The OnePlus Open 2 might have a huge battery, and not just for a foldable

We aren’t anticipating to see a OnePlus Open 2 later this 12 months, as earlier leaks counsel that the foldable telephone will launch in 2025. Nonetheless, a long-time leaker has issued extra obvious particulars.

Prolific tipster Digital Chat Station posted on Weibo that OPPO and vivo are engaged on massive foldable telephones that would launch as quickly as Q1 2025 and supply a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor. We beforehand heard these claims concerning the rumored OPPO Discover N5, however the tipster additionally asserted that the units at the moment have a 6,000mAh battery.

Final 12 months’s OPPO Discover N3 was launched in world markets because the OnePlus Open. So it’s believed that this new OPPO foldable (ostensibly the Discover N5) might be the OnePlus Open 2 exterior China. In reality, earlier leaks additionally level to the OnePlus foldable launching in 2025.

A OnePlus Open 2 with a 6,000mAh battery can be an enormous improve over the unique mannequin’s 4,805mAh battery, whereas additionally being bigger than the OnePlus 12’s already sizeable 5,400mAh battery. This improve might be notably helpful when you spend a whole lot of time utilizing the folding display screen moderately than the smartphone show.

A bigger battery within the OnePlus Open 2 would nonetheless be in keeping with the corporate’s present technique, because it lately unveiled so-called Glacier Battery expertise. This follows within the footsteps of HONOR and a number of other different manufacturers by providing silicon-based batteries for extra capability in the identical bodily dimension. The China-only OnePlus Ace 3 Professional was the primary telephone with this tech, bringing a 6,100mAh battery.

Digital Chat Station additionally reiterated earlier leaks that HUAWEI was engaged on a tri-fold foldable with a dual-hinge design. The leaker added that this system would use a Kirin 9-series chipset and supply “numerous new applied sciences.”