OnePlus 17’s early leak reveals a wide-screen design

The wide-screen candybar trend is spreading across Android flagships, and OnePlus now looks set to put its next numbered phone on that path. Weibo tipster Smart Pikachu has flagged the OnePlus 17 as one of next year’s high-performance wide-screen phones. OnePlus has not confirmed the tip, and official OnePlus 17 specifications have not been announced.

OnePlus 17 may sport a wide-screen design

In a Weibo post tagged OnePlus 17, Smart Pikachu said next year, all five top-performing wide-screen smartphones will be included, offering a wider gaming field of view. The simplest reading is that the OnePlus 17 will join that 2027 group, with the extra width pitched as a gaming benefit. He did not share a screen size, chipset, camera setup, or launch date.

This goes further than a late October Digital Chat Station tip that OnePlus may skip a OnePlus 15T successor and offer a wide-screen phone instead. That earlier post did not name the OnePlus 17, so this is the first tip to place the numbered flagship itself in the wide-screen race.

A non-folding wide slab differs from the book-style foldables that followed the iPhone Duo. Huawei started this candybar trend with the Pura X View, and Vivo has since been tipped for a compact wide-screen flagship in 2027. If the OnePlus 17 drops the usual tall shape, it would compete in that candybar group, not with foldables.

The current OnePlus 16 launched in China in October with a 6.78-inch tall OLED that can reach 185Hz in games, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip, a 200-megapixel triple camera, and a 9,000mAh battery. It starts at 5,999 yuan (~$897) in China, with no global or India price announced.

A late 2027 launch, a successor chip, and a battery at least that large would not be surprising, but none of those points were in Smart Pikachu’s post. They are only assumptions based on the OnePlus 16, so the only concrete takeaway is the wide-screen direction.

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