While other manufacturers have jumped on the periscope camera train for better zoom, OnePlus has stuck to a traditional telephoto camera for all the zoom it needs. That may change next year with the OnePlus 10 Pro according to new info out of China.

The OnePlus 10 Pro will be one of at least two OnePlus flagships that will be announced in the first half of the year. Going by this year’s product lineup, the other two should be the standard OnePlus 10 and the OnePlus 10R. Last month, OnePlus itself revealed a key detail about the phones and that is a new operating system borne from the fusion of OxygenOS and ColorOS.

Now, a leak from China has revealed that the OnePlus 10 Pro will be coming with a significant camera upgrade. According to the leaker that goes by @Bald Panda on Weibo, the OnePlus 10 Pro will have a camera with a periscope lens that brings 5x optical zoom. This is an upgrade over the 3.3x optical zoom the 8MP telephoto camera on the OnePlus 9 Pro offers.

Unfortunately, the source didn’t reveal the rest of the camera specs of the 2022 flagship. We don’t know if there will be a telescope camera along with the periscope camera just as it is on the Galaxy S21 Ultra.

Save for this new camera detail, we have also heard that the OnePlus 10 series may not feature huge changes with respect to its design.

 

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