In summary:
- OnePlus officially announced the OnePlus 15T will launch March 24th, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor and 6.32-inch AMOLED display with 165Hz refresh rate.
- The compact flagship includes a massive 7500mAh battery with 100W wired charging, multiple RAM configurations up to 16GB/1TB, and expected Qi2 magnetic charging support.
- Tech Advisor highlights concerns about potentially limited availability, with the device possibly remaining China-exclusive or launching under a different name in other markets.
We now know when the OnePlus 15T will be officially launched, but we don’t quite have all of the answers we’re after yet.
Recent weeks have given us a steady drip feed of teasers and rumours concerning the OnePlus 15T – the Oppo-owned brand’s compact follow-up to the OnePlus 15.
Now the brand has finally put us out of our misery and dropped a firm launch date: 24 March. That’s next Tuesday.
OnePlus revealed the date through its official Chinese website, where the company promises (via machine translation) a phone that’s “small, powerful, beautiful, and well-rounded”.
There’s an option for Chinese customers to reserve the OnePlus 15T right now, although no prices have been given yet.
This rather neatly speaks to our lingering concerns over the OnePlus 15T’s potentially limited release. The OnePlus 13T was a China-only affair (with the almost identical 13s in India), and nothing about the launch of its successor is giving us ‘global launch’ vibes, beyond rumours of an India release under a different name.
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OnePlus 15T specifications
The OnePlus 15T will be offered in four RAM and storage variants: 12/256GB, 12/512GB, 16/256GB, and 16/512GB, and 16GB/1TB. As we previously learned, it will be available in three colours: Healing White Chocolate, Pure Cocoa Brown, and Relaxing Matcha Green.
These aren’t the only specifications OnePlus has revealed in the lead-up to the phone’s launch. We’ve also been told that it will run on a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, making it a proper flagship compact phone to sit alongside the Samsung Galaxy S26 and the Xiaomi 17.
Talking of compact phones, it’ll be fronted by a 6.32-inch AMOLED display with an unusually rapid 165Hz refresh rate and an integrated ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. OnePlus has also revealed that its bezels will be a mere 1.1mm thick.
Despite its small(ish) proportions, OnePlus will pack its 15T with a huge 7500mAh SiC battery, which is bigger even than that of the OnePlus 15. 100W wired and 50W wireless charging will also be included.
We’ve even heard it claimed that the OnePlus 15T will feature Qi2 magnetic charging support, which would really be a poke in the eye to those rivals.
There’ll only be the two cameras, but one of those could be a new periscope telephoto unit.
Author: Jon Mundy, Contributor, Tech Advisor
Jon is a freelance journalist who got his start covering mobile games at the dawn of the App Store. He has since covered everything from smart home tech and laptops to food and culture, but always seems to return to his fascination with smartphones.