OPPO unveils new Selfie ExpertF3 Plus with dual selfie camera

OPPO India Global VP and President Sky Li (centre) flanked by Bollywood superstar Deepika Padukone (right) and renowned Indian photographer DabbooRatnani 

The ever-evolving global smartphone brand OPPO, kick started the ‘Group Selfie’ trend last week by launching the new Selfie Expert F3 Plus.

The F3 Plus features the brand’s first dual front selfie camera including a first-ever120-degree wide-angle Group Selfie Camera. The F3 Plusfirst sale will be on 1 April in all regions across Sri Lanka.

OPPO’s New Brand Ambassador, youth icon and Bollywood superstar Deepika Padukone and renowned Indian photographer Dabboo Ratnani also shared their own selfie experience with OPPO F3 Plus during the event.

OPPO F3 Plus delivers great selfie photos through the revolutionary dual selfie front cameras: a 16-megapixel camera for selfie and a 120-degree wide-angle lens for group selfie. The rear camera is co-developed with Sony, equipped with a customised IMX398 sensor for serious photography. The F3 Plus is a high-end smartphone that is efficient, long-lasting, secure and beautiful, addressing today’s highly-demanding mobile-first world. 

“OPPO is an industry leader in the Selfie Revolution with the recent ‘Selfie Experts’ F-series. Our brand has been growing rapidly across Southeast Asia and other regions around the world. As per the GFK data, we became the No.2 smartphone brand in India offline market last year. The dual selfie camera F3 Plus will mark a new ‘Group Selfie’ trend and reinforce our position as the Selfie Expert,” said Sky Li, Global VP & President of OPPO India.

Set to be the next ultimate ‘Selfie Expert’, the F3 Plus features dual front selfie camera. The 16-megapixel front camera builds upon the technology offered by the earlier ‘Selfie Expert’ F1s. At the core of this camera is a 1/3-inch sensor, which helps increase light exposure and clarity to images. The large f/2.0 aperture allows for great depth-of-field effects – clear foreground focus matched with the perfect amount of background blurriness.

In becoming the ‘Group Selfie’ secret weapon, the F3 Plus has a specialised 120-degree wide-angle8MP camera which captures a wider view, 105% more than a regular 80-degree lens field of view. This allows seven more people to enter the frame with minimised lens distortion, thanks to the 6P camera lens. The camera also packs an eight-megapixel camera featuring a ¼-inch sensor.

By built-in Smart Facial Recognition, F3 Plus will notify users to switch to ‘Group Selfie’ mode if there are more than three persons in the frame. Users can snap their Group Selfie at ease, without compromising image stability when taking selfie with one hand.

The outstanding rear camera offers professional and high-end photography performance with fast focusing speed, noise reduction and advanced low-light performance. Powering the 16-megapixel rear camera is a brand-new 1/2.8-inch IMX398 sensor. This sensor is jointly developed by OPPO and Sony, which features Dual PDAF – dual phase detection autofocus technology. 

This next technology doubles the sensor’s pixel array area that’s filled with photodiodes, necessary for phase detection autofocus. This makes for 40% faster focusing speeds even in low light. Paired with the large f/1.7 aperture, the resulting images are clear and breath-taking. 

There are other innovative technologies packed into the F3 Plus to help users capture picture-perfect, flawless selfies. OPPO’s pioneering beautification editing software, Beautify 4.0, will allow users to choose from various beautification modes, ensuring images presenting the favourable effects.  

Extended daily usage is another of the device’s core features. The 4,000 mAh built-in battery gives the F3 Plus a standby time of more than 284 hours. Through OPPO’s proprietary and industry leading rapid VOOC Flash Charge Solution, the battery will charge four times faster than standard batteries. Users can get up to two hours of talk time with just five minutes of charging. 

The OPPO F3 Plus is fast, utilising an octa-core processor backed by 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM. It also offers a dual-slot card tray that can hold two nano 4G SIM cards or one nano SIM card with a microSD card, expanding memory to up to 256GB. OPPO’s leading optimised ColorOS 3.0 system ensures superb speed with less energy consumption and flawless performance with built-in Privacy Protection feature and Avast-based virus scanner. 

Privacy protection and security is also a top priority. The F3 Plus’ Lightning-Fast Touch Access is undoubtedly one of the quickest in the market. The home-button fingerprint reader in the F3 Plus unlocks the phone in a mere 0.2s. The fingerprint reader is even more versatile with the fingerprint-activated calling and app launch functions. 

Users can enjoy the flexibility to multi-task and ‘work hard, snap hard’, all on one smartphone – seamlessly, securely, with a long battery life. The F3 Plus is constructed with a metal unibody and carefully crafted for a better sense of hand-gripping, resulting in a sleek and thin smartphone that is a wonder to hold. The 6-inch, 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass 5 screen features a pre-applied protective screen coating, giving it an elegant, classy and premium look while retaining unmatched durability.

The six-string ultra-fine antenna is re-thinking design by OPPO, removing the ubiquitous, thick pair of white antenna lines of smartphone and make the back shell a stunning look.

The F3 Plus comes in Gold and Black. Priced at Rs. 69,990, the Gold variant of the F3 Plus will be available from 1 April in OPPO stores across Sri Lanka. Pre-orders are open now till 31 March. There is also a black variant for the F3 Plus which will be available later.