OPPO R17 is officially announced: the first phone to come with Snapdragon 670

BySophia Windsor 2018-08-15 8595

On August 15th, OPPO officially announced that they will release the new smartphone OPPO R17 on Aug 23rd in Shanghai. Before launched, the R17 has been disclosed to have both pretty looks and impressive specs. Really, let’s find out.

As we know, about two months ago, OPPO launched an amazing flagship smartphone - OPPO Find X, which has brought us many surprises, such as the incredible 98.3% screen-to-body ratio,the rising camera panel, and so on.Then what's new will the OPPO R17 bring us? Will it has greater influence than the OPPO Find X on the market? Read more to get a scoop.

OPPO R17 specs

First, let's take a quick look at the OPPO R17 specs.

Product name	OPPO R17
Display	6.4-inch 1080 X 2280 pixels 19:9 ratio screen
CPU	Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 octa-core
GPU	Adreno 615
Memory	8GB ROM + 128GB ROM
Camera	16MP + 5MP dual rear cameras; 25MP front cameras
Battery	3500mAh

OPPO R17 design

Design-wise, OPPO R17 come with 6.4-inch Full HD display and a graceful waterdrop notch design. The smartphone's screen is well protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 6, a newly announced generation of Gorilla Glass that is 2X stronger than the Gorilla Glass 5.

Besides, OPPO R17 supports a light sensing screen fingerprint recognition, which not only has a built-in super sensitive element that makes the fingerprint image clearer, but also supports some online payment like Alipay and Wechat.

On the back, OPPO R17 adopts the magic gradient color design, looking pretty good and very attractive. And there are 2 color options: stream blue, neon purple.

OPPO R17 processor

OPPO R17 will be equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 processor, which is a newly launched octa-core mid-range chip, and also the first Snapdragon 600 series chip based on 10nm LPP process technology.

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OPPO R17: battery and memory

OPPO R17 is powered by a 3500mAh battery, which supports VOOC flash charge. In terms of memory, the highest memory combo of OPPO R17 can be up to 8GB RAM and 128GB ROM.

OPPO R17 camera

OPPO R17 is equipped with a 25MP front camera featuring enhanced AI beautify, which supports custom beauty function and enables to optimize settings for up to 8 kinds of modes, such as face-lift, make up, and so forth. What's more, the AI will intelligently learn your beautify habbits to make your photos more and more beatutiful.

On the back, OPPO R17 sports dual AI rear cameras, which can recognize and optimize 21 kinds of independent scenes and 800 kinds of scene combinations.