OnePlus 8T Concept. Bragging rights? Well,
the phone’s rear panel can change its color. Also, it looks fantastic. And before your inner geek screams “Hey OnePlus, take my money already”, there is some bad news.
This is a concept device, and OnePlus has no intention of selling it commercially, just like the OnePlus Concept One that had fancy electrochromic glass for hiding the rear camera lenses.
Alright now, back to the star of the show here. As the name makes it abundantly clear, the device is based on the OnePlus 8T, so no fancy upgrades inside. Let’s talk about the design first. The OnePlus 8T Concept has a quasi-wavy quasi-flowery pattern on the back that is inspired by “flowing water in the hot springs of Pamukkale” in Turkey. To achieve the color-changing trick, OnePlus is relying on what it calls “Electronic Color, Material and Finish” (ECMF)”, an electronic take on its CMF philosophy for designing smartphones. As for the actual color change,
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Forward-looking: For years, new smartphones have offered little more over their predecessors than faster speeds and mildly better displays, giving consumers few incentives to upgrade. Innovation is hard to come by in handsets these days, but a concept design from OnePlus offers some interesting features: a body that changes color and a motion-tracking radar module.
The OnePlus 8T Concept is, as the name suggests, based on the well-received OnePlus 8T that arrived a few months ago. The phone achieves its chameleon-like abilities through OnePlus Electronic Color, Material and Finish (ECMF) technology. This uses a film containing metal oxide that lies beneath the glass back and changes color as different voltages are applied, writes The Verge.
OnePlus’ latest concept phone is a color-changing, motion-tracking 8T
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OnePlus has a new concept phone to show off, which is its way of teasing tech that maybe, just maybe, might make it into one of the company’s future phones. The OnePlus 8T Concept is a similar phone to the OnePlus 8T that was released a couple months ago, but it’s got a pretty unique rear design that changes color alongside a motion-tracking radar module.
According to OnePlus, this color-changing effect is achieved with a film that contains metal oxide, which sits underneath the phone’s glass back and changes color as different voltages are applied to it. At its most basic, it could change color to show off the phone’s notifications, like an incoming phone call, much like the notification light that it has included on its phones in the past. But where things get really interesting is when it gets paired with the concept phone’s rear-mounted radar module.
OnePlus 8T Concept Showcases Touchless Notifications and Breathing Monitor
Aims to create a more natural user-device interaction
by: Yash Wate - Last updated on: December 21st, 2020
Key Takeaways
OnePlus has today announced a new concept smartphone, the OnePlus 8T Concept, which builds on its latest flagship device, the OnePlus 8T.
The OnePlus 8T Concept uses a combination of natural design inspiration and advanced technologies to create what the company calls a “
natural interaction between users and the device.”
The inspiration for the colors on the OnePlus 8T Concept is taken from the multi-hued flowing water in the hot springs of Pamukkale, Turkey
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