Tomorrow OnePlus will announce its new flagship, the OnePlus 5. While most of us are still displeased about the design, OnePlus lets us in on what matters to them. The cameras. And how it affected the design. The Verge goes to Shenzhen and gets us this exclusive story.

The OnePlus 5 will be the company’s first dual camera smartphone. But this is not just about doubling the sensors in a phone. It is more than that. OnePlus has gotten virtually everything right when it comes to its phones. Flagship specs, great design, and for roughly half the price of other flagships. But it is not satisfied about their camera performance.

The reviews may call them decent sensors but they are not flagship level. OnePlus hopes that changes with the OnePlus 5. If it is going to win more fans over and keep the ones it already has, it needs to get everything right. This time with the help of two cameras.

OnePlus says it worked hard on getting the sensors right. Worked harder on determining the position to put them. And worked hardest on the software optimization. We believe this is where DxOMark comes into play.

OnePlus 5 Camera Specs

OnePlus has employed the same dual camera system that the iPhone 7 Plus has and they are grateful to Apple for it. “The main camera is a 16MP Sony unit with an f/1.7 aperture lens. The second camera has a 20MP Sony sensor with an f/2.6 telephoto lens” according to CEO Pete Lau. He adds that it is “the highest resolution dual-camera system on a smartphone today.”

The secondary camera will allow you get closer to your subject and also allows you to take portrait mode pictures.

OnePlus says the reason why the cameras are in the position they are is to prevent the phone from being thick. The sensors are large and putting them in the center would have resulted in a large bump. There is even an image showing several prototypes they experimented with. Turns out some of those leaks about the OnePlus 5 were not fake, they were actually prototypes.

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OnePlus has released picture samples of the flagship device and they do look fantastic. However, a hands-on review is still necessary. Since OnePlus says the hardware is perfect, there is a chance that software updates will iron out areas that are not yet perfect as at the time of launch.

The OnePlus 5 will come with a 5.5-inch FHD display, 8GB of RAM, a Snapdragon 835 and a 16MP front facing camera. It will also come with a bunch of new software improvements like a read mode that lets you adjust the color temperature.

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The OnePlus 5 details keep rolling in non-stop. Earlier today it appeared on GeekBench, confirming the RAM. Now, it has surfaced on GFXBench, where more details have been revealed.

The rear cameras are the most anticipated feature of the OnePlus 5. OnePlus has joined the dual camera train and the GFXBench listing gives us half of the details. We know the benchmarking site only detects one of the dual cameras, so the other sensor is still unknown.

The listing reveals the OnePlus 5 will come with a 16MP primary rear camera just like the OnePlus 3T. It will have support for 4K recording, HDR and face detection. The front camera doesn’t change too as its still a 16MP sensor.

The Geekbench listing also reveals the display size and resolution. Even though OnePlus already hinted that the phone has a smaller form-factor compared to the OnePlus 3T, it is still a 5.5-inch display…….and with a 1080p resolution. Sorry guys, no 2K display this year.

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The OP5 will come with 128GB of storage, 8GB RAM and NFC. The Snapdragon 835 processor is clocked at 2.4GHz and there is an Adreno 540 GPU on board.

Right now, the only details we don’t know are that of the second rear camera and the battery capacity. These will no doubt show up on the TENAA listing.

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