OnePlus 9T is officially cancelled — so what happens now?

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Update: The OnePlus 10 Pro is set to be the next flagship OnePlus telephone . And one leaker has claimed that the OnePlus 10 Pro could be revealed early January at CES 2022 .

After many rumors and enough of speculation, OnePlus has confirmed that the OnePlus 9T is officially cancelled. In other words, the side by side OnePlus flagship probable won't exist arriving until adjacent year with the launch of the OnePlus 10.

This news was confirmed by OnePlus CEO Pete Lau during a media conference attended by our sis site TechRadar. So if you lot were belongings off on picking up a OnePlus 9 or OnePlus 9 Pro, in case something better came upwardly, now'south probably the time to pull the trigger.

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I can't help but experience like this decision has been coming always since OnePlus decided to release the OnePlus 7 Pro dorsum in 2019. Previously OnePlus's bi-annual release schedule meant you'd get some sort of meaningful upgrade with each subsequent phone.

Only by offer a high-finish 'Pro' model earlier, with better features and hardware, it means there wasn't much left for the T model when it arrived a few months later. That was made immediately obvious past the fact the OnePlus 7T Pro was pretty much identical to the OnePlus 7 Pro.

And so when the OnePlus 8T Pro failed to materialize concluding year, it meant the OnePlus 8 Pro had a lot more to offering than the baseline OnePlus 8T. Even though the 8T saw the introduction of super-fast 65W charging speeds.

Information technology but felt as though the T serial flagships didn't really take anything worthwhile to offer, and it'due south more than than likely that a OnePlus 9T wouldn't take been all that impressive either. In other words, OnePlus'south autumn releases were ever doomed if the company carried on the fashion it was going. It's only happened now, instead of a yr or ii downwards the line.

Of course the world is in the midst of a major chip shortage, which has affected everything from PS5 restocks to cars. While it seems the writing may accept been on the wall for the OnePlus T series, it may only be that the lack of components prevented the visitor from developing some other flagship device this year.

Afterward all, that verbal matter happened to the Samsung Milky way Annotation 21. Though once more, that was a production line that has been on the rocks for several months at present.

But, any the reason behind the OnePlus 9T's cancelation, I'm merely hoping that OnePlus will realize it's amend to focus its attention on producing a quality annual flagship, rather than flooding the market with new devices every few months.

OnePlus withal has more than to come

Lau confirmed that OnePlus still had products to denote after this year, so there's still more than to come from OnePlus. However, with the company's recent move into the upkeep and mid-range markets, it'south likely Lau is referring to a new entry in the OnePlus Nord range.

Lau too confirmed more details nearly OnePlus'south integration with sister company Oppo. Rather than existing every bit two separate and distinct brands, OnePlus and Oppo volition cross over a lot more — peculiarly where software is concerned. In fact, the two are combining their own flavors of Android, OxygenOS and ColorOS, into 1 unified operating system for both companies.

We're not sure when Oppo will brainstorm using this new software, but Lau confirmed that the 2022 OnePlus flagship volition be the company's showtime phone to utilize it, saying that "We will combine the strengths from both into one even more powerful Os: the fast and smoothen, burdenless experience of OxygenOS, and the stability and rich features of ColorOS."

The software will also somewhen gyre out to older OnePlus models, up to and including the OnePlus 8. Over again, it's not clear what the deal volition be with existing Oppo handsets.

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