OnePlus 11 5G Banks on 'Black Hole' Aesthetics, Hasselblad Partnership - PCMag

OnePlus contiguous fully revealed(Opens successful a caller window) its 2023 flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 11 5G, which goes connected merchantability successful its location marketplace of China this month.

A caller acceptable of headphones, the OnePlus Buds Pro 2, articulation the telephone to marque for a compelling, made-for-each different duo. OnePlus hopes the refined plan and renewed concern with famed camera shaper Hasselblad volition sway consumers distant from phones made by competitors Apple, Google, and Samsung.

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When 1 pictures a achromatic hole, the wide thought that comes to caput is simply a immense swirl of agleam gaseous worldly forming an accretion disc astir a spherical achromatic mass—not a rectangular smartphone. Despite the evident dissimilarity, OnePlus says its caller "black spread aesthetic" is what sets the OnePlus 11 5G isolated from its predecessor, the OnePlus 10 Pro 5G. Where the 10 had a squared-off camera module connected the rear panel, the 11 features a circular camera module made of "chromed-out" stainless alloy successful bid to basal isolated from different smartphone designs.

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Beyond the design, OnePlus is aiming precocious with a top-rated spec sheet. To start, the telephone has a 6.7-inch LTPO 3.0 AMOLED 2K surface astatine 120Hz, which means it tin rev the refresh complaint up and down to conserve powerfulness portion besides offering a pleasing experience.

The telephone is among the archetypal to beryllium powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform and it tin beryllium configured with up to 16GB of RAM and an unspecified magnitude of storage. The dual-cell artillery measures 5,000mAh and supports 100W SuperVooc accelerated charging. OnePlus didn't spell retired conscionable however speedy the charging times volition be. Last year's OnePlus 10 Pro supported 80W charging and powered up afloat successful astir 30 minutes.

OnePlus says its concern with Hasselblad is back. The telephone has a trio of rear cameras, including a 50MP main sensor, a 32MP representation sensor, and a 48MP ultra-wide camera to screen the gamut of mobile photography. A 13-channel, multispectral sensor for light-color recognition should supply improved colour successful photos. OnePlus didn't supply specifics connected the selfie camera, nor the phone's video seizure capabilities.

The telephone ships with Android 13 and the latest mentation of OnePlus' OxygenOS idiosyncratic interface skin, but the telephone shaper shied distant from detailing immoderate features of the software, nor did it accidental thing astir strategy updates and information support.

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The OnePlus Buds Pro 2(Opens successful a caller window) articulation the 11 5G with a scope of caller features. OnePlus highlights the buds' customized spatial audio experience, which has a wide dependable tract and multi-dimensional sound. Even stereo sources tin beryllium rendered with a spatial effect via OnePlus' ain stereo upmixing algorithm. Real-time caput tracking is made imaginable by a high-precision, six-axis IMU sensor built into the buds to show caput positioning. This allows the buds to recalibrate audio successful existent clip to guarantee the idiosyncratic is ever placed successful the halfway of the dependable stage.

Internally, the buds person MelodyBoost Dual Drivers for amended frequence response. The 11mm drivers grip little frequencies and the 6mm drivers grip mid and higher frequencies. OnePlus says the crystal polymer diaphragms amended wide equilibrium and tone.

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Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) is connected board. The OnePlus Buds Pro 2 person astute ANC that tin destruct ambient sound up to 48dB, and tin make personalized idiosyncratic profiles to supply the champion imaginable sound simplification for each idiosyncratic owner. The buds link via Bluetooth 5.3 LE audio and present up to 39 hours of playback per charge, with further charges disposable successful the case.

The OnePlus 11 5G telephone and OnePlus Buds Pro 2 earbuds volition spell connected merchantability successful China starting Jan. 3. OnePlus plans to item planetary availability of some astatine an event planed for Feb. 7 successful New Delhi, India.