28 August 2024, Kathmandu
OPPO today announced the launch of new AI phones—Reno12 in Nepali markets—introducing a suite of industry-leading GenAI features that are set to unlock new realms of productivity and creativity.
OPPO Reno12 in Nepal
This model represents a new chapter in the history of the popular OPPO Reno Series and the first major release under OPPO’s commitment to accelerate the adoption of AI Phones.
Reno12 features a Futuristic Fluid Design and High-Strength Alloy Framework that create a stunning new look while ensuring the most robust design on the Reno Series phone yet with enhanced protection against drops, pressure, and water. The two models are also equipped with the brand-new 4nm MediaTek Dimensity 7300-Energy mobile platform co-developed by MediaTek and OPPO to deliver exceptional power efficiency. Combined with OPPO’s 80W SUPERVOOCTM Flash Charge technology and the highest energy density 5000mAh battery in Reno Series history, the new Reno12 ensures ultra-long battery life, lightning-fast charging, and up to four years of optimal battery lifespan as the Reno Series continues to push the boundaries of practicality, durability, and trend-setting style.
Accelerating the adoption of AI phones
Earlier this year, OPPO outlined its commitment to bring AI capabilities to more people beyond the confines of high-end flagship smartphones. As part of these efforts, OPPO has joined Google, Microsoft, MediaTek, Qualcomm, and other partners to accelerate the arrival of a new generation of AI Phones.
Reno12 introduces a suite of breakthrough GenAI features covering a range of everyday uses. With the newly updated AI Eraser, users can easily remove passing strangers in photos with a simple tap thanks to the feature’s ability to automatically identify unwanted people and objects.
It also comes with two AI features specifically designed to enhance group photos. AI Clear Face ensures everyone in a group shot, even those far away from the camera, is captured with exceptional clarity by restoring high-definition details like facial contour, hair, and eyebrows. AI Best Face, meanwhile, can automatically identify people in photos with blinked eyes and use advanced GenAI technology to fix them, so no group shot goes to waste.
For even more imaginative possibilities, AI Studio can create digital avatars or artistic portrait styles from just one single user photo. Users can reimagine themselves as cowboys, stars in a cyberpunk manga, or many other styles leveraging the new GenAI capabilities.
Alongside photo enhancements, Reno12 also tap into the power of AI to bring added efficiency and creativity. Built on the Google Gemini large language model (LLM), AI Toolbox is a new addition to the smart sidebar that leverages powerful recognition capabilities to understand the content displayed on the screen and recommend AI features accordingly, such as quick social media content generation or content summaries for lengthy articles. In the Recording app, users can now also use the new AI Recording Summary tool to intelligently extract text summaries from a voice record and organize them into notes, with information such as to-do lists, times, locations, and other details highlighted and formatted for improved readability.
Audaciously sleek, conspicuously solid
Taking the Reno Series firmly into the future on Reno12 is a bold, forward-looking design centered around a space-age silver exterior. The rear glass panel of Reno 12 has been crafted with OPPO’s Fluid Ripple Texture, creating a 3D-like sensation of rippling water cascading across a pond. The innovative use of the parallax effect ensures this visual sensation is achieved while maintaining the same mirror-smooth texture and feel that has become a hallmark of the Reno Series.
In addition to the new silver look, it offers two more color options. Sunset Pink on Reno12 uses OPPO’s pioneering graphic liquid crystal process to craft a fresh take on the 2024 color of the year, Peach Fuzz. For a more classic look, Matte Brown features a rich cocoa hue in a fingerprint-free finish. On Reno12 Pro, Sunset Gold and Space Brown both feature a two-tone matte-gloss design with two halves naturally separated by a chic metallic ribbon running horizontally across the back of the phone.
Both Reno12 comes with a 6.7-inch, 120Hz OLED display capable of displaying up to 1.07 billion colors while offering hardware-level low blue light eye protection. Added to this is OPPO’s Splash Touch technology, a proprietary solution that allows the screen to function correctly even when the screen or the user’s hands are wet.
Keeping this screen shielded on Reno12 is Corning® Gorilla® Glass 7i with its exceptional drop protection. The toughest protective glass ever to appear on a Reno Series phone, providing ultra-flagship level resistance against impacts, drops, bending, and scratches. With an IP65 rating, both models also provide exceptional dust and water resistance, while critical components across the phone, including openings, speakers, the USB-C port, and the SIM card tray, have been reinforced to make the phones even more waterproof.
Capture life moments with the AI Portrait Expert
Equipped with a Sony LYT-600 sensor featuring full-pixel omnidirectional autofocus and OIS, the Main Camera of Reno12 offers faster and more stable focusing for clearer shots. It also features a Portrait Mode with up to 2x zoom for easy capture of stunning bokeh-rich portraits capable of rivaling those taken using professional cameras.
Reno 12 features an enhanced Flash Snapshot, which adjusts the camera exposure process more agilely, allowing photos to capture more realistic lighting effects and natural skin tones. 4K video at 30fps is also available on both the rear and front-facing cameras for stunning high-definition video at four times the resolution of 1080p video.
Global’s debut platform delivers Reno’s best-ever power efficiency
Reno12 is the first phone to feature the custom 4nm MediaTek Dimensity 7300-Energy mobile platform. Co-developed by MediaTek and OPPO to deliver exceptional power efficiency, the new octa-core platform consists of four A78 performance cores and four A55 efficiency cores. In-depth collaboration between OPPO and MediaTek on the Dimensity 7300-Energy has also delivered breakthroughs in SoC, memory, and storage performance through the latest ColorOS Trinity Engine.
By using AI models to identify the current user scenario, Trinity Engine’s updated CPU-Vita engine can precisely allocate SoC resources, achieving lower power consumption while ensuring system stability and smoothness.
The RAM-Vita engine enhances RAM utilization to accelerate app launch speeds and switches. It can keep active background apps running for an incredible 72 hours without skipping a beat. On top of this, OPPO’s RAM Expansion can be used to convert 12GB of storage into temporary RAM, providing an extra boost of smoothness whenever needed.
Finally, the updated ROM-Vita engine now performs lossless compression on infrequently used apps, and manages duplicate files to reduce unnecessary storage use, resulting in increased storage space for user files and faster memory read/write speeds.
Longer battery life, faster charging
Targeted optimizations to the anode and cathode structure in the battery of the Reno 12 have helped to create the highest energy density 5000mAh battery yet on a Reno Series phone, providing extended battery life and over four years of optimal battery condition without increasing the size of the battery or the phone.
With support for OPPO’s 80W SUPERVOOCTM Flash Charge on both models, this battery can be charged from 1% to 32% in just ten minutes, with a mere 46 minutes needed for a full 100% charge.
Smooth, seamless, and steady connectivity
Making its way Reno12 is the latest generation of OPPO’s proprietary AI LinkBoost technology. Consisting of nine individual antennas arranged in a 360° surround architecture, AI LinkBoost can boost signal reception and optimize network selection using a system-level AI model to perform agile network switching based on the user’s network environment. For the new generation of AI LinkBoost, OPPO has also conducted extensive local testing and optimization in markets worldwide to ensure consistently stable connectivity. This includes improving network latency in areas with weak signal or busy networks, enhancing seamless switching between WiFi and cellular networks, and accelerating signal recovery speeds when exiting elevators or basements. With the world’s first TÜV Rheinland High Network Performance Certification, Reno12 is validated to deliver a smooth network experience in all tested scenarios for added confidence in its class-leading connected performance.
For situations like flying, subway commuting, or mountain hiking where mobile network coverage is unavailable, OPPO has introduced BeaconLink to Reno12. Using proprietary communications protocols, BeaconLink boosts Bluetooth transmission to enable communications at a distance of up to 200 meters, making it possible to place one-to-one voice calls in emergencies without the need for network coverage.
Pricing and availability
The Reno 12 will be available in Astro Silver and Matt brown from 28th August 2024 in Nepal. The 12GB RAM + 512 GB ROM storage variant costs Rs 65,999/-, which is available at every retailer’s store.
About OPPO
OPPO is a leading global smart device brand. Since the launch of its first mobile phone—”Smiley “Ace”—in 2008, OPPO has been in relentless pursuit of the perfect synergy of aesthetic satisfaction and innovative technology. Today, OPPO provides a wide range of smart devices spearheaded by the Find and Reno series. Beyond devices, OPPO also provides its users with ColorOS operating system and internet services such as OPPO Cloud and OPPO+. OPPO has footprints in more than 60 countries and regions, with more than 40,000 employees dedicated to creating a better life for customers around the world.
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