An unreleased mid-range phone running Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 has popped up in China, and the details are… impressive. According to well-known tipster Digital Chat Station, the prototype includes a miniaturized, waterproof active cooling fan — something you’d normally expect in a flagship gaming phone, not a mid-range handset. The leak pretty much points to OPPO, since the specs look a lot like what you’d expect from an upgraded K13 Turbo Pro.
The leaker claims the test device uses a fully sealed, dust-resistant mini fan that forces air through the phone’s internals, paired with a 6.78-inch flat 1.5K LTPS display. Battery capacity is said to take a sizeable jump too. DCS describes it as going from “7″ to “8” — so likely the phone is moving from around 7000 mAh to somewhere near 8000 mAh. And the K13 Turbo series indeed packs a 7,000mAh battery.
The camera system, meanwhile, is described in a tongue-in-cheek way as being good enough for “QR code scanning,” which usually means it’s nothing fancy.
As mentioned above, the phone runs on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 — the expected step up from the 8s Gen 4 used in the K13 Turbo Pro. A previous report also suggested that Oppo may skip a number entirely and brand the new lineup as the K15 Turbo Pro series.
DCS says Oppo could also bring similar active cooling to more phones later on, calling the fan-based approach a new direction for the brand’s performance-focused lineup.
The K13 Turbo and Turbo Pro rely on a concealed air inlet, an L-shaped airflow channel, vortex-shaping structures, and dense heat-dissipation fins to dramatically boost airflow and cooling efficiency. Users can even choose between variable-speed and high-speed fan modes, plus customize the startup sound.
More details will likely surface as the engineering sample moves closer to an actual product.
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(Source: DCS on Weibo)
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