The OnePlus Turbo has been teased – and it might include an astonishingly big battery

  • OnePlus has announced the OnePlus Turbo series
  • Details are light, but these sound like they might be gaming phones with great battery life
  • Leaks suggest they could have batteries of around 9,000mAh

OnePlus is certainly keeping busy, because along with the OnePlus 15 and the soon-to-be-launched OnePlus 15R, the company has now announced that it’s working on a whole new series of phones dubbed the OnePlus Turbo line.

Li Jie Louis, the President of OnePlus China, announced these phones on Weibo (via Phone Arena), saying that they will offer “frighteningly strong” performance, battery life, and gaming capabilities compared to other phones in their class.

That last point suggests that maybe these won’t quite be top-end handsets, but that they will aim to punch above their weight.

Gaming performance is also mentioned multiple times in this announcement, so the OnePlus Turbo line may well challenge the best gaming phones, but sadly, no specific specs were mentioned.

We should find out more about the OnePlus Turbo series soon, though, because the post also says that one or more phones in this line are “about to launch”, though it sounds like we’ll be waiting until 2026, rather than these phones landing alongside the OnePlus 15R on December 17.

A 9,000mAh battery

OnePlus 15 in Times Square New York City on the busy street showing the cameras and sides of the phone in addition to home screen panels and Settings menus

The OnePlus 15 has a 7,300mAh battery (Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)

Still, while official details are light, according to leaker Smart Pikachu, these phones could have batteries of around 9,000mAh. For comparison, the OnePlus 15 has a 7,300mAh battery, and in our review, we described that phone as having “unbelievable battery life”, with its cell dwarfing the roughly 5,000mAh battery you’ll find in most high-end phones.

So, a 9,000mAh battery could deliver truly astonishing life, but then if the OnePlus Turbo series is marketed as a gaming phone line, then long-lasting batteries are an especially important feature.

Our biggest question right now is whether these phones will actually be widely available, or whether they’ll only launch in China, since so far they’ve only been teased on Chinese social media. But hopefully we’ll have an answer to that soon.

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