After asserting the elimination of the alert slider on its telephones earlier this yr, OnePlus has formally confirmed that the OnePlus 13s would be the first cellphone in India to debut with out the long-lasting characteristic, and can as an alternative characteristic a ‘Plus’ button that may be customised for numerous duties.
Notably, the alert slider was a bodily steel slider that was current on virtually all OnePlus gadgets besides the Nord sequence and allowed customers to rapidly flip their telephones to silent, ring or vibrate.
With the brand new Plus key, OnePlus says that customers will be capable of change sound profiles, click on screenshots, report audio, activate flash and take screenshots, amongst different issues. Do not forget that Apple first launched an analogous motion button with its iPhone 15 Professional lineup in 2023, and later added it to the whole iPhone 16 sequence final yr.
Whereas some smartphone manufacturers like Nothing and Lava have added an analogous characteristic to their mid-range choices, OnePlus may very well be the primary Chinese language firm to convey this characteristic to one in every of its flagship gadgets.
OnePlus 13s specs:
With the OnePlus 13s, OnePlus desires to faucet into the newfound urge for food among the many lots for a compact cellphone. If leaks are to be believed, the OnePlus 13s is prone to be an India-exclusive model and won’t be launched in different nations. The 13s is alleged to be a rebranded model of the OnePlus 13T, which was launched in China just a few weeks in the past.
OnePlus has confirmed that the brand new cellphone can be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, the identical SoC that powers its flagship OnePlus 13. In the meantime, the corporate has additionally proven off the cellphone in two color variants: Black and Pink.
By way of what else we are able to count on from the OnePlus 13s, we’ll invariably should look to the OnePlus 13T for inspiration.
OnePlus 13T includes a 6.32-inch 1.5K 8T LTPO AMOLED show with a 120Hz refresh charge and 1600 nits of peak brightness. The smaller kind issue signifies that the cellphone weighs simply round 185 grams regardless of having a thickness of 8.15mm.
Not like the OnePlus 13, the 13T comes with an optical fingerprint sensor and is barely IP65 water and dirt resistant, that means it is not technically waterproof however can maintain some splashes of water.
Akin to its elder sibling, the OnePlus 13T additionally comes with the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor paired with the Adreno 830 GPU. It packs assist for 12/16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and as much as 1TB of UFS 4.0 storage.
The Chinese language variant of the cellphone runs on ColorOS 15 primarily based on Android 15, however the world mannequin ought to proceed to run on OxygenOS 15.
As for optics, the cellphone comes with a dual-camera setup that includes a 50MP Sony IMX906 main shooter with OIS and a 50MP 2x telephoto lens, which additionally helps OIS not like the OnePlus 13R. On the entrance is a 16MP shooter that may report movies in as much as 1080p at 30fps. The 13T even outshines the OnePlus 13 within the battery division, packing a 6,260mAh setup, though with a slower 80W wired quick charging.
