OnePlus 11 involves the US with killer $699 price ticket

After the OnePlus 11’s debut in China final month, the cellphone is lastly making it to US shores. Preorders open at this time, and it ships on February 16. The cellphone’s US value is $100 decrease than final yr’s launch, which can assist it out within the at the moment horrible smartphone economic system. The OnePlus 11 begins at $699, or $100 lower than the bottom mannequin Galaxy S23 that was introduced simply final week and $200 lower than the OnePlus 10.

OnePlus is wiping the ground with Samsung on pricing this yr. Besides its cheaper price, the OnePlus 11 is a higher-tier machine than the bottom mannequin Galaxy S23, with higher specs and extra options. Compared to the S23, the OnePlus 11 has a manner greater display (6.7-inches versus 6.1 inches), a a lot greater battery (5000 mAh versus 3900 mAh), Wi-Fi 7 help (which Samsung does not provide at any value), and dramatically quicker charging (80 W versus 25 W). Samsung’s equally specced Galaxy S23 Ultra prices $1,200 and nonetheless wouldn’t cleanly win a spec sheet battle in opposition to OnePlus’ $700 machine.

OnePlus did make some cuts to get the value down. The machine is just rated “IP64” for mud and water resistance. That’s the standard quantity of mud resistance, however whereas one thing like IP68 can be good for whole submersion in water, IP64 is just good for “splashes of water,” and it might definitely be good to have higher water resistance.

The different minimize is wi-fi charging—there’s none. OnePlus hopes you will not thoughts, given its industry-leading wired quick-charging system, which on this cellphone within the US is 80 W. The firm manages 100 W internationally, however 80 W will nonetheless cost the cellphone in round half an hour.

Other specs embody a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage, 8GB of RAM, and a 50 MP foremost digital camera. There’s additionally an $800 model with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of a lot quicker UFS 4.0 storage. It will get OnePlus’ new flagship replace plan of 4 years of main OS updates, however you will solely get safety updates each different month.

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