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. 

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OnePlus 6T gets leaked, shows ‘waterdrop’ notch

If you’ve been following international tech news, the look of what’s being said to be the OnePlus 6T is going to be familiar. WinFuture showed off the leak of the full phone and it features what’s being called by OPPO as a waterdrop design for the notch. In case you didn’t know, OnePlus and OPPO share the same parent company and OnePlus as regularly taken design cues from OPPO but altered the branding, specs, and software to appeal to markets beyond what OPPO usually goes after (which includes China and India).  

Not much is known about the specs of this upcoming device. Some of the things OnePlus has confirmed is there will be no headphone jack, but it could mean the device could have a bigger battery; and it will come with an in-display fingerprint sensor. Some of the other rumoured specs claim it could run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, Android Pie, and at least 6GB of RAM—which are all features you can expect from the latest flagship phones. It’s said to be priced around US$550 but there is no word yet when we might expect the device to launch. 

Source: The Verge 

OnePlus rolls out Android Pie update for OnePlus 6

OnePlus is staying true to its word and has begun rolling out its take on Android Pie for the OnePlus 6. OxygenOS 9.0 brings many of the same improvements that’s available in the stock version of the operating system. OnePlus 6 users get the tweaked interface, adaptive battery functionality, and gesture navigation, to name a few. While it should come as a standard, unfortunately, it takes manufacturers many months to update their devices to the latest Android version. As The Verge reports, less than 15 percent of devices are running last year’s Android Oreo. Google has been trying to fix the fragmentation issue through Project Treble, and this might be the reason for the speedy release on the OnePlus 6.

The company has promised to bring Android Pie to a lot of its older devices, including OnePlus 5, 5T, 3, and 3T. So, owners of these older OnePlus devices just need to be patient, we’re sure it’s going to head your way soon.

OnePlus 6 gets first open beta release for Android Pie

In a move that might help bring its latest operating system to its users faster, Google has partnered with some of its OEMs to support its Android Beta Program. OnePlus is quick to take advantage of this and has just launched the first open beta release for Android Pie for the OnePlus 6, making OnePlus 6 users one of the first to get their hands on the latest version of Android. The instructions on how to get the beta up and running are under the cut.

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