Author: Zhou Yuan / Wall Street News
Oneplus' latest &#34;performance benchmark&#34; has arrived as scheduled. On June 27th, OnePlus released the OnePlus Ace 3 Pro positioned as the &#34;popularizer of flagship experience&#34;.
Since Li Jie took over the OnePlus China region, &#34;product strength first&#34; has become the top strategic focus of OnePlus in China. OnePlus's technological investment mainly revolves around whether it can provide users with extraordinary experiences and value in segmented scenarios, serving as the standard for technological trade-offs.
How does the OnePlus Ace 3 Pro perform? What are its technological highlights? For C-end users, are the experiences brought by these technologies merely &#34;on paper&#34; or &#34;perceptible and powerful&#34;?
The biggest technological innovation highlight of this new device actually revolves around &#34;gaming&#34;.
It is worth noting that OnePlus has started to expand its ecosystem products, releasing the OnePlus tablet and OnePlus watch for the first time on June 27th. What is OnePlus's purpose in doing so?
<h2>Frame rate and battery life tailored for gaming performance</h2>
OnePlus' product structure is currently divided into four main categories: Ace V, Ace Digital, Ace Digital Pro, and the OnePlus Digital series flagship, with prices ranging from 2000 yuan to 5000 yuan.
The &#34;Ace 3 Pro&#34; released on June 27th is positioned as the &#34;performance benchmark&#34; within the OnePlus product lineup.
To enhance the recognition of the &#34;performance&#34; label, even designing an exclusive logo for the supercar porcelain collector's edition consisting of the English uppercase letters &#34;ACE&#34; and &#34;PERFORMANCE&#34;, deliberately emphasizing the phone's &#34;performance&#34; attribute.
With smooth operation of high-load games as a key point, OnePlus aims to lead the way in the performance smartphone segment as its main product strength goal. The entry point chosen by OnePlus is for those &#34;young people who like to play games and value performance&#34;. Among them, the OnePlus Ace Digital Pro version refines OnePlus's &#34;performance&#34; positioning into the &#34;gaming&#34; scenario.
Li Jie, President of OnePlus China, used multiple PPT pages during the June 27th evening launch of the &#34;OnePlus Ace 3 Pro&#34; to showcase the device's performance advantages in running heavy-load games such as &#34;Genshin Impact&#34; and &#34;Honkai Impact 3rd&#34;, with average frame rates remaining stable without dropping frames.
In running &#34;Genshin Impact&#34; while simultaneously engaging in voice calls, the average frame rate within 1 hour was 59.7 frames, demonstrating the excellent gaming performance experience of the OnePlus Ace 3 Pro.
Li Jie stated, &#34;The OnePlus Ace 3 Pro achieves deep integration of hardware configuration and graphic software algorithms, thus providing highly efficient performance scheduling and powerful game rendering performance, delivering the industry-exclusive native 120 frames of 'Genshin Impact', as well as full-frame heavy-load game rendering, native high-quality rendering, weak network/congestion acceleration, and other upgrades in various heavy-load gaming scenarios.&#34;
In addition to the stability of the average frame rate when running high-load games, the OnePlus Ace 3 Pro has also made efforts in terms of battery life: the device is equipped with OnePlus' latest Glacier Battery, with a capacity of up to 6100mAh and a thickness as thin as 5.51mm. For comparison, a typical 5000mAh battery has a thickness of about 6mm, making the Glacier Battery 0.49mm thinner
Despite being equipped with this large-capacity carbon-silicon negative electrode battery, the body thickness of the OnePlus Ace 3 Pro is thinner than the previous generation Ace 2 Pro (5000mAh graphite negative electrode battery) at 8.98mm. Among them, the &#34;Supercar Porcelain Collector's Edition&#34; has a body thickness of only 8.69mm, which is 0.29mm thinner than the Ace 2 Pro.
The Glacier Battery is a high-performance battery developed by OnePlus specifically for high-performance smartphones in collaboration with Ningde New Energy.
This ultra-high-capacity battery has a silicon content of 6%, an energy density of 763Wh/L, and with the self-developed &#34;high-capacity biomimetic silicon-carbon material&#34; combined with &#34;low-expansion second-generation silicon,&#34; it achieves a higher silicon-carbon capacity in the same volume.
Compared to the 5000mAh lithium battery of the OnePlus Ace 2 Pro, the OnePlus Ace 3 Pro has increased its battery capacity by 22% while reducing the battery volume by 3%. In addition, this model supports 100W fast charging (charging from zero to full in 36 minutes), making the OnePlus Ace 3 Pro once again break its own record: the DOU endurance test exceeds two days, achieving &#34;charge once every two days, use for two days.&#34;
The DOU endurance test is a test method that measures the endurance capability of a mobile phone. This test focuses on the endurance performance of the phone in specific usage scenarios. Typically, DOU simulates users' daily usage habits, including but not limited to browsing the web, watching videos, playing games, etc., to evaluate the length of time the phone's battery can support these activities.
The results of the DOU endurance test reflect the phone's endurance capability under different usage intensities. Previously, the DOU endurance test record holder was the OnePlus Ace 3V, at 1.86 days.
It is worth mentioning that the Glacier Battery also adopts a &#34;biomimetic honeycomb structure&#34; design to ensure the stability of the overall silicon-carbon structure.
At the same time, this battery also uses &#34;flexible SEI self-healing technology&#34; and &#34;high-strength and high-toughness adhesives,&#34; matched with OnePlus' self-developed &#34;silicon-carbon negative electrode battery health algorithm.&#34; These technologies combined ensure the &#34;longevity&#34; of the Glacier Battery, providing the OnePlus Ace 3 Pro with a healthy power experience for up to 4 years.
High frame rates and endurance for high-load games are all part of the &#34;perceptible&#34; performance, with endurance perception being stronger.
<h2>Real-time Photos, AI, and Ecosystem Debut</h2>
The OnePlus Ace 3 Pro is not only a phone that pursues gaming performance, but its imaging capabilities are also impressive. In addition to the traditional flagship capabilities - the main camera is equipped with a Sony IMX890 sensor (1/1.56, 50 million pixels) and OPPO flagship imaging algorithm, this time it also adds &#34;Live Photos&#34; and multiple AI imaging features.
Live Photos, first launched by iPhone, can make photos come to life.
While taking photos, Live Photos can attach a recorded 1.5-second dynamic video. When the user presses deeply on the photo, the photo will automatically play the dynamic effect
The core significance of live photos is to extend and supplement static photos, allowing the most important emotional elements of the photos to be extended through dynamic images and sound. All of this can be obtained by simply pressing the shutter button as usual when taking traditional static photos.
By clicking on a live photo and holding the screen, you can see the photo transform into a short video with audio.
The OnePlus Ace 3 Pro is the first OnePlus phone to support &#34;live photos.&#34; After enabling the &#34;live photos&#34; feature, users can click the shutter button to obtain a photo taken in the default photo mode + a video of up to about 2 seconds in the album.
The &#34;live photos&#34; feature of the OnePlus Ace 3 Pro supports full focal length shooting, beauty functions, cover editing, ProXDR display for cover frames, front and rear Live Photos, and many other functions, and supports sharing to the Xiaohongshu platform.
OPPO's flagship AI capabilities have been implemented in subsequent products, including the OnePlus 12. The newly launched OnePlus Ace 3 Pro is no exception, also featuring OPPO's flagship &#34;AI Super Clear Group Photo,&#34; &#34;AI Elimination,&#34; and &#34;AI Cutout&#34; AI imaging functions.
Based on AI large models, the OnePlus Ace 3 Pro can automatically recognize shooting scenes. When the scene is recognized as a group photo, it can ensure that every person in the picture obtains the best facial details through automatic super depth of field and AI algorithms. In addition, the OnePlus Ace 3 Pro has expanded the gameplay of &#34;AI Elimination&#34;: adding one-click recognition of passersby and expanding the range of clutter elimination to the entire scene.
Li Jie said, &#34;We believe that the AI experience itself is good for users, and this trend is irreversible.&#34;
Currently, the AI capabilities of OnePlus phones are mainly focused on the cloud side, &#34;because the chip of existing phones lacks AI computing power.&#34; Li Jie said, &#34;For new models, cloud-side and edge-side AI can be balanced (developed synchronously).&#34;
Wall Street News noted that the OnePlus press conference on June 27th was different from the past: smartphones were not the only new products released, OnePlus also expanded into ecological categories for the first time, releasing the OnePlus tablet and OnePlus watch.
Regarding the reason why OnePlus is expanding into ecological categories at this point, Li Jie said, &#34;Because our users have multi-terminal needs for OnePlus products, and these needs have not been well met in the past. OnePlus itself has the technical reserves to better meet user needs, so we started to layout ecological categories. This is a start, and in the future, we will launch more interconnected ecological products.&#34;
Speaking of interconnection, the &#34;OnePlus Tablet Pro&#34; launched this time has an excellent &#34;interconnection&#34; application: if a connected OnePlus phone is placed near the OnePlus Tablet Pro, without any settings on the OnePlus phone (such as enabling personal hotspot), the OnePlus Tablet Pro can instantly become a &#34;cellular version,&#34; which means the OnePlus tablet directly has communication and networking functions
This experience is equivalent to meeting the segmented scene demands of tablets, enhancing the market acceptance of OnePlus smartphones.
Overall, OnePlus Ace Digital Pro continues to vigorously solidify its product and technological positioning as the &#34;benchmark for gaming performance,&#34; while the debut of OnePlus expanding its ecological products indicates that OnePlus is starting to build a broader product system through the interaction between ecological products and smartphones.
OnePlus is no longer just a smartphone company, but is transforming into a &#34;connected&#34; product system centered around smartphones, expanding the boundaries of OnePlus' user base and enhancing its competitive capabilities in the Chinese market

In addition to gaming, there is also the debut of the ecological product. What is OnePlus up to?

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