OnePlus 12 is said to launch soon, succeeding the OnePlus 11, which was released earlier this year in February. Ahead of the launch, OnePlus has confirmed the display details of the upcoming flagship . The OnePlus 12 is expected to be introduced to the market later this year in December. Leaked details of the phone have been doing rounds of the rumour mill in the past few weeks. Design renders of the smartphone have also been leaked. OnePlus also announced the display specifications of the OnePlus Ace 3, the successor to the OnePlus Ace 2 that was unveiled alongside the OnePlus 11.
In a Weibo post, OnePlus claims that the upcoming OnePlus 12 will be the first smartphone in the world to be equipped with a DisplayMate A+ rated X1 “Oriental Screen” with a resolution of 2K and a peak brightness level of 2,600 nits. According to an ITHome report, the company claimed during a recent press conference that the “Oriental Screen” is backed by Oppo’s first-generation Display P1 chip and holds 18 DisplayMate A+ records.
The X1 display also is said to offer a lifespan that’s twice the industry average. The screen performance is claimed to have been improved by 90 percent with this panel and power consumption of the same has been claimed to be reduced by 13 percent, notes the report.
In previous leaks, it has been speculated that the OnePlus 12 may share a similar design language to that of the preceding OnePlus 11. The upcoming phone has also been tipped to be powered by the newly launched Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC.
The rumoured triple rear camera unit of the OnePlus 12 could include a Sony IMX966 50-megapixel sensor, a 48-megapixel sensor with an ultra-wide telephoto lens (said to be the Sony IMX581), and a 64-megapixel OmniVision OV64B sensor with 3x optical zoom and hybrid zoom camera. The handset could pack a 5,400mAh battery with 100W wired fast charging and 50W wireless charging support. It is likely to ship with Android 14-based OxygenOS 14.
Detailed in another Weibo post, the OnePlus Ace 3 is set to arrive in the market with a 1.5K BOE X1 “Oriental Screen” display. More details about this handset are expected to be revealed closer to the launch date.
