OnePlus has had a busy time at MWC 2023, displaying off a OnePlus 11 Idea telephone, letting us ship a hands-on OnePlus Pad evaluate, and revealing a OnePlus 45W Liquid Cooler. However the firm may need saved the very best for final.

In a panel hosted by TechRadar’s Senior Telephones Editor Alex Walker-Todd, we discovered from Kinder Liu, President and COO of OnePlus, that the corporate is constructing its first foldable telephone, and plans to launch the gadget earlier than the tip of 2023.

Particularly, this OnePlus foldable is about to land within the second half of the yr, so someday between July and December.

Talking concerning the telephone, Liu stated: “Our first foldable telephone can have the signature OnePlus quick and clean expertise. It should be a flagship telephone that doesn’t settle due to its folding type, by way of industrial design, mechanical know-how, and different elements. We wish to launch a tool that goals to be on the pinnacle expertise of at this time’s foldable market.”

So it feels like this will likely be a no-compromise telephone, and can most likely additionally subsequently be very costly. That stated, most OnePlus telephones – together with the OnePlus 11 – are barely cheaper than quite a lot of their rivals, so there’s some hope that the identical could be true of the corporate’s first foldable.

OnePlus hasn’t revealed anything about this telephone but, but it surely has stated that extra data will likely be revealed within the coming months. It is a firm that tends to drip-feed data forward of launches although, so we could properly be taught many of the particulars earlier than the OnePlus foldable is absolutely unveiled.

Evaluation: it could possibly be just like the Oppo Discover N2

Whereas OnePlus hasn’t stated extra about its foldable telephone, there are some clues as to the shape it’d take.

For one factor, we’ve heard rumors of a OnePlus foldable for some time, and the more moderen ones urged that it could be primarily based on the Oppo Discover N, which was solely obtainable in China.

OnePlus is a subsidiary of Oppo, in order that’s definitely a risk; though since we heard these leaks, the Oppo Discover N2 launched, so basing the OnePlus foldable on the newer telephone appears extra probably.

The Oppo Discover N2 can be solely obtainable in China (although the Oppo Discover N2 Flip has launched extra broadly) so in many of the world it wouldn’t be a competitor to a OnePlus gadget.

That is simply hypothesis although, so don’t be shocked if the OnePlus foldable is one thing fully totally different; however for reference, the Oppo Discover N2 has a 7.1-inch 1792 x 1920 foldable show with a 120Hz refresh fee, a 5.54-inch 1080 x 2120 cowl display screen with a 120Hz refresh fee, and a 4,520mAh battery with 67W charging.

It additionally has a Snapdragon eight Plus Gen 1 chipset, as much as 16GB of RAM, as much as 512GB of storage, and a triple-lens digital camera with a 50MP huge snapper, a 48MP ultrawide, and a 32MP telephoto with 2x optical zoom. That’s a formidable assortment of specs, so if the OnePlus foldable relies on this then it might have an awesome shot at rating among the many finest foldable telephones.