The OnePlus 13 went world earlier this week and on the identical time, the extra reasonably priced 13R was introduced. The flagship mannequin is a little more costly this time round, however the 16/512GB choice is obtainable with a $100 low cost, bringing its worth all the way down to that of the OnePlus 12 final yr. There’s a cheaper 12/256GB mannequin too, however and not using a low cost.
We took the OnePlus 13 for a picture tour of Sri Lanka and have a detailed evaluation, which you’ll be able to take a look at – video evaluation too. The corporate has dedicated to 4 OS updates and 6 years of safety patches.
The OnePlus 13R is getting launched subsequent week and you may choose it up with a $100 reward card. The 13R is sort of a “lite” model of its flagship sibling – it has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 as an alternative of an 8 Elite and its 6,000mAh battery does solely 80W wired charging (however no wi-fi). This era, it even has a telephoto digital camera, a 50MP 47mm unit with 2x optical and 4x in-sensor zoom. It doesn’t have the attain (or optical stabilization) of the 50MP 73mm module on the 13, however the 13R can be powerful to beat within the value-for-money division.
One other cellphone that just lately expanded to markets worldwide is the Pink Magic 10 Professional. It is a gaming cellphone with an actively-cooled Snapdragon 8 Elite (because of the built-in fan) and it has a 6.85” 144Hz OLED show with an underneath show digital camera and sq. corners – not like nearly anything available on the market. Its 50MP major (1/1.5”, OIS) and 50MP extremely vast cameras are first rate, however once more, the main target is on gaming. That is why the cellphone is supplied with an enormous 7,050mAh battery with 80W charging.
Talking of gaming, Lenovo unveiled the Legion Go S handheld console this week. What’s distinctive about it’s that it’s the first handheld to come back with SteamOS out of the field, apart from the Steam Deck itself. Nevertheless, solely the Home windows 11 model is obtainable proper now. It makes use of the older AMD Ryzen Z1 Excessive APU configured with 32GB of RAM and 1TB storage. Cheaper variants will use the brand new Ryzen Z2 Go chip.
When you’ve been following CES bulletins, you possibly can’t have missed Nvidia’s new GPU line-up. Finest Purchase has three of the brand new playing cards – GeForce RTX 5070, 5080 and the top-of-the-line RTX 5090 – on pre-order. These are the Founders Version, that are dual-slot playing cards, whereas most accomplice manufacturers have opted for thicker coolers. We should watch for opinions to seek out out if Nvidia’s cooling resolution is sufficient (the 5090 particularly has a TDP of 575W).
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