Oppo mentioned Friday that it will launch its most inexpensive 5G phone in India to date on April 20. The phone in query will be from its spending budget A series and will be known as the Oppo A74 5G.
Notably, this will be Oppo’s third 5G phone in India. But although the Reno 5 Pro and F19 Pro Plus are midrange phones, Oppo has confirmed the A74 5G will be priced under Rs 20,000.
This will bring it in competitors with spin-off brand Realme’s X7 5G and Narzo 30 Pro 5G. Realme is set to launch one more 5G spending budget phone known as the Realme 8 5G with MediaTek’s newly announced Dimensity 700 5G processor on April 22, so that is a different phone that the A74 will compete with in the days to come.
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Alongside revealing the launch timeline, Oppo has also shared a couple of hardware information. One is the style itself. The A74 will come with a punch hole show cutout and what seems to be a side-mounted fingerprint scanner. Speaking of show, Oppo has revealed the A74 will come with a 90Hz “Hyper-colour” screen for a “higher colour saturation and accuracy than the previous generation of A series.” We do not know irrespective of whether Oppo will use AMOLED or LCD at this point of time.
Contrary to Realme, Oppo is not sharing the name of the chipset that will energy the A74, so we will also have to wait and watch out on that one. There is a higher possibility it may well employ one of the Dimensity chipsets but that is just speculation.
The A74 follows close on the heels of the Oppo F19, a 4G Oppo phone with sleek style and major battery. Oppo had launched it on April 6 at a price tag of Rs 18,990. It will be fascinating to see how it differentiates among the two when it comes to pricing.
Oppo and Realme are not the only brands gearing to launch inexpensive 5G phones in India. Samsung has announced that it will launch its most inexpensive 5G phone, Galaxy M42 5G, in India on April 28. Though, hunting at the trajectory of some of the current M series phones, it is most likely that Samsung will price tag it above Rs 20,000.