Oppo had launched Oppo R9s along with Oppo R9s Plus in China in October last year. It is priced at 2799 Yuan (approximately Rs 27,330) and comes in Black, Gold and Rose Gold colour variants. Later, a red colour variant was also announced by the company at the same price. Following this, now the company has unveiled another new Green colour variant as well in China via Chinese micro-blogging website, Weibo. The price, however, has not been revealed by the company but we expect it to be the same as of other variants.
It is also to be noted that the Green colour variant was leaked in a marketing poster that was spotted in China. The R9S new green variant will be available for purchase from March 19th. The availability of the same in global markets in unknown at the moment.
The new colour variant has the same set of specifications as the existing variants. Oppo R9s offers a 5.5-inch display with full HD (1080 x 1920 pixels) IPS 2.5D curved glass display with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection. It is powered by a 2GHz octa-core Snapdragon 625 processor and Adreno 506 GPU. It has 4GB RAM, 64GB internal memory and 128GB expandable memory via micro SD card slot. The smartphones run on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow operating system with ColorOS 3.0 on the top of it and is backed up by a 3,100 mAh battery with VOOC Flash Charge. There is also fingerprint sensor embedded into the physical home button on the front.
The Oppo R9s flaunts a 16-megapixel shooter on the back with f/1.7 aperture, 1/2.8″ sensor, 6P lens, EIS, LED Flash, 4K video recording and a 16-megapixel selfie camera. On the connectivity front, the device offers Hybrid Dual SIM, 4G LTE with VoLTE, Bluetooth 4.1 and GPS. The handset measures 153 x 74.3 x 6.58 mm and weighs 145 grams.