INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The soon-to-be-launched OnePlus 6 is being teased as the next waterproof (or at least water-resistant) Android Oreo phone, according to an
official Twitter post today."Don’t you just hate it when you have to stop using your phone when it rains So do we ;)," noted the verified
OnePlus account in a tweet on Monday morning.From this coy message, it's safe to assume that OnePlus 6 owners won't have to worry about
soaking wet weather conditions like they did with the vulnerable OnePlus 5T.The OnePlus community, ever-eager for the OnePlus 6 to launch,
has been clamoring for a waterproof phone, especially after the Google Pixel 2 suited up for wet weather
OnePlus is one of the few holdouts among major smartphone manufacturers. The difference makerThe OnePlus 6 is poised to repel water, just
like the iPhone X or Pixel 2, but it has one feature that Apple and Google don't offer anymore: a headphone jack.OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei
confirmed last month that the OnePlus 6 will indeed stick with the time-tested 3.5mm headphone jack
It didn't axe the standard audio jack in favor of waterproofing
No, you can have both, as the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus prove, too. Other companies may cite waterproofing as a reason for
But clearly Samsung and, now, the lower-priced OnePlus haven't found a problem including both.Waterproofing aside, notable OnePlus 6 specs
include a rumored 6.2-inch screen, Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chip, 8GB of RAM, up to 256GB of storage and, like it or not, a notch cut out at
We'll likely see it all, rain or shine, in the next few weeks.
