At this point, our details are running low to spoil the new OnePlus 9 series, but OnePlus itself has a long history of improving its technology before the full phone is announced. So it is today with a new forum post: this one explains the new features that appear on the screen on the OnePlus 9 Pro. In particular, it boasts improved refresh rate power management and touch systems.
First of all, OnePlus boasts that the low-temperature polycrystalline oxide backplane on the screen can dynamically adjust the refresh rate, between 1Hz and 120Hz. There’s a fairly deep material science going on here, but the bottom line is that the new screen technology will automatically adjust the OLED’s refresh rate according to what’s displayed.
So if you scroll through a list or play an action game, you will get full speed, but if you only display a static image, your screen may refresh only once per second. OnePlus says that the screen on the 9 Pro can consume ‘up to 50% less power’ while matching the refreshing performance of last year’s model. Customizable refresh rates are not new technology, but OnePlus says it is the first to achieve this with such a wide range of 1Hz-120Hz in a phone.
OnePlus says that the 9 Pro also improves its touch response. Hyper Touch, as the company calls it, synchronizes the touch input of the screen and the processor of the phone up to six times the speed of conventional systems. OnePlus claims to reduce touch delay by as much as 30 milliseconds – a major advantage in multiplayer games.
We’ll have to wait to get our hands on the OnePlus 9 Pro (and hopefully some cheaper models that include at least some of these tools) to see how much difference they really make. The phone has already been expanded, but the official announcement is on March 23, next Tuesday.
