Oppo launches the U3 in China - a 5.9" behemoth with an octa-core 64-bit chipset inside

After a handful of rumors and speculations, Oppo's latest piece of tech silently landed on the Chinese market today - meet the bigger brother of the Oppo N3 and the Oppo R5, the spic-and-span Oppo U3. Sporting a large 5.9" display, the device is among the behemoth's in Oppo's portfolio, dwarfing the slightly smaller N3 and being a Goliath when compared with David, the Oppo R5.

Up front, we have a large 5.9-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels, which is covering 75% of the Oppo U3's front side. Inside the device, one can find a 64-bit MediaTek MT6752 chipset with eight cores that can run up at up to 1.7GHz when more resource-demanding tasks are at hand.

Two gigabytes of RAM, 16GB of native storage, and a 3,000mAh battery at the back. A 13MP rear camera with a Sony IMX124 sensor completes the specs sheet, whereas a 5MP snapper can be found at the front.

The Oppo U3 also comes with two SIM card slots (a micro SIM and a nano SIM) and is LTE-enabled. It is running on the company's in-house ColorOS 2.0.1, which is based on Android 4.4.4 KitKat, and also dons a ton of additional gesture-based features that aid single-handed usage.

Apart from these, the U3 has been also adorned with a dedicated audio-processing chip, AK4961, as well as Oppo's VOOC fast-charging technology, which will charge your device to roughly 75% for half an hour.