Oppo R17 Neo launches in Japan: its first phone with in-display fingerprint reader
Japan often gets cool tech gadgets first, but not this time it just got its first phone with an in-display fingerprint reader and its late to that particular party. The phone itself is quite interesting the Oppo R17 Neo.
For the most part its based on the Oppo R17. That means a 6.4 AMOLED display with a teardrop notch and 1080p+ resolution, which houses the fingerprint reader in question. The back is painted in two new gradient colors.
The computational power of the phone took a bit of a hit. The Oppo R17 Neo has a Snapdragon 660 chipset (down from S670) with 4GB of RAM (down from 6-8GB). The storage remains at 128GB and the microSD card slot is still here.
The camera changed too the main module on the back still has a 16MP sensor, but the depth sensor is now at 2MP (down from 5MP). Not a huge loss, but note the different design. The selfie camera remains a 25MP shooter.
Oppo R17 Neo (left) and Oppo R17 (right)
This could be a mistake but the Neo is much lighter than the vanilla R17 156g vs. 182g. Thats even though it has a slightly larger battery, 3,600mAh. It could be a mistake on the sellers page, otherwise it would mean that Oppo changed the phones construction (which seems unlikely).
The Oppo R17 Neo is available on contract for JPY 3,218 a month or JPY 38,988 total ($345/305). Thats quite a discount on the vanilla R17.
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