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TL;DR New hands-on videos show the OnePlus 16’s “Interstellar Lighting Effect” in action across three rear illumination zones.
The lights appear to use a fixed orange-yellow color and can blink or stay illuminated depending on the alert.
The feature seems exclusive to the Tomorrow’s Starlight colorway, and the OnePlus 16 is not expected to launch officially in North America.
It’s been just a few hours since we got our first proper official look at the OnePlus 16, and we’re already getting a much better idea of what its most unique design upgrade looks like in action. Following Google’s HiLight feature and Nothing’s more established Glyph Matrix design, OnePlus is now putting its own spin on notification lighting on the rear of its latest device.
The design, which the company is calling its “Interstellar Lighting Effect,” will reportedly notify users about incoming calls, texts, game highlights, and more. Up until the announcement, though, we’d only read about how the feature would work. Now, with hands-on videos out, we can finally see what OnePlus’ implementation looks like.
Highlighted by users on Weibo, the new feature seems to be exclusive to the Tomorrow’s Starlight colorway (via NotebookCheck). It appears in the form of three different illumination zones on the rear of the OnePlus 16.
There’s an X symbol on the top right, a “16 AREA” text block on the bottom left, and coordinates on the bottom right. As highlighted in the hands-on videos, these illumination zones only seem to light up in an orange-yellow hue, suggesting that OnePlus is using fixed-color LEDs, and not RGBs. The device also appears to sport a topographic pattern on the back, with white lines winding across the rear. These lines don’t appear to light up.
From the looks of it, the lights will be bright enough to be legible in daylight, with battery implications likely to be minimal, similar to Nothing’s Glyph interface. It also looks like the light might stay on, or blink, depending on the type of notification, as seen in the short GIF below.
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