Oppo, on Wednesday, launched the Oppo Joy smartphone, soon after the R1 in the Indian market at Rs. 8,990 3G-enabled features. "There is a scarcity of affordable smartphones with high-end features in India. The new Oppo Joy will go a long way in bridging this gap and making more and more people enjoy the feeling of possessing a smartphone in the true sense," said, Tom Lu, CEO, Oppo India. Earlier the smartphone was launched for the Indonesian market.

The Oppo Joy, dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) smartphone comes with a 4-inch display, WVGA, 480x800 pixels resolution. The screen also flaunts a 'Gloves Mode' technology where the users can use the touchscreen while wearing gloves.

The Oppo Joy is powered by dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor, clocked at 1.3GHz with 512MB RAM and a Mali 400 GPU for graphics. The smartphone also has 4GB inbuilt storage, which can be expandable up to 32GB, through microSD card.

Oppo is also offering free 5GB cloud storage space of its own O-Cloud service. The smartphone measures 124x63x9.9 mm and weighs 125 grams.

                             

For connectivity options smartphone has, 3G HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS with 3-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and 0.3-megapixel front camera, 1700mAh battery.

OPPO smartphones are currently available in 12 major cities including New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Kolkata, Pune and Lucknow and planning for 200 service centers in the Indian mobile phone market in the next one year.

The Oppo Joy will be available in white and black colours variants.