Chinese smartphone maker Oppo announced that its newest device - the Oppo A59s smartphone - is now on sale in China at 1,999 yuan (approximately $296.65 / Rs. 19,867).

The handheld device, which is available in gold and rose gold colour variants, has a number of interesting features.

The Oppo A59s smartphone comes with a metallic unibody design that makes it sleek and premium in build. It has a 5.5-inch Full HD (1280 x 720 pixels) display with a pixel density of 267ppi.

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The device is powered by an octa-core MediaTek MT6570 processor that clocked at a speed of 1.5 GHz, paired with Mali-T860 GPU for graphics. It is also equipped with a massive 4GB RAM, built-in 32GB internal storage, which can be expanded upto 128GB via MicroSD card.

The Oppo A59s smartphone sports a 13-megapixels primary shooter with f/2.0 aperture and LED flash support. Meanwhile, the front camera boasts of a 16-megapixel resolution.

The device runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system coupled with ColorOS 3.0 user interface, while fueled by a huge 3075 mAh capacity battery and Oppo's latest VOOC flash charge technology.

The Oppo A59s smartphone works on dual 4G VoLTE, W-iFi, SIM, GPS with A-GPS, Bluetooth 4.1 and a MicroUSB port. Interestingly, the device also features a fingerprint sensor into the physical home button, which the company said can unlock the device in just 0.22 seconds.

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