Back at the end of May, we saw Oppo announce its N1 Mini, a scaled-down alternative for the 5.9-inch N1. But while this company made the smartphone official, it didn’t divulge an entire many detail concerning the handset’s hardware and capabilities, leaving that info to slowly trickle out over the following weeks. Now a new social promo post for that N1 Mini is catching the attention of smartphone fans because of its mention of the “revolutionary 24 Mega Pixels Ultra HD camera,” but as it turns out, there’s a little more you might pick up on from the description there.
Such as N1 itself, the N1 Mini has a rotating camera that allows the same camera sensor to be used for front-facing and rear shots. But exactly like larger N1, the camera for the N1 Mini only uses a 13MP Sony component. So where’s 24MP coming from?
That “Ultra HD” business likely have clued you in, since it’s among the terms Oppo uses to explain the surprisingly impressive (as our own tests uncovered) upsampling mode Oppo’s also used on phones like the Find 7 and Find 7a. But while those phones used their 13MP sensors to make 50MP images, the N1 Mini places a more conservative ceiling of 24MP on its magic.
This puts us in an interesting spot here, not quite sure what to think about Oppo’s N1 Mini promotional efforts. Should we be judging it negatively for posting about a 24MP camera without including the seemingly necessary disclaimer that this is really a 13MP camera with some smart software, or - since like we observed, the scaling really can generate some nice pics - is the effective output the thing shoppers should be concerned with?
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