OnePlus, best known for its smartphones like the OnePlus 15, is branching off into the gaming handheld market with a device that will run Google’s Android operating system, according to a prominent leaker. If true, OnePlus could shake up the handheld landscape that is currently dominated by just a handful of players, and perhaps even incentivize other smartphone makers to join the fray.<\/p>\n
We’re getting well ahead of ourselves, though. For one, nothing has been formally announced, and even if OnePlus does release a gaming handheld, there is no guarantee that it will carve out a significant share of the market. However, OnePlus has a knack for disrupting the landscape, as we’ve seen time and again with its smartphones that routine deliver flagship specs and features as lower-than-flagship price points.<\/p>\n
In any event, the rumor comes by way of Digital Chat Station, a frequent and reliable leaker on Weibo<\/em>. In a Google-translated post, the leaker states, “It was previously said that a mobile phone manufacturer was making an ‘Android handheld’, and it has been confirmed.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post is short on details\u00a0in regards to the specs, though as spotted by Lowyat<\/em>, a separate post\u00a0on Weibo<\/em> by Panda\u00a0claims the upcoming handheld will feature an 8-inch display and run on a MediaTek Dimensity processor. It’s said to be a “flagship” chip, a designation that applies to the Dimensity 9500 and 9500s featuring an octa-core configuration, 19MB of CPU cache and 10MB of system cache, and 5G connectivity (among other specs).<\/p>\n Digital Chat Station also posted a render (shown up top), and as noticed by Videocardz<\/em>, it aligns with earlier rumors of a OnePlus gaming handheld sporting console-style grips.<\/p>\n “This solution is different from the previous full-button + joystick interaction. Instead, it is more like a set of interaction solutions built specifically for FPS games,” Digital Chat Station says.<\/p>\n The leaker also states that the upcoming handheld will flex some mobile phone traits, including multi-finger touch tracking and flagship performance scheduling.<\/p>\n Should this device come to fruition, it will be interesting to see how it fares against established competitors in the PC handheld space, such as the fan-favorite Steam Deck and devices like the ASUS Xbox ROG Ally X. And of course OnePlus would be competing with Nintendo’s Switch 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OnePlus, best known for its smartphones like the OnePlus 15, is branching off into the gaming handheld market with a device that will run Google’s Android operating system, according to a prominent leaker. If true, OnePlus could shake up the handheld landscape that is currently dominated by just a handful of players, and perhaps even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6527,6528,3943,1170,6529,4551,4671,3297],"class_list":{"0":"post-6596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-console-gaming","8":"tag-8inch","9":"tag-consolestyle","10":"tag-display","11":"tag-gaming","12":"tag-grips","13":"tag-handheld","14":"tag-leaks","15":"tag-oneplus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}