OnePlus Open with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC was launched on Thursday (October 19) as the brand’s first foldable smartphone. Now OnePlus is gearing up to unveil a new screen for mobile phones. OnePlus and its BBK electronics subsidiary Oppo are joining forces with BOE to launch a new display on October 24. The upcoming panel is expected to have a resolution of 1,440 pixels and a brightness of 3,000 nits. The OnePlus Open delivers a peak brightness of up to 2,800 nits.
In a Weibo post on Friday, OnePlus announced that it will unveil a new display in collaboration with BOE on October 24. The launch event named “Sunrise·East” will take place in Chongqing, China. The teaser poster suggests that OnePlus’s sister company Oppo will be part of the announcement. The message says: “Sunrise·East! In thirty years we have gone from lagging behind to catching up and surpassing ourselves. On October 24, OnePlus joins forces with BOE to invite you to witness a historic moment for Chinese screens!”
OnePlus has not revealed any details about the upcoming display. However, a prominent tipster, Digital Chat Station (translated from Chinese), claims that the new screen will have a 2K resolution and 3,000 nits brightness. The upcoming display is said to use 2160Hz pulse width modulation (PWM) dimming and single pulse DC. OnePlus is expected to use the BOE display on the OnePlus 12.
The indoor and outdoor screens of the new OnePlus Open deliver a peak brightness of 2,800 nits. The foldable handset runs on OxygenOS 13.2 based on Android 13 out-of-the-box and has a 7.82-inch (2,268 x 2,440 pixels) 2K Flexi-fluid LTPO 3.0 AMOLED display. The display has a protective material of Ultra Thin Glass and supports 1,440 Hz pulse width modulation (PWM) dimming. It features a 6.31-inch (1,116×2,484 pixels) 2K LTPO 3.0 Super Fluid AMOLED cover display.
OnePlus has equipped the Open foldable handset with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC with an Adreno 740 GPU, paired with 16GB of LPDDR5x RAM. The company says that the available memory on the smartphone can be expanded in increments of 4GB, 8GB and 12GB by utilizing unused storage space on the handset.
In terms of optics, the OnePlus Open has a Hasselblad-branded triple camera setup consisting of a 48-megapixel primary camera, a 64-megapixel telephoto camera and a 48-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera. It has a 20-megapixel primary selfie camera and a 32-megapixel secondary camera on the outer display. The OnePlus Open comes with 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage and packs a dual-cell 4,800mAh battery that supports 67W SuperVOOC charging.
The OnePlus Open price in India has been set at Rs. 1,39,999 for the single 16GB + 512GB RAM and storage configuration.
