Oppo Find X Launch, Nokia X6 and Redmi Pro 6 Coming Soon, Jio v Airtel, and More News This Week

The week just past had some big launches, such as the Oppo Find X, and as usual, the telecom sector had its share of updates, with numerous new plans and offers being announced for subscribers. The week also introduced some anticipation for the imminent India launch of the Nokia X6 - HMD Global's latest smartphone that has so far been exclusive to China. Google also finally made good on its promise to introduce a Web interface for Android Messages. Apple finally acknowledged a MacBook keyboard issue affecting some users, and offered free fixes and refunds. Also of note was the rollout of WhatsApp's group video and voice calling functionality for Android beta users.

Let's start with the Oppo Find X. The Chinese company's latest flagship was unveiled on Tuesday, and it has a new "innovation" in an attempt to provide as little bezel on its display. Instead of hiding front facing sensors in a notch on top of the display, or at the bottom lip, Oppo has gone the Vivo way with a pop-up camera. The company may have gone a step further, placing both the front facing camera and the rear camera on what is being called a camera slider. The slider also contains the 3D facial scanning sensors. The Oppo Find X has no fingerprint sensor, thus the 3D face unlock feature that uses structured light tech and 15,000 dots to recognise the user is its only biometric authentication mechanism. It features an all-glass design.
The Find X also has Oppo's answer to Apple's Animoji and Samsung's AR Emoji, what it calls 3D Omoji. The AI-assisted front sensor helps create custom avatars that can mimic the user's expression. As you'd expect from a flagship, the Oppo Find X otherwise has top-end specifications. It runs on ColorOS 5.1 that's based on Android 8.1 Oreo, and features a massive 6.42-inch (1080x2340 pixels) full-HD+ AMOLED display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio and Corning Gorilla Glass 5. The company is also claiming a 93.8 percent screen-to-body ratio.
Other Oppo Find X specifications include a Snapdragon 845 SoC, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of inbuilt storage, a dual rear camera setup comprising a 16-megapixel primary sensor and a 20-megapixel secondary sensor, a 25-megapixel front camera, 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth 5 LE, GPS, USB-Type C connectivity options. The Oppo Find X dimensions are 156.7x74.3x9.4mm, it weighs 186 grams, and it comes with a 3730mAh battery with VOOC fast charging.

The Chinese company alongside the Find X also launched a special edition of the smartphone made in collaboration with the Automobili Lamborghini design house. Called the Oppo Find X Automobili Lamborghini Edition, the biggest difference between the smartphones is that the special edition comes with Super VOOC Flash Charge, said to completely charge the smartphone's 3400mAh battery in 35 minutes. It comes with twice the inbuilt storage, at 512GB.

Other differences include the use of a matte carbon fibre look on the rear panel, instead of the Find X's glossy metallic finish, complete with a Lamborghini logo. While the Oppo Find X Automobili Lamborghini Edition price was set at a whopping EUR 1,699 (roughly Rs. 1,34,400), the regular Oppo Find X price is set at EUR 999 (roughly Rs. 79,000). Both smartphones will only go on sale in August.