OnePlus 10 Pro could take adaptive displays to the next level

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The OnePlus 10 Pro is already looking to be a animate being of a flagship handset, thanks to a trickle of abiding data from company co-founder Pete Lau. He's but dropped another juicy fleck of intel that volition assist the Pro set up itself apart from the best Android phones.

In a message on Chinese social media website Weibo, every bit reported by GSM Loonshit, Lau has confirmed that the OnePlus 10 Pro volition rock a next generation LTPO display.

LTPO, or Low-temperature polycrystalline oxide, is a kind of OLED display backplane that allows a screen to quickly change refresh rates from 1Hz to 120Hz. This leads to increased battery life, as the display clocks downwards tremendously when static content is present. The same engineering science powers the display found in the iPhone 13 Pro, among other devices.

It'due south not entirely certain what benefits LTPO two.0 will bring, other than a "new level of smoothness," according to Lau. Of course, we'll need some hands-on fourth dimension to give our total impressions.

Lau also touted the company'south salubrious relationship with Samsung Display. The OnePlus seven Pro was ane of the beginning phones to bring high-refresh OLED displays to market, with the starting time beingness 2017's Razer Phone; the rest of the industry soon followed suit. The OnePlus 9 Pro brought LTPO tech, showtime introduced on the Samsung Galaxy Notation 20 Ultra in 2020, which too became standard across multiple flagship devices.

At the moment, the OnePlus x Pro is set for an official reveal in early on Jan at CES 2022 in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, it seems that CES might be going remote side by side year every bit the Omicron variant of Covid-nineteen has spread across the U.S. with tremendous speed — even faster than the Delta wave from before this summer. Already, media outlets and vendors have pulled out of the massive tech conference. If an in-person even is cancelled, so Lau will probable have to reveal OnePlus' next phone almost.

At the moment, current rumors and data direct from Lau point to a 6.7-inch OnePlus 10 Pro offer 2K resolution, a 48MP main photographic camera, 80W wired and 50W wireless charging and Android 12. Lau has as well confirmed that the phone will be powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor.

For those wanting to run into the OnePlus ten Pro in motion, cheque out this fan-fabricated return video.

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