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TL;DR
- Indian film star Anushka Sharma was noticed by paparazzi utilizing a OnePlus Open.
- The Open is the corporate’s first foldable cellphone and is unreleased.
- Sharma seems to have by no means used a foldable earlier than, so this case was possible staged by OnePlus.
OnePlus is poised to launch its first foldable cellphone in October. Nevertheless, weeks earlier than the launch, we’ve now seen a real-life video of somebody utilizing the cellphone. Curiously, that somebody is considered one of India’s most well-known film stars.
Anushka Sharma was noticed utilizing the OnePlus Open in a automobile. Whereas the automobile was pulling out of a parking space, paparazzi swarmed the car, attempting to snap photographs of Sharma. Lo and behold, Sharma had the OnePlus foldable in her hand. You possibly can see the video on the Instagram account of Viral Bhayani — an Indian paparazzo — however we’ve got some screenshots for you under:
Curiously, Sharma doesn’t seem to understand how the cellphone works. She opens it backward, for one, and the cellphone doesn’t even look like powered on. It’s extremely possible that this was a staged stunt paid for by OnePlus to purposely “leak” the cellphone by suggesting considered one of India’s highest-paid actors makes use of it.
Regardless, we see the cellphone’s design strains up very properly with different leaks. It has a large round digicam bump on the again and seems to be extra in keeping with the design of OPPO’s foldables than the Galaxy Z Fold collection. This is sensible as OPPO and OnePlus are primarily the identical firm now.
Though OnePlus hasn’t confirmed something, we anticipate the OnePlus Open to launch on October 19, per rumors on the matter.
