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Fewer than six months after its release, the OnePlus 6 is about to be superseded by a new smartphone with a bigger screen and embedded fingerprint scanner
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OnePlus is at it again. Fewer than six months after the launch of the its last phone, the OnePlus 6, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer is back with an updated model. The OnePlus 6 garnered glowing reviews at its launch thanks to its combination of flagship features and a modest price tag, reaffirming that company’s status as a refreshing antidote to the eye-wateringly expensive phones released by other major brands.
The OnePlus 6T will be officially launched at an event in New York on October 29, but as is usual with big releases, there have been plenty of leaks in advance of the big event. Here’s everything you can expect to hear at Monday’s launch.
The OnePlus 6T specs leak
On Thursday, the OnePlus 6T’s full spec sheet was leaked on Twitter, which means that – if the leak is accurate – there should be very few surprises come Monday.
Screen-wise, the 6T looks set to have a 6.4-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 2,340 x 1,080 pixels. As with the OnePlus 6, this screen fills almost the entirety of the front of the phone, but the notch in this one seems to been reduced right down to the bare minimum – just enough to wrap around the device’s camera. Underneath that screen it looks like there will be a fingerprint sensor – something that Apple and Samsung have been unable to pull off in their devices and is also a first for OnePlus.
Flip the device over and you’ll probably find a pair of rear cameras – one with a 16 megapixel sensor and the other with a 20 megapixel sensor – that are capable of recording video at 60 frames per second. On the front, there’s a hefty 20 megapixel selfie camera with a f/1.7 aperture.
Inside the phone things are more familiar. According to the leaked spec sheet, it’ll have an eight-core Snapdragon 845 CPU and an Adreno 630 GPU. In terms of memory, the 6T seems set to have 128GB of internal storage (with no room for additional expandable storage) and 8GB of RAM, although there may be variations on this.
One thing the OnePlus 6T won’t have, however, is a headphone jack. As OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei confirmed in an interview with TechRadar the firm decided to drop the headphone jack after finding out that 59 per cent of its users already owned wireless headphones. Instead, users can still plug in headphones through the USB-C port if they use the adapter that’s included in the box.
A leak from the case firm Mobile Fun also revealed the phone’s price. Expect the OnePlus 6T to start at £499 when it finally goes on sale from November 6.
How does it compare with the OnePlus 6?
Despite being a mid-cycle upgrade, the OnePlus 6T has some significant advantages over its predecessor. The phone’s 6.4-inch screen is a smidgen larger than 6.28-inch screen in the 6 and also comes with the embedded underscreen fingerprint scanner for the first time, which means that the rear fingerprint sensor will be done away with altogether.
The 6T also has a sizeable battery boost, with a 3,700mAh capacity, 400mAh more than that of OnePlus 6. Inside, however, there’s the same CPU as the previous model.
While the rear-facing cameras are the same dual-sensor setup, the front-facing camera has been in for an upgrade. Instead of the 16 megapixel and f/2.0 aperture camera from the last model, the OnePlus has a 20 megapixel camera with an f/1.7 aperture.
All of these upgrades come with a (slight) price increase, however. The cheapest OnePlus 6 started at £469 while the latest model comes at a £30 premium.
Where can I watch the launch?
If you really can’t want for the WIRED post-event roundup, you can follow the livestream of the event on the OnePlus website here. You can watch from 15:00 GMT (11:00 Eastern Time) on Monday, October 29.
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