The OnePlus 13 will shrug off high-pressure water ...

OnePlus will launch its new flagship collection, the OnePlus 13, on January 7, 2025. It’s getting more and more tough for smartphone makers to distinguish or push the envelope, however OnePlus is not less than attempting. Its new telephone collection may have IP68 and IP69 scores.

IP68 certification means the machine has safety in opposition to submerging and mud, the same old stuff, however the IP69 score takes water resistance a step additional, promising the machine can stand up to high-pressure jets of water — for all these high-pressure jet moments. The OnePlus 13 is perhaps the primary mainstream smartphone to get the certification.

The corporate likes moist telephone tech. A couple of years in the past, it launched a Rain Water Contact characteristic within the OnePlus 12 and Ace 2 Professional. It used a particular chip to algorithmically decide the way you touched the display whereas working it within the rain or different moist circumstances.

The OnePlus 13 may have three colorways: Arctic Daybreak, Black Eclipse and Midnight Ocean, with the latter additionally being the primary telephone to make use of micro-fiber vegan leather-based. And the Arctic Daybreak version has a brand new glass coating that resists finger smudges — apparently one other first within the trade, based on OnePlus.

— Mat Smith

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