Oppo deals the new drug for selfie addicts with N1 Mini smartphone

OPPO’S N1 Mini smartphone has a big trick up its sleeve to separate it from the mid-range Android smartphone pack.

OPPO’S N1 Mini smartphone has a big trick up its sleeve to separate it from the mid-range Android smartphone pack.

Made for selfie addicts, the N1 Mini sports a 13 megapixel front- facing camera mounted on a flush fitting pod atop the camera that rotates around 195 degrees.

This means you can snap normally as you would through any front-facing smartphone camera but then flip the pod around for ­serious, 13 megapixel selfies or 4K video.

The flip around camera was an instant hit with my selfie-loving 17-year-old daughter, who also liked the built-in GIF animation ­generator.

Aside from the camera, the Ni Mini has decent grunt from a 1.6 GHz quad core Snapdragon processor with 2GB of system memory and 16GB of storage. There’s no micro SD card slot, which means that you are stuck with just the on-board storage.

That could be an irritant for those snapping lots of selfie stills and videos.

The screen is a good 5 inch, 1280 pixel by 720 pixel number, ­although it does seem more susceptible to finger prints than usual.

It runs ColorOS 1.4, which is based on Android 4.3.

The N1 Mini is wrapped up in a 148mm by 72mm by 9mm case with nicely rounded sides that make it easy to hold.

Weight is 151g.

Rating 7.5/10

Price: $539