While most of the excitement at today's event has revolved around the stunning OnePlus 7 Pro, the company also announced a model more in line with its previous offerings. Very much an incremental update over the Oneplus 6T (think 6T+ or 6TT), the regular OnePlus 7 features an almost unchanged form factor with updated internals.

There are a couple of small physical changes to note. On the front, the earpiece above the waterdrop notch is larger than on the 6T, and on the back, the flash is now part of the two-camera module rather than below it. The display is still a 6.41-inch 1080p AMOLED panel and the dimensions of the device are identical.

On the inside is where the important distinctions can be made. The SoC is now a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, the same as the OnePlus 7 Pro, and it's coupled with UFS 3.0 storage produce the incredibly fast performance we now expect from a OnePlus phone. The primary rear camera uses Sony's latest 48-megapixel 1/2-inch super-sized sensor for finely-detailed shots (although with pixel binning, the end result will still come out at 12MP). That main camera is complemented by a 5MP depth sensor and the front camera has a 16MP sensor.

The in-display fingerprint scanner is said to be improved for faster and more accurate unlocking, although it's fair to say that the previous implementation on the 6T was already better than most. Dual stereo speakers are included for the first time on a OnePlus phone, with Dolby Atmos tuning. OnePlus has also talked up a new RAM Boost feature that assigns memory to the apps that need it most to mitigate against the kind of memory management issues Pixel owners have become accustomed to, but we'll have to wait and see whether that translates to real-world performance gains. The battery has a capacity of 3,700mAh and fast-charges over USB-C. Once again, there's no headphone jack.

So it's a modest update over the 6T and it's accompanied by a modest price hike too, starting at £499 rather than £479 in the UK, thankfully much less than the increases we've seen from other Android phone manufacturers this year. If there's one decision that is sure to cause some anger among the company's fan community, it's that this cheaper phone won't be launching in the United States — the OnePlus 7 Pro is all you'll be able to purchase there.

The regular OnePlus 7 will go on sale sometime in June. Midnight Gray is the colorway you see here, similar to Mirror Gray from before, but a Red version will also be available in select markets. There are two memory/storage configurations to choose from:

  • £499, €559 — 6/128GB
  • £549, €609 — 8/256GB

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