The new phone, N1, has a swivel 13-megapixel camera that can be
turned facing forward or backward, which Oppos says is superior to front
mounted cameras. It also has a touch panel on the back of the cheap phones for sale
to make self-portraits easier.The company has sold close to 3 million
units of Find 5 in China alone. Released this February, the model was
not the bestselling among the company’s portfolio, but “considering its
3000-yuan (HK$3,785) price tag, selling 3 million units is remarkable,”
Lau said.
The rest of Oppo’s phones are priced between 1,000 yuan and 3,000 yuan.“Anyway, we are sure to sell more than 15 million cheap phones for sale
this year, with at least three million being the Find 5.”A recent IDC
survey said Samsung led, with 17.6 per cent, and Chinese brands,
including Lenovo (12.3 per cent), Yulong (12.2 per cent), ZTE (8.7 per
cent), Huawei (8.6 per cent), and Xiaomi, all comfortably surpassing
Apple.
Lau
said the new phone would help Oppo expand globally, especially in
developing markets, including Indonesia and Thailand, where “not a lot
of phones have been sold, but our brand is building up,” he said.“What
makes us different from other Chinese phone makers is that we put most
of our efforts in our products. We aren’t too cosy with the media – we
met the press the first time only last year,” he said.
Oppo was
founded in 2008, and broke even in the same year, Lau said.
The company
said its new phone’s camera applications allowed photos to be taken with
a swipe of the back of the phone’s sensor.At a launch event in Beijing
on Monday, presenters said the swivel camera - which can rotate 206
degrees - would also come in handy when users wanted to take
surreptitious photos.m3Dddsq
“It will be useful when you come across a stunning woman on the street and wish to take a photograph of her, but pointing your cheap phones for sale at
her would seem rude,” a presenter said. “You can just rotate the
camera.”The phone, N1, is said to be the first Android-powered
smartphone with a six-piece lens design – conventional smartphones only
boast five - and offers real-time video conferencing.
“It’s a
dream phone for many people now who love to take great pictures of
themselves - you don’t even have to photoshop them,” another presenter
said.Maybe it says something about our society that a major, pressing
issue for people is whether they have to shut off their cellphones for
two ten-minute periods, a few times per year.
Pressure has been
mounting of the Federal Aviation Administration to change rules
requiring that all electronic devices be turned off during takeoff and
landing — the periods during which even slight anomalies in
instrumentation could cause potentially disastrous results. The problem
is that the evidence that a cell phone or GameBoy could cause such
anomalies has long been questioned. This week, the FAA is expected to
finalize its recommendation to heed this fact and relax the restrictions
on the use of cell phones at any point in a flight.
Appraising
smartphone intellectual property is notoriously difficult, as Google
discovered when it massively overpaid for Motorola’s patents in its
$12.5bn acquisition in 2011. At that time the cheap phones industry’s patent wars were at their most ferocious, with rivals suing each other all over the world.
We
know high megapixel counts don’t always guarantee great image quality,
but the 1020 can actually deliver better images than most smartphones
and even the cheapest of point-and-shoot cameras because of the
aforementioned large sensor, allowing for more light per pixel.
Overall,
as a smartphone, the 1020 comes the closest to matching the quality of
standalone point-and-shoot cameras while still staying relatively slim
and compact (versus the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom, see below). In casual
photography, smartphones aren’t completely trumping regular cameras yet,
but the 1020, which we think is the best cheap phones for sale camera currently available, is only the beginning of what’s to come.
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