As expected, OnePlus has unveiled a Black colour variant of the OnePlus 3T that's more widely available. Called the OnePlus 3T Midnight Black Limited Edition, the smartphone will not be as limited as the OnePlus 3T Black Colette Limited Edition, of which just 250 units were made available to buy via the Colette store in Paris on Tuesday.
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So, just how limited is the OnePlus 3T Midnight Black Limited Edition? The Chinese smartphone manufacturer has yet to reveal that figure, and may never do so, saying only "extremely limited" In India, the new colour variant will go on sale on 4pm IST on March 31 till stocks last, as the company's India-specific online store details, For now, it's not known if it will be exclusive to the company's own store, or if the company's retail partner in the country - Amazon India - will also stock the new limited edition handset.
Abroad, the OnePlus 3T Midnight Black Limited Edition will be available via HypeBeast on Friday at 4pm GMT (9:30pm IST). Both abroad and in India, the new colour variant will only be available in the smartphone's 128GB storage variant. From what it appears, the OnePlus 3T Midnight Black Limited Edition price remains the same, translating to Rs. 34,999.
In its forum post announcement, OnePlus explains that it has been working on an all-black OnePlus smartphone for "close to a year now." It reveals that it experimented with over 30 variations on the theme, but was not able to get "premium deep black coat" it was aiming to deliver.
"This limited edition of the OnePlus 3T is hewed out of the same space-grade aluminium that lent the original OnePlus 3 and 3T devices their class and durability. A dark coating of just 14 microns in thickness is meticulously applied to the surface of the phone, imbuing the device with a stunning black colour built to last, while retaining the look and feel of naked metal," the company said on its blog post.
On its India site, the company warns users that despite it being "confident" it had created a "superior coating process" for the OnePlus 3T Midnight Black Limited Edition, there are still chances of micro-abrasions that may result from "regular use without a protective case."
OnePlus 3T Specification and features
Talking about the specifications, the OnePlus 3T features a 5.5-inch full HD (1920×1080 pixels) Optic AMOLED display with Corning’s Gorilla Glass 4 protection. Under the hood, it is powered by Snapdragon 821 processor clocked at 2.35GHz and paired with 6GB of RAM.
For photography, the OnePlus 3T sports a 16-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX398 image sensor, f/2.0 aperture, Phase Detection Auto-focus (PDAF), Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS), and 4K video recording capabilities. There is also a 16-megapixel fixed-focus selfie camera with f/2.0 aperture and 1080p video recording capabilities.
It is fuelled by a 3,400mAh battery with support for the company’s proprietary Dash Charge technology. There is also a fingerprint scanner embedded into the home button up front, and an Alert Slider on the side. Connectivity options include dual-SIM card slots, 4G LTE support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC and GPS. On the software front, the OnePlus 3T was shipped with Android 6.0 Marshmallow-based Oxygen OS with a promised update to Android 7.0 Nougat.
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