Summary
OnePlus rumors of shutdown are false; the company is alive and making phones.
OnePlus China president announced that the OnePlus 15T is coming soon on Weibo.
Hints point to a compact yet powerful flagship, and there’s even a gold trim red envelope giveaway.
A little while ago, there were rumors that OnePlus phones were going to stop being made. The good news was that several people at OnePlus made statements on social media saying the exact opposite: that OnePlus was alive and well and that the rumors had no real basis. However, it was still a little up in the air, because while high-ranking executives said they weren’t pulling the plug on OnePlus, there wasn’t any proof that they hadn’t.
Well, here’s some even better news: the OnePlus China president has taken to social media and posted that the OnePlus 15T is en route. And if that isn’t a sign that we can all breathe easy about the company’s future, I don’t know what is.
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As spotted by Notebook Check, the president of OneNote China, Li Jie Louis, took to Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of X (formerly Twitter), to announce the OnePlus 15T. In his post, Li Jie Louis had the following to say (machine translated from Chinese):
Happy Start to the Works Day! The OnePlus 15T, the dream phone for small-screen enthusiasts, is coming soon!
It appears that Li Jie Louis is also doing a giveaway for five gold foil red envelopes, and it looks like the lucky winners will get a OnePlus 15T themselves. Of course, it’s a China-only contest, but it’s cool to see a product announcement tie in with a giveaway.
Li Jie Louis doesn’t go into detail on the specs and what to expect, but there are hints that it will be both compact and powerful. However, I’m sure that people are just happy to see that OnePlus is still in the business of making phones, and that the stories of it going under ended up being false.
If you haven’t given OnePlus hardware a try before, it’s well worth giving them a look. After all, the phones have a passionate fanbase over in the West for a good reason. But you don’t have to believe me; our editor-in-chief called the OnePlus 13 “the iPhone killer I always wanted,” which is huge praise given how many phones he has used.