ONE BETTER
OnePlus 15
Not only equalling the competition, but outperforming them too
A prolific phone maker releasing a new model shouldn’t be a surprise, but the OnePlus 15 still manages to raise eyebrows with a specification that delivers above and beyond many of the best Android phones – especially its giant battery life, which is a cut above the rest.
The long-held Hasselblad camera partnership may have been axed, and the OnePlus 15’s new zoom optic and new DetailMax Engine can’t compete with Oppo’s Find X9 Pro (which is otherwise the same device in a different finish), but otherwise this would-be underdog is very much ticking all the right boxes for mainstream appeal at a lower price point than many.
SPECIFICATION
Display 6.78-inch 2772x1272 (450 PPI) 1,800-nit 120Hz LTPO AMOLED with Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU 8 cores RAM 12 or 16GB Storage 256GB or 512GB Battery 7,300mAh Operating system Android 16 (OxygenOS 16) Rear camera 50MP wide, 50MP ultrawide, 50MP periscope with 3.5x zoom Front camera 32MP Weatherproofing IP68 Connectivity USB-C, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0 Dimensions 164x76.7x81mm Weight 211g
With Qualcomm’s top chip and plenty of RAM, this is a powerful phone.
CANDID CAMERA
Hasselblad may no longer be working with OnePlus, but the 15’s cameras can still do 8K video, 4K slow-mo, and optical stabilisation.
OnePlus skipped the 14, so the OnePlus 13 is the model to compare the 15 to. And a lot has changed. The newer handset is marginally smaller and slimmer, with a screen that’s also shrunk by a mite and, as a result, has a lower resolution – but, honestly, you can’t tell.