OnePlus shows off the OnePlus 8T design before launch

The camera block on the back of the OnePlus 8T. It looks like three cameras on the left, and on the right, there's an LED flash, laser autofocus, and a fourth camera on the bottom.

OnePlus is gearing up to launch the OnePlus 8T, a Q4 2020 follow-up to the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro, both of which launched around April. The phone is officially launching on October 14, but as part of the company's usual trickle of information before launch, today it posted a video of the phone, confirming what it will look like.

The video is just a quick teaser, but it shows off the back of the phone and the new camera block, along with a sketch of the front of the phone. The back camera block is a lot bigger compared to the OnePlus 8 Pro. Now it houses not only the usual strip of three camera lenses but also the extra camera equipment. From top to bottom, the three circles on the right side look like an LED flash, laser autofocus, and a fourth camera lens. One the OnePlus 8 Pro, these components were just flush with the back of the phone. While phone manufacturers seem to never want to give us thicker phones with bigger batteries, bigger camera blocks are a way to ever-so-slightly move in that direction, freeing up more internal space for battery.

We also know what the front of the OnePlus 8T will look like, thanks to OnePlus accidentally including an image of the phone in an OS update. It's the usual all-screen design with a hole-punch camera, and it looks a lot like the OnePlus 8 Pro. (Here's hoping that 2021 is the year of the under-display camera.) The only major difference is that the display of the OnePlus 8T looks to be flat rather than curved like the sides of the OnePlus 8 Pro. Curved displays don't add anything positive to a phone; they just distort the screen and pick up glare from overhead lights, so this is a big improvement.

Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments