OnePlus 7T has just launched in the market and rumor about the new upcoming device of OnePlus is around. According to a leak, the new device will be the so-called OnePlus 8.
As per Onleaks and CaskKaro reports, a set of renders that are suspected to be OnePlus 8 are very identical to the OnePlus 7 Pro from earlier this year, but there are a couple of differences that are only visible through a microscope.
The first and most noticeable difference is its color variant. The 7 Pro launched with a Nebula Blue color, which was a blue gradient that faded to a much darker tone than the color we see here. This render (OnePlus 8) looks to be the Glacier Blue color that the OnePlus 7T has.
Apart from the color, the new device has a hole-punch camera in the upper-left corner of the display. The OnePlus 7 Pro has a pop-up camera by contrast and adding a hole-punch would leave more room to perhaps include a larger battery, or maybe even a wireless charging coil. The latter is also rumored to be present on the OnePlus 8.
OnePlus had previously expressed that it would not include wireless charging on its devices because the technology wasn’t worth the slower charging speeds at the time.
Some time has passed and we’re seeing smartphones with wireless charging speeds of almost 30W from both Xiaomi and Huawei, so could this be the year that OnePlus decides wireless charging is worthy of the OnePlus brand?
Another minor difference that is spotted is an updated loudspeaker which is a port rather than a grille, and the notification slider has wavy ridges instead of the 7 Pro’s criss-cross texture.
The renders above also disclose that the OnePlus 8 will have dimensions of mm 160.2 x 72.9 x 8.1 mm, which is just shy of the 7 Pro’s 162.6 x 75.9 x 8.8 mm. The display is said to be 6.5-inches, suggesting that this would be a slightly smaller version, identical to the OnePlus 7 Pro in appearance, only with a hole-punch display and presumably the same 20:9 aspect ratio on its display – like the one on the 7T.
We have to wait for a little bit to see if OnePlus releases an 8 Pro version alongside the 8 or not.