To nobody’s shock, OnePlus’ subsequent cellphone known as the OnePlus 11 5G. It is at present accessible in China, and the cellphone is ready to launch globally on Feb. 7. It follows final yr’s fairly nice OnePlus 10 Professional and comes on the heels of the OnePlus 10T which left a foul style in our mouths due to its questionable compromises and a complicated worth proposition.

Fortunate for us, OnePlus offered a peek on the 11 again in December. And now, the brand new cellphone is on full show on OnePlus China’s web site. After devouring it with the assistance of Google Translate, I’m reminded of Leonardo DiCaprio’s often-quoted line from the movie Django Unchained.

“Gents, you had my curiosity. However now you could have my consideration.”

I already had excessive hopes for the 11 as a result of it will be the third-generation cellphone to be launched throughout OnePlus’ partnership with the enduring digicam firm Hasselblad. Thus far, Hasselblad’s affect has largely been behind-the-scenes with digicam tuning and nifty software program options just like the Xpan panoramic-style. The OnePlus 11 may very well be the primary time we see precise new digicam {hardware} ensuing from the partnership.

I must also level out that particulars and nuance will be misplaced in translation, so please hold that in thoughts as you learn on.

The OnePlus 11 seems to be improbable

The 11’s design picks up the place the ten Professional left off. Translated, the positioning states that the OnePlus 11’s look was impressed by a “black gap in science fiction.” However as a substitute of a square-ish digicam bump discovered on the ten Professional, the 11’s is round on high with tapered sides that movement into the sting of the cellphone. It is harking back to a clasp on a leather-based attaché. When the cellphone is in panorama, the digicam bump’s form seems to be virtually just like the silhouette of Darth Vader’s helmet.

The location reveals off the cellphone in two colours. There’s a matte inexperienced colour, that is not fairly British racing inexperienced, and a textured black end, which in response to translated textual content is “silk glass.” I collect this implies the end seems to be textured however to the contact is simply flat glass.

My CNET colleague Andrew Lanxon obtained his fingers on a OnePlus 11. Whereas we’ve got to attend a bit to listen to his ideas about testing it, he did share some photographs of the cellphone on Twitter.

There aren’t many photographs of the entrance, however it has a show with waterfall edges that movement off the precise and left sides of the cellphone. The front-facing digicam is housed in a gap punch-shaped cutout on the highest left facet.

An alert slider is seen in a product video on the positioning that additionally reveals flashy stylized closeups of the OnePlus 11. OnePlus beforehand confirmed that the button would return after its absence on the OnePlus 10T. The 11 joins the likes of the Nubia Purple Magic 8, which has an analogous {hardware} slider for placing the cellphone into gaming mode.

The OnePlus 11 has the newest Android {hardware} 

The cellphone has a 6.7-inch AMOLED display screen with a variable refresh charge that tops out at 120Hz. The show is LTPO 3. Final yr’s 10 Professional had an LTPO 2 show. LTPO stands for low-temperature polycrystalline oxide, which permits shows to have a excessive refresh charge with out killing your battery. In accordance with the translated textual content, LTPO 3 is smoother and much more energy environment friendly. A graphic claims that the show can drop all the way down to 1Hz, which is similar refresh charge the iPhone 14 Professional makes use of for its always-on show.

On the within, the 11 runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip which in response to a OnePlus press launch has 35% sooner CPU efficiency and a 25% sooner GPU. The 11 is among the first telephones with the brand new Qualcomm chip. The 11 additionally comes with 16GB of RAM and both 256GB or 512GB of storage.

Powering every thing are twin 2,500 mAh batteries that assist 100W quick charging. Final yr’s 10 Professional had the identical dual-battery setup and supported 80W quick charging, apart from US fashions which had been capped at 65W quick charging. The OnePlus 10T helps 150W charging globally and 125W within the US. For perspective, the iPhone 14 Professional helps 20W quick charging. OnePlus says that the 11’s batteries can cost from empty to 100% in 25 minutes.

The cameras are the identical however totally different

The OnePlus 11 has a 50-megapixel most important and 48-megapixel ultrawide digicam system that is just like the ten Professional’s. It additionally has a telephoto digicam with a 32-megapixel sensor and 2x optical zoom in comparison with the ten Professional’s 8-megapixel sensor and three.3x optical zoom.

Sony made all the picture sensors together with the one within the new telephoto digicam. However it’s important to marvel if OnePlus and Hasselblad selected the 32-megapixel sensor and quick tele-lens combo as a result of it yields higher photographs than the tele on the ten Professional. If that’s the case, it is the primary time we see digicam {hardware} design that stems from the OnePlus and Hasselblad partnership.

Translated textual content suggests the brand new telephoto digicam can take photographs with extra correct colours. OnePlus China’s website says that portrait mode pics have better-simulated bokeh that mimics the look of pictures taken with Hasselblad’s XCD medium-format lenses.

Pattern photographs from the 11 look good, with balanced colours and highlights that roll off for pores and skin tones. We must always take these photographs with a giant grain of salt as a result of practically each cellphone maker’s web site flaunts spectacular photographs taken with their telephones – ah, advertising and marketing! Sadly, there’s no point out of whether or not these photograph enhancements will apply to video recording.

Is there a OnePlus 11 Professional?

From every thing I learn on the web site, the OnePlus 11 is the best-spec’d OnePlus cellphone ever made. It appears to be the “professional” mannequin this yr regardless of missing the nomenclature. Its 6.7-inch display screen is similar measurement because the one on the ten Professional. In reality, OnePlus China’s President Li Jie stated there isn’t a “professional” model of the OnePlus 11 in response to a query on the Chinese language social community Weibo.

That may mark a continued departure from OnePlus’ earlier product technique. Till not too long ago, OnePlus had launched three fashions of its flagship telephones, an everyday model, a “professional” one and later within the yr a T mannequin. For instance, in 2020 there was a OnePlus 8, 8 Professional and 8T. The professional fashions usually have bigger shows with the next decision and a 3rd rear digicam with a telephoto lens in comparison with the common model.

Final yr, the corporate launched solely a OnePlus 10 Professional with out a normal mannequin.

What’s subsequent for the OnePlus 11?

The brand new cellphone launches in China on Monday, Jan. 9. OnePlus is having a world launch occasion in India on Tuesday, Feb. 7, the place it can additionally showcase the OnePlus Buds Professional 2. I’m really trying ahead to making an attempt the cellphone out for myself, particularly that new telephoto digicam.

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