OnePlus 10 Pro announced, launching globally later in 2022

(Pocket-lint) - OnePlus has taken the wrappers disconnected its latest apical tier flagship phone, and - successful thing of a strategy alteration - has lone launched it successful China for now. 

As is customary for the company, we've seen a fig of features announced successful the tally up to launch, and today's motorboat fundamentally repeats a fig of those. 

The astir evident alteration is the design, which sees the telephone follow a stand-out quadrate camera protrusion which - akin to Samsung's Galaxy S-series phones - wraps astir the side. 

It features what OnePlus calls the 'Second-generation Hasselblad Camera for Mobile', with the 2 companies collaborating again connected colour subject and processing. 

All 3 cameras - the main, telephoto and ultrawide - tin sprout successful afloat 10-bit colour, with enactment for 12-bit RAW, and results are processed utilizing Hasselblad's 'Natural Colour Solution'. 

The ultrawide camera has been upgraded to sprout up to 150-degree tract of view, fitting mode much into the changeable and adjacent has a Fish-Eye lens setting. 

What's more, users volition beryllium capable to manually set ISO, shutter velocity and different settings erstwhile signaling video successful 'Movie Mode', arsenic good arsenic successful photos, and grounds successful LOG format without a preset colour profile, allowing video editors to colour close from scratch. 

The show connected the beforehand has been updated too. It's a 6.7-inch AMOLED QuadHD+ solution panel, akin to erstwhile models, but with adjacent gen LTPO tech. 

What that means is it tin scope up to 120Hz refresh rates, but with the quality to accommodate automatically each the mode down to 1Hz erstwhile needed. That means it's overmuch much powerfulness efficient, and volition usage a batch little powerfulness connected slower moving pages. 

As for different specs, it's arsenic almighty arsenic you'd expect from OnePlus. That means the latest precocious extremity chipset from Qualcomm: the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, positive up to 12GB RAM. 

The battery's been boosted up to 5000mAh - compared to 4500mAh on erstwhile models - and features OnePlus' fastest charging solution yet: 80W SuperVOOC. 

Technically speaking, SuperVOOC is Oppo's technology, but since the company's are present merged and stock R&D, the 2 are fundamentally the aforesaid institution now. 

With the 80W SuperVOOC you'll get a afloat complaint from bare successful 32 minutes, positive - with its 50W wireless AirVOOC charging, you tin get a afloat wireless complaint successful 47 minutes. 

The second volition necessitate a properietary AirVOOC wireless charging basal (an optional extra), but the telephone volition vessel with an 80W SuperVOOC wired charger successful the box. 

OnePlus 10 Pro volition motorboat with Oppo's ColorOS 12 based connected Android 12 successful China, and OxygenOS 12 successful India, Europe and North America. Although, again, those 2 Android-based skins are present astir identical. 

The telephone was shown successful 'Volcanic Black' and 'Emerald Forest' (green), with nary connection yet connected whether determination volition beryllium further colours successful different regions. 

OnePlus 10 Pro volition spell connected merchantability successful China from 13 January, and volition motorboat globally aboriginal successful 2022. Hopefully, not excessively overmuch later. 

Writing by Cam Bunton.