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The "Small-screen Monster" OnePlus 13T is officially launched, starting from 2,899 yuan after national subsidies.

科氪2025-04-27 12:46
OnePlus 13T, a small-screen flagship, is released. It is equipped with Snapdragon 8 and a 6260mAh battery, starting at 2,899 yuan.

On April 24, 2025, OnePlus held a new product launch event in Beijing, unveiling the "Small-screen Performance King", the OnePlus 13T. Li Jie, the President of OnePlus in the Chinese market, stated that in the first quarter of 2025, OnePlus showed a strong growth momentum and demonstrated robust market competitiveness. The OnePlus Ace 5 series exceeded 1.6 million units in sales within 100 days of its launch. Together with the digital series OnePlus 13, they led the market in the same price range and became phenomenal products in their respective price brackets. Thanks to the excellent performance of these three products, OnePlus achieved a record-high Net Promoter Score, reaping both high sales and good word-of-mouth.

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As a new member of OnePlus' digital flagship series, the OnePlus 13T continues to deliver powerful performance. With a sleek and lightweight 6.32-inch body, it brings comprehensive improvements in terms of texture, performance, heat dissipation, and battery life, setting a new standard for the small-screen experience. The OnePlus 13T adopts a new design language and craftsmanship. It is equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition mobile platform, offering up to 16GB LPDDR5X + 1TB UFS 4.0 large storage. Coupled with the exclusive self-developed "Wind Rush Gaming Kernel" technology, it offers a gaming experience with 120 frames per second and 1.5K resolution in a certain large open-world mobile game for the first time in the industry. Additionally, it debuts the exclusive "Glacial Cooling System" and, in combination with the self-developed "Gaming Wi-Fi Chip G1", provides more stable and smooth gaming performance in various scenarios. Moreover, the OnePlus 13T is equipped with a 6260mAh large-capacity Glacial Battery, making it the world's first small-screen phone with a battery capacity exceeding 6000mAh, offering the most extreme long-lasting battery life among small-screen phones. The OnePlus 13T also features a super-photography flagship camera system and inherits OPPO's flagship imaging algorithms, delivering top-notch portrait shooting capabilities in its class. In terms of the screen, the OnePlus 13T is equipped with a 1.5K A++ grade small straight screen. Thanks to its top-notch screen quality and display technology, it offers an excellent display experience. The OnePlus 13T also debuts the latest version of ColorOS 15, which is specially optimized for small-screen phones, providing a smoother experience and more abundant AI functions.

Li Jie, the President of OnePlus in the Chinese market, said, "The OnePlus 13T is the industry's first small-screen performance flagship, combining 'compact, beautiful, and powerful' features. It can be easily operated with one hand, unleash full-blooded performance, and offer worry-free battery life. As a 'new species' in the industry, the OnePlus 13T completely solves the current pain points of small-screen usage and brings the best small-screen experience."

The OnePlus 13T will be officially available for sale on all channels at 10:00 on April 30, with a starting price of 3,399 yuan and a price after national subsidy starting from 2,899 yuan.

New Design Language, Master the Texture and Feel with One Hand

As the first product to adopt OnePlus' new design language, the OnePlus 13T interprets the product concept of "small and beautiful" with its minimalist and pure texture and lively and individual aesthetic. The OnePlus 13T features a new Metal Cube Deco design and an integrated aluminum alloy camera module, which accounts for 7.5% of the back area of the phone and has a protrusion of only 2.15mm, making the back panel look cleaner and more refreshing. Whether you are playing games in landscape mode or taking photos in portrait mode, you can enjoy a comfortable grip. At the same time, the OnePlus 13T is equipped with a 6.32-inch ultra-narrow bezel straight screen, and the whole phone weighs only 185g. Combined with the perfect rounded R corners and a 50:50 balanced weight distribution, it can be easily held with one hand. The OnePlus 13T also brings a newly upgraded shortcut key. While retaining the original functions such as mute, vibration, and ringtone, it also allows you to customize 8 functions such as quick note-taking, recording, and translation at will, all with just one click.

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This time, the OnePlus 13T comes in three color options: "Morning Mist Gray", "Flipping Pink", and "Cloud Ink Black". "Morning Mist Gray" features a low-key and textured light gray color, which is as soft as the morning mist and also has the calmness of modern technology. "Flipping Pink" interprets the gentle and elegant beauty with a bright pink color. Both color options adopt the new "Coral Velvet Glass Technology", which not only prevents fingerprints but also provides a smooth touch like coral velvet. "Cloud Ink Black" uses OnePlus' classic AG Silk Glass Technology, and its delicate touch complements the classic black color perfectly.

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Full-blooded Performance with Sustained Output, Creating the Peak Performance of Small-screen Phones

As OnePlus' first small-screen flagship, the OnePlus 13T delivers the most powerful performance among small-screen phones in the current industry. It is equipped with the full-blooded Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition mobile platform, offering 16GB LPDDR5X + 1TB UFS 4.0 large storage. In collaboration with Qualcomm, it conducts comprehensive technical optimizations in 28 specific areas across 6 major fields, including performance, gaming, AI, display, connectivity, and network, achieving a leapfrog improvement in performance and energy efficiency. The OnePlus 13T scored over 3.03 million points on AnTuTu, breaking the scoring record for small-screen phones.

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To achieve the ultimate release of performance, the OnePlus 13T debuts the "Glacial Cooling System", bringing exclusive "black technologies" in the industry in terms of heat dissipation structure and materials, ensuring sustained full-blooded performance output. The "Glacial VC" structure, which is debut on the OnePlus 13T, features a VC area of up to 4400mm² and is paired with the innovative nano-ice crystal coolant. Combined with the VC 3D convex hull heat dissipation structure, it can more efficiently disperse the heat from the SoC and improve the overall heat dissipation efficiency of the phone. The "Glacial Graphite" heat dissipation material offers a super-high thermal conductivity of 2100W/mK, increasing the thermal conductivity per unit area by 50%, providing a more stable frame rate for long-term heavy-load gaming. In addition, the OnePlus 13T also features the industry's first "Glacial Back Cover" designed specifically for heat dissipation, which can achieve more efficient and uniform heat dissipation. The OnePlus 13T also conducts exclusive heat dissipation optimization for the areas of the phone that are frequently touched during holding, significantly reducing the temperature in the areas where the hands make contact and providing a more comfortable grip.

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Unlimited Full Frames in Mainstream Games, Breaking the Upper Limit of Small-screen Phone Gaming Experience

Powered by the Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition mobile platform and the "Glacial Cooling System", the OnePlus 13T delivers full-blooded top-tier performance. To provide a better gaming experience, the OnePlus 13T is also equipped with OnePlus' exclusive self-developed chip-level gaming technology, the "Wind Rush Gaming Kernel". Through in-depth fine-tuning at the chip level, it breaks the upper limit of the small-screen phone gaming experience.

 

Thanks to the optimization brought by the "Wind Rush Gaming Kernel", the OnePlus 13T offers more extreme CPU performance release and GPU game graphics rendering. It not only ensures smooth and cool gaming for a long time but also brings an epic enhancement to the game frame rate and image quality. With the powerful support of the "Wind Rush Gaming Kernel", the OnePlus 13T can easily achieve "unlimited full frames" in five mainstream games, including "Honor of Kings", "Peacekeeper Elite", "Genshin Impact", "The Wuxia", and "Honkai: Star Rail". Among them, the OnePlus 13T not only debuts the native 120 frames + 1.5K experience in a certain large open-world mobile game but also jointly optimizes with Qualcomm to achieve the industry's first native 120 frames experience in "The Wuxia" mobile game, with full image quality, bringing a unique gaming experience among small-screen phones.

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For mainstream games, the OnePlus 13T also collaborates with game developers to bring in-depth joint optimization. To meet the tactical competition needs of "Peacekeeper Elite", the OnePlus 13T offers a low-latency sound enhancement effect, allowing players to more clearly identify the direction of sounds and make faster judgments. With its excellent overall strength, the OnePlus 13T has passed the certification for the professional league event environment of "Peacekeeper Elite". For the high-frequency operation scenarios in "Honor of Kings", the OnePlus 13T brings "touch hot zone optimization" and "touch optimization", making the touch of commonly used buttons in the game more accurate and the combos smoother. In addition, OnePlus also jointly develops the "GSS Game State Communication Technology" with "Genshin Impact". Even in high-load environments such as oceans and volcanoes in the game, the OnePlus 13T can provide a long-term smooth experience.

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An excellent gaming experience cannot be achieved without a stable network connection. The OnePlus 13T is equipped with the industry's first G1 Gaming Wi-Fi Chip, which is specifically customized for mobile game networks. It can achieve a Wi-Fi connection of over 100 meters and across six floors, earning it the title of "Double Champion in Wall-penetrating and Network-grabbing". The OnePlus 13T is also equipped with 11 high-power antennas, and the layout of 3 of the "golden antennas" has been redesigned to achieve 36