Oppo A37 is official: Snapdragon 410 and 8MP/5MP camera duo for $199

Oppo has announced a new entrant in its budget-minded A-series. The Oppo A37 will be priced around the $199 mark, with specific numbers varying by market, and has all the basics covered.

The A37 sports a 5-inch 720p IPS LCD, and despite its position in the company lineup, it still has 2.5D curved edges and a layer of Gorilla Glass 4 on top.

The handset is powered by a Snapdragon 410 chipset, there's 2GB of RAM on board and internal storage is 16GB. It may not be much, but storage can be expanded by up to 128GB via microSD and the best part is that there's a dedicated slot for the purpose - Oppo has fitted a triple-card slot so you can have a couple of nanoSIMs and a microSD card inside all at the same time.

Oppo's press material stresses the phone's photography prowess, though that may be a bit of an overstatement. The primary shooter on the back uses an 8MP Type 1/3.2" sensor rated to an f/2.2 lens, while on the front it's a 5MP Type 1/4" f/2.4 setup. While the pixel count is nothing spectacular, the individual pixel size of 1.4μm might actually mean good performance in less than ideal light. There's a mandatory beautification feature, and a screen flash, plus an Ultra HD mode that creates 24MP images from the rear camera.

  


The smartphone measures 143.1 x 71 x 7.7mm and weighs 136g with a 2,630mAh battery inside. The Android version is 5.1 Lollipop with Oppo's own ColorOS 3.0 on top.

The Oppo A37 is already available in Singapore for $215. Indonesia will get it next, starting June 25 with other markets to follow.

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About
	Full name	Oppo A37
	Manufacturer	Oppo
	Model	A37
	Type	Smartphone

Launch
	Release Date	April, 2016

Oppo A37 Price in INR / dollars / Prijs Prix preço цена rega: Tunisia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belgium, Libya, Maldives, Antigua and Barbuda, Hong Kong, Jordan, Guyana, Cote d-Ivoire, prezzo in Italy, Ukraine, Thailand, Paraguay, Peru, Solomon Islands, Ghana, Bolivia, Korea, Ireland, Harga in Indonesia, cena Czech Republic, Belize, Macau, Republic of the, Angola, South, Swaziland, Madagascar, San Marino, Tajikistan, Estonia, Samoa, Cuba, Central African Republic, Venezuela, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Trinidad and Tobago, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Eritrea, Switzerland, Austria, Uruguay,Chennai Delhi Bangalore Kolkata Hyderabad UP Pune Mumbai Albania, precio Spain, Vietnam, Yemen, Kuwait, India, Sao Tome and Principe, Chile, Poland, Croatia, Mauritius, Vanuatu, Burundi, Australia, Greece, Hungary, Fiji, Honduras, Congo, Bulgaria, Colombia, Denmark, Micronesia, Suriname, Cameroon, Liberia, Oman, Burkina Faso, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Kenya, Sudan, Lesotho, New Zealand, Algeria, Seychelles, Ecuador, Panama, Dominican Republic, Moldova, Burma, Kiribati, North, Mexico, Barbados, The Bahrain, China, Egypt, Serbia, Portugal, South Sudan, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Zambia, Senegal, Papua New-Guinea, Malawi, Syria, Gambia, South Korea, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Cape Verde, Andorra, France, Namibia, Guinea, Tanzania, Finland, Israel, Romania, Laos, Slovakia, South Africa, Aruba, Qatar, Democratic Republic of the, Russia, Turkey, Uganda, Guatemala, Slovenia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Chad, Belarus, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, Norway, The Georgia, Bhutan, Nigeria, Japan, Mongolia, Botswana, Dominica, Azerbaijan, Iran, Palestinian Territories, Singapore, Kosovo, Armenia, Togo, Mauritania, Brazil, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Preis Germany, Grenada, Palau, East Timor (see Timor-Leste), Ethiopia, Sint Maarten, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Netherlands Antilles, Malta, Mozambique, Curacao, Haiti, North Korea, Comoros, Morocco, Cyprus, Pakistan, Korea, Iceland, Canada, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Marshall Islands, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Brunei, Costa Rica, Montenegro, Luxembourg, Mali, Benin, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nepal, United Arab Emirates, Jamaica, Somalia, Guinea-Bissau, Lebanon, Djibouti, Taiwan, Bahamas, Nicaragua, Lithuania, Holy See, Congo, Saudi Arabia, Nauru, Netherlands, Monaco, Latvia, Argentina, United Kingdom, Macedonia and Zimbabwe

Price
	MRP in India	14999 INR
	Price in USA $	227 USD
	Price in UK £	147 GBP
	in Canadian Dollar	299 CAD
	in Australia	319 AUD
	in EURO	202 EUR

Oppo A37 Specifications

Network
	Technology	GSM / HSPA / LTE
	Frequency Bands	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 ; HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100 ; LTE 4G TD/FDD-LTE
	Speed	4G
	GPRS	Yes, Class 12
	EDGE	Yes

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Body
	Dimensions	143.1 x 71 x 7.68 mm
	Weight	140 grams
	SIM	Dual SIM

Display
	Type	IPS LCD
	Size	5.0 inch
	Resolution	720 x 1280 pixels
	Touch	Yes
	Protection

Platform
	OS	Android
	Soft Version	v5.1 Lollipop
	Chipset	Mediatek MT6750
	CPU	1.5GHz  Octa-core Cortex-A53
	GPU	Mali-T860MP2

Memory
	Expandable	microSD, up to 128 GB (Hybrid, uses SIM 2 slot)
	Internal / ROM	16GB
	RAM	2GB

Camera
	Rear Camera	8MP
	Features	LED flash, touch to focus, Auto focus, HDR
	Video Recording	1080p at 30fps
Front Camera	5MP

Sound / Video
	Fm Radio	No
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes
Video playback	Full HD

Connectivity
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band
	Bluetooth	v4.1, A2DP, LE
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
	USB	microUSB v2.0
	USB OTG
	Other	NFC

Sensors
	Sensors	Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, ambient light
	SAR

Battery
	Battery	Non-removable 2550mAh
	Stand-by
	Talk time

Colors
	Colors	White,Rose Gold / Black

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A Wearable tablet belongs To a sci-fi movie ?!!!

If you thought smartwatches were too big for your wrist, wait until you see this. The Rufus Cuff is a wearable Android tablet designed for your forearm. And it’s so crazy it just might work.

You don't need to view the Rufus Cuff with sunglasses, but you will look cooler. / © Rufus Labs

Running Android KitKat, the Rufus Watch features a 3.2-inch display, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, built-in microphone, and a front-facing camera (helping you to make those video calls). It's a standalone product which doesn't require smartphone pairing but which will allow users to do many of the same processes. 

The Rufus Cuff was successfully funded on IndieGoGo way back in May, 2014 with the wearable exceeding its funding goal of $200,000 and closing around $490,983. Last week, pre-orders went live on the official site, which suggests the final release is just around the corner.

Say what you will, the Rufus Cuff is certainly unique. / © Rufus Labs

The 3.2-inch Rufus Watch isn’t exactly compact and with a TI Cortex A9 Processor, 400x240 pixel display and unspecified RAM, I suspect it’s not especially powerful, either. It's not going to be an alternative to smartphones but it could be a genuine competitor to smartwatches.

Firstly, the larger, rectangular touchscreen may be better for typing and viewing media content. The default format for videos is 16:9 widescreen and webpages are generally rectangular too: most smartwatches can't compete with this. What's more, the Rufus Cuff taps into a certain retro aesthetic that may appeal to people: it's a chunky, wrist-mounted gadget the likes of which has often been seen on science fiction TV shows. 

However, Rufus Labs might be targeting corporations before consumers, with this recently released promo video revealing the potential uses for it within the workplace:  

The Rufus Cuff can be pre-ordered at the Rufus Labs store in three color variants starting at $299 for the 8 GB internal storage version, and running all the way up to $438 for the 64 GB version.

Though $299 might strike you as expensive for a wearable, the ability to make video calls and watch video content in the correct format – as well as type more accurately and use Android KitKat rather than Android Wear – already make this more appealing to me than most smartwatches

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iOS 10 will let you delete built-in Apple apps

I spent two hours straight blogging about everything Apple was going change with the launch of it's new software, and yet it hid the best bit of iOS 10.

You can finally uninstall the Stocks app on the iPhone. I'll just let that sink in. At last. We're free from its tyranny, sitting there upon its throne, not caring if it was stuck away in some folder because IT KNEW that you were unable to get rid of it.

When notifications came to iOS, there it was again. Showing you information on financial things you have no idea about, a bunch of cascading lines that offer something to do with money but you're just here to play Candy Crush.

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Maybe Apple is being kept prisoner by Stocks, and this move is its last desperate attempt to free itself from the chains of this previously impervious app, having to dribble the news out on a support page in iOS 10.

Of course this move is bigger than just the removal of stocks: you can drop all the pre-installed Apple apps on your iPhone, taking back the space you paid for but were unable to access. Never listen to Podcasts? Cast it out. Not much of a math fan? Calculate the optimum time to delete Calculator. Perfectly able to work out where you are? Jettison the Compass and Apple Maps without a look back.

You can delete reams of these apps, freeing up so much space. While you'll lose all your user data (which is hardly unexpected) you'll still be able to get them back if you accidentally get rid of Notes and feel the need to sketch some rude pics using the Apple Pencil on your iPad - they'll be instantly added to your suite of apps that offer the little 'cloud with an arrow underneath' icon.

Obviously there's a few built in bits and pieces that you can't get rid of: Camera, Phone and Messages all remain due to their importance on the core functionality of the phone. Although that still feels a bit unfair - surely as long as you can prove you've got one messaging app or camera choice on there, you should be able to get rid of the old ones?

Then again, if you don't have the Messages app that could cause a lot of issues when people try to send you a missive, so rather than deal with that it makes sense for Apple to have mandated you must always have a portal for messages coming over the airwaves.

There's still one weird interloper though: Game Center, one of the least-used apps in my life, gets a stay of execution. While I know it's the central point for a lot of apps, it doesn't seem to be something that's so core you'd need to keep it around.

Perhaps it's part of the process of installing some games, and ripping it out would cause them to fall apart. Or maybe the developer of it has pictures of key Apple personnel in compromising positions.

I've still got a few questions though: if I get rid of Mail, will Gmail become my default app? Why can I not get rid of Safari but Music, iTunes Store and Contacts are fair game? And by making these their own apps, will they be pushed differently on the App Store and updated more often?

It's important to note that some things won't work when you uninstall some apps: delete the Watch app when you're still paired to a timepiece (why you'd want to do that is unclear) will tell you remove the connection first. If you don't have Podcasts, you can't listen to podcasts on CarPlay (surprise). If you remove the Weather app, none of the places in the iPhone that showed the weather (like the notifications bar) won't be able to do so either.

But that's it. Those tiny issues are the only places that you'll need to worry about, and it's worth it to have the thought of a phone so uncluttered that it only has six or seven apps on the home screen, with no folders in sight. A clean utopia where you no longer feel the itch that you should be thinking about a financial portfolio, simply to justify the existence of the Stocks app in your life.

It's here people. We're free.

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