OnePlus to announce “special” project today. (Image: OnePlus)
After keeping silent for a while OnePlus finally prepares to announce a “special” project” today. Last week the Chinese smartphone maker announced that it will reveal details of something it has been working on for a long time on March 3. No, it’s not what you’re thinking. It isn’t the OnePlus 8 series.
OnePlus has confirmed that today’s announcement isn’t about a smartphone or commercial product. So, what could it be? Is it yet another concept phone? Well, we will need to wait for the company to confirm specific details of the project later in the day.
Ahead of the announcement though OnePlus released some official teasers around the “project” and all of them hint at a new camera technology. The teaser posters and video show internals of a camera system. It is likely that OnePlus might announce more details on the “invisible” camera technology that it used on the Concept One. During Consumers Electronics Show (CES) 2020 OnePlus announced a concept phone called OnePlus Concept One.Soon after the Concept One was announced OnePlus said that the hiding camera technology will be used in future OnePlus phones.
We will update this space when OnePlus officially announces the “special” project. Stay tuned.
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Xiaomi has confirmed to launch the Redmi Note 9 on March 12 in India. The Chinese company posted a teaser as well which reveals that the phone will include four cameras at the back. The company is yet to reveal the camera specifications as yet but leakster Ben Geskin revealed a concept image of the Redmi Note 9. Check out the image below.
The concept image goes in like with the official teaser and shows a suqare camear module with four images sensors on it. This is the first ever time we will witness a Xiaomi Redmi Note phone with a square camera at the back panel. The image also reveals that the Redmi Note 9 will include single punch-hole on the front and in-display/side mounted fingerprint sensor. The concept image shows blue colour variant of the Redmi Note.
Read more about Redmi Note 9 here
WhatsApp Dark mode is already available in public beta for Android users. According to WABetaInfo -- a blog that tracks upcoming WhatsApp features -- Dark mode will be available for all users very soon. The Facebook owned messaging platform has changed its Twitter and Instagram display picture to dark theme hinting at the coming of the feature to all users very soon. No specific details on the launch date of WhatsApp Dark mode as yet. But it could be close enough.
The WhatsApp Dark Theme or Dark Mode is available for Android Beta users for now. This probably suggests that the Dark Mode will be available for Android users first and then reach the iPhone users. WhatsApp is also testing the feature for the Web users. The Android beta update shows that WhatsApp will provide the option to switch to regular mode and otherwise whenever required.
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Another special feature of the Concept One besides the hiding camera system is its design. The company partnered with McLaren to design the concept phone and it is inspired by McLaren's 720S Spider sports car. Notably, one of the teasers of the 'special project' show Concept One like design.
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau also revealed via a tweet on Monday that the announcement today will be around 'Snow' and '5G'. Does this mean the company will also reveal details about its future 5G phones? Possibly.
Read about the OnePlus Concept One phone in details here