Chinese tech company, OPPO has quietly launched a new budget smartphone in China called OPPO A36. It carries a priced of ¥1,599 ($251) and will start shipping to customers from January 14. The new handset from the brand offers a high-refresh-rate display, a dual-camera setup, a Qualcomm processor, a matte glass finish on the rear, and a large battery.
The OPPO A36 sports a 6.56-inch LCD panel with a resolution of 1612 x 720 pixels (HD+), a 90Hz refresh rate, a 180Hz touch sampling rate, and a punch-hole at the top left corner. The screen covers 96% of the NTSC color gamut, 100% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, and its brightness can go up to 600 nits. The display has an 89.9% screen-to-body ratio, can output 16.7 million colors and has a pixel density of 269 PPI.
As far as the cameras are concerned, the OPPO A36 houses a dual-camera setup on the back consisting of a 13MP primary sensor and a 2MP depth sensor. Whereas, for selfies and video calls, it uses an 8MP shooter. As for software, the smartphone runs ColorOS 11.1 based on Android 11 out of the box and has a MicroSD card slot to further expand the storage by up to 1TB.
OPPO A36 packs a 5,000mAh battery with 10W charging with support for 10W charging. Under the hood, it is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 chipset paired with LPDDR4x RAM and UFS 2.2 storage. On the connectivity front, the smartphone supports dual-SIM, 4G, dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth 5.0. GNSS (BeiDou, GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, QZSS), USB Type-C, and 3.5mm headphone jack.
The OPPO A36 has all the required sensors like an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, gyroscope, proximity sensor, compass, and a side-mounted fingerprint sensor. As far as the size and weight are concerned, the smartphone measures 164.4 x 75.7 x 8.4mm in dimensions and weighs 185g.
As for official pricing and availability, the OPPO A36 comes in a single 8GB + 256GB memory configuration in China priced at ¥1,599 ($251). It can be availed in either of these two color options – Cloudly Black and Qingchuan Blue. The smartphone is up for pre-order at a discounted price tag of ¥1,499 ($235). It will start shipping to customers from January 14.
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