OnePlus has at this time introduced the OnePlus Nord 3, the newest entry in its midrange Nord lineup and successor to final 12 months’s capable OnePlus Nord 2T. One notable enchancment in comparison with final 12 months’s cellphone is the size of help that OnePlus is promising: specifically, three main Android updates and 4 years of safety updates. That’s a 12 months’s improve for each over the Nord 2T, although it falls wanting the as much as 5 years of help the corporate guarantees for its top-of-the-line OnePlus 11. 

The OnePlus Nord 3 is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 9000 processor and may be configured with as much as 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. It has a 120Hz refresh fee display screen this time round, fairly than the 90Hz panel discovered on its predecessor, and the 6.74-inch flat show has a decision of 2772 x 1240.

Like the Nord 2T, the Nord 3’s most fast-charging velocity is 80W, which OnePlus claims will cost the cellphone’s 5,000mAh battery from 1 to 60 % in quarter-hour, and there’s a bodily alert slider included for good measure (a signature OnePlus inclusion). It’ll be obtainable in a selection of inexperienced or grey and runs the Android 13-based OxygenOS 13.1.

In phrases of cameras, the OnePlus Nord 3 is provided with a 50-megapixel important sensor with optical picture stabilization. It’s the identical sensor OnePlus utilized in its latest flagship OnePlus 11, which had an excellent if not precisely class-leading digital camera system. Secondary lenses embrace an 8-megapixel ultrawide, 2-megapixel macro, and 16-megapixel selfie digital camera.

Preorders for the OnePlus Nord 3 open at this time, and the cellphone will go on open sale on July twelfth. It’ll retail for €449 (round $490) for a mannequin with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage and €549 (round $598) for a mannequin with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The cellphone can be obtainable in 16 European markets, a OnePlus spokesperson beforehand confirmed, in addition to different international markets together with India. There’s no signal of a US launch for the handset, which isn’t shocking given OnePlus maintains a separate lineup of Nord devices stateside. More shocking is that the Nord 3 isn’t getting a launch within the UK, at the least for now.

“Nord 3 is not scheduled to go on sale in the UK at all, but it’s possible that changes in the future,” a OnePlus spokesperson lately told Tech Advisor. The spokesperson cited “logistical challenges around customs” as being responsible for the absence of a UK launch and mentioned the corporate had “temporarily put the sales of our smartphones on hold via OnePlus.com.” As of this writing, all of OnePlus’ telephones are listed as being out of inventory via the company’s UK store, although it lists the Nord 3 as “coming soon” at a worth of £499 for the 16GB RAM variant.

Alongside the OnePlus Nord 3, the corporate additionally introduced a extra inexpensive OnePlus Nord CE3 for the Indian market that’s coming in August.