OnePlus 9RT with Snapdragon 888, Warp Charge 65T Launched in India

Jan. 14, 2022

At a rather dramatic virtual event, OnePlus has finally brought the OnePlus 9RT to India. The smartphone is a successor to the OnePlus 9R and brings slightly better specifications that match the high-end OnePlus 9 series. To recall, the OnePlus 9RT was firstlaunched in Chinaa few months ago. Here’s a look at all the details.

OnePlus 9RT: Specs and Features

The OnePlus 9RT looks a lot like the existingOnePlus 9 phones; three big camera housings placed vertically in a rectangular bump on the back panel and a punch-hole display on the front. The phone features a metal frame, much like the OnePlus 9R. It comes in subtle Hacker Black and Nano Silver color options.

The display, which is 6.62-inch in size, is aFull HD+ Fluid AMOLED one with support for a 120Hz refresh rate andHDR10+. It also supports a 600Hz touch sampling rate, which will prove to be way quicker than its predecessor’s 240Hz touch sampling rate. The 9RT also features the high-endSnapdragon 888mobile platform, as opposed to the Snapdragon 870-powered OnePlus 9R. The chipset has been paired with up to 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and up to 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage.

The camera section has seen an upgrade too; there’s now a 50MP Sony IMX766 main camera with OIS, a 16MP ultra-wide camera, and a 2MP macro camera. The front snapper, although, follows the same old OnePlus story and stands at 16MP. There’s support for a dual-LED flash, 4K videos, slow-motion videos, Night mode, Portrait mode, Dual-view mode, and more camera features.

The OnePlus 9RT includes a4,500mAh battery with support for Warp Charge65Tfast charging and runs OxygenOS 11 based on Android 11 with minor ColorOS tidbits.

The OnePlus 9RT comes in two RAM+storage variants and here are the India prices:

With this, it competes with the likes of theSamsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G, the Realme GT, and even the upcomingXiaomi 11T Pro 5Gin India. It will be made available via an early access sale on January 16. People can get aninstant discount of up to Rs 4,000by using Axis or Kotak Bank cards.

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