Samsung Galaxy rival teases exact date for major | Tech News

Smartphones have turn into half of our day by day lives, handling all the things from calls to WhatsApp, from taking pictures images to watching Netflix, and from navigating with Google Maps to paying with Apple Pay. If solely these telephones hadn’t grown so monumental.

That appears to be what Android telephone maker OnePlus has been pondering. The firm has formally teased its subsequent major gadget, and it appears as if it’s going to be marketed on its smaller dimensions.

OnePlus posted to Chinese social media website Weibo formally saying the existence of the OnePlus 13T, which is able to launch in China on April 24 at 2:30pm native time, which is 8:30am on the identical day within the UK.

Translated from Chinese, the telephone is described as having a “brand-new design” with a “light and thin feel”, with the accompanying video exhibiting off the telephone in full. The telephone is a sibling gadget to the OnePlus 13 launched early this yr, and is set to beat Samsung’s upcoming very skinny Galaxy S25 Edge to market.

The video reveals the telephone black, pink and silver with a much-different digicam design to the OnePlus 13, which had a distinctive round digicam module. The 13T had vertically aligned twin cameras with a bump that additionally has one other sensor and a flash.

On the aspect of the telephone is a button that OnePlus has confirmed replaces the alert slider seen on most earlier OnePlus telephones. It seems it’ll act very like the iPhone 16’s Action Button.

In reality, the 13T telephone appears a lot just like the iPhone 16 from the video, with flat sides, rounded corners and twin cameras, plus that button. It’s a trend we’ve seen with many widespread telephones of late, with the Samsung Galaxy S25 and Pixel 9 telephones all trying fairly related, and fairly like Apple’s iPhone.

OnePlus stated in one other Weibo post that the OnePlus 13T has a 6.32-inch screen and an “extremely narrow bezel design” with a “smooth feel” to the glass on the back of the telephone. If the OnePlus 13T makes it to the UK, it appears prefer it’ll be related in measurement to the Samsung Galaxy S25, which has a 6.2-inch screen.

The company has additionally stated the battery will likely be a minimum of 6,000mAh, which could be very giant and will show a promoting level.

No different specs have been introduced, and it will likely be fascinating to see if the OnePlus 13T runs the identical Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset because the OnePlus 13 or if it’ll be pitched in a decrease price bracket.

Indeed, the telephone’s price basically might make or break it. OnePlus fees £849 for the OnePlus 13 and it’s not obtainable on contract within the UK, so if you’d like it, you must fork out upfront for it. Many tech lovers say they need smaller telephones, however Apple canned its mini telephones after solely two years with the iPhone 12 mini and 13 mini, and continues to sell bigger Plus fashions as an alternative.