OnePlus has confirmed it’s as soon as once more stocking up for an additional {hardware} launch later this year. In the previous few years, this launch consisted of an upgraded model of that year’s smartphone — its superiority designated with a ‘T’ suffix on the finish of the title. However, CEO Pete Lau has simply laid out plans to debut one other 5G smartphone this fall, however with a wider viewers in thoughts.
Lau informed The Financial Times that it will observe up the OnePlus 7 Pro 5G, which is making its means throughout Europe proper now, with one other 5G smartphone within the fourth quarter. However, this one will be available globally.
OnePlus not too long ago notched a tool carriage settlement with Sprint for an unnamed system which might be its first 5G footprint within the United States — the deal additionally expands OnePlus’s service availability from T-Mobile.
He additionally confirmed that the corporate would be pursuing TVs with a 5G twist — mobile connectivity may flip these packing containers into “smart displays” in Lau’s phrases — however didn’t give a timeline on that.
In the meantime, we have but to find out how this Chinese OEM will deal with its OnePlus 7T go-to-market technique — will it stick to 2 units because it went for the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro or return to at least one? We’ll want extra intelligence to suss that out.
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