Chinese Phone Packs All the Best Specs Into a Sexy Package

Oppo’s Find 5 smartphone is coming to the U.S. sometime next year, and on paper, it has just about every top spec available — except LTE connectivity. Image: Oppo Electronics Corp.

Oppo, the Chinese company making the best Blu-ray players you’ve never heard of, is making an Android smartphone that, well, it hopes you’ll hear about early next year.

The Oppo Find 5, unveiled Wednesday in Beijing, looks like a helluva phone, with damn near every awesome spec you can pack into a handset nowadays. It is the company’s first official foray into the U.S. phone market after years of making Blu-ray players praised by videophiles and audiophiles alike.

As the name suggests, the Find 5 has a 5-inch display with a 1080p display, something we saw on the impressive HTC Droid DNA. Inside of the Find 5′s sharply designed chassis, you’ll find Qualcomm’s speedy quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2GB of RAM, 16 gigs of storage and an NFC chip. Yes, the Droid DNA has the same internals. But Oppo one-ups that handset by giving the Find 5 a 13-megapixel rear shooter. There’s a 1.9-megapixel camera up front.

The phone uses Google’s Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system and, like Google’s Nexus 4, will run on HSPA+ and GSM networks but not LTE.

Although the Find 5, which will sell for $500 unlocked, will be capable of running on AT&T and T-Mobile networks, Oppo didn’t say whether the phone will actually be offered by those carriers. AT&T officials couldn’t be reached for comment, and T-Mobile had nothing to say. Still, the two companies’ logos appear on Oppo’s bare-bones U.S. website.