Oppo R9 and R9 Plus
Despite the fact that the
previous two members of the R-series have been nothing more than mid-range in
terms of specs, the R9 was supposedly going to be a true flagship, with the
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chip powering it.
Well, that theory has now been debunked
courtesy of TENAA. The Chinese equivalent to the US FCC has certified both the
R9 and the R9 Plus for sale. As usual, this process has revealed both images of
the two handsets, as well as a list of some of their specs.
Start with the R9, it has a metal build as you can see, and it comes with a 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED
touchscreen, a 1.95 GHz octa-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, 32 GB of expandable
storage, 4G support, dual-SIM functionality, a 2,850 mAh battery, and two 16 MP
cameras - one on the front, one on the back (which also has a LED flash). It
runs Android 5.1 Lollipop. Its dimensions are 151.8 x 74.3 x 6.5 mm, and it
weighs 145 grams.
While the SoC employed isn't mentioned
by name, it's clearly not the Snapdragon 820, since that features a quad-core
CPU, not octa-core. Based on the clock speed alone, we could see MediaTek's
Helio P10 inside the Oppo R9, but that's just speculation.
Moving on to the R9 Plus, once again the fully metallic construction is obvious. This handset
sports a 6-inch 1080p AMOLED touchscreen, the same 16 MP cameras as its smaller
sibling, a 1.8 GHz octa-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of expandable storage,
a 4,120 mAh battery, dual-SIM support, and 4G LTE. Oddly, it seems to be
running Android 5.0 Lollipop, which is a rather ancient version of the OS at
this point. Its dimensions are 163 x 80.8 x 7.4 mm, and it weighs 185 grams.
If we were
to speculate, we'd assume the R9 Plus has the Snapdragon 652 inside (only based
on the CPU clock speed and number of cores).
So the R9 and R9 Plus certainly look
like solid mid-rangers, but not the flagships they've been rumored to be.
Perhaps Oppo will finally unveil the Find 9 this year then. And speaking of
unveilings, the R9 duo will go official on March 17.
