Oppo A71 Price Cut in India

Oppo A71 was launched in India back in September last year. The smartphone at launch was priced at Rs. 12,990, and has since seen a drop to Rs. 10,990 for its market operating price (MOP). Gadgets 360 has learnt that the smartphone is available at Rs. 9,990 (MOP) via offline retailers, with the new market operating price effective from Wednesday, January 24. Notably, the price drop is not yet visible on Amazon India or Flipkart, where the smartphone is still listed at Rs. 11,990, while Paytm Mall still lists it at Rs. 12,290. We’ve reached out for a statement from Oppo India, and will update this space when we hear back.

Prior to the India launch in September, the Oppo A71 was seen listed on the Oppo Pakistan and Oppo Malaysia sites. The Oppo A71 is a dual-SIM (Nano) smartphone that features a metal unibody and 4G VoLTE calling technology. The smartphone runs on Android 7.1 Nougat based ColorOS 3.1 custom skin. It is powered by a 64-bit octa-core 1.5GHz MediaTek MT6750 SoC coupled with 3GB of RAM and Mali T860 GPU. The Oppo A71 sports a 5.2-inch HD (720×1280 pixels) TFT display.

For photography, the Oppo A71 boasts of a 13-megapixel camera with 1/3.06-inch sensor size, LED flash, PDAF, and an f/2.2 aperture on the rear side. For selfies, the smartphone has a 5-megapixel front camera with an f/2.4 aperture. Oppo says that the rear camera on A71 is equipped with “Multi-Frame Denoising technology, making for clearer pictures under low light conditions, with greater details and more realistic colours.” Even though the smartphone doesn’t carry a dual camera setup, Oppo claims that the cameras offered in A71 are capable of producing Bokeh effect for portraits.

Oppo’s A71 bears 16GB of inbuilt storage that is expandable via microSD card (up to 256GB). The connectivity options include 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.0, 3.5mm audio jack, and Micro-USB (with OTG). The sensors on board include accelerometer, ambient light sensor, digital compass, and a proximity sensor. The smartphone gets its juice from a 3000mAh battery that supports fast charging functionality. The Oppo A71 measures 148.1×73.8×7.6mm and weighs 137 grams.