The ‘small’ OnePlus 13T packs a big battery

OnePlus has launched the 13T, which packs a larger artillery than astir Ultra flagships contempt being hardly bigger than an iPhone 16 oregon Samsung Galaxy S25.

OnePlus calls the 13T’s 6.32-inch OLED surface “small,” though it’s somewhat larger than the displays successful either the Apple oregon Samsung flagships. The 13T is bigger and heavier than those phones wide too, though not by much. Still, the sheet is fractional an inch smaller than the modular OnePlus 13’s, and the telephone is astir an ounce lighter, truthful this is decidedly compact by OnePlus standards.

More awesome is the inclusion of a large 6,260mAh battery. That’s not lone acold bigger than either the iPhone 16 (3,561mAh) oregon Galaxy S25 (4,000mAh), but it’s really much artillery capableness than the larger OnePlus 13 (6,000mAh) and Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra (5,000mAh). The artillery boost comes acknowledgment to utilizing an updated mentation of the silicon-carbon exertion recovered successful the 13, which makes it imaginable to compression much capableness into smaller cells than accepted lithium-ion batteries allow.

OnePlus fans volition besides enactment that the 13T makes a large measurement alteration for the brand: the trademark alert slider is nary more, replaced by a customizable shortcut button that tin beryllium utilized to power notification volume, but tin besides unfastened circumstantial apps, instrumentality screenshots, oregon trigger AI tools. The aforesaid shortcut cardinal appeared earlier this period connected the Oppo Find X8 Ultra, and is expected to regenerate the alert slider connected aboriginal OnePlus phones too.

Beyond that, the 13T is powered by the aforesaid Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset arsenic the 13, with up to 16GB RAM and 1TB storage. Two 50-megapixel sensors beryllium successful the redesigned rear camera — a main and a 2x telephoto — and there’s 80W wired charging to apical that large artillery up, but nary motion of wireless charging support.

The terms successful China starts astatine CNY3,399 (around $466) erstwhile it goes connected merchantability adjacent week — roughly $100 cheaper than the regular 13 — but OnePlus hasn’t confirmed if it plans to motorboat the telephone elsewhere.