TL;DR
- OnePlus has already marketed the OnePlus 13 as IP68/IP69 ingress safety.
- For some previous OnePlus {hardware}, IP scores have assorted throughout markets.
- With the OnePlus 13, although, the corporate confirms to us that every one fashions will provide the identical IP score.
OnePlus followers have to be slowly dropping their minds proper now, dwelling with the data that the OnePlus 13 made its debut in China months in the past. International audiences have been caught ready for the corporate’s upcoming winter launch occasion, set to lastly happen subsequent Tuesday, January 7. However earlier than we get all these particulars on worldwide launch plans for the OnePlus 13, we’re already filling in a single essential clean, as we verify a vital element about this flagship’s development.
Let’s not mince any phrases about it: The method OnePlus takes to smartphone gross sales has, at occasions through the years, been a bit odd. From its early days with an invitation-based gross sales system, the corporate’s been comfy doing issues a bit in a different way from its friends. One development that’s emerged has concerned safety in opposition to water injury, and throughout a number of OnePlus handsets, we’ve seen the producer specific a good quantity of resistance in the direction of the IP requirements that different telephones embrace.
Whereas loads of older OnePlus telephones have been fairly water-proof, the corporate hasn’t at all times bothered to place them via formal IP certification. What makes issues actually complicated, although, has been the way in which that a few of these telephones had been offered unlocked with no IP score, but additionally offered in several markets via carriers the place they did arrive with an IP certification.
With the OnePlus 13, although, it’s been wanting like the corporate would possibly lastly be going all-in on water resistance, promoting the handset as providing IP68/IP69 safety. However would this be the case everywhere-everywhere, or will we be as soon as once more splits between markets primarily based on how the cellphone’s offered?
We reached out to OnePlus to unravel this, and the corporate has now confirmed with Android Authority that every one fashions of the OnePlus 13 you purchase will characteristic that IP68/IP69 score.
Like we stated, formal score or not, these telephones have demonstrated their capacity to outlive water publicity time and time once more — it’s not like OnePlus doesn’t know what it’s constructing right here. However formal scores nonetheless present a stage of peace of thoughts that’s actually going to be essential to customers dropping a whole bunch of {dollars} on this new {hardware}, so we’re nonetheless fairly joyful to have the ability to get an official reply to share with you.
