OnePlus has just unveiled the design and launch date of its new Android flagship phone, the OnePlus 12, setting it up for a New Year battle with the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. Celebrating ten years of its brand, OnePlus posted images of its latest high-end phone to the company’s Chinese website, showing three models in white, black, and a standout marbled green.
The OnePlus 12 will launch at a China event on 5 December at 2:30pm local time, continuing OnePlus’s recent preference to release its phones in its native China first before bringing them to other countries such as the UK or US.
The OnePlus 11 was released in January 2023 but didn’t get a global release until February. OnePlus told Engadget that the phone firm will reveal global release information for the OnePlus 12 on 15 December, ten days after the Chinese launch.
If the OnePlus 12 comes to the UK market, it will no doubt be in direct competition with the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, which is rumoured to be launching at a US event on 17 January 2024.
OnePlus said on its official Weibo page that the OnePlus 12 runs the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the latest premium mobile chipset from Qualcomm, and one model will also have 1TB of storage and 24GB RAM – which could turn out to make the OnePlus 12 very pricey indeed. The phone is also said to pack in a never-before-seen main camera sensor alongside an upgraded 3x optical telephoto lens compared to the 2x one on the OnePlus 11.
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The ten year anniversary phone is also rumoured to have wireless charging, a feature left out of the OnePlus 11 – a phone that packed in top-tier specs and performance and started at £729, making it one of the best value flagship phones of 2023. If these early specs are anything to go by, the OnePlus 12 is going to be more expensive.
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We really enjoyed testing the OnePlus 11 here at Express.co.uk, and we also recently award the company’s first folding phone, the OnePlus Open, four-and-a-half stars in our full review – so we have high hopes for the OnePlus 12. Once the darlings of the Android world, OnePlus seemed to lose its way somewhat as it merged with sister brand Oppo. But if its last two top end phones are anything to go by, those days are over.
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