The OnePlus 16 digicam spec rumours are beginning to decide up tempo, however I stay to be satisfied that they imply progress.
In response to Yogesh Brar, the OnePlus 16 will resist peer strain and undertake one other 50Mp important digicam.
Because the tipster factors out (see beneath), the present pattern amongst OnePlus’s China-based contemporaries is for a pixel-packed important digicam. The late 2026 / early 2027 flagship choices of Xiaomi, Vivo, iQoo, and, certainly, guardian firm Oppo are all stated to be going with a 200Mp important digicam.
After all, having extra pixels doesn’t essentially make a digicam higher. The Xiaomi 17 Extremely has a 50Mp important digicam, and it’s arguably the most effective within the enterprise, thanks largely to its big 1-inch sensor.
Nevertheless, after a barely shaky era (in photographic phrases) with the OnePlus 15, you possibly can depend me a bit of involved about these newest OnePlus 16 rumours.
Step within the unsuitable course
Whereas the OnePlus 15 is a fantastic telephone with blazing efficiency and significantly excellent battery life, I couldn’t assist however discover it a bit of disappointing.
We’ve grown accustomed to smartphones getting higher and higher from one era to the subsequent, however in sure key respects, the OnePlus 15 merely wasn’t. Not everybody on the staff would agree, however I’d argue that each its design and show represented a step again from the OnePlus 13.
Most significantly, so was its digicam set-up. For the OnePlus 15, the model ditched its Hasselblad partnership and decreased the scale of its picture sensors throughout the board.
As such, this newest OnePlus 16 hearsay doesn’t actually give us the important info. How massive is it? And if Hasselblad has as soon as once more been ignored of the tuning course of, what’s the particular sauce that’s going to carry this telephone’s important digicam above its (by the point of launch) two-year-old ancestor?
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Zooming ahead
One digicam division that was technically improved within the OnePlus 15 was its telephoto digicam, with a transfer up from a 3x to a 3.5x optical zoom size.
In response to tipster Good Pikachu, OnePlus is rolling issues again on this respect – but it surely’s not essentially all dangerous information.
Over on Weibo, the tipster has claimed that the OnePlus 16’s telephoto digicam will revert to 3x, however that it’ll leap from 50Mp to 200Mp.
Once more, I’m not significantly fussed concerning the variety of pixels right here, however the transfer to 200Mp not less than signifies a change in sensor. The OnePlus 15’s telephoto digicam additionally rolled again on sensor measurement in comparison with the OnePlus 13, however the 200Mp telephoto cameras we’ve seen to date within the Oppo Discover X9 Extremely and the Honor Magic 8 Professional have been reassuringly chunky.
All in all, we’re none the wiser as as to if the OnePlus 16 digicam goes to repair the largest shortfall of its predecessor. With the OnePlus model’s future seemingly hanging within the steadiness, I sincerely hope so.