OnePlus President Says OnePlus 13 Will Reach a ‘Height Never Seen Before on Android’

OnePlus president Louis Lee precocious took to Weibo (via Android Authority) to station an unexpected update connected the successor to the OnePlus 12, 1 of our favourite phones this year. He announced that the OnePlus 13 volition beryllium disposable aboriginal this month. The October merchandise of the latest OnePlus telephone is conscionable for China. Currently, there’s nary connection connected erstwhile it volition deed planetary markets.

The OnePlus 12 was released successful February 2024, which makes this update a reasonably speedy motorboat for the adjacent procreation of its flagship phone. Lee adds that the OnePlus 13 volition athletics the latest Snapdragon flagship chip, presumably the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, giving it a “big leap successful some show merchandise and wide smoothness.” He goes arsenic acold arsenic to accidental this telephone volition scope “a tallness ne'er seen earlier connected Android.”

While we loved the OnePlus 12 for its camera, bigger battery, and wireless charging capabilities, we weren’t large fans of OxygenOS. The OnePlus 13 volition beryllium tally connected ColorOS15, which is simply a archetypal for a OnePlus phone. Lee is hopeful the caller OS volition bring “unprecedented ace performance, ace show scheduling, and a ace creaseless dynamic experience.”

OnePlus is touting the caller self-developed Tidal Engine and Aurora Engine connected the ColorOS15 arsenic its astir important features, which volition construe to a “revolutionary creaseless experience” for users. It claims that the Tidal Engine tin “schedule show precise efficiently” and the Aurora Engine tin “completely reconstruct the underlying system, making the strategy dynamics creaseless and agile.”

While the OxygenOS connected the OnePlus enactment utilized to beryllium 1 of our favorites, our sentiment of it changed erstwhile its aesthetics were melded with the ColorOS, resulting successful a weird hybrid. We’re hopeful a implicit revamp of the OS with the ColorOS15 wholly taking implicit volition hole that complaint.

In different Weibo post in September (via Android Authority), Louis Lee lightly teased the show that could beryllium connected the OnePlus 13. He announced “the world’s archetypal second-generation Oriental Screen” and added that it volition “bring adjacent much outstanding performance, and the effect volition beryllium acold ahead” compared to the OnePlus 12.

We were precise impressed by the beefy 5,400mAh artillery connected the OnePlus 12, but the upcoming exemplary volition upgrade to 6,000mAh. The anticipation is that it besides features wireless charging similar its predecessor. According to tipsters, it looks similar it will. Yogesh Brar predicts 100W wired and 50W wireless charging speeds connected the phone.

We don’t person connection connected pricing yet, but rumors suggest it volition beryllium akin to the OnePlus 12, which launched astatine $800.