OnePlus teases a folding telephone, however do not get your hopes up

Only a day earlier than Samsung’s folding telephone occasion, OnePlus seems to be teasing a dual-screen system of its personal.

Or possibly it’s just a few advertising gimmick — during which case I’ll hate myself for writing this text.

The corporate tweeted this brief clip from its USA Twitter account, highlighting an August 11 reveal:

8.11 10am EThttps://t.co/mmPi4jlrhxpic.twitter.com/U6lPdrFnjf

— OnePlus➕ (@OnePlus_USA) August 10, 2021

At first look, it looks as if OnePlus is about to unveil a folding telephone proper as Samsung declares the Galaxy Fold and Flip 3.

At second look, I scent shenanigans.

The video clearly exhibits two separate screens, for one. So possibly the corporate is taking an strategy just like the Floor Duo, choosing two sturdy screens quite than one versatile one. Or possibly it’s one thing like LG’s second display case — an add-on for current units. However neither of these actually clarify the teaser.

The curvature the place the screens meet can be actually bizarre for a Duo-like system. It’s additionally bizarre that each shows present earpieces and each have a cutout for the digicam within the higher left nook (you’ll be able to see the celebs disappear as they move by the place the digicam can be).

In the meantime, there doesn’t appear to be any sort of case across the telephones both. I feel I can simply barely make out the USB-C ports within the reflections beneath the screens.

In different phrases, the clip principally simply appears to indicate two telephones caught collectively, and that doesn’t make for a folding telephone. Moreover, if this had been a significant reveal, I’d count on OnePlus to indicate it off on its major Twitter account, not simply its American one with a fifth the variety of followers.

So it’s anybody’s guess what OnePlus is definitely planning to indicate off. Perhaps it’s some sort of 2-for-1 deal, or possibly there actually is a folding telephone on the way in which. Both manner, it’s clearly simply constructing off of Samsung’s hype — we’ll discover out extra quickly.

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