TL;DR
- OnePlus has introduced the Ace 3 Professional smartphone.
- It brings “Glacier Battery” tech, consisting of a 6,100mAh battery and 100W wired charging.
- The smartphone begins at ~$440 in China, however there’s no phrase on international availability.
OnePlus teased the arrival of so-called Glacier Battery expertise final week, promising much-improved battery life and extra. The day has arrived, because the newly introduced OnePlus Ace 3 Professional is the primary cellphone with this tech.
OnePlus says the Ace 3 Professional has a 6,100mAh battery, making it fairly presumably the largest battery we’ve ever seen in a OnePlus handset. This battery additionally dwarfs the OnePlus 12 (5,400mAh) and Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely (5,000mAh) batteries. The producer provides that the cellphone is just below 9mm thick, so that you’re probably not compromising thinness for such an enormous battery. OnePlus says you may anticipate two days of utilization out of the Ace 3 Professional.
OnePlus says the cellphone helps 100W wired charging speeds, though it’s disappointing to see glacial USB-PD charging speeds of simply ~13.5W. It’s actually excessive time that the model and different producers embrace quick PD charging.
OnePlus has lengthy claimed that its cellphone batteries can face up to 1,600 charging cycles (e.g., 4 years of utilization) earlier than hitting 80% efficient capability. Fortunately, the Ace 3 Professional additionally helps this tech. So you must nonetheless see nice battery life a number of years down the road.
It’s price noting that that is removed from the largest battery we’ve ever seen in a smartphone, however these enormous batteries are usually the area of rugged cellphone manufacturers and area of interest producers. A ~6,000mAh cellphone remains to be very uncommon to see from main OEMs.
OnePlus Ace 3 Professional: What else makes it stand out?
The remainder of the OnePlus Ace 3 Professional is a hybrid of flagship and mid-range cellphone. There’s a top-shelf Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, for one, and OnePlus says that is the primary Android machine to run Genshin Impression at 120fps. You’ve additionally received a 6.78-inch 1.5K OLED display (8T LTPO), as much as 24GB of RAM, and as much as 1TB of mounted storage.
The cellphone in any other case brings a mid-tier 50MP+8MP+2MP rear digital camera trio, so don’t anticipate the OnePlus 12’s periscope digital camera right here. A 16MP digital camera handles selfies and video calls.
There’s no wi-fi charging both, and also you’ll should accept an IP65 ranking as a substitute of full-fledged water resistance. However at the least the agency’s rainwater contact tech is current, enabling extra correct contact enter within the rain or with moist fingers.
The Ace 3 Professional additionally has the somewhat intriguing means to make calls in environments with weak or no web connectivity. We’ve beforehand seen apps like Firechat that provided messaging capabilities over native networks (e.g. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi), however we’re unsure if this calling characteristic relies on related expertise.
Different notable options embrace a three-stage alert slider, an IR blaster, NFC, twin stereo audio system, Bluetooth 5.4, and Wi-Fi 7.
OnePlus can be providing a Supercar Ceramic Version model of the Ace 3 Professional (seen above), that includes a white design and ceramic again.
OnePlus Ace 3 Professional pricing and availability
The OnePlus Ace 3 Professional is out there in China at a beginning value of three,199 yuan (~$440) for the 12GB/256GB mannequin. Count on to pay 4,599 yuan (~$633) for the top-end 24GB/1TB mannequin.
We’ve requested OnePlus about wider availability and can replace the article if it will get again to us. The unique Ace Professional appeared in international markets because the OnePlus 10T, however the OnePlus Ace 2 Professional was a China-exclusive product as the corporate didn’t provide a OnePlus 11T final 12 months. Nonetheless, if OnePlus decides to launch a OnePlus 12T, it’ll presumably be a rebadged OnePlus Ace 3 Professional.
