The OnePlus 13 has landed with top-tier power and a 6,000mAh battery – but you can’t buy it yet

OnePlus has spent weeks teasing nan OnePlus 13, and astatine agelong last, nan telephone has been afloat unveiled astatine an arena successful China.

Highlights of this impressive-sounding handset see a immense 6,000mAh artillery pinch 100W wired charging and 50W wireless charging. That makes nan OnePlus 13's artillery some bigger than nan 5,400mAh 1 successful nan OnePlus 12, and besides bigger than nan immense mostly of different smartphone batteries.

Elsewhere, nan OnePlus 13 besides has a top-end Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, making this 1 of nan first phones to travel equipped pinch Qualcomm’s latest silicon. We’re expecting to spot nan aforesaid chipset successful nan likes of nan Samsung Galaxy S25 bid adjacent year, truthful it should beryllium a apical performer.

That chipset is paired pinch up to 24GB of RAM and up to 1TB of retention – though based connected past form, this configuration mightiness conscionable beryllium for China, pinch different regions possibly topping retired astatine 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.

That’s still a lot, though, and nan OnePlus 13 besides has amended h2o guidance than astir phones, pinch both an IP68 and an IP69 rating – this item was confirmed up of launch, mind.

The telephone has a 6.82-inch 1440 x 3168 AMOLED surface pinch a 120Hz refresh complaint and a highest brightness of 4,500 nits, and it has an ultrasonic under-display fingerprint sensor, which should execute amended than nan optical 1 utilized by nan OnePlus 12.

As for nan cameras, nan OnePlus 13 has a 50MP f/1.6 main snapper, a 50MP f/2.0 ultra-wide (with a 120-degree section of view), and a 50MP f/2.6 telephoto camera pinch 3x optical zoom. There’s besides a 32MP camera connected nan front, and of these, nan ultra-wide and telephoto sensors are new.

OnePlus had already shown disconnected nan creation of nan OnePlus 13, but you tin spot that it looks a spot different from nan OnePlus 12, pinch a caller camera artifact creation and a overmuch little curved screen. In fact, nan show looks almost flat, but successful truth it has mini curves connected each 4 sides.

The world motorboat could still beryllium months away

There’s a batch to for illustration here, then, but this first motorboat was conscionable for China, truthful you can’t bargain nan OnePlus 13 conscionable yet. Based connected past form, we’d expect nan world motorboat to hap wrong nan adjacent fewer months, and that’s erstwhile we’ll besides study nan world pricing. In China, nan OnePlus 13 starts astatine CNY 4,499. That translates to astir $630 / £490 / AU$960 and gets you a exemplary pinch 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.

The apical exemplary (which, again, whitethorn good not beryllium disposable internationally) costs CNY 5,999, which is astir $840 / £650 / AU$1,280, though we wouldn’t expect nonstop value conversions to beryllium accurate.

For comparison, nan OnePlus 12 starts astatine $799.99 / £849 (around AU$1,215), truthful successful reality, you’ll astir apt beryllium paying astatine slightest that overmuch for nan OnePlus 13. Oh, and don’t count connected being capable to get it successful Australia, arsenic nan OnePlus 12 isn’t disposable there.

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