Exclusive: OnePlus Nord N20 Brings AMOLED to Budget Phones
When it comes to US shelves later this month, the OnePlus Nord N20 will feature a 6.43-inch FHD+, 60Hz AMOLED screen with an in-display fingerprint scanner, the company tells us.
OnePlus also sent the first official image of the new phone, which has a striking flat back and two large primary camera lenses.
The OnePlus Nord line has been a best-seller at T-Mobile and MetroPCS since the Nord N10 and Nord N100 hit shelves in February 2021. OnePlus sold more than 2.5 million Nord phones in the US last year, the company tells us.
"The success of the OnePlus Nord series has surpassed our highest expectations," says OnePlus COO Kinder Liu.
OnePlus's official image and specs confirm some online rumors about the upcoming N20 5G, but contradict some others. GSMArena got the screen size right but got the refresh rate wrong, for instance. The display runs at 60Hz as opposed to the 90Hz of the Nord N10. When I asked Liu why, he was a little elliptical but strongly implied that it was a choice between 60Hz AMOLED and 90Hz LCD at this price point.
"Our 6.43-inch FHD+ AMOLED display offers low power consumption as well as better contrast, more vivid colors, and a wider color gamut than what is currently on sale in the North America affordable device market," Liu says.
The Nord N10 5G launched at $299, and at that price, it mainly went up against Motorola, Samsung, and TCL in the midrange US market. The global version of Samsung's Galaxy A33 has a 90Hz AMOLED screen, but the as-yet-unannounced future US model of the A33 may not. Motorola's current budget line doesn't have OLED, and neither does TCL's. Neither Samsung nor Motorola phones charge as fast as the OnePlus phones generally do.
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