The OnePlus 11 launches in China with 100 W charging - Ars Technica

OnePlus is launching its caller flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 11, but lone successful China for now. It volition travel to the US connected February 7.

The OnePlus 11 is simply a flagship smartphone, but OnePlus is dropping the "Pro" moniker from the name, truthful portion immoderate phones similar the OnePlus 9 came successful a basal exemplary and an upgraded "Pro" version, the lone telephone present is the OnePlus 11.

The specs are what we should larn to expect from a 2023 flagship Android phone: a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, 12GB oregon 16GB of RAM, 256GB oregon 512GB of storage, and a 5000 mAh battery. The show is simply a 120 Hz, 6.7-inch, 3216×1440 OLED. There's an in-screen optical fingerprint reader, a three-position measurement switch, and near-field communication. Wi-Fi 7 is an enactment for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, but it's not connected the OnePlus 11, which comes with Wi-Fi 6E.

That SoC is simply a 4 nm chip, which is simply a spot of an unusual duck regarding the spot layout. There are 4 antithetic cores. The main workhorse halfway is simply a 3.2 GHz Arm Cortex X3; for mean duty, determination are 2 Cortex A715 and 2 Cortex 710—these cores are from past year's phones—and finally, 3 Cortex A510-R1 cores for inheritance processing. The mix-and-match of caller and aged cores, and that peculiar A510 "R1" revision, are each designed to support 32-bit enactment trucking for different year. ARM's recommended halfway layout would person killed 32-bit support, and China particularly is not acceptable for that.

This is simply a OnePlus phone, truthful of people determination is super-fast charging, with a large boost up to 100 W this year. OnePlus says the 5000 mAh artillery volition deed 50 percent successful 10 minutes and 100 percent successful 25 minutes. Here's hoping the institution brings a 100 W charger to the US; the OnePlus 10 was technically 85 W, but OnePlus ne'er released an 85 W US charger, truthful it was stuck astatine 65 W.

The camera artifact is the 1 happening telephone manufacturers plan anymore, and the OnePlus 11 has a large ellipse connected the back, and it sits connected a measurement that wraps astir the broadside of the phone. There are 3 rear cameras, a 50 MP main camera, a 49 MP ultrawide, and a 32 MP, 2x optical telephoto. OnePlus is usually bully astir giving retired camera sensor exemplary numbers, but determination aren't immoderate connected the Chinese spec sheet, sadly. The beforehand camera is 16 MP.

OnePlus is promising a amended haptics strategy that is 67 percent larger than the 1 successful the OnePlus 10. Supposedly the speakers are improved, too.

The terms successful China is CNY 3,999 ($580); of course, it volition beryllium mode much costly successful the US, but this Chinese terms is little than past year's, which was CNY 4,699 ($682). Check backmost successful February.