The battery is probably the smartphone component that is improving the fastest – OnePlus just unveiled a pair of phones with 9,000mAh batteries. And we’re not talking about brick-sized phones here, the two measure 8.5mm thick and weigh 215g.
The OnePlus Turbo 6 and the Turbo 6V are very similar devices. The 6 is the more premium model with a base price of CNY 2,300 (for a 12/256GB unit), while the 6V is more affordable and starts at CNY 1,900 (8/256GB). We have more detailed pricing for China at the bottom. Note that there is an early bird discount that drops these prices by CNY 200.
The key difference is that the OnePlus Turbo 6 is built for performance. It’s powered by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 and has a number of helper chips in tow. The Fengchi Game Kernel helps push games up to 165fps to match the display’s frame rate. There’s also the G1 Wi-Fi enhancement chip, plus one chip to deal with touch controls (up to 330Hz touch sampling rate).
OnePlus Turbo 6 in Silver, Black and Green
The OnePlus Turbo 6V uses the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 instead and while it does have the touch chip, it lacks the other two. It also has a massive vapor chamber and several heat-spreading layers like its pricier sibling.
OnePlus Turbo 6V in Blue, Black and White
That said, the Turbo 6 is clearly the high performance model as its more powerful chipset is paired with faster memory. It has up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and up to 512GB of UFS 4.1 storage. The 6V has up to 12GB of LPDDR4X RAM and up to 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage.
Both phones have 6.78” OLED displays with 1272p+ resolution and 10-bit colors. The Turbo 6 panel features ProXDR, HDR Vivid and Xreal certifications. It has the higher refresh rate at 165Hz, though the 6V display is no slouch at 144Hz. Both peak at 1,800 nits brightness and offer DC dimming, as well as 3,840Hz high-frequency PWM.
Let’s take a moment to gawk at the impressive batteries inside these two – their capacity is 9,000mAh and they support 80W SuperVOOC charging (up to 55W if you use a PPS charger instead).
OnePlus says that with the Turbo 6 you can play games for 10.6 hours or watch short videos for 22.5 hours on a single charge. If you choose the Turbo 6V, you are looking at similar endurance numbers – 10.5 hours of gaming and 25.6 hours of TikTok. These two make for fairly capable power banks with 27W reverse charging.
The OnePlus Turbo 6 and Turbo 6V have massive 9,000mAh batteries
The camera island is where things get less impressive – the 50MP main module has an f/1.88 lens with OIS and supports 4K @ 60fps video recording. There’s also a 16MP selfie camera (f/2.4) with 1080p @ 30fps video capture. That’s it for both phones, not counting a 2MP helper camera on the back.
Connectivity is merely okay – some will be disappointed to see the USB-C 2.0 port, others won’t care. There’s also Wi-Fi 7 (be, 2×2) on the pricier phone and Wi-Fi 6 (ax, 1×1) on the 6V, plus Bluetooth with aptX Adaptive, LDAC and LHDC 5.0 support on both. No, there’s no 3.5mm headphone jack, no microSD slot either.
Both phones have the following water protection levels: IP66 (splash proof), IP68 (submersion) and IP69 (hot water jets). There’s no word on the front glass, however. Note that both phones use optical fingerprint readers.
| OnePlus Turbo 6 | OnePlus Turbo 6V | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CNY | converted | CNY | converted | |
| 8/256GB | – | – | CNY 1,900 | $270 |
| 12/256GB | CNY 2,300 | $330 | CNY 2,100 | $300 |
| 16/256GB | CNY 2,600 | $370 | – | – |
| 12/512GB | CNY 2,800 | $400 | CNY 2,400 | $340 |
| 16/512GB | CNY 3,100 | $440 | – | – |
| Note: there is a CNY 200 early bird discount available for all models | ||||
You can follow the source links below to the Oppo online store for China. The OnePlus Turbo 6 and Turbo 6V are available for pre-order. It’s not clear whether these two are slated for a global release, but OnePlus does have a Nord 6 on the way.
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