OnePlus confirms its first folding telephone might be a rebadged Oppo

OnePlus and Oppo are releasing the identical foldable telephone below totally different names, OnePlus confirmed in an announcement emailed to The Verge as we speak. The corporate says that Oppo chief product officer Peter Lau, who co-founded OnePlus, directed groups at each corporations to develop the telephone in tandem to be launched below each manufacturers in numerous markets, although the e-mail didn’t say which telephone will go the place.

OnePlus didn’t identify the telephones within the announcement, however they’re the telephones rumored to be known as the OnePlus Open and the Oppo Discover N3.

The alert slider lives on. Picture: OnePlus / Oppo

As for the telephone itself, Oppo says the telephone’s hinge might be 37 p.c stronger — and have “31 fewer parts” — than that of the Discover N2. The corporate additionally says the telephone will function an alert slider. Rumors counsel the telephone can have a 7.82-inch interior show and a 6.31-inch outer one and will have as much as 24GB of RAM and as much as 1TB of UFS 4.0 storage.