Giant mobilephone retailer The Gioi Di Dong (Mobile World) has announced that it has started selling the new OPPO F5 mobilephone to customers. — VNS Photo

Giant mobilephone retailer The Gioi Di Dong (Mobile World) has announced that it has started selling the new OPPO F5 mobilephone to customers.

Mobile World said that before the phone officially hit the market, they had received nearly 14,000 orders, of which 11,000 had made a deposit.

“This is a record,” the company said, comparing it to the previous record of 10,039 orders for OPPO F1s mobilephones in August 2016.

The company began receiving orders for the F5 mobilephone on November 4 and within only four days, they had received 6,000 deposits.

Sixty per cent of the orders were placed for the gold-coloured phone and 40 per cent for black.

F5 is a new mobile phone released by OPPO with many new functions including a full HD 6-inch screen and 3,200mAH battery at the price of VND6.999 million (US$306). — VNS