Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has announced that a Soft Gold color variant of its latest device - the OnePlus 3 smartphone - will be available in India this coming Oct. 1.

The Soft Gold variant, which was first launched in Canada, Europe and Hong Kong on Aug. 1, will go on sale in the country on Saturday, and will be exclusively available via Amazon India.

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The device will still have the same price tag (approximately Rs. 27,999 / $420) with the Graphite variant that was launched in India June this year.

The OnePlus 3 smartphone features a 5.5-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels resolution) Optic AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass 4 protection and powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor paired with a massive 6GB of LPDDR4 RAM onboard.

It also sports a built-in 64GB internal memory (not expandable, though) and 16-megapixel rear camera with a Sony IMX298 sensor, f/2.0 aperture, OIS, EIS and PDAF autofocus. The 8-megapixel camera, on the other hand, boasts of Sony IMX179 sensor that supports f/2.0 aperture and fixed focus lens.

The camera of OnePlus 3, which will hit India by Saturday, is also capable of video recording up to 4K resolution and supports Smile Capture mode. 

The new handset from the Chinese manufacturer runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow operating system, OxygenOS user interface, and comes with a non-removable 3000mAh capacity battery that is bundled with a Dash Charge adapter.

Connectivity of OnePlus 3 smartphone includes 4G LTE Cat, Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, NFC, 3.5mm audio jack, USB Type-C port and GPS/ A-GPS, all packed in a unit that only measures 152.7 x 74.7 x 7.35 mm and weighs 158 grams.

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