The time for open secrets is over – OnePlus has just announced its new OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro smartphones during a stream launch event this morning. As expected, OnePlus is working with legendary camera maker Hasselblad. In the partnership, the two companies will eventually develop new types of camera hardware. For now, though, the OnePlus 9 series should benefit from advanced color calibration, resulting in more accurate, natural colors in photos taken with both devices.
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The OnePlus 9 Pro uses a 48-megapixel sensor developed with Sony as the main shooter, and is flanked by a 50-megapixel ultra-wide camera and an 8-megapixel telephoto with a 3.3x optical zoom range. The highlight here is the ultra wide camera. OnePlus claims to be one of the largest sensors in a smartphone. In addition, the company has found a way to significantly reduce the edge distortion. This is something you will see when you shoot architecture. Photos from the ultra-wide camera of the OnePlus 9 Pro have no skewed lines.
And since Hasselblad deals almost exclusively in pro-grade medium-format cameras, it is perhaps natural that special attention has been given to the Pro modes of the OnePlus 9 series. In addition to typical features like direct control over ISO, focus, exposure time and more, the Hasselblad Pro mode can also shoot photos as 12-bit RAW files and works with an editing interface inspired by Hasselblad’s own cameras. Oh yes, and the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro will mimic the sound of a Hasselbad’s classic leaf shutters. Of course, silence is only half the story. On the front of the video, the OnePlus 9 Pro can record 4K video at 120 frames per second and 30 FPS.
Last year’s OnePlus 8 Pro had a screen that refreshed 90 times per second, but the new 9 Pro instead had an LTPO panel with a 120Hz refresh rate. More importantly, the screen does not stay locked at 120Hz – the refresh rate peaks when the screen is used to play games or swipe through long web pages, but it drops to 1Hz when you review photos or read static pages. of text. Devices like the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra also include screens with variable refresh rates, but they can be as low as about 10Hz. The advantage of the screen working is that the phone can save battery life when displaying static content. A new HyperTouch feature will work with select games, including Call of Duty Mobile, to reduce input delay.
Like the rest of the early 2021’s flagship smartphones, the 9 Pro includes one of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 chips, paired here with 8 GB or 12 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128 GB or 256 GB of storage. The horsepower should provide the kind of funny performance we’re used to from OnePlus phones, just like one of the striking features of the Pro: the 6.7-inch Quad HD AMOLED screen. To power everything is a 4500 mAh battery. OnePlus says you can easily get a day’s time off the phone. OnePlus’ super-fast Warp Charge 65T is there to charge your phone in about 30 minutes. In the meantime, you can recharge your battery in about 45 minutes with the company’s own wireless charging bay.
The standard OnePlus 9 takes most of what makes the Pro model interesting and packs it into a smaller, cheaper body. It still uses the Snapdragon 888 and has the same RAM and storage configurations, but offers a 6.5-inch 120Hz screen that comes out in Full HD. The camera configuration is also slightly different: Although it uses the same 50-megapixel ultra-wide camera as its more premium sibling, the main camera uses an older 48-megapixel sensor to save costs. That said, it can still record video at 8K and 30 frames per second.
The OnePlus 9 Pro is available in three colors: Morning Mist, Pine Green and Stellar Black. Meanwhile, you will be able to get the OnePlus 9 in Winter Mist, Astral Black and Arctic Sky. Pre-orders for both the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro open on March 26, and official sales begin on April 2. The OnePlus 9 Pro starts at $ 969, while the OnePlus 9 starts at $ 729.