When the OnePlus 15 launches in the US, it’ll have one of the biggest batteries available on a flagship Android phone. OnePlus has confirmed in a Thursday announcement that its upcoming phone will include a 7,300-mAh battery along with a number of other high-powered specs.
Many of these specs are shared with the recently launched Chinese model of the OnePlus 15, and are being teased ahead of the phone’s Nov. 13 global launch. The 7,300-mAh battery will recharge at 80-watt wired speeds over the SuperVooc standard or at 50-watt wireless charging speeds over AirVooc. Those speeds will likely require power adapters sold by OnePlus and, as expected, are a tad slower than the 120-watt speed touted by the Chinese edition of the OnePlus 15.
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The OnePlus 15’s 6.78-inch display will feature a 1.5K resolution and support a 165Hz refresh rate, with OnePlus claiming that games like Call of Duty: Mobile and Brawl Stars will run on the phone at 165 frames per second.
We’ve seen other gaming phones, such as the Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro, include this refresh rate, but the OnePlus 15 will do so at a higher display resolution. Ideally, this means that games capable of supporting the resolution and the higher frame rate could look quite detailed while animating as smooth as ever.
The screen will also support a 3,200Hz touch sampling rate, which should ensure that its display is highly responsive during such games. By comparison, the recently released RedMagic 11 Pro gaming phone has a 2,592Hz touch sampling rate, which is also quite sensitive.
The OnePlus 15 Sand Storm edition is said to be made of a material that’s 1.3 times as tough as titanium.
As expected, the OnePlus 15 will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, the fastest currently available. The company said that the OnePlus 15 will also include a cooling system that is said to include a vapor chamber along with an “aerospace-derived aerogel insulation layer” to minimize surface heat transfer.
While we’re still waiting for OnePlus to fully reveal camera specs for the global edition of the OnePlus 15, my colleague David Lumb got an early look at the phone’s cameras, taking photos around the Los Angeles area. Should the cameras also follow suit with the Chinese model, they would include a 50-megapixel wide, a 50-megapixel ultrawide and a 50-megapixel telephoto with a 3.5x optical zoom. The selfie shooter on the Chinese model is a 32-megapixel camera.
The OnePlus 15 will also come in a Sand Storm model, made from a material that OnePlus describes as being tougher than titanium. Recent promotional photos show it alongside a black and purple model. We’ll find out more about the global edition of the OnePlus 15 next week during its Nov. 13 launch.
