OnePlus 10 could surprise everyone with this major hardware change

OnePlus 10 could surprise everyone with this better hardware change

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Update: a new OnePlus 10 Pro outflow tips a brace of big upgrades .

The OnePlus 10 could surprise everyone by trading out the typewrite of chip OnePlus has used since its first flagship for a varied firebrand.

As certain leaker Ice Universe wrote in a radical pinch, OnePlus could beryllium one of the forward companies to undergo MediaTek's new Dimensity 9000 system-on-micro chip. With the chipset having just been announced, the specs point to IT being a flagship-worthy piece of silicon, and therefore something that would belong in the OnePlus 10 rather than matchless of its cheaper Nord devices.

Historically, OnePlus always used Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips. This changed earlier this year when the OnePlus Nord 2 launched with a Dimensity 1200-AI. This mid-array fleck, spiny with either 8GB Oregon 12GB RAM depending connected the model, proved to be just as sure-footed every bit an equivalent weight Snapdragon 7-series chip, outperforming similar Android phones on some of our tests.

The newly-disclosed Dimensity 9000 (via GSMArena) is notable for several world firsts. Information technology's shapely on a 4-nanometre process, devising it a denser chip compared to the 5nm Apple A15 chip in the iPhone 13 or the Snapdragon 888 found in the Galaxy S21, OnePlus 9 and many other flagship Humanoid phones.

The 9000 fleck is also claimed by MediaTek to be the initiative chip to support up to 320MP photography, to suffer three simultaneous 4K TV recordings, and to use Bluetooth 5.3 for better, more stable connections to peripherals. The benchmark scores MediaTek give achieved with the chip also apparently beat the "Android flagship" and "2021 flagship," which could refer to the Snapdragon 888 and A15.

Crank Universe also mentions Vivo, Realme, Xiaomi, Oppo, Motorola and Samsung arsenic using the Dimensity 9000 chip. Samsung here is a particular surprise, since it produces its own Exynos line of chips. What just information technology has in mind for this new MediaTek flake is a mystery for now, sol we hope new rumors will fill in the gaps soon enough.

The chip we'd expected to find in the OnePlus 10, the Snapdragon 898, hasn't been officially announced yet. But IT's what will likely run the legal age of Android flagships incoming class, such as the Samsung Galaxy S22. Of course it's possible OnePlus will still use this chip. With the OnePlus 10 apt having elemental and Pro models, the plan could be to differentiate the two handsets further by offer different chips on each.

The OnePlus 10 is slow approaching into focus thanks to an exploding number of leaks. We've had a look at the unmistakable new design for the OnePlus 10 Pro, with a distinct square camera deflect once again bearing the name of Hasselblad, the Swedish camera manufacturing business that helped OnePlus tune the cameras of the OnePlus 9 series.

For the phone's specs, we've detected in that location may not be that much of a difference from the OnePlus 9. However, the fresh design with only three rear cameras (rather than 4 on the OnePlus 9 Pro), the entry of a ColorOS-plagiaristic in operation system (due to OnePlus merging with associated phone shaper Oppo), and a new 5x opthalmic zoom telephoto camera all suggest this will still flavor like a significantly different phone.

In terms of a launch go out, in that respect could actually be two for the OnePlus 10. A Holocene rumor says that OnePlus intends to view as a China-only launch for the sound in January or Feb, slightly before than normal. The ball-shaped release could then come around in March, the normal month for OnePlus flagship announcements.

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