OnePlus has today announced a new
variant of its flagship smartphone OnePlus 5T in India. The company has
introduced Lava Red colour variant in the Indian market, which will go on sale
exclusively through online retailer Amazon India.
The pricing of this new variant is same as the
standard model as well as the recently launched Star Wars Limited Edition — Rs.
37,999, which roughly converts to US$ 596. The company has already started taking
registration for the phone.
The company says that the radiant Lava Red colour
shade is achieved through an accurate combination of temperature, consistency
and baking time with less than 0.01 percent variation. It uses two anodic
oxidation processes, using double blasting and an AF coating to ensure the
texture and feel.
Earlier there were reports suggesting that the Lava
Red edition of OnePlus 5T could launch in India on 26th January, which is also
the Republic Day in India. Soon, another report emerged which suggested that
the phone could be introduced in India earlier than expected.
The OnePlus 5T Lava Red colour variant was
first launched in China and was so far exclusive to the company’s home country.
The OnePlus 5T, which is a successor of OnePlus 5, was launched in November
last year in only one colour — Midnight Black. All the other variant — Lava Red
and Star Wars Limited Edition, comes with same specifications as the standard edition.
The phone features a 6-inch Optic AMOLED Full-HD+
display with an 18:9 aspect ratio and a screen resolution of 2160 x 1080
pixels. The device is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor and comes
in two variants — 6GB RAM with 64GB ROM and 8GB RAM with 128GB ROM. It is
fuelled by a 3,300mAh battery that supports the company’s own Dash Charge — a
fast charging technology.
The phone is running Android 7.1.1 Nougat flavoured
Oxygen OS 4.7. It comes with a rear-mounted dual camera system that features a
16-megapixel camera sensor with f/1.7 aperture and a 20-megapixel sensor having
the same f/1.7 aperture. There is also a 16-megapixel IMX 371 camera sensor
with f/2.0 aperture on the front.
