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Stuff.tv
3 days ago
- Stuff.tv
OnePlus dumps its famous Alert Slider but it's for one very good reason
If you've ever owned a OnePlus flagship phone then you'll be familiar with the alert slider – it's an easy way to switch the phone into silent when it's in your pocket and it's always been a feature I'm surprised more Android phone makers didn't adopt. Now though, the button has been axed, starting with the OnePlus 13s which will be available in India after a 5 June launch. This phone isn't coming to the US or Europe, though it will have implications for countries outside India since it's the first OnePlus phone to replace the Alert Slider with a new button – known as the Plus Key. And to avoid any confusion, the company confirmed it will be coming to 'all OnePlus smartphones launching this year.' However, the main use for it is to add webpages, messages and other bookmarkable info to a baked-in feature known as the Plus Mind. Nothing also has something similar, known as Essential Space. Essentially, it's a bit like a catalog for all your key info, an alternative to saving things in apps like Google Keep or Microsoft OneNote. Much like other vendors, OnePlus is toting this as increasing personalisation. This transition is very similar to the Action Button change on Apple's iPhone and like that button you can also choose its function (so you can keep using it to silence your phone if you want), start the camera or begin translation. Play And, if you map the button to an alternative use, you can swipe up with three fingers to add things to your Plus Mind instead. This gesture means that Plus Mind will also come to the OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R as well (since there is obviously no dedicated Plus Key) via a software update. You're also able to use the feature to extract information. So it could use it to extract event info from an image and add it to your calendar for example. Of course, this is all part of OnePlus AI – the company's somewhat belated push into AI features. But while it might be somewhat later than many rivals, it is offering a lot of the same features as others. And aside from some image editing shortcuts, there's no real evidence that AI tricks are proving a hit with consumers. Additional OnePlus AI features coming this year AI VoiceScribe: Enables users to record, summarise, and translate calls and meetings directly within popular messaging, video, and online meeting applications. AI Call Assistant (coming to India only for now): On the OnePlus 13s, the OnePlus Dialer will offer options for automatic Call Summaries or real-time Call Translation during calls. AI Translation: Consolidates all translation capabilities – text, live voice, camera-based, and screen translation – into a single, intuitive app, making it easier to understand foreign languages and connect globally. AI Search: AI Search enables conversational, natural language queries, seamlessly searching local files, settings, notes, and calendars for contextually relevant results. Integrated with AI Plus Mind, it enhances productivity through intuitive, interactive searches. AI Reframe: Intelligently analyses photo scenes, identifies the subject, and adjusts composition, generating multiple creative framing options for users to choose from. AI Best Face 2.0 (coming this summer through an update): Enhances group photos by automatically detecting and correcting issues like closed eyes or suboptimal expressions for more polished results. This feature supports images with up to 20 individuals and works even with photos captured on other devices. OnePlus is also adding Google Gemini integration, similar to parent company Oppo and it will work across OnePlus' own apps as well as Google's ones. On device AI processing is prioritised where more sensitive information is used, although the company states that its own private cloud will keep data private. The company also says it recently rolled out support for Oppo's O+ Connect for the OnePlus 13R which enables uses to do file transfers and more between their OnePlus device and MacOS computer, either through the O+ Connect app, or via a drag and drop interface in the Finder.
Hans India
4 days ago
- Business
- Hans India
OnePlus 13s Packs Powerful Features in a Compact Design — But Stays Exclusive to India
OnePlus is set to launch its new compact smartphone, the OnePlus 13s, a small but mighty device loaded with high-end features. However, fans outside India might be disappointed — the phone is not coming to Western markets like the US or Europe. Even some of its new AI-powered features will be limited to the Indian market. Why the limited release? OnePlus appears to be focusing on India's booming smartphone market, where regulatory hurdles are lighter compared to strict privacy laws like Europe's GDPR or the complex patent disputes common in the US and Europe. This strategy allows OnePlus to test new technology in a less restrictive environment and avoid costly legal battles. For those outside India eager to get the 13s, importing might be the only option — but beware of network compatibility issues. The Indian version's cellular bands may not fully support US carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, or Verizon, which could affect signal quality and 5G connectivity. The OnePlus 13s features a compact 6.3-inch display with impressive specs: up to 1600 nits brightness and an adaptive refresh rate from 1 to 120 Hz. It also offers a handy Aqua Touch Glove Mode, letting users operate the phone while wet or wearing gloves. In terms of design, the 13s closely resembles the OnePlus 13T launched earlier this year in China but offers better balance with a 50/50 weight distribution at 185 grams and 8.1mm thickness for comfortable handling. Available in three colors—Black Velvet, Pink Satin, and Green Silk—the phone sports a dual rear camera setup with 50 MP main and telephoto lenses and a 32 MP autofocus selfie camera. Powering the device is the flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, shared with top-tier phones like Samsung's Galaxy S25 series. The battery is a surprising 5,850 mAh with 80W SuperVOOC fast charging, promising solid battery life despite the phone's small size. A notable new hardware feature is the Plus Key, introducing OnePlus' personalized AI space called Plus Mind—a digital memory hub for storing important items, somewhat similar to Nothing's Essential Space feature. Plus Mind debuts with the 13s and will arrive on the flagship OnePlus 13 later, but it won't be available in the US or Europe. The OnePlus 13s will officially launch in India on June 5, 2025. Interested buyers should watch for pricing and availability updates, but if you're outside India, importing the device may come with challenges.
CNET
4 days ago
- Business
- CNET
Your OnePlus 13 Will Get a Dedicated AI 'Mind Space'. Here's What That Means
It's a non-negotiable right now that every phone maker out there must have a plan for integrating AI into its devices. OnePlus is a little late to the party, but it's arrived nonetheless. On Tuesday, the company announced plans for bringing its own vision of personalized AI to OnePlus phones, including the OnePlus 13. At a launch event in London last week, I not only got to see the first AI features to land on OnePlus phones in action, but learn about what the company's future plans are for bringing more complex and sophisticated AI features to its phones down the road. With all Android phone makers increasingly making use of best-in-class Qualcomm chips and relying on Google's Gemini AI, having a strong AI strategy is one way they can set themselves apart from rivals. I was impressed with how far OnePlus seems to be thinking ahead and didn't rush into going ham on AI. Its initial AI rollout will likely capture people's attention, even if its ideas aren't entirely original. OnePlus' statement AI tool is called Plus Mind, which can save, suggest, store and search based on what's currently on your phone screen, ultimately depositing the details in an app OnePlus is calling 'Mind Space'. Plus Mind can be activated at any time, either by a dedicated button (if your phone has one) or by a swipe-up gesture. If it spots details of an event or reservation, it will propose creating a calendar entry. Mind Space is a place to "organize your fragmented memories," said Arthur Lam, the company's director of OxygenOS and AI strategy. This is a hub where all of your most important content will live, and where AI search will allow you to find what you need without the information overload you may be used to, or automatically translate content in another language to make it accessible and searchable. Plus Mind will debut with the upcoming launch of the OnePlus 13s, a phone designed specifically for the Asian market, which comes with a dedicated AI button (the "Plus Key," as OnePlus is calling it) on the side of the phone. That means for those of in the US and Europe, we'll have to wait a little longer to enjoy OnePlus' vision for AI ourselves. It will eventually be rolling out to the OnePlus 13 as an over-the-air update later this year, although the company is yet to confirm exactly when. The Plus Key on the OnePlus 13s. Katie Collins/CNET Plus Mind and Mind Space: My First Impressions On the OnePlus 13, which shipped before the addition of the Plus Key, you instead have to use a three-fingered swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen to activate the AI features. When I tested this in person it was hit or miss as to whether I could get it to work. There's definitely a knack to it -- you need to start from a couple of centimeters above lower rim -- and there's a high chance of accidentally displacing what's on the screen. It's clear that OnePlus designed Plus Mind to be used with a dedicated button, and no doubt all future OnePlus phones will feature a Plus Key of their own. It is a shame in retrospect though that the key is missing from its most widely available 2025 flagship phone. After using Plus Mind to save a variety of content, I had mixed opinions on how useful it was. The process of capturing and creating events out of details displayed on screen was seamless, and I found that I was able to use natural language within Mind Space to pull up the details of these events after the fact. But when saving articles I thought were interesting, Mind Space wasn't able to provide a summary of the entirety of what I'd been reading -- only of the specific text that was on screen at the time I activated Plus Mind. OnePlus' natural language search within Mind Space worked well for me. Katie Collins/CNET I also struggled to organise the content into collections within Mind Space. This is a manual process, rather than a situation in which the AI takes over to categorize everything you've saved. This feels a little like a missed opportunity. Like other Android phone makers, OnePlus has the benefit of tapping into the best of Google's Gemini phone tools, while also choosing what additional features it wants to bring to its phones to make them stand apart from its competitors. That said, its initial foray into AI with Mind Space is bound to draw comparisons to what Nothing is doing with Essential Space -- its own dedicated hub for saving content, snippets, links and reminders. What's next for OnePlus AI? Plus Mind and Mind Space represents just the first stage of what OnePlus' three-stage AI strategy. Next up is integrating a large language model (LLM) into Plus Mind, allowing your phone to understand your habits to create a "persona" it uses to understand you. "It will help you understand yourself," said Lam, and could even help you discover something "surprising" or "enlightening" about yourself. Stage three is where OnePlus plans to go full AI agent, turning a personal assistant that can know everything about you. But the company's not quite there just yet. In the meantime it has a few other ideas in the pipeline. Coming first to India (again, not the EU or the US), are AI VoiceScribe, which will provide you with a quick summary after your call on WhatsApp, Snapchat, Telegram, and AI Call Assistant, which provides you with in-call translation in both text and voice. On the more playful side, OnePlus is introducing two AI photo tools. The first, AI Best Face 2.0, will allow you to 'correct the faces of up 20 people in a group photo so that everyone is looking their best (if they have their eyes closed, for example, or what OnePlus describes as a "suboptimal expression"). AI Reframe, meanwhile, will analyze your carelessly shot holiday snaps and suggest creative cropping and framing to make it look like you weren't three cocktails deep when you shot them. These photo features will be come to OnePlus phones this summer, but for the major OnePlus AI tool rollout, you might have to wait a little longer.
The Verge
4 days ago
- Business
- The Verge
OnePlus' new ‘small' phone isn't coming to the US, but its AI features are
While the latest phone in the OnePlus 13 lineup is exclusive to India, the AI features that it comes with will be making their way to US users. The most notable is Plus Mind, which allows users to easily save information to a dedicated 'Mind Space' instead of manually logging important dates or appointments. Schedules, reservations, event information, and other data can be extracted from images or text and then automatically added to a user's calendar, and then it can be quickly retrieved later using OnePlus' AI search feature. OnePlus says a new Plus Mind feature will be rolling out 'later this year,' which will automatically categorize saved information to help improve organization. Plus Mind will initially be available on the compact OnePlus 13S that's launching in India on June 5th, a variant of the 13T that was recently released in China. Both phones, which are unavailable in the US and Europe, have the new customizable Plus Key button, which replaces OnePlus' signature Alert Slider. Like the Alert Slider, Plus Key can be used to switch between normal, mute, and vibrate-only modes, alongside other actions like launching the camera, recording audio, or translation. Plus Mind will be rolled out to the rest of the OnePlus 13 series via a future software update, and the company says that more devices will follow. Plus Mind can be activated with the new Plus Key button or an upward three-finger swipe on older phones that lack the Plus Key, such as the OnePlus 13. Every OnePlus phone launching this year is expected to feature the new Plus Key. Alongside Plus Mind, OnePlus is developing a suite of AI tools, including an AI translation app that combines text, live voice, camera-based, and screen translation capabilities, and an image-reframing tool that analyzes photos to suggest the best cropping options. Another AI editing tool that's rolling out 'this summer' will be able to automatically correct facial expressions and blinking. Two features that are only launching in India are AI VoiceScribe, which OnePlus says can 'record, summarize, and translate calls and meetings' directly within messaging and meeting apps, and AI Call Assist, which provides automatic summaries and real-time translation during calls. The Verge reached out to OnePlus to ask if it's planning to roll out these features globally but we haven't heard back yet.
Phone Arena
4 days ago
- Business
- Phone Arena
OnePlus is going all-in on AI – and its new Plus Mind space is just the beginning
Generative AI is the latest fad, and companies are in a tight race to deliver the most useful features for your everyday life. Now, OnePlus is announcing a bunch of new AI-powered features, saying that the company is thinking "big" on AI. The new announcement comes together with the announcement of the OnePlus 13S, which will bring the new AI features is saying that Artificial Intelligence will play a huge role in how we use our devices. The company is focusing on speed and personal intelligence in order to stand out from the competition. OnePlus focuses on how AI can help you "work smart, play hard, be yourself, be safe."The company says it's building multimodel AI capabilities, like an Agentic AI system, which will come to Oxygen Os in the near future. Agentic AI is basically AI that focuses on tasks and can make decisions with minimal human input. The company's phones already feature some useful AI features, including AI Summary, AI Speak, AI Best Face, and AI Clear Face on the OnePlus Nord 4, and AI Search, Notes, Toolbox, Unblur, Reflection Eraser, Detail Boost, and Erase on the OnePlus 13 the company wants to take things one step further and focus on personalized AI (Apple's dream that is yet to come to fruition with the delay of the personalized Siri). The first device with personalized AI will be the just-announced OnePlus 13S. This phone features a Plus Key instead of an alert slider, which can be programmed to do different actions. OnePlus says this Plus Key is the start of building personalized AI. The Plus Key will allow you to activate Plus Mind, which, similarly to Nothing's Essential Space, will save content that's important to you. Such content can be messages, content from Instagram or other apps, or upcoming trips. Meanwhile, you'll also be able to press the Plus key, and it will analyze and recognize the dates you see on your screen and suggest creating multiple events for each of those. Mind Space will also let you save articles you're reading in your browser, or analyze photos from Instagram. Mind Space will also let you make collections such as News, Travel, Hotels, and others. Of course, you'd be able to search with AI the Plus Mind memory. But that's not all. OnePlus has some dramatic plans for the future of Plus Mind. The company says it will integrate with an advanced LLM Persona, so everything stored in that space will evolve into your ultimate personal assistant. It will be able to even proactively recommend what you should do. The company plans to bring Plus Mind to the OnePlus 13, but it's not clear when. | Image Credit - PhoneArena Plus Mind is launching with the OnePlus 13s, and the company says it will come to the OnePlus 13 series at a later date. However, OnePlus hasn't provided a concrete date for this just yet. For now, it is also not known what other models by OnePlus will get the meantime, there are a couple of other improvements in store. The first two will not be coming to users in the EU and US, though: AI VoiceScribe (which will summarize work calls and listen to calls in apps) and AI Call Assistant (which will translate in voice and in text during a call). AI Translation is slated to help with face-to-face conversations. Similarly to other AI translation apps like the one found in Galaxy S phones, you have to put the phone between two people who speak different languages, tap and speak, and each person will get a translation of what the other has said. Meanwhile, there's also AI Best Face 2.0, which will come soon to the OnePlus 13S. The feature can correct when people have blinked in the photo and will work with up to 20 people in one image. It can also work with photos from other phones. The current AI Best Face version only works with photos taken with the OnePlus 4's photo AI Reframe will suggest how to frame your photo better. Of course, there's no AI talk without mentioning Google's Gemini. Gemini will be able to execute functions across apps on the 13S, like connecting with clocks and maps. As for privacy, users will enjoy a Private Computing Cloud which was specifically built for security. Also, OnePlus won't have access to the data stored there.
