OnePlus 3's Soft Gold variant to launch later

NEW DELHI: Eyeing to buy Soft Gold colour version of the all-new OnePlus 3? You will have to wait. The Chinese smartphone maker’s co-founder Carl Pei has said that the Soft Gold variant will go on sale in July. The handset also comes in Graphite colour version.

OnePlus launched its latest flagship OnePlus 3 in India earlier this week at a price tag of Rs 27,999. Running OxygenOS based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, the OnePlus 3 smartphone features a 5.5-inch Optic AMOLED Full HD display protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 4. Under-the-hood it packs a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, clubbed with a massive 6GB RAM and Adreno 530 GPU. This makes the device one of the very few in the market to boast such a large amount of RAM.


The OnePlus 3 features a non-expandable 64GB of inbuilt storage. On the camera front, the handset houses a 16MP Sony IMX298 autofocus rear camera with optical image stabilisation for better shots and videos, LED flash, and an 8MP Sony IMX179 front-facing camera. It also has the ability to record videos in 4K resolution.


Users get the option to customize the notifications LEDs, along with status bar, quick settings bar, and how to wake up their smartphone. The home button doubles up as a fingerprint sensor too. As for connectivity, the OnePlus 3 supports NFC, USB Type-C, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, and GPS. It is backed by a 3000mAh non-removable battery with support for Dash Charge technology.