Perhaps to help dispel all related rumors, OnePlus has gone ahead and shared an image showing an official render of its upcoming flagship device -- the OnePlus 6 -- through The Verge. And as many have already suspected, the follow up to the very successful OnePlus 5T is now confirmed to sport a notch on the top section of its front side panel.
As explained by Carl Pei, the chief executive officer of the Chinese phone maker, the notch will be smaller compared to perhaps the most famous notch of all -- the iPhone X’s. The main reason for the minimal size is simply the fact that the OnePlus 6’s notch will not include all the sensors present in Apple’s 2017 smartphone offering. Pei also took the opportunity to clarify that his team was able to execute the OnePlus 6’s notch design by shifting its screen and the notification bar further up the front side. The result is that the device now offers a 90 percent screen to body ratio.
Much has already been said about notch designs in recent smartphone releases. While other mobile users do not particularly mind a screen notch in their device, there are others who are more critical of its presence. According to some, the notch kind of gets in the way when viewing video content or photos on full screen mode, while a number of people simply claim that the notch design is just not pretty.
Still, the notch makes an appearance in a few high profile smartphone releases, including the aforementioned iPhone X, the Essential Phone, and more recently, Huawei’s P20 and P20 Pro phablets (which allow users to hide the notch if they want to). Moreover, other well known phone maker brands are reportedly considering adopting the design in their upcoming handsets -- such names include LG (for its upcoming G7 flagship), Oppo, and Asus, just to name a handful. Even Google is mindful of the notch -- it is said that the next version of its Android mobile operating system (nicknamed Android P for now) will come with support for the notch design.
Meanwhile, in other related news, a speed test reportedly for the yet to be unveiled OnePlus 6 was spotted in Geekbench, a website that specializes in benchmarking phones. The speed test in question is said to be for a handset designated as NS P7819, which just so happens to be the same model number tied to the OnePlus 6 based on previous leaks.
The NS P7819 phone had managed to garner a single core score of 2,535, as well as a multi-core score of 8,632. For some context, those numbers are better than that of the Galaxy S9, the flagship that Samsung had unveiled just a little more than a month ago. The Geekbench speed test also showed that the device being benchmarked is using Qualcomm’s formidable Snapdragon 845 chip, the same processors used on the Galaxy S9 smartphones.
