OnePlus 16 hands-on exhibits its tail lamps in motion

The design, which the corporate is asking its “Interstellar Lighting Impact,” will reportedly notify customers about incoming calls, texts, recreation highlights, and extra. Up till the announcement, although, we’d solely examine how the characteristic would work. Now, with hands-on movies out, we will lastly see what OnePlus’ implementation seems to be like.

Highlighted by customers on Weibo, the brand new characteristic appears to be unique to the Tomorrow’s Starlight colorway (by way of NotebookCheck). It seems within the type of three completely different illumination zones on the rear of the OnePlus 16.

There’s an X image on the highest proper, a “16 AREA” textual content block on the underside left, and coordinates on the underside proper. As highlighted within the hands-on movies, these illumination zones solely appear to mild up in an orange-yellow hue, suggesting that OnePlus is utilizing fixed-color LEDs, and never RGBs. The machine additionally seems to sport a topographic sample on the again, with white strains winding throughout the rear. These strains don’t seem to mild up.

From the seems to be of it, the lights will likely be vivid sufficient to be legible in daylight, with battery implications prone to be minimal, just like Nothing’s Glyph interface. It additionally seems to be like the sunshine would possibly keep on, or blink, relying on the kind of notification, as seen within the quick GIF under.

It’s not completely clear if OnePlus will give customers any degree of management over the lighting impact. It is likely to be cool to have the ability to give various kinds of notifications, apps, and even particular person contacts completely different lighting patterns. If not, a third-party app, like HiLight Studio, would possibly want to come back to the rescue.

OnePlus 16 is now accessible to pre-book in China. It’s a disgrace that it received’t be coming to North America as soon as it’s usually accessible elsewhere, particularly contemplating its different rumored notable specs, together with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Professional chipset, a 200MP major rear digital camera, a 9,000mAh battery, and a 165Hz panel.

Importing will, after all, nonetheless be an choice for decided OnePlus followers within the US. Questions on provider compatibility and guarantee will seemingly be answered as soon as OnePlus formally releases the machine.