India is one of the key markets for OnePlus. The company opened its largest R&D centre in Hyderabad last year. Pete Lau, the company’s co-founder and CEO announced an investment of ₹1000 crores in the centre for the next three years at the inauguration ceremony. Now, less than a year later, the OnePlus reveals its Indian R&D centre has played an important role in developing features for the OnePlus 8 series and OxygenOS.
OnePlus R&D centre in India’s Hyderabad includes three primary labs namely camera, communication and networking, and automation. The engineers at these labs innovated new features for the company’s latest OnePlus 8 series.
Some of those features include Smart SMS that categorizes messages into promotions, transactions, and OTPs in a card format, Work-life Balance, and Cricket Score. These features are currently limited to Indian users only.
Further, the engineers at Hyderabad R&D centre have been working closely with the China team, Qualcomm and network operators in Europe to provide a seamless 5G experience. The Indian team is handling this by addressing common issues like low throughput, data stall, call drops and video lag.
Also, they are optimizing 5G for North American markets, in addition to working with Indian telecom operators to provide reliable 5G experience to users when the service goes live.
Last but not least. the dedicated camera software team has also created unique, customised tuning for specific scenarios for Indian users.
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