According to Chinese sources, OnePlus is preparing a compact and high-end mobile phone. The company has an offer vitaminized with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite and a 6.31-inch OLED display with 1.5x resolution.

It’s a similar plan to OPPO’s, which is expected to launch the Find X8 Mini in early 2025. We have been experiencing serious battery limitations in compact phones for years. There is no excuse anymore.

OnePlus, OPPO and Vivo believe in small phones. Last October, Vivo launched the X200 Pro Mini. As the name suggests, it is a high-end mobile phone with compact dimensions. The size of its screen is no coincidence: 6.31 inches with 1.5K resolution.

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This screen will be the same screen that Vivo and OnePlus’ new high-end compact devices will reportedly use. These three manufacturers, the pillars of the BBK group, have enough power to start creating a trend in mid-sized mobile phones, as long as they reach Spain; This is not currently possible on Vivo.

Overcoming limitations. One of the main limitations that compact mobile phones have historically faced has been autonomy. We have internalized that if we have a small phone, its battery must also be small. Fortunately, things changed at the end of 2024.

New generation batteries allow much more mAh to be released in more modest sizes. In fact, new high-end mobile phones have batteries between 6,000 and 6,500 mAh, reaching 7,000 mAh in extreme cases.

A compact mobile phone with a 5,000 mAh battery is not a utopia in this scenario, and if we take into account the brutal energy efficiency of the new Qualcomm and MediaTek, this combination will be a winner.

The question is whether users want them.. Small mobile phones are not sold. Although the key is that we don’t know exactly whether they do this because of the drama they drag in autonomy or because they just don’t have an appealing dimension.

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