The OnePlus 15 Is One of many First Telephones That May Kick the iPhone 17 Professional’s Ass

OnePlus is altering issues up with the launch of its subsequent flagship Android telephone, the OnePlus 15. The corporate is skipping the 14 as a result of 4, which sounds just like the phrase for loss of life, is dangerous luck in Chinese language tradition. Notably, the OnePlus 15 shall be one of many first telephones to launch with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a chipset that seems to kick the iPhone 17 Pro 17’s ass, especially for gaming and graphics-intensive duties.

Releasing someday in China in October, after which with a worldwide launch possible following, the OnePlus 15 ditches the spherical digicam design together with its picture processing co-developed with Hasselblad. OnePlus announced earlier this month that the Hasselblad “deliberate chapter” was “full” and that its “subsequent flagship” would have its personal “DetailMax Engine.” We’ll must see how images from the OnePlus 15 cameras examine to earlier Hasselblad-optimized ones. I actually favored how images got here out on the OnePlus 13; they leaned a bit heat, with a coloration science nearer to what folks typically affiliate with wanting “cinematic.” Let’s see if the OnePlus 15 can one-up that, or the tip of the Hasselblad team-up means a step backward for picture high quality.

The OnePlus 15 has a boxier look with flat sides, a flat show, and a flat square-shaped digicam bump. (Are we simply going to name them “plateaus” now due to Apple?). In a video posted to OnePlus’s X account, the corporate teases a steel physique that’s “harder than titanium,” no matter which means.

The calm has ended. #OnePlus15 in Sand Storm is coming quickly. pic.twitter.com/eUvLanUJwv

— OnePlus (@oneplus) September 29, 2025

There doesn’t look like an Alert Slider swap. The three-stage swap has been a staple function on OnePlus telephones for the reason that OnePlus 2 and allows you to rapidly modify sound between ring, vibrate, and silent. It’s such a signature OnePlus telephone function that when the corporate eliminated it from the OnePlus 10T in 2022, backlash from upset and dissatisfied followers pressured OnePlus so as to add it again into the OnePlus 12 and 13. Instead of the Alert Slider, I spy what seems to be the identical programmable “Plus Key” launched on the OnePlus 13S. The Plus Key works just about the identical because the Motion button discovered on iPhone 15 Execs, the entire iPhone 16 collection aside from the iPhone 16e, the entire iPhone 17 collection, and the iPhone Air.

There’s a triple-lens digicam on the again, which we will presume will embody a most important, ultrawide, and telephoto lens. We’ll be paying further consideration to see the way it compares to the telephotos within the iPhone 17 Pros, Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra, and Pixel 10 Pros. The display dimension has not been introduced but, however for what it’s value, the OnePlus 13 has a 6.82-inch 120Hz show.

We’re nonetheless ready for full specs, the precise launch dates, and phrase on pricing, however we must always have that data nearer to launch. For reference, the OnePlus 13 launched for $899 with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and $999 for 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. We’ll have to attend to see whether or not Trump’s tariffs, which have elevated the price of gadgets from Xboxes and PlayStation 5s to Fujifilm cameras, will affect the OnePlus 15. Both OnePlus eats the fee or passes it on to customers.