After weeks of teasing, OnePlus has revealed its compact cellphone — the OnePlus 13T — in China. The 13T is OnePlus’ response to the rising focus manufacturers have on skinny and light-weight telephones, together with the upcoming Galaxy S25 Edge and the iPhone 17 Air. Regardless of its teensy construct, the OnePlus 13T packs in loads of energy, together with an unrelenting Snapdragon 8 Elite, an immersive high-resolution show, and a big battery in contrast to different telephones of its measurement.
The largest spotlight is the compact design, opposing the final development amongst telephones stretching out of palms. Accounting for its compactness, the OnePlus 13T incorporates a 6.32-inch AMOLED show — in comparison with the 6.9-inch one used on the OnePlus 13. Even with the smaller measurement, the show maintains its crispness, with a 1.5K decision and adaptive refresh price as much as 120Hz. The show helps Dolby Imaginative and prescient and achieves a peak brightness of two,400 nits.
In multiple manner, the design seems to be impressed by the iPhone 16, particularly with OnePlus adopting a button much like the iPhone’s Motion Button and a body that — a minimum of, visually — looks like titanium. The button might be custom-made to vary the audio profiles or for sure operations with the digital camera.
The smaller construct additionally permits the OnePlus 13T to be lighter, weighing 185 grams. That is nonetheless significantly heavier than the Galaxy S25, which is over 20g lighter, and even the 15g lighter iPhone 16. The tiny construct additionally permits utilization with only one hand, as a OnePlus consultant demonstrated in the course of the announcement.
There are three colours: a lightweight pink, a silver, and a darkish grey. Every of those has a matte end over the glass again. OnePlus can also be launching a spread of instances to cowl up the slightly plain design.
Whereas earlier OnePlus telephones with the suffix “T” have been missing by way of efficiency in comparison with the first quantity sequence telephones. Nevertheless, the OnePlus 13T defies that with inner specs an identical to the OnePlus 13. Foremost, there’s a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and 16GB of RAM helming the efficiency. The cellphone additionally will get the identical multi-layer vapor cooling system because the bigger flagship mannequin for efficient cooling throughout intensive duties reminiscent of gaming. Moreover, OnePlus presents as much as 1TB of onboard storage with the compact cellphone.
To again up the strong efficiency, OnePlus is providing a 6,260mAh battery, which is corresponding to giant telephones. The battery pack might be topped up shortly with 80W of SuperVOOC quick charging. The cellphone additionally helps wi-fi charging and might be charged at as much as 27W utilizing OnePlus’ round magnetic charging puck.
Owing to the restricted house, OnePlus is chopping again on the cameras in the identical manner as Samsung. The OnePlus 13T comes with one much less digital camera than the OnePlus 13, i.e., two as an alternative of three. Curiously, the digital camera island on the again seems impressed by the upcoming iPhone 17 Professional, whose dummies lately gave up a greater thought of the design. The setup on the again features a 50MP main snapper alongside a 50MP telephoto unit with 2X optical zoom. The first sensor additionally will get OIS assist, however there’s no Hasselblad assist for particular coloration science attribute of the digital camera producer.
In China, the OnePlus 13T runs Oppo’s ColorOS 15. Nevertheless, if the cellphone launches globally, we anticipate it to run OxygenOS as an alternative. There aren’t many visible variations between the 2 interfaces aside from region-specific tuning.
OnePlus has revealed the launch costs for China, the place the OnePlus 13T begins at CNY 3,399 (~$470) for the 12GB + 256GB variant and goes as much as CNY 4,499 (~$470) for the 16GB + 1TB variant. These costs won’t instantly translate to different currencies if the cellphone launches in different markets. Extra importantly, President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China could enhance the costs considerably within the U.S., which might even encourage OnePlus to skip a launch in North America fully. We hope to study extra particulars within the coming weeks.