Chinese smartphone maker Oppo will possibly launch the successor to the Oppo R7 smartphone called the R9 on March 17 this year. The company recently released a video trailer on its official Weibo account with an advertisement stating that it will be organizing event on March 17.

According to one of the teasers that was posted on the company's Weibo account, the Oppo R9 smartphone's main innovation would be its camera. No other details about the camera or the smartphone's features was revealed.

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Gizmo China claims to have spotted another teaser which seemingly gives a hint that the Chinese tech company will release the smartphone during an event on March 17. While it is unclear whether Oppo will debut the R9 at the event, it is clear that the company will launch a handset that has "9" in its name.

The upcoming Oppo R9 smartphone is expected to feature a 6-inch QHD with 1440x2560 pixels resolution display. The device is likely to be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor paired with 3 GB or 4 GB of RAM. It said to come with a built-in 16 GB internal storage, which can be further expanded via a microSD card slot.

In terms of the camera, the handset might sport a 21-megapixel sensor main camera along with a 13-megapixel front-facing shooter. The device is expected to be fueled with a 3,700mAh capacity battery and will run on Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system. There is a big possibility the phone might also be equipped with the company's recently unveiled Super VOOC fast charging technology.

At the Mobile World Congress trade show last month, Oppo unveiled its latest battery technology called the Super VOOC Flash Charge, an upgrade version over its VOOC Flash Charge technology. Oppo claims that the new technology can charge a 2500mAh battery from 0 to 100 percent in just 15 minutes.

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