It is official: OnePlus is abandoning the alert slider for a customizable button in the iPhone style in the next OnePlus 13T, and although that phone will be released exclusively in China on April 24, its new direct access key will surely be a permanent feature of future OnePlus phones worldwide.
The alert sliding control has been a defining feature of the best OnePlus phones, and OnePlus fans for a long time will undoubtedly be sad to see it, but OnePlus is inflexible in which its replacement, as it is called in OnePlus 13T, will finally improve the user’s experience.
In fact, in his announcement on the next switch, the CEO of OnePlus, Pete Lau, said that the decision, although “is not easy”, is “the right step forward” for the brand, and in an exclusive interview with Techradar in OnePlus HQ in Guangdong, China, the marketing manager of senior products of the company, Rudolf Xu, the optimism of the optimism of Lau.
“We want to give our users more freedom, to [let them] personalize [that button]”Xu explained.” And in reality, this is not a elimination of the alert sliding control. Now you have the freedom to change between ring, vibration and silence, these things still work, but you are also receiving greater freedom to customize your commands.
“For example, [you can now] Start certain applications [using the new button]. Therefore, it is not really an elimination, it is an evolution of the alert sliding control. “
Xu added that OnePlus “has also brought some dedicated features” to the user’s experience through the new direct access code, although he is not yet free to share what they are.
It is clear, then, that OnePlus does not see the elimination of the alert sliding control as a loss; According to the brand, users can only obtain switch functionality to an action button -style key. Of course, that does not mean that the company’s decision to eliminate a characteristic for a long time was easy.
In his aforementioned statement, the CEO of OnePlus, Pete Lau, admitted that “the alert slip has always been one of [his] Favorite characteristics of OnePlus “, and that” when the team first arrived at [him] With a proposal to make a change in our alert sliding control, [he] It was skeptical.
“But I knew that if we wanted to build something really better, we had to make this leap,” Lau explained. “As iconic as it is, it is a great piece of hardware just to change sound profiles. That didn’t sit well with me.”
As for how the replacement of the OnePlus alert sliding control, the latest brand teaser video for OnePlus 13T reveals a grain button to the size of a grain that is alone on the left side of the device. By the way, Apple’s action button is in the same place, although it is placed on the iPhone volume buttons, where the volume buttons of the OnePlus 13T seem to be placed on the right side of the phone, on the ignition button.
The video also reveals that the OnePlus 13T will have two main rear cameras vertically stacked to the iPhone 16, and OnePlus has confirmed (through a Weibo publication) that the phone will have a 6.32 -inch screen and a 6,000 mash more battery.
Rumored specifications include a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, 16 GB of RAM, a 50MP main camera and a 50MP teleobjective (with 2x optical zoom), which, if true, would make OnePlus 13T an attractive compact alternative to the OnePlus 13.
