Back
in October, we saw renders of the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro that are likely
to go official in Q2 2020. Today we are looking at the Lite variant which may
arrive alongside the vanilla 8 and the Pro version.
The
CAD-based renders of the OnePlus 8 Lite have been leaked by popular leakster
OnLeaks, and they reveal it will look different than the vanilla 8 and the Pro
model which have similar designs - it has thicker bezels surrounding a flat
display that has a punch hole in the center and a diagonal between 6.4"
and 6.5". The
smartphone will have a curved rear panel made of glass, with a rectangular
camera module in top-left corner housing two cameras joined by an LED flash
along with what could be a ToF sensor.
The
back of the OnePlus 8 Lite doesn't have a fingerprint scanner, meaning it will
be likely on the front underneath the display, which indicates the phone will
flaunt an AMOLED panel. Whether or not it boasts a 90Hz refresh rate remains to
be seen. The
placement of buttons, SIM card slot, USB-C port, and the speaker on the 8 Lite
are all the same as the 8 and 8 Pro, but at 8.6mm the device is thicker than
the vanilla 8 and thinner than the Pro version.
Being
flagship devices, the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro are likely to have the freshly
announced Snapdragon 865 SoC at the helm, but the OnePlus 8 Lite will be a
mid-ranger which will likely have a different chipset under the hood. There's no word from OnePlus about the
OnePlus 8 series yet, but we should hear more about them in the coming weeks or
months.
