OnePlus might be bringing back the sandstone variant which it used for its OnePlus One and OnePlus 2. Company’s latest flagship — OnePlus 5T is likely to revive the sandstone material which was away for the past two smartphones.
OnePlus has teased a new video that says “What’s in the Box?” on YouTube showing users holding a mystery box. While the video doesn’t reveal anything about the new variant, the people in the video mention words such as “stone,” “sand,” “grippy,” “smooth.” The video also teases “Unbox the mystery. January 2018.”
OnePlus also recently launched the OnePlus 5T Star Wars Limited Edition priced at Rs 38,999. The company is also bundling the device with a special Star Wars themed cover.
The new limited edition comes with a White finish, alongside the Star Wars logo and the OnePlus branding below the fingerprint sensor. The slider button now comes in Red colour, and we might see some pre-loaded Star Wars theme and ringtones on the device.
To recall, the original OnePlus 5T sports a 6.01-inch full HD with 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution, protected by 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass. The OnePlus 5T is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 835 processor clocked up to 2.45GHz. The smartphone runs on OxygenOS 4.7 based on Android 7.1.1 Nougat. The display also supports sRGB and DCI-P3 colour gamuts.
The OnePlus 5T sports Face Unlock feature which the company claims that it is based on advanced facial recognition system and also feature a fingerprint scanner at the back panel.
On the photography front, the OnePlus 5T sports a 16MP primary sensor with 1.12-micron pixels and a 20MP Sony IMX376K front shooter. The device is fuelled by 3300mAh non-removable battery. The smartphone will be available in a Midnight Black colour variant.
