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PRICE 12GB/256GB, £708 (£849 inc VAT) from oneplus.com
OnePlus is on the up. First it surprised us late last year by nabbing the folding phone crown from Samsung with the OnePlus Open (see issue 351, p60); now the OnePlus 12 is resetting expectations for premium phones.
It starts with aggressive pricing. At £849 inc VAT with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, this phone is a little pricier than the OnePlus 11 (see issue 343, p72), but it’s a whole lot cheaper than the Google Pixel 8 Pro (see issue 351, p70) and, of course, the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra (see p58).
There’s also a maxed-out version with 16GB of memory and twice the storage, and for an introductory period it’s only £50 more than the base model at £899. The official price is £999.
As an extra sweetener, if you buy from OnePlus then you can also
