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OnePlus announces the Nord N20: $282 price, 18-month-old OS

OnePlus is launching a new mid-range phone in the US: the OnePlus Nord N20 5G. This is a $282 phone that will be available starting April 28, exclusively at T-Mobile.

For that just-under-$300 price tag, you get a 6. 43-inch “FHD+” (this should mean 2220×1080) OLED, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 4, 500 mAh battery. The SoC is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 695. This is a 6 nm chip with two 2. 2GHz ARM Cortex-A78 cores, six 1 . 7GHz Cortex-A55 cores, and an Adreno 619 GPU. There’s a good in-screen fingerprint reader, a microSD slot, and the phone supports an always-on display mode, so you can always see the time and your notifications.

At $282, this cell phone feels like a sequel to the Nord N200 , which came out almost a year ago as another T-Mobile exclusive and is $240. Last year’s phone had the 90 Hz display, though, which really helped it stand away at this price. The N20 is being downgraded to just 60 Hz. You’ll also have to settle for a smaller battery (the N200 was 5, 000 mAh) and losing the headphone jack.

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