Oppo, the Chinese tech giant, is working on bringing another smartphone to its R-series. Rather, the company will bring two new smartphones this time, the Oppo R15 and R15 Plus. R15 Plus being the larger variant of the two having a larger display and a larger battery. Interestingly, the R15 and R15 Plus will be two more smartphones adding to the Android smartphones with Notch category.
Apple has started the trend of having a notch up front. Companies like Asus and Oppo are following up on that. In this era of bezel-less displays, OEM's need to find a location for the front-facing camera. These companies are taking the notch approach while Samsung leaves a bit of bezel on the top as well as the bottom. Even Essential Phone, an Android smartphone, has a notch for just the front-facing camera.
Recent rumours also suggest that the next OnePlus flagship, OnePlus 6 will carry a notch up front. This might mean that in the near future, many more Android smartphone manufacturers will have a notch on their smartphones.
Coming back to the Oppo R11, the leaked pictures of the smartphone was spotted on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website. In these images, the smartphone is having minimal bezels and has a notch up front carrying the earpiece, camera and some sensors. The Weibo listing further claims that the Oppo R15 and R15 Plus will first launch in China. As the R11 never made it to India, it is difficult to say weather R15 will make its way to India or not.
Another report claims that the Oppo R15 and R15 Plus will be powered by the MediaTek Helio P60 SoC. The Helio P60 processor featrues four Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2 GHz and four A53 cores also at 2 GHz. Graphics will be run by the Mali-G72 MP3 GPU.
