OnePlus 13 – Unboxing and first impressions

OnePlus has simply launched the OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R, that are this 12 months’s flagship gadgets for the model. I used to be very fortunate to have the ability to use the OnePlus 13 for a short while earlier than the launch and had a while to assemble my first impressions. Nonetheless, earlier than we get into that, I wish to share the unlocked video with you.

As you possibly can see in the event you watched the video, we’ve got just a few issues to see right here. First up we’ve got the OnePlus 13 in Eclipse Black and that is the 512Gb storage with 16GB RAM model. Subsequent we’ve got the newly introduced OnePlus AIRVOOC 50W charger which appears to be like fairly cool. Lastly, by way of cellphone components, we’ve got the OnePlus Sandstone Magnetic Charging Case. As an added bonus, I additionally included a pair of Merino wool gloves, which in the event you watch the video above till the tip, you may perceive what I am speaking about.

As for the OnePlus 13 specs, take a look at this superior chart beneath.

OnePlus 13
Top	162.9 mm
Width	76.5 mm
Thickness	8.5mm (Arctic Daybreak/Black Eclipse) 8.9mm (Midnight Ocean)
Weight	213 g (Arctic Daybreak/Black Eclipse) 210 g (Midnight Ocean)
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MAGNITUDE	17.32 cm (6.82 inches, measured diagonally from nook to nook)
RESOLUTION	3168*1440 (QHD+), 510 ppi
Facet ratio	19.8:9
brightness	HBM / Peak brightness: 1600 / 4500 nits
Refresh charge	1-120 Hz dynamic
Enterprise	ProXDR 120 Hz show with LTPO 4.1
Colour depth	Helps 100% P3 Show, 10-bit coloration depth
Cowl glass	Ceramic guard
Show Options	Nature tone display screen, Eye consolation, sleep time mode, picture sharpness, Video Colour Enhancer, Show Colour Mode, Colour Customization, Colour Imaginative and prescient Enhancement, Auto brightness, Guide brightness, Show coloration temperature, Vivid HDR video mode, Night time mode, Multi-brightness coloration calibration
efficiency
operational system	OxygenOS 15.0 based mostly on Android™ 15
PLATFORM	Snapdragon® 8 Elite cellular platform
CPU	Qualcomm® Oryon™ CPU @4.32 GHz
GPU	Adreno™ 830
RAM	12 GB / 16 GB LPDDR5X
Storage	256GB/512GB UFS 4.0
The battery	6000 mAh (with twin 3000 mAh cells, non-removable)
vibration	Haptic engine
settings	12 GB + 256 GB / 16 GB + 512 GB
importing Wired/Wi-fi	100W SUPERVOOC™/ 50W AIRVOOC
Vast digicam	Sensor: Sony’s LYT-808, Sensor Dimension: 1/1.4″, Megapixels: 50, Pixel Dimension: 1.12 µm, Lens amount: 7P, ALC lens coating, Optical Picture Stabilization: Sure, Digital picture stabilization: Sure, Focal size: 23 mm equal, Aperture: ƒ/1.6, subject of view: 85°, autofocus: sure
telephoto cAMERA	Sensor: Sony LYT-600 with 3X optical zoom, Sensor dimension: 1/1.95″, Megapixels: 50, Pixel dimension: 0.8 µm, Lens amount: 1G3P, ALC lens coating, Optical Picture Stabilization: Sure, Digital Picture Stabilization: Sure, Focal size: 73 mm equal, Aperture: ƒ/2.65, Discipline of View: 32.8°, Auto Focus: Sure, Extremely Res Zoom (Digital): As much as 120X
Extremely huge cAMERA	Sensor: S5KJN5 Sensor dimension: 1/2.75″, Megapixels: 50, Pixel dimension: 0.64 µm, Lens Amount: 6P, Digital Picture Stabilization: Sure, Focal size: 15mm equal, Aperture: ƒ/2.05, Discipline of View: 120°, Autofocus: Sure
Flash	LEDs
Autofocus	Multi-Autofocus (All-Pixel Omni-Directional PDAF+CAF+LDAF)
Again video Options	8K at 30 fps, 4K at 60 fps/30 fps, 1080p at 60 fps/30 fps and 720p at 30 fps, Steady video: 4K at 60fps/30fps and 1080p at 60fps/30fps, Video zoom capturing assist: 4K at 60fps/30fps, 1080p at 60fps/30fps, 720p at 30fps Dolby Imaginative and prescient: 4K at 60 fps/30 fps, 1080p at 60 fps/30 fps, Film mode: 4K at 30 fps, Length: 4K at 30 fps and 1080p at 30 fps, Multi-scene video recording helps 1080p at 30 fps, Movement video: 1080p at 240 fps, 720p at 480 fps/240 fps
Rear digicam The methods	Photograph, Video, Portrait, Nightscape, Grasp, Excessive Pixel, Panorama, Film, Gradual Movement, Time Lapse, Lengthy Publicity, Multi-scene video, doc, axis shift, XPAN
Entrance digicam	Sensor: Sony IMX615 Megapixels: 32, Sensor dimension: 1/2.74″, Variety of lenses: 5P, Pixel dimension: 0.8 µm, Digital picture stabilization: Sure, Focal size: 21mm equal, Auto Focus: Mounted Focus, Aperture: ƒ/2.45, Discipline of View: 90°
Entrance video Options	Video: 4K at 60 fps/30 fps, 1080p at 60 fps/30 fps, 720p at 30 fps, Steady video 1080p at 30 fps, 720p at 30 fps, Dolby Imaginative and prescient: 4K at 60 fps/30 fps, 1080p at 60 fps/30 fps
Entrance digicam The methods	Photograph, video, portrait, night time scene, panorama, time lapse pictures, multi-scene video recording
Connectivity
LTE/LTE-A	4×4 MIMO, Helps as much as DL Cat 20/UL Cat 18 (2000 Mbps / 200 Mbps), relying on provider assist
2G GSM	850/900/1800/1900 MHz
3G WCDMA	Bands 1/2/4/5/6/8/19
4G LTE FDD	Bands 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/13/17/18/19/20/25/26/28/30/32/66/71
4G LTE TDD	Bands 38/39/40/41/48
5G SA	n1/n2/n3/n5/n7/n8/n12/n20/n25/n28/n30/n38/n40/n41 /n48/n66/n71/n75/n77/n78
Wi-Fi	Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, WLAN Show, WLAN Connection, WLAN Overlay, 1 Wi-Fi channels 60 MHz over 5 GHz, 2×2 MIMO
Bodybuilding	Bluetooth® 5.4, SBC, AAC, aptx, aptx-HD, LDAC, LHDC5.0
NFC	NFC enabled
positioning	GPS(L1+L5), GLONASS(G1), BDS(B1I+B1C+B2a), Galileo(E1+E5a), QZSS(L1+L5)
Sensors	Proximity Sensor, Ambient Gentle Sensor, Colour Temperature Sensor, Compass, acceleration sensor, Gyroscopes, Ultrasonic Fingerprint, Corridor Sensor, Laser Focus Sensor, Spectral sensors, infrared distant management
ports	USB 3.2 Gen 1, Sort-C, Normal Sort-C headphone assist, twin nano-SIM slot
bUTTONS	Gestures and on-screen navigation assist Alarm slider
Audio	OReality Audio, noise cancellation assist
Multimedia
HDR is supported	Dolby Imaginative and prescient®, HDR10+, HDRViVid
Audio supported	MP3, AAC, AMR, APE, OGG, FLAC, WAV
Video supported	MP4, 3GP, MKV, MOV, AVI, FLV, HEVC, AVC, VP9, ​​VP8, AV1
Supported picture	JPEG,BMP,PNG,DNG,HEIF,AVIF,WEBP,GIF,WBMP,ICO

Fairly a powerful listing of specs, I am certain you may agree.

Here’s a fast visible tour of the machine.

Listed below are some extra photographs this time of the cellphone within the Sandstone Magnetic Charging Case.

Subsequent from the field of goodies I acquired is the OnePlus AIRVOOC 50W charger.

Here is a fast clip of it in motion too.

As for the final gadgets within the field, there was a pair of reasonably good wanting black gloves, which have been put there to point out off the truth that the OnePlus 13 has an improved glove mode that is ready to detect gloved fingers as much as 0.5 mm thick. This has are available fairly helpful just lately because it has been a bit uninteresting right here in South East Englandshire

So that is the photograph and the video dealt with. Now on how the cellphone shall be used. Nicely, I promised first impressions within the title, so right here we go.

General, I have been very pleased with my restricted time utilizing the cellphone. It has labored effectively for me by way of how I exploit it. As frequent prospects right here will know, I’ve quite a lot of OnePlus gadgets that my complete household and I exploit. So the OnePlus 13 has been seamlessly built-in into our ecosystem.

The digicam performs exceptionally effectively in vivid circumstances. Nonetheless, once I tried to take some footage in close to complete darkness, the outcomes have been considerably disappointing. Nonetheless, I imagine I’ve a while to experiment with this characteristic additional. I took some photographs that I’ll share beneath. A few of them are fairly good, whereas others are usually not so nice, however they supply a glimpse of my expertise with the machine up to now.

Listed below are some examples of AI assisted zoom ranges when you get into the upper zoom ranges.

As you possibly can see as soon as we get previous the 20x zoom we begin to get into territory that may be a bit blurry and pixelated, nevertheless the ceremony is fairly good as much as the 20x mark which is past the telephoto optical vary.

The battery life, which I had anticipated from a contemporary smartphone, has been passable. Nonetheless, I bumped into some points with resource-intensive apps that triggered the battery to empty shortly. Surprisingly, the identical app reveals the identical habits on my Pixel cellphone, so I am not too fearful. I’ve given the cellphone the liberty to handle battery utilization independently and I am nonetheless in a position to get a full day’s use, with sufficient cost left for the subsequent day.

As for the multimedia expertise, I used to be very blissful, the audio system are loud and clear with depth and really feel to the sound. It paired completely with my headphones (each OnePlus and Pixel). I’ve used it within the automobile with no points associated to Android Auto once more, that was hassle free. the display screen recreates colours with nice readability for movies and photographs.

Talking of Images once more, I’ve additionally been enjoying round a bit with the brand new AI options inside the Images app’s modifying suite. The rise in AI Element has been fairly helpful in that I have been in a position to improve a few of my previous photographs from latest years, which is an efficient factor to do. That is made slightly simpler because the OnePlus gallery app works rather well with Google Images.

Lastly, name high quality has been glorious and has been the case with OnePlus telephones for the previous 18 months, which is without doubt one of the causes my spouse and son now use OnePlus telephones (Nord 4 and Nord CE 3 LTE, respectively). The brand new antenna designs that OnePlus has developed have helped me get a stronger sign once I’m in the course of the East Anglia countryside!

That sums up my time up to now with the OnePlus 13. It is accessible now from the OnePlus web site, and it is a unbelievable worth: £899 for the 256GB model and £999 for the 512GB model.

I will be doing a full assessment quickly that can go into extra depth concerning the cameras and efficiency points of the OnePlus 13. I would invite you to come back again in a few week for that report.

Till then, take a look at all the brand new options and whistles on the OnePlus web site now