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OnePlus Open Smartphone

29 October

With its book-like foldable design aspect, the OnePlus Open smartphone challenges competitors such as the Google Pixel Fold and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5. Although it is not as thin and light as the newly unveiled HONOUR Magic V2, the new foldable is still significantly lighter than the foldables from Google and Samsung. Here, it has an alert slider as well.

Regarding the screens, you get a 7.8-inch 2K OLED folding screen (1.0758:1) and an exterior 6.3-inch smartphone screen (2,484 x 1,116, 20:9). The smartphone panel’s aspect ratio falls between that of Samsung and Google’s external screens, and unlike the Pixel Fold’s primary display, which is squat, the folding screen is nearly square.

OnePlus Open Smartphone’s triple back camera system is purportedly superior to that of the OnePlus 11. The foldable may be the first Android handset to employ a LYTIA camera sensor thanks to its 48MP Sony LYTIA T808 primary camera (with OIS). This primary sensor is far smaller than similar ones, such as the one-inch IMX989, measuring 1/1.43 inches. Yet, according to OnePlus, the image quality from this camera is comparable to that of the 200MP sensor in the Galaxy S23 Ultra and the IMX989). A 48MP ultrawide lens and a 64MP 3X telephoto camera (with OIS) are both included in the OnePlus Open. According to the brand, the 3X telephoto lens can zoom up to 120X and 6X in-sensor zoom, but we predict that image quality will drastically decline before reaching 120X. A 20MP selfie camera and a 32MP selfie camera are included into OnePlus’s foldable screen and smartphone panel, respectively. However, you may use the back cameras in addition to the cover display to capture selfies.

The phone runs the Oxygen OS 13.2 skin on top of Android 13. OnePlus is also releasing a number of features to capitalise on the larger screens. Multi-window and split-screen functionality, resizable windows, multi-app presets (similar to app pairings), drag-and-drop sharing, and the usual taskbar are all included. OnePlus, thankfully, promises four major OS updates and five years of security patches.

Bluetooth 5.3, a trio of “Reality” speakers, a side fingerprint scanner, and Wi-Fi 7 are among notable features.