OPPO K12 Officially Released, Featuring Super Charging, 17.28-day Standby Time, Plus AI Enhancement
On April 24th, OPPO officially launched its new product, the OPPO K12.
The OPPO K12 represents a comprehensive upgrade from its predecessor, featuring a long-lasting 100W SuperVOOC charging and a 5500mAh large-capacity battery for extended battery life, popularizing both 100W fast charging and ultra-long endurance. Additionally, the OPPO K12 incorporates an exclusive self-developed super anti-drop diamond structure, ensuring durability from all angles; it is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 mobile platform, along with exclusive memory gene recombination technology and rejuvenated storage technology, guaranteeing smooth performance for up to four years. Furthermore, the OPPO K12 has undergone significant enhancements in AI, imaging, and eye protection, providing users with a more flagship experience.
The OPPO K12 features a long-lasting 100W SuperVOOC charging and a 5500mAh large-capacity battery, enabling a 5-minute charge for 10 hours of talk time and a rapid charge from 1% to 100% in just 27 minutes. According to DOU’s endurance test, the OPPO K12 boasts an impressive battery life of up to 1.88 days, with a gaming time of 8.76 hours and support for an ultra-long standby time of up to 17.28 days, making it OPPO’s best-performing smartphone in terms of battery life to date. To further protect the battery, the OPPO K12 also incorporates the exclusive “Smart Charging Engine 4.0,” offering prolonged charging protection, rapid charging in extreme cold temperatures of -20°C, significantly reducing battery capacity loss, and extending battery lifespan. After undergoing 1600 charge-discharge cycles, the battery capacity of the OPPO K12 remains at or above 80%, ensuring healthy battery use for up to four years. Additionally, during the initial sale period, the OPPO K12 will come with a complimentary 4-year battery warranty. If the battery health falls below 80% by the end of the fourth year, a new battery replacement will be provided at no cost, effectively alleviating battery concerns for up to 8 years.
In terms of the outlook design, the OPPO K12 prioritizes a comfortable feel by adopting a 2.8D curved back design and finely cut straight edges, weighing only 186g for a comfortable grip.
Building upon a slim body, the OPPO K12 has undergone a comprehensive upgrade in its structural design, employing the exclusive self-developed “super anti-drop diamond structure.” Strengthening measures have been applied to the screen, back cover, corners, and edges of the OPPO K12, ensuring durability from all angles. Additionally, key areas such as the camera and chipset have been reinforced, with support protection particularly between the upper and lower covers, enhancing durability and protecting the motherboard. Beyond durability, the OPPO K12 has passed a 60kg extreme bending test, demonstrating a 50% increase in strength compared to the industry standard 40kg weight test, ensuring better resistance to pressure and other conditions. By adhering to rigorous testing standards, the OPPO K12 has achieved flagship quality, earning the “Swiss SGS Gold Standard Five-Star Full Machine Anti-drop and Anti-shock Certification.”
In terms of performance, the OPPO K12 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 mobile platform. It utilizes the flagship TSMC 4nm process, inheriting the core architecture of the second-generation Snapdragon 8, resulting in a 15% increase in overall CPU performance, a 50% increase in GPU performance, and a 60% improvement in AI efficiency. To provide a smoother experience, the OPPO K12 offers a maximum configuration of 12GB+512GB of memory, supports memory expansion and SD card storage expansion, and, in conjunction with OPPO’s self-developed memory gene recombination technology and rejuvenated storage technology, can keep 25 background apps active for 72 hours. The stable and smooth experience has earned the OPPO K12 the TÜV Rheinland 48-Month Smoothness Grade A certification. Additionally, the OPPO K12 boasts an impressive 1.5 million square millimeters of heat dissipation area, ensuring sustained high-performance output.
Regarding imaging, the OPPO K12 is equipped with the flagship Sony IMX882 main camera sensor, supporting OIS optical image stabilization, 50 million pixels, and integrating OPPO’s flagship imaging algorithm to enhance facial features and produce clearer and more natural photos. The beloved Super XDR display on the OPPO K12 is now more widely available, providing vivid local photo display when viewing pictures.
The OPPO K12 features a 6.7-inch straight screen with a color performance of 1.07 billion colors, supporting a 120Hz refresh rate and incorporating OPPO’s eye-protection technology, which enables ultra-high-frequency dimming at 2160Hz in low-light environments and single-pulse DC dimming in medium to high brightness, ensuring all-day eye protection and reducing the harmful effects of flicker on the eyes. The outstanding eye protection capabilities have earned the OPPO K12 the TÜV Rheinland hardware-level low blue light certification.
On AI experience, the OPPO K12 offers various flagship-level AI features: AI removal, which intelligently removes pedestrians from photos and utilizes the AI large model’s ability to analyze the surrounding environment intelligently, filling in details and textures in the removed areas; the new AI assistant, which can assist with travel itinerary planning, English practice, mock interviews, and provide intelligent and thoughtful assistance for work and life.
The OPPO K12 will officially go on sale on April 29th at 10:00. The OPPO K12 is priced at 1799 yuan for the 8GB + 256GB variant, 1999 yuan for the 12GB + 256GB variant, and 2499 yuan for the 12GB + 512GB variant.
