News & Reviews:   Oppo F5 Malaysia release date

OPPO Malaysia have announced that you can win a limited edition Anugerah Skrin 2017 OPPO F5 smartphone and other prizes by participating in their OPPO Selfie Battle from 24 October 2017 to 7 November 2017. Held in conjunction with the Anugerah Skrin 2017 by Media Prima Malaysia, the selfie battle will be headed by Fattah Amin in Team Clear while Ayda Jebat will head Team Beauty.

OPPO recently announced that their upcoming selfie-centric OPPO F5 will be able to unlock with facial recognition technology they call "Facial Unlock". While the fingerprint sensor has been moved to the back, OPPO says you can easily unlock their F5 with the facial unlock feature within 0.4 seconds. This is on top of the rumoured f/1.6 20MP selfie camera and a host of new ambassadors as well. Rumours also say, there will be 3 variants including the OPPO F5, F5 Youth and F5 6GB RAM version.

So this just came in, in a short announcement, OPPO has revealed that Dilireba Dilmurat (迪丽热巴) is the new ambassador for the upcoming OPPO F5 selfie smartphone. Besides that, instead of the initial two Selfie Icons that was teased, it was also revealed that OPPO Malaysia also recruited five more celebrities which are Yoga Lin (林宥嘉), Eric Chou (周興哲), Fattah Amin, Neelofa, Ayda Jebat and Min Chen.

So good news to all the O-fans today, we just received confirmation that the OPPO F5 will be officially launched on 2 November 2017. Not only that, three Malaysian Chinese celebrities will be joining the OPPO celebrity team - an ambassador and two selfie icons! No names were revealed, but you can join OPPO Malaysia's new contest on guessing them.

As confirmed by OPPO Malaysia on its Facebook page, the OPPO F5 will be coming to Malaysia soon. However, we also happen to get a tip (thanks, random guy on the Internet) that in the Philippines (the device's first debut on 26 October 2017), another smartphone will accompany the F5 and it'll be called the F5 Youth.

Just today, we have some official confirmation from that the OPPO F5 will be coming here, to Malaysia along with other Asian countries.

So from our previous OPPO F5 rumour news, the initial launch date turns out to be true as it will be revealed on 26 October 2017. This was confirmed by OPPO Philippines themselves on its Facebook page.

The OPPO F5’s latest cameo was featured in a video by ABS-CBN Lifestyle magazine which was giving makeup tutorials and selfie lessons with the OPPO F5. Reportedly, the selfie-gem will rock a 6-inch display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 chipset paired with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, all powered by a whopping 4000mAh battery.

Introducing the Oppo F5, an apparent selfie-centric phone according to posters found in a mall in the Philippines, courtesy of noypigeeks.com.