MWC 2023 – We saw the OnePlus 11 Concept and its liquid cooling system

Thing promised, thing due. OnePlus is showing today, at Mobile World Congress, its version of the 11 smartphone already marketed in our region. Its OnePlus 11 Concept, which bears its name well since it is not intended to be marketed as such, is presented there. It is a technological demonstration of the mobile cooling system that the manufacturer intends to integrate into its next generations of smartphones.

The cooling in question is based on a liquid system inspired by the world of laptop computers. Called Active CryoFlux, it relies on a micropump “industrial grade piezoelectric ceramic” allowing the circulation of the cooling liquid in miniaturized pipes. This is what we remember here: OnePlus shows a water cooling integrated into a functional smartphone, which is currently unheard of. However, the brand is not alone in offering such a system, since Xiaomi presented its Loop LiquidCool at the end of 2021, a technology that we have still not seen in its marketed devices. At OnePlus, we must hope for a temperature up to 2.1°C lower than that of an 11 during gaming sessions, a frame rate 3-4 frames higher, and 1.6°C cooling while charging. We can therefore expect a reduced charging time … or even faster charging than the 100 W currently offered on the OnePlus 11.

The OnePlus 11 Concept differs from the 11 for short by its system of LEDs which is intended to be futuristic. This only shows the path taken by the smartphone’s coolant, which remains invisible to the eye. The lighting also surrounds the photo block, whose design has been slightly modified, and which is surrounded by an engraving inspired by the field of watchmaking. Many efforts, therefore, to prove the know-how of OnePlus, and which we hope one day to discover in a smartphone intended for sale.