There's something magical about holding the Oppo R5, a phone so impossibly thin that you wonder how it functions at all. If you had any doubts about the design chops of rising Chinese phone ...

Oppo recently held a press conference in Singapore and announced company’s new Oppo N3 flagship. That’s not all this Chinese manufacturer announced though, Oppo R5 was also showcased next to Oppo’s ...

The iPhone 6 looks chubby compared to this startup's new Android phone. China-based Oppo recently unveiled its new R5 smartphone, which is more than two millimeters thinner than Apple's iPhone 6. The ...

The Oppo R5 is the thinnest smartphone you can buy. It's 4.85mm thin, which is more than two millimeters slimmer than the iPhone 6. I've been using the $445 Oppo R5 for about a week, and it truly is a ...

Aloysius Low is a Senior Editor at CNET covering mobile and Asia. Based in Singapore, he loves playing Dota 2 when he can spare the time and is also the owner-minion of two adorable cats. Android fans ...

While it’s now only the second thinnest smartphone in the world, you’d think the 4.9 mm OPPO R5 would be flimsy, delicate and brittle. In an attempt to show that the phone is none of these, OPPO takes ...

This article originally appeared on Vulcan Post. Earlier this year, we talked about OPPO being the new smartphone contender in Southeast Asia. OPPO has seen even further success, and has just launched ...

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Before the fight for the biggest screen size, prior to the battle for the best specs or camera, there was the one great, very volatile feature phone manufacturers warred over: thinness. The R5 is Oppo ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ewan Spence covers the digital worlds of mobile technology. Strictly speaking, while the Oppo R5 is the thinnest smartphone you ...

Oppo unveiled a rather impressive set of smartphones yesterday, and the best part is that it’s not just a couple of high end phones either. While the Oppo N3, the successor to the Oppo N1 from last ...

The OPPO R5 is beautifully crafted, elegantly designed, and is one of the thinnest smartphones in the world, but OPPO’s choice of form over function comes with a cost. Oppo isn’t the most well-known ...