It’s official: OnePlus ditches The alarm slider for an iPhone style customizable button on the upcoming OnePlus 13T, and although this phone is released exclusively in China on April 24, its new shortcut key will certainly be a permanent feature of future OnePlus phones globally.
The Alert shooter has been a defining feature of the best OnePlus phones, and long-term OnePlus fans will undoubtedly be sad to see it go, but OnePlus is firmly by its replacement-unknown what it might be called on the OnePlus 13T-I will eventually improve the user experience.
In his announcement of the upcoming Switch, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau actually noted that the decision, although “not easy”, is “the right step forward” for the brand, and in an exclusive interview with Techradar at OnePlus HQ in Guangdong, China, the company’s senior Product Market Market Manager, Rudolf XU, Echoed Lau’s Optimism.
“We will give our users more freedom to [let them] Customize [that button]”Explained Xu.” And in fact, this is not a removal of the alarm slider. You now have the freedom to switch between ring, vibrate and silence – these things still work – but you also get more freedom to customize your commands.
“For example, [you can now] Start certain apps [using the new button]. So it’s actually not a removal – it’s a development of the alarm slider. “
XU added that OnePlus has “also brought some dedicated features” to the user experience via the new shortcut key, though he is not yet free to share what it is.
It is so clear that OnePlus does not see the removal of the alarm slider as a loss-icing labeled users only stands to get functionality from the switch to an action-button key. Remember, it does not mean that the company’s decision to ax a long -lasting feature was easy.
In his aforementioned statement, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau admitted that “the alarm shooter has always been one of [his] Favorite OnePlus features, “and that” When the team first came to [him] With a suggestion to make a change of our alarm shooter [he] was skeptical.
“But I knew that if we wanted to build something really better, we had to take this jump,” Lau explained. “As iconic as it is, it’s a big piece of hardware just to change audio profiles. It didn’t really sit with me.”
As for how OnePlus’ alarm slider replacement looks like, the brand’s latest teaser video for OnePlus 13T sees a grain-in-RIS-size button sitting alone on the left side of the device. Incidentally, Apple’s action button sits in the same place, although placed over the iPhone’s volume buttons, where the OnePlus 13T’s volume buttons appear to be located on the right side of the phone, over the power button.
The video also reveals that OnePlus 13T will contain two main cameras stacked vertically à la iPhone 16, and OnePlus has confirmed (via a Weibo post) that the phone has a 6.32-inch screen and a 6,000 mAh-plus battery.
Rumored specifications include a snapdragon 8 elite chipset, 16 GB RAM, a 50MP main camera and a 50MP tea (with 2x optical zoom), which, if true, would make the OnePlus 13T an attractive compact alternative to Premium OnePlus 13.
