The hot new OnePlus Nord is coming to the US, and it has a surprise in store

[Chris Smith]

• The OnePlus Nord USA version will be released later this year, a OnePlus executive confirmed.
• The affordable OnePlus phone is currently available in Europe and India, where it’s priced cheaper than the second-generation iPhone SE that Apple launched earlier this year.
• Code fragments from the Oxygen OS 10.5 Android software that runs on the Nord indicate that the American version of the phone could run on Qualcomm’s cheaper Snapdragon 690 processor, which would come as a surprise.

The recently announced OnePlus Nord is one of the best budget phones you can buy right now. The phone costs less than $500 in Europe and India, where it’s available to order and offers decent hardware for that price point. The phone is powered by the Snapdragon 765G mid-range Qualcomm processor that comes with built-in 5G support. Google will reportedly use the same chip for the Pixel 5 this year. The phone also features a large display with a punch-hole dual camera, plenty of memory and storage, a quad-camera lens system on the back, and support for fast wired charging. To keep the costs down, OnePlus cut some of the features available on its more expensive flagships, including wireless charging and water and dust resistance rating. The most annoying compromise concerns the build quality of the phone. A recent durability test showed that the frame of the phone isn’t made of metal, and the handset can bend with relative ease, and the OLED display can break in the process.

Sadly for American OnePlus fans, the phone can’t be purchased in the US right now, but a different version of the handset will be available later this year. There’s both good news and bad news in there, however.

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