Oppo F29 & F29 Pro Launch with Armor Shell, Massive Batteries, and AI Features

Oppo has unveiled two new smartphones to expand its budget F series. The devices are called Oppo F29 and F29 Pro, strictly positioned in the mid-range category both specs and price-wise. They do, however, have the best-in-class durability ratings, massive batteries, and useful AI features to upstage last year’s F27 series. These are the specs on both models. 

Oppo F29 Pro

It’s not an entirely new device built from scratch. Oppo F29 Pro is just a rebranded Oppo A5 Pro, which is exclusively available in China. But that doesn’t mean it’s any less impressive. The screen on the front has very slim bezels, uniform on all four sides. It’s an AMOLED 6.7” panel, strapped with a Gorilla Glass Victus 2 and an IP69 rating for a tight seal. 

The panel is also 1080p FHD+, clocked at 120Hz with a peak 1200nits brightness. Oppo F29 Pro uses a 16 MP camera for selfies, but the rear camera is an assortment of a 50 MP main lens and a 2 MP monochrome. The camera itself is mediocre, but it’s bundled with some useful AI features, like the Clarity Enhancer, Eraser, Reflection Remover, and AI Unblur for moving objects.

Both models come with the same Android 15 system and Color OS 15 skin, with almost the same set of AI features we mentioned here. Specifically for the Pro model, Oppo has used a Dimensity 7300 energy chip with either 8 GB or 12 GB RAM. The built-in storage also seems decent at up to 256 GB. 

Over the previous generation, the battery has been massively upgraded. The Pro variant now has a 6000mAh cell and you can recharge it with an 80W SuperVOOC adapter. The Oppo F29 Pro starts at around $325 (~PKR 91,000) for its 8/128GB variant. 

Oppo F29

The Oppo F29’s performance is a notch below its Pro sibling, but it still has the same impressive IP69 rating and a 6.7” flat AMOLED. There’s FHD+ resolution for sharp visuals, not to forget its 120Hz refresh rate for fluid animations. The selfie camera used on this device is an 8 MP sensor. 

Oppo F29 is 7.7mm thin and 185g light, miraculously achieved even with a 6500mAh battery under the hood. We hear the phone is built around an ultra-strong aluminum alloy motherboard, reinforced diamond-cut corners, and a Gorilla Glass 7i, which makes the phone tough to break. 

The phone’s battery can be recharged with a 45W SuperVOOC adapter. The F29 has the same AI suite as the Pro for photo enhancement. Even the rear camera setup is shared across both models with a 50 MP first camera and a 2 MP monochrome second lens.

This handset runs on Color OS 15 x Android 15 operating system, handled by a Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 SoC. It won’t be as fast as the Pro variant, but the performance gap is also reflected in the price. Oppo F29 starts at around $280 (~PKR 78,000) for 8 GB RAM and 256 GB storage.