OnePlus has shown off the design of its latest smartphone flagship, the OnePlus 10 Pro.
The phone looks sleek with a matte or possibly even Sandstone-type finish. It’s hard to tell, and the company is keeping the device’s details pretty close to the chest before release.
OnePlus seems to be following a similar strategy to Google, which revealed details about its Pixel 6 series for months leading up to its release to help build hype for that phone. Now that OnePlus is following a similar path, we might start seeing longer pre-hype cycles for phones before they even come out.
Moving back to the OnePlus 10 Pro, you’ll notice that it looks to be large like last year’s OnePlus 9 Pro and sports three rear cameras and a large flash. The’ company is still working with Hasselblad, and it’s written “P2D 50T on the flash. Input Mag editor Ray Wong says that OnePlus told him the ‘P’ stands for Phone. The ‘2D’ stands for second-gen Hasselblad camera on mobile and the ’50T’ denotes that the three cameras are 50-megapixels.
This whole new camera setup is also housed in a ceramic bump on the phone’s rear that looks like a wider version of a Samsung Galaxy S21 series device. OnePlus says that the ceramic bump is 13x stronger than glass, so hopefully, this hints at the 10 Pro being the most durable phone from the company yet.
The company has also shared the phone in Emerald Forest (green) and Volcanic Ash (black) colorways. These are reminiscent of the hues OnePlus has been using since the 8T, but it appears there is no silver option this year.
Beyond that, all we can gain from the images is that the phone uses USB-C to charge and still has the classic OnePlus alert slider on the side to quickly silence the phone.
For the first time, OnePlus plans to launch in China first, and the rest of the world will get the phone later. This is a new release strategy for OnePlus, but since it works so closely with Oppo now it makes sense that it will start favouring its home country.
This is an exciting phone, especially in the camera department, but if OnePlus can’t start ironing out its device updates soon, I’m not sure if all the good hardware in the world can save it.
Via: Raymond Wong