OnePlus CEO confirms the OnePlus 6T won’t support wireless charging

While we’ve seen what the OnePlus 6T could look like and what we can expect, we don’t know all there is about it just yet. But the company’s CEO Pete Lau is willing to talk about what we won’t be seeing this time around: wireless charging. In an interview with CNET, Lau said the limits of wireless technology and its impact on charging times is the reason why we won’t be seeing it in the company’s newest flagship. Lau boasts of the company’s proprietary fast-charge technology we know as Dash Charge and how wireless charging won’t be able to offer the same experience. That and it would generate a lot of heat and require a thicker device. Lau says they are working to address this limitation but it won’t be coming to this device for now. 

One other thing missing is an IP certification for dust and water resistance. He justifies this by saying not many users take phones underwater and that getting an official IP rating would bring additional cost to the manufacturing of the phone. But he says it’s the most water-resistant phone they have made and could survive a drop in the sink, for example.  

We are also missing the headphone jack this time around. But Lau said this to make room for the in-screen fingerprint sensor on the phone, which OnePlus is calling Screen Unlock. The OnePlus 6T is expected to come out in the next few weeks with a starting price of around US$550.