OnePlus Nord N20 Coming to T-Mobile, and the Price Is Right
OnePlus understood the assignment. The new OnePlus Nord N20 was announced by T-Mobile today at $282, well below the price of both Samsung's and Apple's current $450 midrange offerings. And of course, it's free with a new line.
OnePlus is the "the leading Android alternative to Samsung at T-Mobile," according to Wave7 Research, and its Nord N10 and Nord N200 models were best-sellers last year. So the N20 has been highly awaited to be one of T-Mobile and Metro's potential blockbusters for 2022.
OnePlus weirdly did not release a full spec sheet with this phone announcement. The Nord N20, as we reported earlier this month, will have a 60Hz, 6.43-inch FHD+ AMOLED display and an in-display fingerprint scanner. It will have 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. It will run the Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 processor and Android 11.
There are three cameras on the back: a 64MP main lens, a monochrome camera, and a macro lens. OnePlus didn't release the specs for the monochrome and macro lenses, but I'd note that the Snapdragon 695 doesn't have 4K video capture or playback.
The 4,500mAh battery fast-charges at 33W, which is speedier than any other budget phone in the US, but it doesn't appear to have wireless charging.
There's one way the Nord N20 is better than the OnePlus 10 Pro: It runs Android 11, last year's version of Google's OS. That sounds weird, right? But OnePlus's version of Android 12 is actually worse than its version of Android 11, because of a major shift in skinning where it disastrously tried to merge its sleek OxygenOS with Oppo's overloaded ColorOS.
OnePlus's press release didn't promise any upgrades for the Nord N20, but I'm hoping that it at least will get Android 13. OnePlus promises that its version of Android 13
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