The OnePlus 11 launch date has been confirmed
We now know when the OnePlus 11 is being introduced, as OnePlus itself has confirmed that the telephone will probably be unveiled on February 7.
The firm has stated as a lot on its official site(opens in new tab). Or, extra particularly, it’s stated that it’s holding an occasion referred to as ‘Cloud 11’ on February 7, however then on the backside of the web page there’s a button to press to be taught extra concerning the OnePlus 11 5G, which is there talked about by identify. So that just about confirms this telephone will probably be current at Cloud 11.
Incidentally, the extra particulars you can be taught by urgent that button are simply that it has Hasselblad cameras (which we already knew) and an alert slider.
There’s additionally point out of the OnePlus Buds Pro 2, so count on them to land on February 7 as properly, and there’s a suggestion that there may additionally be some surprises.
The occasion kicks off at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm GMT on February 7, or at 1am AEDT on February 8, and naturally we’ll be masking the launch in full at 24-News.
This isn’t the one OnePlus 11 information although, as MySmartPrice(opens in new tab) has additionally noticed the telephone on a Geekbench 5 benchmark.
The benchmark factors to a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, which we totally anticipated, since that OnePlus 10 Pro makes use of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. There’s additionally a point out of 16GB of RAM, which is greater than you will get the OnePlus 10 Pro with. This might be the highest mannequin although, so we’d count on there will even be a 12GB model, and probably an 8GB one.
Android 13 is talked about too, and the OnePlus 11 achieves a single-core rating of 1,493 on this benchmark, and a multi-core rating of 5,112. Those are spectacular scores, with this 12 months’s high Android telephones typically attaining single-core scores of beneath 1,200 and multi-score scores of beneath 4,000. But after all, they’re additionally usually utilizing older chipsets, in order that is sensible.
We would additionally take this benchmark with a pinch of salt, since even whether it is real, it’s based mostly on pre-release {hardware}, and benchmark scores aren’t typically value studying an excessive amount of into at the perfect of occasions. Still, we’ll know precisely how properly the OnePlus 11 performs fairly quickly.
Analysis: OnePlus is ramping up the teasers
The announcement of the OnePlus 11’s unveiling date isn’t the primary teaser we’ve had for the telephone. Just a few days earlier, OnePlus released a teaser video displaying off the digicam block and Hasselblad branding.
There hasn’t been a lot else but from the corporate, however we count on way more teasers and official particulars to emerge within the coming weeks, as OnePlus has a behavior of drip-feeding details about its telephones forward of the complete announcement.
In truth, there’s each likelihood that we’ll already know a lot of the particulars concerning the OnePlus 11 by the point it’s unveiled on February 7. It’s a wierd observe that may barely deflate the launch occasion, however maybe it builds hype forward of that. Presumably it really works for OnePlus anyway, or the corporate wouldn’t preserve doing it.
OnePlus actually must construct hype in any case, as a result of with the Samsung Galaxy S23 sequence reportedly additionally touchdown in February, the OnePlus 11 could have some critical competitors.
