Here’s an alleged real-life shot of the OnePlus 15

An image believed to be the upcoming OnePlus 15 has surfaced online after a professional esports league in China shared a photo featuring the unreleased device. The picture gives us our best look yet at the phone ahead of its expected October launch.

Prominent leaker Digital Chat Station later confirmed on Weibo that the phone is indeed the OnePlus 15.

Goodbye, circular camera module

And as you can tell, this is a significant design change for the flagship line. The device sports a new square-shaped camera module in the top-left corner, ditching the circular island that has defined previous OnePlus flagships.

In fact, that circular module has been a staple since the OnePlus 11. Now, this new look is reminiscent of the more compact OnePlus 13s that launched earlier this year.

Under the hood, the OnePlus 15 is shaping up to be a performance beast, which makes its appearance at a gaming event make a lot of sense. The phone is expected to be one of the first devices to feature Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip. It has already appeared on Geekbench, posting a single-core score of 3709 and a multi-core score of around 11,000 with 16GB of RAM.

Rumours also point to a massive 7,000mAh battery with 120W fast charging support. The display is rumoured to be a 6.78-inch flat 1.5K LTPO OLED screen with a super-smooth 165Hz refresh rate.

For software, OnePlus has confirmed the phone will run the Android 16-based ColorOS 16 in China. This means you can expect it to boot into OxygenOS 16 right out of the box in India.

The new camera module houses a triple-lens setup. It’s expected to include a 50-megapixel primary sensor, a 50-megapixel secondary camera, and a 50-megapixel periscope telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom.

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The shot also shows the phone is devoid of any Hasselblad labelling. OnePlus CEO Pete Lau recently confirmed the company’s five-year partnership with the camera brand has ended.

OnePlus is instead moving to its own in-house imaging system called the DetailMax Engine. Lau claims the new engine uses advanced algorithms to produce images with incredible depth and realism.