OnePlus has opened applications for ‘The Lab’, its community review program for the next Nord smartphone. This should be the OnePlus Nord 3, which surfaced in renders recently.
The OnePlus Nord community review application
To get selected as one of the lucky people to get a review unit of the next OnePlus Nord phone, you need to fill a form with your personal details and also answer some questions to be selected.
It is open to OnePlus and non-OnePlus users, as well as Community and non-Community members, from Europe, India, or the APAC regions.
The applications will be open till June 25th, and the winners will be selected by June 26th and announced on June 27th. OnePlus will ship out the review unit on June 28th.
July launch
OnePlus has confirmed that the review can go live in July, without revealing the exact date. It could launch sometime in early July.
OnePlus Nord 3 rumoured specifications
- 6.74-inch (2772×1240 pixels) (120Hz/90Hz/60Hz/45Hz/40Hz adaptive) AMOLED display with up to 1450 nits peak brightness, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, 1440Hz high-frequency PWM dimming
- Up to 3.05GHz Octa Core Dimensity 9000 4nm processor with Mali-G710 10-core GPU
- 8GB LPDDR5X RAM with 128GB (UFS 3.1) storage / 16GB LPDDR5X RAM with 256GB (UFS 3.1) storage
- Android 13 with OxygenOS 13
- Dual SIM (nano + nano)
- 50MP rear camera with OIS, 8MP ultra-wide camera with f/2.2 aperture, 2MP macro camera with f/2.4 aperture, LED flash
- 16MP front-facing camera with f/2.4 aperture
- In-display fingerprint sensor, Infrared sensor
- USB Type-C audio, Stereo speakers, Dolby Atmos
- 5G SA/ NSA, Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 6 802.11 ax (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth 5.3, GPS (L1 + L5)/ GLONASS, NFC, USB Type-C
- 5000mAh (typical) battery with 80W SuperVOOC fast charging
OnePlus Nord 3 pricing?
The OnePlus the Nord 3 8GB + 128GB model is said to be priced at 449 Euros (USD 484 / Rs. 39,870 approx.), and the 16GB + 256GB is rumoured to cost 549 Euros (USD 592 / Rs. 48,750 approx.) in Europe.
To remind you, the Nord 2T was launched at 399 Euros and 499 Euros for the 8GB + 128GB and 12GB + 256GB versions, respectively. The Nord 2T was launched in India starting at Rs. 28,999 for the 8GB + 128GB model.