The OnePlus 10 is expected to be the next generation OnePlus flagship phone, and we’d hope to see it early in 2022.
The OnePlus 10 is the next big smartphone we’re expecting to see from the Chinese tech company now that the OnePlus 9T has been confirmed not to exist. In fact, it’ll debut in January 2022. This upcoming premium smartphone will likely launch as part of the early-year wave of top-end smartphones, with the Samsung Galaxy S22, Xiaomi 12 and Oppo Find X4 expected to be close contemporaries and rivals. We haven’t heard too much about the OnePlus 10 just yet – there are a few leaks, which we’ll share below – but rumors will probably start up soon, particularly in the new year ahead of the phone’s debut. We’ve also drawn up a wish-list of features we want to see in the OnePlus 10, including changes from previous phones and added extras from rival devices, which would give the OnePlus 10 and 10 Pro a better chance of getting a top review score. The OnePlus 10 Pro will debut in January 2022, according to the company’s CEO Pete Lau. This was revealed in a post on Chinese social networking site Weibo where Lau wrote, « 10 Pro, see you in January ». We don’t know anything else yet, so we’re not clear whether this will be a China-only launch. Previously, rumors have suggested the OnePlus 10 series will debut in China first and then come to the rest of the world at a later date. Lau’s post is specifically around the OnePlus 10 Pro, which may suggest the company will be splitting its launch in 2022 to reveal each phone on a seperate date. A recent leak has also suggested the company will be hosting an event to reveal the OnePlus 10 Pro on January 11. That comes from a video that suggests it’ll be a China-only. If the China-only launch comes first, leaks have suggested we’ll then be able to buy this phone in the US or UK around March or April 2022. The company doesn’t sell its phones in Australia, so don’t expect a OnePlus 10 release there. With regards to price, the OnePlus 9 series started at $729 / £629 (about AU$940) for the lowest-spec base model, and went up to $1,069 / £929 (about AU$1,400) for the top-spec Pro model, so expect a range of prices between those figures for the handsets. Of course, the new phones could shift the price up or down a little way, but since the OnePlus 10 doesn’t sound like a huge reinvention, we wouldn’t expect this shift. One screen detail has already been confirmed, with Pete Lau (the CEO of OnePlus) saying the OnePlus 10 Pro will use LTPO 2.0, to allow for a smoother screen than ever before. Beyond that, one leak suggests the design of the OnePlus 10 and 10 Pro will be pretty similar to how the 9-series equivalents looked, just with some polish here and there. OnePlus phones don’t have the most radical designs in the world, so that’s no surprise there. That said, a more recent leak shows the possible back of the OnePlus 10 Pro, complete with a very different camera design, as you can see below. The source of this leak claims the render is based on a photo of the phone, and added specs of a 6.7-inch 1440 x 3216 screen with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 20:9 aspect ratio.
