OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro goes official
Hasselblad-tuned camera, Snapdragon 888, Fluid Display
After a load of teasers, OnePlus finally unveiled the new OnePlus 9 and they have partnered with camera maker Hasselblad for impressive next generation mobile imaging not just here in the confines of our planet but also even on the moon.
There are two primary devices under the flagship wing, namely the OnePlus 9 and the OnePlus 9 Pro. Both of these devices comes with the company’s new Fluid Display 2.0 and is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 chipset.
OnePlus 9 Pro
As cameraphones becomes a necessity these days, company’s are teaming up with the worlds camera experts to make smartphone cameras comparable to bulky and quite expensive DSLRs and OnePlus is teaming up with Hasselblad for that.
The OnePlus 9 Pro comes with a quad-camera sensor on the back with a Sony IMX789 primary sensor with 48 Megapixel resolution. It features dual native ISO, Digital Overlap HDR (DOL-HDR), 2×2 On-Chip lens (OCL) and Optical Image Stabilization (OIS). The sensor can produce 12-bit RAW images and with the help of the Hasselblad Pro mode in the camera app, you should be able to make your photo natural.
Together with the main sensor is a 50 Megapixel Sony IMX766 sensor with an Ultra Wide angle lens that also doubles as a macro shooter with autofocus at about 4cm distance from the object. And then there’s the 8 Megapixel Telephoto camera that offers up to 3.3x optical zoom and comes equipped with OIS and a 2 Megapixel monochrome sensor which helps the main camera to produce superb photos.
The OnePlus 9 Pro is built around a 6.7-inch LTPO AMOLED panel and offers up to 120Hz of adaptive refresh rate and a touch sampling rate of 240Hz. The display has a 1440p+ resolution with 10-bit color depth and supports HDR10+ with up to 1,300nits of brightness.
The OnePlus 9 Pro is powered by Snapdragon 888 and to take advantage of its processing power, OnePlus includes either 8GB or 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and a UFS 3.1 storage option with 128GB or 256GB.
The battery inside the new device is rated at 4500mAh that supports OnePlus Warp Charge 50 Wireless and Warp Charge 65T through USB-C. Charging through the wire takes about half an hour to from a one to a hundred. Charging wirelessly on the other hand takes around 43 minutes.
OnePlus 9 Pro is most likely an everyday phone for anyone but with its specs, it’s fit for gaming to and to make that plausible, the device has the new Cool Play cooling system which has a large vapor chamber with thicker graphite sheets and more copper foil to easily dissipate heat.
OnePlus 9
Call it the base or the standard model but the OnePlus 9 packs just about everything as the Pro variant with the camera also tuned by Hasselblad. The main sensor is a 48 Megapixel Sony IMX769 with HDR and OCL features together with dual native ISO and 12-bit RAW output. What’s missing though is the OIS. There’s also the 50 Megapixel Ultra Wide sensor which has the same features as that on the Pro variant including its macro shooting capability.
Missing on the OnePlus 9’s main camera module is the Telephoto sensor on the OnePlus 9 Pro however the 2 Megapixel monochrome is still present to help out the main sensor to produce superb photos.
The display on the OnePlus 9 is a 6.55-inch AMOLED display with 1080p+ resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. But, unlike the one on the Pro, its non-adaptive. There’s also support for HDR10+ and with brightness of up to 1,100nits.
Like the Pro, the OnePlus 9 is also powered by the Snapdragon 888 and comes with either 8GB/128GB or 12GB/256GB of LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 Storage combos. It also has the same cooling solution as the Pro, so it could easily handle everything you throw at it without a problem.
The OnePlus 9 Pro comes with an aluminum frame with curved Gorilla Glass front and a glass on the other with several color variants including Pine Green with soft double-layer matte finish, Morning Mist and Stellar Black. The handset is also rated with IP68 for water and dust resistance.
The OnePlus 9 on the other hand has a fiberglass-reinforced polymer frame with three colors available including Winter Mist, Arctic Sky and Astral Black.
Prices for the new OnePlus 9:
- 8GB/128GB = US$730
- 12GB/256GB = US$830
Prices for the new OnePlus 9 Pro:
- 8GB/128GB = US$970
- 12GB/256GB = US$1,070
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