Kechao | OnePlus 16 boasts a comprehensive upgrade in product competitiveness, building the strongest "all-around flagship" ever in its history.
On October 12, 2026, OnePlus officially released its annual digital flagship, the OnePlus 16. Adhering to the product proposition of "Beyond Performance, Unlock Greater Power", the new device, on the basis of continuing to lead the performance track, has achieved comprehensive upgrades in product capabilities including imaging, display and battery life, building the strongest "peak performance flagship" in history. The OnePlus 16 is among the first to be equipped with the 6th-generation Snapdragon 8 Super Ultimate Edition, paired with the brand-new WindChaser Game Kernel, bringing an unprecedented "185FPS Extreme Gun God" experience. It is the world's first device featuring the 185Hz 4th-generation Oriental Display, and is also equipped with flagship configurations such as the LUMO 200MP Landscape Imaging System and the 9000mAh super-large capacity Glacier Battery, setting a new benchmark for annual performance flagships with its all-round hardcore strength. The OnePlus 16 is now available for pre-order, and will go on sale across all channels on October 13, with a national subsidy starting price of 5199 yuan.
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Li Jie, President of OnePlus China, stated at the launch event that OnePlus phones once again maintained the top position in the industry with a 18% sales growth rate this year, making it the only mobile phone brand that still maintains double-digit growth. With its extreme gaming performance experience, OnePlus phones are chosen by over 68% of high refresh rate mobile game players, and its user Net Promoter Score has risen for three consecutive years, with market reputation hitting new historical highs repeatedly. From taking the lead in promoting the popularization of 165Hz ultra-high frame rate to leading the advancement of the gaming experience across the whole industry, OnePlus keeps breaking through performance boundaries and raising the upper limit of the industry. As the strongest flagship in OnePlus's history, the OnePlus 16 delivers a generational leading performance in gaming and all-round experience, once again refreshing the public's imagination of performance flagships.
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185FPS Extreme Gun God Debuts, Peak Performance Fully Unleashed
FPS shooting games put extremely strict requirements on mobile phone performance. Taking the creation of the unprecedented "185FPS Extreme Gun God" experience as the core goal, the OnePlus 16 has been fully upgraded in five dimensions: performance, frame rate, network, display and touch, bringing an extreme full-link gaming experience.
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The OnePlus 16 is among the first to carry the 6th-generation Snapdragon 8 Super Ultimate Edition, which adopts TSMC's 2nm process technology. Its CPU uses the 4th-generation all-big-core architecture with a maximum main frequency of 5GHz, and the GPU introduces a brand-new AI hardware acceleration unit, providing sufficient computing power for 185 ultra-high frame rate games and full-scene heavy-load experiences. At the same time, the OnePlus 16 writes the brand-new "WindChaser Game Kernel" into the bottom layer of the 6th-generation Snapdragon 8 Ultimate Edition at the factory, building a dedicated scheduling strategy for gaming scenarios, prioritizing game resources in high-load scenarios, and bringing more stable frame rate, better image quality and longer full-frame performance. With the support of the brand-new "Glacier Heat Dissipation System", the heat dissipation performance is greatly improved, which can support stable operation of long-time high-load games.
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Frame rate is the core winning factor for shooting games. The OnePlus 16 supports native 185 ultra-high frame rate gaming experience. Even after long-time high-load operation, it can still maintain a persistent full frame rate, outputting 65 more frames per second than 120fps, with a smoothness improvement of over 50%. It displays targets earlier and kills enemies faster, truly realizing "two steps faster, easy victory".
To create a full-link "185FPS Extreme Gun God" experience, the OnePlus 16 is equipped with the industry's only fully self-developed "E-Sports Triple Core", which comprehensively improves network stability, dynamic display clarity and control response speed. The "E-Sports Network Chip G3", paired with the industry's first anti-interference e-sports antenna, maintains stable and low-latency network in complex scenarios such as multi-device congestion and wall penetration occlusion, performing well both in wall penetration and network resource preemption. The "Super Display Chip P4" can optimize high-speed moving pictures in real time, improve the clarity of dynamic pictures, and deliver clearer display in ultra-high refresh rate scenarios. The "Lingxi Touch Chip T3" brings the industry's highest 520Hz multi-finger touch sampling rate, reducing the average touch latency by 29%, and greatly improving the control follow-up performance.
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On this basis, the OnePlus 16 is also equipped with a "High-Precision Master Gyroscope", whose operation precision surpasses that of game console controllers. There is also the "One-Tap Gun God" mode, which can activate the optimal state of performance, network, display, touch and other settings with one tap, allowing ordinary players to obtain professional-level e-sports experience.
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Based on top-level hardware configuration and performance scheduling, the OnePlus 16 has built the industry's richest 185FPS game ecosystem, which is among the first to support the native 185FPS ultra-high frame rate mode of top mobile games such as *PUBG Mobile*, *Arena Breakout*, *Delta Action*, *CrossFire* and *Valorant Mobile*, covering mainstream categories including FPS, MOBA, fighting and racing.
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In addition, the OnePlus 16 has become the official competition device for the *PUBG Mobile* Pro League and the *Valorant Mobile* National Tournament, bringing more extreme gaming experience to professional teams and the majority of players. The OnePlus 16 is also among the first to support native 165FPS full-frame operation of *Honor of Kings*, leading the gaming performance among flagships of the same class.
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World's First 4th-Generation Oriental Display, Defining New Standards for Flagship Displays
As a leader in mobile phone high refresh rate technology, OnePlus and BOE have carried out in-depth joint R&D for many years, committed to building the best display in the world and continuously promoting breakthroughs in domestic display technology. This time, the OnePlus 16 is the world's first to be equipped with the 185Hz 4th-generation Oriental Display, which adopts the brand-new X4 light-emitting material customized jointly with BOE, and introduces the industry's first "three-time calibration". While comprehensively improving power consumption, color, brightness, service life and high refresh rate stability, it ensures that every display meets the flagship standard through hardware calibration, bringing top-level display effects of extreme transparency, extreme smoothness and extreme clarity.
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The 4th-generation Oriental Display is the world's first flagship display built exclusively for ultra-high refresh rate. It not only supports a maximum 185Hz ultra-high refresh rate in gaming scenarios, but also brings the world's first hardware-level global 165Hz ultra-high refresh rate, which adapts to millions of mainstream applications. Aiming at the power consumption problem brought by high refresh rate, the OnePlus 16 is equipped with a brand-new LTPO ultra-high refresh rate circuit, realizing hardware-level adaptive refresh rate from 1Hz to 165Hz, balancing full-scene smoothness and long-lasting battery life. This top-level display also debuts the industry's super dynamic clarity technology, whose dynamic clarity is comparable to professional e-sports monitors, making daily operations and high-frame games faster and clearer.
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In terms of eye protection, the OnePlus 16 adopts the brand-new generation of "Bright Eye Protection" technology, combined with technologies such as 1nit low-light display at the hardware end, 3840Hz ultra-high frequency PWM dimming and hardware-level low blue light, bringing comprehensive and excellent eye protection effects, and successfully won the TÜV Rheinland Intelligent Eye Care 6.0 "Golden Mark" certification.
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200MP Landscape Shooting Artifact, New Benchmark for Industry Landscape Photography
The OnePlus 16 ushers in the biggest imaging upgrade in OnePlus's history. It adopts the LUMO 200MP Landscape Imaging System, which realizes the comprehensive improvement of full-focal-length landscape creation capability through the deep collaboration of flagship imaging hardware and self-developed imaging algorithm, and is a "200MP landscape shooting artifact" built exclusively for extreme landscape photography.
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In 2026, 200MP has become the standard configuration of imaging flagships. The OnePlus 16 is equipped with a 200MP large-image-sensor main camera, which has ultra-high resolution and light capturing capability far exceeding products of the same class, which can completely retain massive details of landscape scenes such as mountains, buildings and city street views. It also supports "one shot with three cropping", outputting three compositions of panorama, subject and details from one photo at the same time, improving the freedom of landscape creation. It is equipped with a 50MP large-image-sensor periscope telephoto lens same as flagship models, supporting 3x optical zoom and 6x lossless zoom, which can clearly capture distant views and portrait close-ups. The 50MP ultra-wide-angle lens is also a must-have for outdoor landscape blockbusters, which can capture magnificent mountains and rivers and city skylines in one shot, easily creating atmospheric blockbusters.
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The OnePlus 16 is equipped with OPPO's self-developed LUMO Light Condensing Imaging System, which integrates native light and shadow engine and color science to restore natural light, shadow and color, making photos present the real texture seen by human eyes and reproducing the visual memories during travel. It supports exclusive imaging functions such as 65:24 wide format mode, master mode, shadowless snapshot and 4K live photo, and also has a built-in "AI Photo Retoucher", allowing photography beginners to easily create creative blockbusters.
