a promising foldable that should hurt!

2023-10-22 03:52:11

OnePlus Open: a promising foldable that should hurt!

OnePlus launched its first foldable smartphone this week, the OnePlus Open, which aims to disrupt the foldable market with uncompromising specifications. The OnePlus Open combines a lightweight, compact design with a fast, smooth user experience, “a Hasselblad camera.” Even if it will not arrive immediately in Switzerland, OnePlus specifies that it will market it in our region!

The OnePlus Open inherits the brand’s iconic design philosophy. It will be available in Emerald Dusk, an iconic green color reserved exclusively for OnePlus’ flagship series. This smartphone weighs 245g and measures 5.8mm in thickness when unfolded, providing a convenient experience of a single-screen smartphone and a touchscreen tablet. Details on the OnePlus website.

Performance and user experience

The OnePlus Open is equipped with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform, 16 GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 512 GB of memory. It also has a 4805mAh battery and a 67W Supervooc charger, which can charge the battery in around 42 minutes. The smartphone supports the latest generation Wi-Fi 7 and 5G.

The OnePlus Open is equipped with a set of three main cameras. At the heart of this package is a 48 MP Sony LYTIA-T808 “Pixel Stacked” main sensor with optical image stabilization (OIS), complemented by a 64 MP periscope telephoto lens with 6x lossless zoom and OIS, and a 48 MP ultra-wide-angle camera with autofocus. Given the lackluster performance of the brand in this niche: to be continued…

OnePlus Open: a promising foldable that should hurt!

Two screens and OxygenOS 13.2

The OnePlus Open is equipped with two Amoled ProXDR 2K 120 Hz screens. The cover screen measures 6.31 inches and benefits from a maximum peak brightness of 2800 nits, which is very high… By unfolding the device, we discovers a large 7.82-inch main screen with a screen-to-body ratio of 89.6%.

The OnePlus Open runs OxygenOS 13.2, which was designed for use with multiple windows. About 95% of common apps are compatible with the extended screen without forced visual adjustments or resizing. Open Canvas allows you to display up to four application windows on the screen.

OnePlus Open when?

The OnePlus Open is available in Emerald Dusk in select European markets, priced at £1,599/$1,699/€1,799. Warranty plans and after-sales programs are subject to the specific conditions of the region of purchase, according to a press release issued at the end of the week.

After the departure of the importer of Oppo and OnePlus in Switzerland and France, that is to say Yang Technology, the future of the marketing of these products is uncertain. However, in an email received from OnePlus Europe, I was assured: “The OnePlus Open will not be immediately available in Switzerland, but will be available very soon”. A case to follow given the excellence of OnePlus in certain areas

Xavier Studer with Perplexity.ai