OnePlus has confirmed its subsequent flagship telephone, formally referred to as the OnePlus 11 5G, will launch on 7 February 2023.
The corporate mentioned in a press launch the system can be unveiled on that day at an occasion in New Delhi that may even introduce the OnePlus Buds Professional 2 wi-fi earbuds.
OnePlus additionally despatched media a teaser picture for the occasion, which known as Cloud 11, that exhibits the OnePlus 11’s round digital camera module for the primary time.
The OnePlus 11 may even reintroduce the alert slider, the three-position {hardware} swap that had been on each flagship OnePlus telephone ever made till it was left off 2022’s OnePlus 10T.
On the time, OnePlus mentioned the omission was because of house constraints. The return of the slider will probably be celebrated by OnePlus followers however it’s odd that the corporate has totally leaned into the very fact it’s coming again by producing a festive-themed video that celebrates it.
Laborious luck in the event you purchased a OnePlus 10T, apparently, a telephone that additionally didn’t have the Hasselblad digital camera branding or software program options of the OnePlus 10 Professional.
The video (embedded beneath) additionally provides tune to the Hasselblad smarts that return with the OnePlus 11:
“We’re thrilled to be revealing these thrilling new merchandise that deliver a levelled up quick and easy expertise to the market,” mentioned Pete Lau, Senior Vice President and Chief of Product at Oppo and OnePlus.
“The OnePlus 11 5G, the OnePlus Buds Professional 2, and different merchandise are pushed by our group co-creation spirit and can be geared up with essentially the most superior expertise to supply a refined expertise to our customers.”
Past selling the OnePlus 11’s launch date and two options discovered on the OnePlus 10 Professional (and OnePlus 9 Professional, for that matter), the Chinese language telephone maker didn’t reveal something of the upcoming telephone’s specs.
Going by the rumours and leaks, the OnePlus 11 will run the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset and the standard design and incremental spec updates we come to count on from yearly telephone line refreshes.
The teaser picture exhibits the round digital camera design on the OnePlus 11, vaguely harking back to the spherical used fleetingly by the corporate on 2019’s OnePlus 7T.
We’ve loved OnePlus’s latest telephones regardless of the slight confusion of there being a OnePlus 10 Professional and 10T however no common 10. In the present day’s announcement of a OnePlus 11 means the corporate is as soon as once more resetting the way it names and releases its telephones.
So long as the handset is sweet sufficient (completely different sufficient?) to carry a candle to Samsung’s Galaxy S23 sequence that’s rumoured to launch across the identical time in February, then the OnePlus 11 must be within the working to make our checklist of the very best smartphones.