After a tease of the device on Wednesday, the Oppp Neo is now official, according to the Indonesian branch of the Chinese phone maker. At first glance, one might believe the Oppo Neo to be a high-end device, but on the contrary, it is actually a quite capable mid-range handset that could very well compete with many high-end smartphones on the market right now.
The Oppo Neo is built around a 4.5-inch IPS LCD display, which is extra sensitive and very similar to the high-end line of Nokia's Lumia range. What this means is that users can navigate the smartphone with their gloves on. It's a neat and useful feature, and we are ecstatic to see it brought down to the mid-range level of the spectrum.
A big disappointment is the display, which packs a rather low resolution of 854 x 480 pixels, which results in a pixel density of 217ppi. Not very impressive, to say the least, but for a mid-ranged smartphone with a 4.5-inch touch sensitive display, it'll do fine.
On the inside, the Oppo Neo is powered by a 1.3GHz dual-core CPU. However, there is no information on the company that provided the processor and the internal memory. Additionally, for a device that cost $215 to own, Oppo Neo is quite thin as it only measures 132 x 65.8 x 9.2mm. On the operating system front, the Oppo Neo runs on Android 4.2 Jellybean, with Oppo's ColorOS skin on top. Every app from the Google Play Store should work just fine.
On the back of the Oppo Neo lies a 5-megapixel camera, and a 2-megapixel camera on the front. Probably not the best of cameras for taking pictures, but that's what you expect from smartphones in the mid-range category.
For now, the Oppo Neo is aiming to take the Android smartphone world by storm with its $215 price tag when it launches in Indonesia later in the year. For those who might be interested, there's no word as of yet if the device will ever launch outside of Asia and whether it will hit stateside. If it does though, the maker might choose to go with a high-end version of the Oppo Neo instead.
