One of the world’s largest phone makers, Oppo, announced the R17 not long ago, with one of the most minimalistic, “water drop” style notches around, and the first phone with Corning’s Gorilla Glass 6. It just released the Pro version, too, with the same tiny notch and in-display finger scanner, but a triple-camera setup.
The new 3D technology, called ToF (Time of Flight), is used in navigation and mapping, which will be adopted in the gaming sector.
Chinese smartphone vendors, including Huawei, Oppo and Vivo, all invest heavily in innovation to offer consumers diversified products, as the domestic market is close to saturation point.
Oppo’s new models, R17 and R17 Pro, which were released in Shanghai on Thursday night, feature three cameras, including a ToF 3D stereo camera.
The phones include AI features such as 3D Portrait and AI beautification to automatically detect the environment and adapt the shooting settings. Meanwhile, they feature a 6.4-inch screen and super-fast charging, which can charge 40 percent of the phone’s battery capacity within just 10 minutes.
As for the internals of the phone, the Oppo R17 Pro comes fitted with Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 clocked at 2.2 GHz and Adreno 616 for graphics processing needs. On the memory front, the R17 Pro features 8GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. There is no support for microSD expansion.
Coming to the optics department, the Oppo R17 Pro comes with a 25MP front camera housed in a tiny notch at the front with an aperture of f/2.0. Moving to the rear, the triple camera setup makes a comeback in the R17 Pro after appearing for the first time in Huawei P20 Pro. The primary sensor in the setup is a 12MP CMOS unit with a variable aperture of f/1.5-f/2.4, similar to the one seen on Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy S9+. It comes with dual pixel PDAF and optical image stabilisation (OIS) too. The rest of the triple camera setup comprises a 20MP sensor with f/2.6 aperture and auto focus, and a TOF 3D stereo camera.
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