Chinese company Oppo announced a new mid-range smartphone today, the rather appealing Mirror 5, a handset that has plenty going for it. Chief among those things is its classy design, with Oppo deciding to follow the trend of making aesthetics and important point even at lower price points.

The Mirror 5 certainly fits the bill in terms of a good-looking smartphone and actually looks far more premium than its modest specs suggest. Oppo cut the glass covered back plate so that it reflects to look like a diamond, which may not seem classy at all on paper, but in the hand makes the Mirror 5 seems like a very desirable handset.

Oppo has coupled that slick design with a solid affordable spec package that includes a 5-inch qHD screen (960 x 540) up front, while under the hood there is a 64-bit Snapdragon 410 processor clocked at 1.2GHz. 2GB of RAM aids the chipset and a 2420 mAh battery will make sure things stay up and running. Native storage is restricted at 16GB, but Oppo has added a micro SD card slot for those who want to expand space.

A less than stellar 8 megapixel snapper serves as the main camera, although the lens features 1.4um pixel size and an F/2.2 aperture and may be better than its humble megapixel count hints. Oppo has put more thought into the secondary lens and has added a 5 megapixel selfie oriented shooter on the front. The camera software is appealing too, including such goodies as the ability to shoot GIFs, time-lapse videos, Beautify 3.0, Pure Image 2.0+ engine, Slow shutter, Audio Photo, and more.

Oppo's own ColorOS is present on top of Android 5.1 Lollipop, and is not the worst Chinese Android UI out there. Given Oppo's poor history in terms of updating, we will be interested to see whether the Mirror 5 receives Android M in the future (when that software launches of course). The company says the Mirror 5 will arrive in emerging markets such as Asia, Latin America, and Africa, although sadly did not mention the United States or Europe.