After months of leaks and teasers about its next flagship series, OnePlus finally announced a launch date for the OnePlus 8 series. In a post about the launch on its community forums, the company revealed that the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro will be announced globally on April 14th, and it also confirmed that the devices would come with a 120Hz display and 5G support. Now, in a follow-up post, the company’s CEO Pete Lau has revealed a few more details about the upcoming flagship smartphones. According to the post, the OnePlus 8 lineup will not only offer a 120Hz display, but it’ll also pack Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 865 SoC, coupled with LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.0 storage for “fast and smooth” performance.
The updated hardware will give the device a 20% bump in CPU performance and a 25% rise in GPU performance, while still being 25 percent more energy efficient than the last-gen. Thanks to the LPDDR5 RAM technology, the OnePlus 8 series will provide transfer rates reaching up to 6,400Mbps at bandwidth as high as 51.2GB/s, and it’ll achieve this with 45 percent lower power consumption when compared to the previous generation. In a separate post on Chinese social media platform Weibo, the company has revealed additional details about the 120Hz display on the OnePlus 8 series. According to the images shared in the post, the display on the OnePlus 8 series will feature a 2K+ resolution with a pixel density of 513ppi. It’ll provide a maximum brightness of 1300 nits, with 4096 levels of brightness adjustments. As for the pricing, according to a recent report from Business Insider, the 5G variants of the OnePlus 8 series won’t exceed the $1,000 mark in the US, making them some of the most affordable 5G-enabled flagships in the market.
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