OnePlus Nord 2 design just leaked — here's your first look

OnePlus Nord 2 design simply leaked — hither's your outset wait

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The OnePlus Nord 2 may have but been detailed in a new set of renders, which tease blueprint tweaks over the original OnePlus Nord.

The leaked images come courtesy of Steve "OnLeaks" Hemmerstoffer, via his Voice page, who claims that while the device has the codename "Ebba" he believes this will be the follow-up to the OnePlus Nord N10 5G.

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The pattern is familiar to anyone who's seen the Nord N10. The construction sounds similar likewise, with this device apparently using a sleeky plastic back with a metal frame, and a USB-C port and a 3.5mm headphone jack at the bottom.

Hemmerstoffer gives us the dimensions as well: 162.9 x 74.seven 10 eight.4mm. That equates to half dozen.iv 10 2.ix x 0.iii inches, or in relative terms, slightly narrower and thinner than the Nord N10.

A 6.49-inch brandish with flat edges and a dial-hole camera in the top left corner is shown off in the renders. This is identical to the Nord N10's LCD display, which also boasted an FHD+ resolution, and a 90Hz refresh rate. We'd expect this next Nord phone to use these features too.

The three rear cameras are positioned in the same rectangular photographic camera block every bit the Nord N10, the cheaper OnePlus Nord N100 and OnePlus' near recent flagship, the OnePlus 8T. However, that'due south one less than the Nord N10, which has 4 cameras, consisting of chief, ultrawide, monochrome and macro sensors.

In our Nord N10 review, nosotros criticized the poor operation of the Nord N10's monochrome and macro shots. So assuming information technology's one of these that's been omitted, we won't exist too upset.

A notable change is the relocation of the fingerprint scanner. Information technology's moved from a circular patch on the back to inside the ability button on the right side. This seems like a good adventure, since it cleans up the expect of the dorsum, and is arguably more convenient to use when you need to unlock the phone.

This leak doesn't tell us about any internal changes, such every bit which chipset, camera sensors or bombardment tech the phone will utilise, so perhaps nosotros'll see more meaning changes there.

1 rumored internal change is that OnePlus will ditch its current Snapdragon chipsets in favor of MediaTek-made ones for the Nord 2. This would decrease the price of the phone, and mayhap increase their operation too depending on which Dimensity chip was used.

The original Nord N10 only went on sale in the U.South. in Jan (or Nov 2020 in the U.K.). It could exist several months before we come across OnePlus launch this new Nord device, particularly given the imminent launch of the OnePlus ix. Whenever it does debut, however, there's a chance it'll become one of our best cheap phones picks, managing what the original Nord N10 couldn't.

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