TL;DR OnePlus has announced the Nord 5 and the Nord CE5 globally.
An AI button called the “Plus Key” replaces the alert slider on the OnePlus Nord 5.
Both phones offer a host of AI applications, voice transcription, live translation, and photo editing with generative AI.
The EU’s restrictions limit the Nord 5 and CE5’s battery sizes to only about 75% of their actual sizes in Asia.
Within weeks of launching the OnePlus 13S, the India-exclusive rebrand of the 13T, OnePlus is expanding its portfolio of global devices. Today, OnePlus has announced the Nord 5 and Nord CE5 as two mid-range devices featuring rare specifications for their price, with a curious approach to the battery.
OnePlus Nord 5
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The OnePlus Nord 5 is the more powerful of the two and aims for a premium impression. It packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 — an underclocked version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but with enough power to run demanding games on high graphics settings. The phone also comes with 8GB or 12GB of RAM and 256GB or 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage options.
Along with performance, AI gets significant attention, especially as OnePlus continues its pattern of replacing the three-way alert slider with a button inspired by the iPhone 16’s Action Button. OnePlus calls this the “Plus Key” and endorses it as an access to its second brain feature, called “Mind Space.” All information is processed and stored securely through what OnePlus calls the “Private Computing Cloud.”
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