Just announced at an event in China, the OPPO R9 and R9 Plus carry a high-resolution front-facing camera as the major feature. Both the devices come with a 16-megapixel selfie shooter, as opposed to the same on R9 Plus while a 13MP rear camera on the back of R9.
Having a similar design language, the R9 and R9 Plus have quite a lot of differences with the internal specs. Let’s talk about each device in particular.
OPPO R9
The phone is smaller in the two. the device comes with a 5.5-inch AMOLED display with Full HD resolution. One of the major factors about the screen is the thin bezel around the display, which is as thin as 1.66mm. The device is powered by MediaTek Helio P10 chipset (octa-core 2.0 GHz), 4GB of RAM and 64GB internal storage. The Dual SIM phone has as hybrid second SIM slot that can allow a MicroSD card with up to 128GB capacity.
For the front camera, it is a 16-megapixel shooter with F/2.0 aperture and a 78.1-degree field of view. The rear camera is a 13-megapixel shooter with F/2.2 aperture and a 80.6-degree field of view, along with an LED flash support. The R9 comes with a 2850 mAh battery, and it has Bluetooth 4.0, a notable difference from the R9 Plus.
OPPO R9 Plus
This is the higher-end variant that comes with a 6-inch Full HD AMOLED display, with the side bezels being just a little wider at 1.76mm, but thanks to the larger screen size, the screen-to-body ratio of the R9 Plus is a good 79.3% when compared to the 77.7% in the R9.
An octa-core chipset, Snapdragon 652 is what powers the device along with 4GB of RAM and 64GB internal storage, and there is a variant with 128GB storage as well. But if that isn’t enough, just like the R9, the R9 Plus has a hybrid second SIM slot.
While the camera on the front is the same as in R9, the Plus has a 16MP rear camera with F/2.0 aperture (Sony IMX298) and it is a six-element lens, capable of recording 4K videos, thanks to not just a good camera module but the chipset supporting it. There’s a 4120 mAh battery packed into the device. It is Bluetooth 4.1 version given in this device.
What’s common in both, R9 and R9 Plus
Both the devices have a fingerprint sensor, Samsung-ish, with the location being below the display, unlike how it was placed on the back in R7 Plus.
The R9 and R9 Plus have VOOC Flash Charge support.
Both the devices run Android 5.1.1 Lollipop OS, with OOPO’s customized UI layered over it.
Price and Availability of R9 and R9 Plus
The OPPO R9 is priced at CNY 2799 and the device is available for pre-order now and the shipping will begin on March 24th while the OPPO R9 Plus is priced at CNY 3299 for the 64GB variant and the shipping is from April 12th. There is no information about its global price and availability.
