragraph that the OPPO R3 has only 6.3mm of body thickness, to make it excel in today’s lineup of 4G phones. The phone is also has 5 inch screen size and has narrow border to make the phone is look more larger and comfort to use for our whole daily activity.

The body is covering by glass and the design is look nice

There is proximity sensor on the top of the phone, the camera design has integration and more harmonious with the front panel. And there is three soft button under the screen as the regular Android phone, is nothing special here.

The new OPPO R3 frame is using metal material, while the outside the front that using glass material, the side and back cover are metal. The phone is look more nice and rigid and strong touch. There is TF expansion slot and power/lock screen button in the side body.

The back or rear area has divided in three parts, the top, middle and the bottom, as you can see on the image above, the top area has the camera and LED flash light, there is nothing on the middle area, while on the bottom area we can find the speakerphone .

The SIM card slot and the volume buttons places on the right side of the body.

The 3.5mm audio interface is locate on the top of the phone body, you can see the border is also distributed with the phone’s antenna system.

Micro USB port is located on the bottom of the phone, this part is also has integrated with antenna system.

Comparing the body thickness witj iPhone 5S

Here is theanother view of comparing the thickness body with Apple iPhone 5s

As you can see on the picture, the OPPO R3 does beat the Apple iPhonr 5S body thickness which iPhone 5S has 7.6mm of thickness while the OPPO R3 has 6.3mm of thickness. The OPPO R3 is becoming more thinnest 4G smartphone on the market.

OPPO R3 System and Interface

OPPO R3 is running with Android 4.3 with COlorOS v1.4, this system is similar with OPPO N1 Mini system. Here is the screenshot from the phone.

As we write in the begingin of this article, the new OPPO R3 has 5 megapixel front facing camera and 8 megapixel rear facing camera with 5P blue glass lenses and filters, aperture of F2.0. OPPO R3 has a “PI original painting engine” can be improved by way of a combination of hard and soft image signal to noise ratio, reducing the noise in night shoot. In addition, it also contains the “super-clear picture quality,” large-format output, multi-frame noise reduction functions. In addition, OPPO R3 has newly joined O-Video, photos and videos of things can be combined, while the transmission both to the cloud. After using O-Video when any mobile phone with a re-scan the object will automatically play the video. Here take a look OPPO R3 example photo.

OPPO R3 has the good quality camera, and the R series is more focus in the camera. The OPPO R3 can produce the good quality picture, and has nice camera features and similar with the OPPO N1 smartphone.

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OPPO has already held the big event on June 10th, 2014 at Beijing Park Art Center. The company is officially release their new smartphone OPPO N1 Mini and OPPO R3 smartphone.

As we mentioned on our recent article before, the OPPO N1 Mini is the little version from the previous OPPO N1 smartphone, the phone is packs with the same rotating camera as same as the predecessor.

The OPPO N1 Mini is using magnesium alloy body and becming the thinnest 4G smartphone on the market. The OPPO N1 Mini is offers with 2,699 price tag or about $433 USD. In addition, the company is also unveiled the OPPO R3 smartphone that offers with 2,299 yuan price or about $370 USD price tag per unit. Both phone will be available in the domesticmarket on next weekend.

OPPO N1 Mini is powered by Qualcomm quad-core processor, packs with 5-inch LCD screen, built-in 2GB of RAM and 16GB of ROM combinations, the phone has 2,410mAh battery capacity.

OPPO R3 equipped with Qualcomm quad-core processor, running at 1.6GHz clock-speed, using the in-cell screen with high light transmission characteristics. OPPO R3 is sports with 8 megapixel rear camera, and 5 megapixel front-facing camera and the lens uses blue glass filters, that has f/2.0 aperture.

Here is the detail picture:

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OPPO has been held the big event on June 10th, 2014, In addition to launch the new OPPO N1 Mini smartphone, the company is also unveiled another 4G smartphone, OPPO R3.

The new OPPO R3 bodyis  made from magnesium alloy material, with only 6.3mm of body thickness, is currently the world’s thinnest 4G smartphone on the market today.

The phone uses a rounded rectangle shape dsign, adding a surface micro-arc process, the border will have a dark hidden high light cutting line, a strong sense of unity of the fuselage.

OPPO R3 equipped with Qualcomm quad-core processor, running at 1.6GHz clock-speed, using the in-cell screen with high light transmission characteristics. OPPO R3 is sports with 8 megapixel rear camera, and 5 megapixel front-facing camera and the lens uses blue glass filters, that has f/2.0 aperture.

OPPO R3 has a “PI original painting engine” can be improved by way of a combination of hard and soft image signal to noise ratio, reducing image noise for night shoot. In addition, it also contains the “super-clear picture quality,” large-format output, multi-frame noise reduction functions.

OPPO R3 has new O-Video features, photos and videos of things can be combined, while the transmission both to the cloud. After using O-Video when any mobile phone with a re-scan the object will automatically play the video.

The new OPPO R3 support for TD-LTE 4G mobile networks, and pre-installed with Android-based custom Color OS 1.4 user interface. The phone will be on sale on the end of this month that offers with 2,299 yuan price or about $370 USD price tag per unit.

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