The previous week has seen just a few leaks about OnePlus’ upcoming flagship cellphone, the OnePlus 12, due to OnLeaks and Smartprix. If OnePlus sticks to the earlier schedule, this cellphone might be launched in China this yr and early subsequent yr within the US, and will probably be one of many first with numerous new 2024 tech.
We have specs and footage to go over, with the large information being the promise of an enormous 5400 mAh battery packed into the same old 6.7-inch physique measurement. Usually, gadgets of this measurement ship with 5000 mAh batteries. Given that the cellphone would not look noticeably thicker and that producers have a phobia of thicker telephones, we’ll assume that is from a large year-over-year enhance in battery density.
This system is timed to coincide with the discharge of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, so this might be one of many first merchandise with Qualcomm’s 2024 chip. Not a lot is thought about it, although. The firm will choose from Arm’s next-generation elements field, however with a report from Kamila Wojciechowska suggesting the chip has a “2+3+2+1” core configuration, it would not sound like Qualcomm might be following Arm’s structure suggestions. The chip can also be rumored to drop 32-bit help after Qualcomm delayed the 64-bit-only transition final yr.
The Smartprix report says “the system will supply a powerful 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB of storage primarily based on the speedy UFS 4.0 commonplace.” If that is the bottom mannequin, that is one other spectacular enhance to the spec sheet from what telephones usually ship with. If that is the mid-tier mannequin and there is nonetheless an 8GB/128GB base mannequin, that is fairly regular. The report says the cellphone additionally has 100 W wired charging and 50 W wi-fi charging, which all sounds very quick.
Finally, we’ve the same old super-accurate OnLeaks renders of the system, which sticks fairly near the OnePlus 11 design. There’s nonetheless a giant circle on the again for the digital camera bump, however this yr there is a huge rectangle there. Presumably, that is making a giant deal out of the rectangle-shaped 3x “periscope” optical zoom digital camera, however telephones have had these for years.
It looks like all we’d like from this cellphone now’s a launch date and a worth. Before that, although, OnePlus has a foldable to get out the door, which is supposedly launching on the finish of August.