We now know when the OnePlus 11 is being introduced, as OnePlus itself has confirmed that the telephone shall be unveiled on February 7.

The corporate has stated as a lot on its official website (opens in new tab). Or, extra particularly, it’s stated that it’s holding an occasion known as ‘Cloud 11’ on February 7, however then on the backside of the web page there’s a button to press to study extra concerning the OnePlus 11 5G, which is there talked about by identify. In order that just about confirms this telephone shall be current at Cloud 11.

By the way, the extra particulars you could study by urgent that button are simply that it has Hasselblad cameras (which we already knew) and an alert slider.

There’s additionally point out of the OnePlus Buds Professional 2, so anticipate them to land on February 7 as nicely, and there’s a suggestion that there may additionally be some surprises.

The occasion kicks off at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm GMT on February 7, or at 1am AEDT on February 8, and naturally we’ll be overlaying the launch in full at TechRadar.

This isn’t the one OnePlus 11 information although, as MySmartPrice (opens in new tab) has additionally noticed the telephone on a Geekbench 5 benchmark.

The benchmark factors to a Snapdragon Eight Gen 2 chipset, which we totally anticipated, since that OnePlus 10 Professional makes use of the Snapdragon Eight Gen 1. There’s additionally a point out of 16GB of RAM, which is greater than you may get the OnePlus 10 Professional with. That is in all probability the highest mannequin although, so we’d anticipate there can even be a 12GB model, and probably an 8GB one.

Android 13 is talked about too, and the OnePlus 11 achieves a single-core rating of 1,493 on this benchmark, and a multi-core rating of 5,112. These are spectacular scores, with this yr’s high Android telephones typically attaining single-core scores of below 1,200 and multi-score scores of below 4,000. However in fact, they’re additionally usually utilizing older chipsets, in order that is sensible.

We might additionally take this benchmark with a pinch of salt, since even whether it is real, it’s based mostly on pre-release {hardware}, and benchmark scores aren’t typically value studying an excessive amount of into at the most effective of instances. Nonetheless, we’ll know precisely how nicely the OnePlus 11 performs fairly quickly.

Evaluation: OnePlus is ramping up the teasers

The announcement of the OnePlus 11’s unveiling date isn’t the primary teaser we’ve had for the telephone. Simply a few days earlier, OnePlus launched a teaser video displaying off the digital camera block and Hasselblad branding.

There hasn’t been a lot else but from the corporate, however we anticipate much more teasers and official particulars to emerge within the coming weeks, as OnePlus has a behavior of drip-feeding details about its telephones forward of the total announcement.

Actually, there’s each probability that we’ll already know a lot of the particulars concerning the OnePlus 11 by the point it’s unveiled on February 7. It’s an odd observe that may barely deflate the launch occasion, however maybe it builds hype forward of that. Presumably it really works for OnePlus anyway, or the corporate wouldn’t maintain doing it.

OnePlus actually must construct hype in any case, as a result of with the Samsung Galaxy S23 collection reportedly additionally touchdown in February, the OnePlus 11 may have some critical competitors.