The OnePlus Nord 4 was unveiled today at the company's Summer Lunch Event in Milan, Italy. This new smartphone features a design that goes against the current glass-sandwich trends, and opts for a metal unibody instead. The phone runs on Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 with either 8 GB, 12 GB or 16 GB of RAM. Storage is either 128 GB UFS 3.1 or 256 GB/512 GB UFS 4.0. The OnePlus Nord 4 is built around a 6.74" Super Fluid AMOLED panel that has up to 120 Hz refresh rate and a 1240p resolution. It has a single punch hole for the 16 MP selfie camera. The back features a 50 MP main shooter with OIS and EIS and an 8 MP ultrawide snapper. The main camera can record videos at up to 4K resolution and 60 fps.
The Nord 4 features a 5,500 mAh abttery
with 100W wired charging support that helps it reach 100% in under 30 minutes.
However you'll need to purchase the proprietary adapter separately because
there's not going to be one in the box. The battery will retain at least 80% of
its capacity after 1,600 full cycles, which should put anybody worried about
quick charging causing excessive degradation at ease.
OnePlus aimed for a metal unibody design
from the start, which required innovative solutions. They repositioned the
antennas into a U-shape and added small pillars inside the phone's rear cover,
effectively halving the antenna size and enhancing signal amplification. The
name of the new design is called Nordtones, and the phone comes in Mercurial
Silver, Oasis Green, and Obsidian Midnight.
OnePlus also hyped the Nord 4 as the first
international phone with an AI-infused midrange chipset. The features that
enables are AI Audio Summary, AI Note Summar, and AI Linkboost that reconnects
to mobile networks "faster than ever." Nord 4 also offers an AI Groupfie
feature that artificially changes people's eyes in group shots so nobody is
blinking.
The phone runs Oxygen OS 14.1 based on
Android 14, and OnePlus promised 4 Android version updates and six years of
security updates, meaning it would be supported until 2030. In Europe the
OnePlus Nord 4 costs £ 429/€ 499 for the 12/256 GB version, while the top 16/512
GB option is priced at £ 529/€ 599. Pre-orders are already open and those who
pre-book will get free Nord Buds 3 Pro TWS earphones and € 50 off if they opt
for the bigger storage version. Open sales start on August 8.
In India pre-orders are opening on July 20
with open sales commencing on August 2. The pre-order period will have the
8/256 GB variant for INR 32,999, while the 12/256 GB option is INR 35,999. A
third 8/128 GB version will be joining them once shipments begin - it will
retail for INR 29,999.
