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Oppo

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Chairman / President

Tony Chen

CEO / Managing Director

Tony Chen

CFO / Finance Director

Albert Zhao

Industry

Consumer Electronics

Website

oppo.com

Headquarters address

18 Haibin Road, Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518052, China

Year founded

2004

Visitors attend MWC25 in Barcelona, Spain. Photo: EPA-EFE

Smartphones

Chinese smartphone makers turn to Google AI to compete globally

Chinese handset brands are leveraging Google AI to compete with Apple and Samsung, but differentiation is a challenge.

4 Mar 2025 - 7:00PM

Smartphones

Oppo bets on AI photography to stand out in smartphone race

4 Mar 2025 - 12:30PM

Huawei

Huawei brings Mate XT to Malaysia, kicks off trifold handset’s overseas roll-out

18 Feb 2025 - 9:07PM

Smartphones

Chinese smartphone brands see rapid growth in Middle East, Southeast Asia

Transsion, Xiaomi and Honor topped the Middle East market last year, while Oppo took the No 1 spot in Southeast Asia for the first time.

18 Feb 2025 - 6:30PM

In addition to topping the smartphone market across Southeast Asia last year, Oppo took the No 1 spot in Thailand and Vietnam. Photo: Shutterstock

Smartphones

Apple partners with Alibaba in AI as Chinese rivals embrace DeepSeek

DeepSeek has become the top AI choice for Chinese Android smartphone makers from Huawei to Vivo, as Alibaba scores Apple as local partner.

13 Feb 2025 - 8:51PM

US-China tech war

China’s antitrust probe into Google seen as warning shot to the US

While the immediate impact is limited, China could escalate its actions depending on how its negotiations with the US unfold, analysts say.

5 Feb 2025 - 10:40PM

Smartphones

Apple trails Huawei, Vivo in China smartphone market in 2024

iPhone shipments plummeted 25 per cent in China last quarter, pushing Apple to third place for the year amid rising competition.

16 Jan 2025 - 7:00PMvideocam

An Apple Store staff member attends to a customer as the new iPhone 16 series smartphones go on sale in Beijing on September 20, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Alibaba

Alibaba studio pulls top mobile game from Vivo’s app store

The move comes amid ongoing disputes between Chinese video game companies and smartphone brands over app-store commission rates.

10 Jan 2025 - 8:00PM

Apple

Apple’s pricey iPhones ineligible under China’s new subsidy scheme

China’s latest stimulus measure offers a 15 per cent subsidy for purchases of smartphones, tablets and smartwatches.

8 Jan 2025 - 9:00PM

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba powers AI drive of Transsion, top Chinese smartphone vendor in Africa

Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen model will enable the GenAI features of the Phantom V Fold2, Transsion’s latest 5G smartphone under its Tecno brand.

8 Jan 2025 - 5:30PM

Alibaba Cloud’s partnership with Transsion will enable generative artificial intelligence services in the Phantom V Fold2 5G smartphone. Photo: Phantom

Honor

China’s Honor targets Indonesia’s growing appetite for premium smartphones

Honor expects to initially launch more than 30 products this year in Indonesia, where it plans to open over 10 ‘experience’ stores.

7 Jan 2025 - 9:00AM

Honor expects to launch its initial batch of products in Indonesia in the first quarter. Photo: Shutterstock

Year in Review

Gadget stories you read most in 2024, about the iPhone 16 Pro Max and more

We look back at our 5 most-read gadgets stories of 2024, from one about a world-first handheld device for ear surgery to an iPhone 16 review.

27 Dec 2024 - 10:41AM

Smartphones

Oppo to expand smartphone manufacturing in Indonesia in bet on Southeast Asia

Oppo already uses slightly more than the 35 per cent of local smartphone components required by Indonesian law, but it is looking to scale up.

24 Nov 2024 - 9:00AM

Smartphones

Oppo brings back premium Find X smartphones to global markets

The Chinese Android handset maker is making a renewed push in the premium segment in Southeast Asia and western Europe.

23 Nov 2024 - 9:00AM

Smartphones

Apple’s iPhone sales fall during China’s Singles’ Day shopping festival: report

The event’s two-week sales period saw ‘a double-digit, year-on-year decline’ in iPhone sales amid stiff competition from Chinese rivals.

21 Nov 2024 - 6:00PM

This year’s Singles’ Day debacle for Apple reflects the continued cutthroat competition in China, the world’s biggest smartphone market. Photo: Shutterstock

Semiconductors

Chinese smartphone makers lift Qualcomm’s chip sales

Launches of new flagship phones from Chinese Android brands such as Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo have helped lift Qualcomm’s forecast.

7 Nov 2024 - 3:00PM

Artificial intelligence

Smartphone giant Oppo, PolyU to launch joint AI research centre in Hong Kong

Oppo pledged US$4.2 million in funding over the next five years to deepen collaboration with PolyU on AI imaging technology.

4 Nov 2024 - 11:46PM

Smartphones

Indonesia bans Google’s Pixel smartphones after blocking Apple’s iPhone 16

Sales of those smartphones were blocked for not meeting Indonesia’s rules requiring the use of locally manufactured components.

1 Nov 2024 - 3:31PM

Smartphones

China smartphone market on track to post first annual sales growth in five years

Domestic smartphone sales rose 2.3 per cent year on year in the September quarter, reinforcing market forecasts of a low single-digit increase in 2024.

29 Oct 2024 - 7:00PM

Smartphones

Oppo ramps up global smartphone push with Europe, Latin America key markets

Oppo, the world’s No 4 smartphone brand, said it was ‘steadfast’ about investing in Europe, aiming to gain more ground in the premium market.

24 Oct 2024 - 10:24PM

China technology

Oppo enters tech pact with top EV maker BYD, acquires AI start-up

The latest initiatives by Oppo show its ambition to diversify and expand its business beyond the smartphone industry.

23 Oct 2024 - 7:30PM

Oppo expects to roll out generative artificial intelligence functions to its 50 million smartphone users by the end of this year. Photo: Shutterstock

Smartphones

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite to give Chinese smartphones an AI power boost

Xiaomi, OnePlus, Realme and Honor have announced devices with the new chip as they look to take on Apple and Samsung in AI.

23 Oct 2024 - 9:00AM

Qualcomm’s new flagship mobile processor, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, is meant to bring the power of laptops to smartphones. Photo: Handout

Apple

Tim Cook returns to China as Apple Intelligence roll-out remains uncertain

The Apple chief executive is keeping his ear to the ground in one of the US tech giant’s largest markets.

22 Oct 2024 - 5:15PM

Smartphones

Vivo becomes India’s No 1 smartphone brand, topping Xiaomi and Samsung

Vivo shipped 9.1 million units in India, an important smartphone market for Chinese brands, capturing 19 per cent of the market.

19 Oct 2024 - 4:00PM

Smartphones

Chinese brands, Apple drive global smartphone shipments

Shipments from Vivo surged nearly 23 per cent in the third quarter, while Samsung’s fell almost 3 per cent, according to IDC.

15 Oct 2024 - 6:39PM

Promotional signage for Black Friday at a Xiaomi store in Madrid, Spain. Photo: Bloomberg

Smartphones

Vivo unveils X200 smartphone weeks after release of new Apple, Huawei handsets

The X200 series marks the latest effort by Vivo to crack the global smartphone industry’s lucrative high-end segment.

13 Jan 2025 - 2:38PM

Vivo’s premium X200 smartphone series features MediaTek’s new Dimensity 9400 system-on-a-chip. Photo: SCMP

Samsung Electronics

Samsung said to slash 8% of sales team in mainland China amid weak performance

This marks the start of a broader restructuring that would potentially cut up to 30 per cent of Samsung’s mainland workforce by next year.

4 Sep 2024 - 8:02PM

Smartphones

Honor beats Samsung as top foldable phone brand in west Europe

The Huawei spin-off took that crown for the first time in western Europe, the second-largest foldable handset market after China.

2 Sep 2024 - 9:00PM

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