OnePlus 9 Pro and OnePlus 8 Pro have long topped the list of the best Android smartphones. Will the changing of the guard now take place? Possible because that OnePlus 10 Pro is in the starting blocks. The official presentation will not take place until January 11, 2022 – and initially only in China – but OnePlus is leaking fresh information in bits and pieces. After a first look at the new design, the Chinese have now revealed the technical data. And they can be seen!
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OnePlus 10 Pro: design and display
The first official photo gives an outlook on the design and the camera arrangement. We can expect at least black and green as device colors. The surface looks matt in the picture. Let’s hope it stays that way. The typical OnePlus “do not disturb” slide switch can also be seen. The bezel of the main camera pulls out of the frame around the lenses like a clip. The display is of course an OLED in its finest variant, specifically a second generation LTPO display. Among other things, this enables a variable screen frequency of up to 120 Hertz (“Fluid AMOLED with LTPO”). Information about the display diagonal is currently missing, but the dimensions (163×73.9×8.55mm) show: It should be about the same size as its predecessor, so the screen size is probably between 6.7 and 6.8 inches.
Camera help from Sony and Hasselblad
Two more lenses and the Hasselblad lettering flank the main camera. The cooperation started with the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro and extended to software improvements – including color matching and sensor calibration. Future devices should, however, benefit even more from Hasselblad know-how. And such a device is the OnePlus 10 Pro. The three lenses are presumably a main camera, an ultra-wide-angle lens and a telephoto lens. As with the 9 Pro, their resolutions are 48, 50 and 8 megapixels, presumably Sony sensors are used this time as well. The cheaper sister model OnePlus 9 was – apart from the missing telephoto lens – equipped identically. Whether a OnePlus 10 will come is an open question.
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OnePlus 10 Pro: another speed package?
OnePlus presents the technical data such as the menu for a menu that is delivered to the wedding guests a week before the actual ceremony. In view of the brand new Qualcomm processor Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which, according to circulating benchmark tests, could even overtake Apple’s iPhone 13 Pro Max, at least in terms of graphics performance, Android fans are likely to have their mouths watered here. Whether OnePlus has successfully trimmed the new OxygenOS 12 operating system, which is based on Oppos ColorOS and Android 12, to speed again, only shows the test – longtime OnePlus fans see the similarities to the Oppo system critically. Fast memory with LPDDR5 technology and internal memory with UFS 3.1 technology flank the CPU.
Fast charging with “80 watt SuperVOOC”
OnePlus wouldn’t be OnePlus if the new top models couldn’t keep up with the fastest cell phone chargers. The 9 Pro came with “WarpCharge 65T”, ie a maximum of 65 watts of charging power based on Oppos VOOC fast charging technology. The 10 Pro goes a little further and should charge with up to 80 watts. OnePlus will probably for the first time dispense with the in-house designation “Warp Charge” and call the whole “80W SuperVOOC”. Wireless charging is also on board, and the back of the 10 Pro – like cell phones from Samsung & Co. – charges other devices wirelessly. At 5,000 mAh, the battery is stronger than that of the 9 Pro (4,500 mAh).
OnePlus 10 Pro: price and release
There is currently no information on when the smartphone will come to us and what it will cost. Strictly speaking, it is not even clear whether it will appear in this country. But that should be purely a matter of form. When it comes to the price range, the manufacturer is probably orienting itself towards its predecessors, and possibly a bit higher in line with the industry trend. The OnePlus started at 699 euros, the OnePlus 9 Pro at 899 euros.
First assessment: OnePlus 10 Pro
The OnePlus 10 Pro shows the greatest progress with the processor, the other specs are similar to those of the excellent predecessor. But the OnePlus 10 Pro is not the only smartphone with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 – among others, Xiaomi 12, Moto Edge X30, Realme GT 2 Pro and possibly (at least in Korea and the USA) the Galaxy S22. But since OnePlus has always attached great importance to speed, we are making space in the list of the fastest smartphones. But the price is exciting: Will OnePlus keep up with the price revving up? And when will the device come to Germany?
