OnePlus 13 (Review) — the corporate’s newest flagship smartphone — might be positioned when stolen even when the handset’s battery runs out, or it’s powered off. It was launched in India and world markets on January 7, outfitted with options comparable to Hasselblad-branded cameras, Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, and a 6,000mAh battery. The OnePlus 13 additionally brings assist for Google’s Discover My Gadget community, together with anti-theft options that have been beforehand unique to pick Pixel gadgets.
OnePlus 13 Helps Google’s Discover My Community
First spotted by Android Authority, the newest OnePlus flagship helps an anti-theft characteristic dubbed Powered Off Discovering. Because the title suggests, customers can find their misplaced or stolen OnePlus 13 gadgets by ringing them or viewing their location on a map not provided that they’re offline however even when powered off.
The characteristic makes use of encrypted location info despatched by the proprietor’s machine and others within the Find My Device community. When a handset is linked to the community, it “securely” sends the placement info of gadgets it detects within the neighborhood to assist house owners find them.
It really works courtesy of Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC with the FastConnect 7900 cellular connectivity system which integrates Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, and Extremely Wideband (UWB) capabilities right into a single chip, optimised with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI).
Powered Off Discovering on the OnePlus 13 Makes use of Google’s Discover My Gadget Community
Devices 360 was in a position to affirm that the characteristic is accessible on our OnePlus 13 overview unit, and it really works as marketed.
This characteristic was first announced in April 2024, however was unique to the Pixel 8 fashions. On the time, Google claimed that it used specialised Pixel {hardware} to allow powered-off location monitoring. OnePlus is the newest unique tools producer (OEM) to carry this characteristic to its smartphones.
OnePlus 13 Specs
The twin-SIM (Nano) OnePlus 13 sports activities a 6.82-inch Quad-HD+ (1,440×3,168 pixels) LTPO 4.1 ProXDR display with 510ppi pixel density, 120Hz refresh fee, and a peak brightness stage of 4,500 nits. It’s powered by a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, paired with Adreno 830 GPU, as much as 24GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and as much as 1TB of UFS 4.0 inbuilt storage. It runs on Android 15-based OxygenOS 15.
For optics, the telephone is provided with a Hasselblad-tuned triple rear digicam unit comprising a major 50-megapixel Sony LYT-808 sensor with optical picture stabilisation (OIS), a 50-megapixel S5KJN5 ultra-wide digicam, and a 50-megapixel Sony LYT-600 periscope telephoto digicam with 3x optical zoom. On the entrance, it has a 32-megapixel Sony IMX615 digicam.
The OnePlus 13 comes with an IP68+IP69 ranking and packs a 6,000mAh Silicon NanoStack battery with assist for 100W wired SuperVOOC charging and 50W wi-fi charging.
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