Oppo has announced a new Special Edition for its flagship smartphone, the Oppo R15. The limited edition variant of the smartphone is dubbed as ‘Oppo R15 Nebula Special Edition’ and has been created in collaboration with popular Egyptian designer Karim Rashid. Oppo R15 and Oppo R15 Dream Mirror Edition were launched in China in March this year.
The Oppo R15 Nebula Special Edition is priced at 2999 Yuan which is approximately Rs 31,900 and 3199 Yuan which is approximately Rs 34,130 if you also buy custom-designed JBL earphones.
The rear of the Oppo R15 Nebula Special Edition comes with blue-pink-red colour gradient that glows in light, as well as the designer’s signature engraved at the bottom.
In terms of the specifications, the new device comes with similar specifications as those found in the Oppo R15 existing edition. Oppo R15 is equipped with a 6.28-inch Full HD+ OLED display with an Apple iPhone X-like notch and an aspect ratio of 19:9. The phone is powered by octa-core MediaTek Helio P20 processor clocked at 2.0 GHz along with Mali-G72 MP3 GPU. The phone is backed by a 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internals storage, which can be further expanded up to 256GB via microSD card slot.
On the camera front, the phone is backed by a dual camera setup at the rear. The primary camera is of 16-megapixel with f/1.7 aperture, Sony IMX519 sensor, 1.22-micron Pixel size, Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS), while the secondary camera comes with a 5-megapixel sensor with f/2.2 aperture. For the front, there is a 20-megapixel shooter for selfies and video calling. The Oppo R15 is backed by a 3450mAh battery with VOOC Flash charging, which the brand claims can offer Talk time of 2 hours with 5 minutes of charge.
It runs on Android 8.1 Oreo, which is based on Color OS 5.0 and on the connectivity front, it supports 4G VoLTE, WiFi, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, USB Type-C and Dual-SIM support. The Oppo R15 measures 155.1 × 75.2 × 7.4mm and weighs 175 grams.