The OnePlus 11 5G Had My Curiosity, but Now Has My Attention - CNET

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To nary one's surprise, OnePlus' adjacent telephone is called the OnePlus 11 5G. Last week, OnePlus started taking preorders for the caller telephone successful China, and it volition beryllium disposable determination connected Monday, Jan. 9. The phone is acceptable to motorboat globally connected Feb. 7 and follows past year's beauteous large OnePlus 10 Pro. It besides comes connected the heels of the OnePlus 10T which near a atrocious sensation successful our mouths due to the fact that of its questionable compromises and a confusing worth proposition.

Lucky for us, OnePlus provided a peek astatine the 11 backmost successful December. And now, the caller telephone is connected afloat show connected OnePlus China's website. After devouring it with the assistance of Google Translate, I americium reminded of a line Leonardo DiCaprio's quality says successful the movie Django Unchained.

"Gentlemen, you had my curiosity. But present you person my attention."

I already had precocious hopes for the 11 due to the fact that it would beryllium the third-generation telephone to beryllium released during OnePlus' concern with the iconic camera institution Hasselblad. Up to now, Hasselblad's power has mostly been behind-the-scenes with camera tuning and nifty bundle features similar the Xpan panoramic-style. The OnePlus 11 could beryllium the archetypal clip we spot existent caller camera hardware resulting from the partnership.

I should besides constituent retired that details and nuance tin beryllium mislaid successful translation, truthful delight support that successful caput arsenic you work on.

This gif was made from portion of a promotional video connected OnePlus China's website.

OnePlus China

The OnePlus 11 looks fantastic

The 11's plan picks up wherever the 10 Pro near off. Translated, the tract states that the OnePlus 11's look was inspired by a "black spread successful subject fiction." But alternatively of a square-ish camera bump recovered connected the 10 Pro, the 11's is circular connected apical with tapered sides that travel into the borderline of the phone. It's reminiscent of a clasp connected a leather attaché. When the telephone is successful landscape, the camera bump's signifier looks astir similar the silhouette of Darth Vader's helmet.

The tract shows disconnected the telephone successful 2 colors. There is simply a matte greenish color, that isn't rather British racing green, and a textured achromatic finish, which according to translated substance is "silk glass." I stitchery this means the decorativeness looks textured but to the interaction is conscionable level glass.

The backs of a greenish OnePlus 11 and a achromatic one

There aren't galore photos of the front, but it has a show with waterfall edges that travel disconnected the close and near sides of the phone. The front-facing camera is housed successful a spread punch-shaped cutout connected the apical near side.

An alert slider is disposable successful a merchandise video connected the tract that besides shows flashy stylized closeups of the OnePlus 11. OnePlus antecedently confirmed that the fastener would instrumentality aft its lack connected the OnePlus 10T. The 11 joins the likes of the Nubia Red Magic 8, which has a akin hardware slider for putting the telephone into gaming mode.

A USB-C charging cablegram plugged into a OnePlus 11

The OnePlus 11 has the latest Android hardware

The telephone has a 6.7-inch AMOLED surface with a adaptable refresh complaint that tops retired astatine 120Hz. The show is LTPO 3. Last year's 10 Pro had an LTPO 2 display. LTPO stands for low-temperature polycrystalline oxide, which allows displays to person a precocious refresh complaint without sidesplitting your battery. According to the translated text, LTPO 3 is smoother and adjacent much powerfulness efficient. A graphic claims that the show tin driblet down to 1Hz, which is the aforesaid refresh complaint the iPhone 14 Pro uses for its always-on display.

On the inside, the 11 runs connected Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip which according to a OnePlus property release has 35% faster CPU show and a 25% faster GPU. The 11 is 1 of the archetypal phones with the caller Qualcomm chip. The 11 besides comes with 16GB of RAM and either 256GB oregon 512GB of storage.

Powering everything are dual 2,500 mAh batteries that enactment 100W accelerated charging. Last year's 10 Pro had the aforesaid dual-battery setup and supported 80W accelerated charging, but for US models which were capped astatine 65W accelerated charging. The OnePlus 10T supports 150W charging globally and 125W successful the US. For perspective, the iPhone 14 Pro supports 20W accelerated charging. OnePlus says that the 11's batteries tin complaint from bare to 100% successful 25 minutes.

This gif of the OnePlus 11's camera bump was taken from a promotional video connected OnePlus China's website.

OnePlus China

The cameras are the aforesaid but different

The OnePlus 11 has a 50-megapixel main and 48-megapixel ultrawide camera strategy that's akin to the 10 Pro's. It besides has a telephoto camera with a 32-megapixel sensor and 2x optical zoom compared to the 10 Pro's 8-megapixel sensor and 3.3x optical zoom.

Sony made each of the representation sensors including the 1 successful the caller telephoto camera. But you person to wonderment if OnePlus and Hasselblad chose the 32-megapixel sensor and abbreviated tele lens combo due to the fact that it yields amended photos than the tele connected the 10 Pro. If that is the case, it's the archetypal clip we spot camera hardware plan that stems from the OnePlus and Hasselblad partnership.

Translated substance suggests the caller telephoto camera tin instrumentality photos with much close colors. OnePlus China's tract says that representation mode pics person amended simulated bokeh that mimics the look of images taken with Hasselblad's XCD medium-format lenses.

Sample photos from the 11 look good, with balanced colors and highlights that rotation disconnected for tegument tones. We should instrumentality these photos with a large atom of brackish due to the fact that astir each telephone maker's website flaunts awesome photos taken with their phones – ah, marketing! Sadly, determination isn't immoderate notation of whether these photograph improvements volition use to video recording.

A pistillate holding the OnePlus 11 5G phone

Is determination a OnePlus 11 Pro?

From everything I work connected the website, the OnePlus 11 is the champion spec'd OnePlus telephone ever made. It seems to beryllium the "pro" exemplary this twelvemonth contempt lacking the nomenclature. Its 6.7-inch surface is the aforesaid size arsenic the 1 connected the 10 Pro. In fact, OnePlus China's President Li Jie said determination is nary "pro" mentation of the OnePlus 11 successful effect to a question connected the Chinese societal web Weibo.

That would people a continued departure from OnePlus' erstwhile merchandise strategy. Until recently, OnePlus had released 3 models of its flagship phones, a regular version, a "pro" 1 and aboriginal successful the twelvemonth a T model. For example, successful 2020 determination was a OnePlus 8, 8 Pro and 8T. The pro models typically person larger displays with a higher solution and a 3rd rear camera with a telephoto lens compared to the regular version.

Last year, the institution released lone a OnePlus 10 Pro without a modular model.

OnePlus 11 5G telephone and Buds Pro 2 earbuds

What's adjacent for the OnePlus 11?

The caller telephone launches successful China connected Monday, Jan. 9. OnePlus is having a planetary motorboat lawsuit successful India connected Tuesday, Feb. 7, wherever it volition besides amusement disconnected the OnePlus Buds Pro 2. I americium genuinely looking guardant to trying the telephone retired for myself, particularly that caller telephoto camera.