Oppo N1 mini featuring quad-core processor unveiled in India for Rs 26990 today

The Oppo N1 mini was scheduled to land in India today and sure enough, it has been officially unveiled with a price tag of Rs 26990 stuck to it. The company celebrated the launch of the smartphone by holding a contest on Twitter and promised that the top three winners would have ‘exciting prizes’ in store for them.

Just in case you haven’t heard it umpteen times before, the Oppo N1 mini handset is by no means a small phone considering the 5-inch display nailed to its front. One of the most unique features of this handset is the rotating camera which borrows its design inspiration from the now deceasedNokia 5700 XpressMusic (second picture).

When you swing around the Sony sensor-enhanced 13MP snapper to face you in order to click a picture, the flash unit comes along with it. This automatically makes the Oppo N1 mini a greatcamera phone for those addicted to capturing selfies because we all know how awesome flash is for erasing blemishes.

The Oppo handset arrives with 2GB of RAM and a quad core processor from Qualcomm. It works on Android layered with the company’s very own Color OS and chugs along on a 2140mAh battery. The first handset from the brand to land in India was the N1, after which others like the R1, Find 7 and Joy were released.

Oppo N1 mini main specs list:

- 16GB internal memory, 2GB RAM

- 1.6GHz quad core Snapdragon 400 chip

- 5-inch 720p HD resolution touchscreen

- Android v4.3 with Oppo Color OS

- 13MP rotating camera w/ Sony sensor

- 2140mAh battery

- 148.4 x 72.2 x 9.2 millimeters

- 151 grams

The Oppo N1 mini is supposed to have hit retail availability already, though we are yet to see it on Amazon with whom the company has tied up exclusively in India over online sales.

Oppo N1 mini coming to India this month

Chinese smartphone maker Oppo is soon going to launch Oppo N1 mini, the compact variant of its Oppo N1 smartphone, in the Indian market. Just like its bigger sibling, the N1 mini also sports a rotating camera. 

According to sources, the phone will be launched this month itself. Earlier today, Oppo also posted a teaser of the phone on its Twitter and Facebook pages.

Oppo had launched the N1 mini in the Chinese market in June, pricing it at 2699 yuan(Rs 26,600 approximately). The phone sports a 5-inch(720x1280p) display. It is powered by a 1.6GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad-core processor and 2GB RAM.

It sports a 13MP rotating camera lens with an LED flash. The camera is capable of taking 24MP pictures through the Ultra HD mode. The phone comes with 16GB internal storage but doesn't feature a microSD card slot for expansion. It has a 2140mAh battery. The phone runs Oppo's Color OS 1.4 based on Android Jelly Bean.

In terms of connectivity, the phone supports 4G LTE, 3G, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

It's worth pointing out that Gionee also offers Elife E7 Mini, a smartphone that sports a similar rotating camera lens. The phone is powered by a MediaTek octa-core processor.