OnePlus 13: Pro-Level Screen Experience, Defining the Flagship of the Year

OnePlus 13: Pro-Level Screen Experience, Defining the Flagship of the YearIn the fierce competition of smartphones, the screen, as the primary window for human-computer interaction, is undeniably important. After the huge success of the Orient Display on the OnePlus 12, OnePlus 13 once again pushes boundaries, globally unveiling the second-generation 2K Orient Display

OnePlus 13: Pro-Level Screen Experience, Defining the Flagship of the Year

In the fierce competition of smartphones, the screen, as the primary window for human-computer interaction, is undeniably important. After the huge success of the Orient Display on the OnePlus 12, OnePlus 13 once again pushes boundaries, globally unveiling the second-generation 2K Orient Display. This display boasts comprehensive upgrades in display quality, outdoor visibility in strong light, eye protection, touch response, and more, earning the world's first DisplayMate A++ certification and delivering an experience beyond Pro-level. Let's dive deeper and explore just how Pro the screen on the OnePlus 13 truly is.

A Revolution in Screen Form: Full Equal Deep Flexible Edge Straight Screen

The screen form of the OnePlus 13 undergoes a complete upgrade, with the most obvious change being the transition from the previous dual-curved screen to the Full Equal Deep Flexible Edge Straight Screen. This retains the comfortable feel of a curved screen while offering the accurate touch response of a straight screen, effectively reducing accidental touches. Combined with the narrow bezels on all four sides, the OnePlus 13 boasts an exceptionally premium look, standing out among other flagship phones.

To complement the design of the Full Equal Deep Flexible Edge Straight Screen, OnePlus 13 adopts a straight edge + large bevel cut design. This, along with its exquisite craftsmanship, ensures a natural transition between the glass cover panel and the metal frame, providing a silky smooth feeling as your fingertips glide across the screen. As always, when it comes to feel, you can trust OnePlus.

A Leap in Display Quality: The World's First 2K Screen with DisplayMate A++ Certification

As the world's first 2K screen to receive DisplayMate A++ certification, the second-generation Orient Display on the OnePlus 13 reaches the industry peak in terms of color accuracy, brightness, and power consumption control. It is another product of collaboration between OnePlus and BOE, featuring an X2 light-emitting material customized for OnePlus and equipped with the industry-leading 8TLTPO circuit design. Coupled with OnePlus's self-developed DisplayP2 screen chip, it supports multi-scenario, multi-level adaptive high refresh rate and adaptive local high refresh rate technologies, achieving more accurate color performance and lower energy consumption.

Beyond R&D, OnePlus has unwavering confidence in its manufacturing capabilities, even in areas that are difficult for the human eye to perceive, such as screen color accuracy, screen display accuracy, brightness and color uniformity. To this end, OnePlus has established the first self-developed display technology production line in China, using 121 precision manufacturing processes in an aerospace-grade dust-free environment. Through lithography machine-level shock absorption technology and micron-level pixel processing technology, it achieves end-to-end precise control over the display quality of every screen.

Furthermore, the second-generation Orient Display supports the domestic unique screen color engine, integrating 39 self-developed screen algorithms. It combines its own SoC level tuning optimization capabilities, embedding the algorithm directly into the chip's underlying layer to achieve pixel-level calibration. Thanks to this, the OnePlus 13 achieves internationally leading levels in color accuracy, brightness uniformity, color consistency, and natural light display accuracy.

When watching high-definition videos, the OnePlus 13's screen can deliver cinematic color depth and contrast, making every scene feel immersive. The light and shadow changes, color transitions are smooth and natural, even the finest shadows and highlights can be captured and displayed, bringing every frame to life. While playing games like "Genshin Impact" and "PUBG Mobile," the screen's responsiveness and refresh rate ensure seamless actions and fluidity, allowing shooting and dodging movements to be displayed precisely and accurately in front of players. The OnePlus 13 also supports super-resolution and super-frame rate for multiple games, and with this exceptional screen, immersion is maximized.

Outdoor Display Black Technology: Sun Display Technology

Outdoor sports have become increasingly popular in recent years, whether it's weekend camping with friends or taking a break from work to lie down on the grass of a nearby park. Outdoor activities have become a popular lifestyle choice for young people. As outdoor activities increase, the display performance of phones in outdoor strong light environments has become a focus for users. OnePlus 13's "Sun Display Technology" is born to address this pain point, no wonder "OnePlus fans" say that OnePlus really listens to what people need, and OnePlus provides what users need.

To see the screen clearly in sunlight, screen brightness is a key aspect. Equipped with the second-generation Orient Display, the OnePlus 13 achieves a maximum brightness of 4500nit, ensuring clear display in strong light. But "seeing" is just the first step. To ensure users can "see clearly" and "comfortably" in strong light, OnePlus 13 also introduces outdoor light enhancement and outdoor color restoration technology. This can match and enhance the effect based on different light intensities, effectively improving the visibility and readability of high-brightness content in outdoor scenarios. It accurately restores color performance based on the ambient color temperature under strong illumination, making screen content clearly visible.

In other words, even in outdoor strong light, users can easily see the content on the OnePlus 13 screen. Moreover, the content seen will not deviate in color temperature or color due to environmental interference. Therefore, the OnePlus 13 screen has become the industry's first screen to receive TV Rheinland intelligent eye protection high visibility certification.

Drawing on past experience, some phones that claim to have high screen brightness often cannot avoid "high brightness color deviation," "reduced saturation and contrast," etc. when activating boost brightness outdoors. OnePlus 13, however, takes a bottom-up approach from the logic of color science, moving beyond the misconception of "stupid brightness" in screen display. It can match the correct brightness and color under different illuminances, undoubtedly a significant breakthrough for OnePlus 13 in terms of color science concepts and display technology.

Upgraded Eye Protection Technology: Eye Protection 2.0

Last year, OnePlus brought Eye Protection, leading the industry in eye protection for phones. This year, OnePlus has teamed up with the State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmic Optics and Visual Science, Zhejiang University, and the China Standardization Institute to once again create world-class eye protection technology. They are introducing the scientific eye protection scheme with human factors fully taken into account: Eye Protection 2.0, featured on the OnePlus 13.

Eye Protection 2.0 technology, as a unique innovation in the industry, combines true full-brightness DC dimming and Eye Protection Low-Frequency Flicker 2.0 to achieve the dual goal of protecting eyesight without sacrificing display quality. Through advanced technologies such as fully upgraded full-brightness natural light display, comfortable color temperature 2.0, rhythmic health 2.0, hardware-level low blue light technology, and AI eye protection, Eye Protection 2.0 ensures that users' eyes are not harmed when using their phones in dim light environments, and using their phones before bed will not affect their sleep quality. Moreover, this technology can intelligently monitor users' eye fatigue status and phone usage distance, protecting users' eye health in a comprehensive manner.

As a result, Eye Protection 2.0 has received the industry's first TV Rheinland intelligent eye protection 4.0 certification for a 2K screen, marking its outstanding achievements in the field of eye protection technology. Through comparative testing, the OnePlus 13 shows significantly reduced screen flicker at low brightness, and the screen display effect at low brightness is not compromised. In actual experience, even with prolonged use, the eyes do not feel tired.

Touch Experience: All-Round Upgrade

OnePlus 13 has also made a comprehensive upgrade in its touch experience, adopting a new generation of self-developed rainwater touch technology. Testing shows that OnePlus 13 can maintain accurate operation even when fingers are wet or there are water droplets on the screen. For example, I, a kitchen novice, often forget the order of cooking steps and how much seasoning to use, and frequently refer to recipes. After washing vegetables, I don't need to dry my hands; I can just shake them off and directly open my phone to check the recipes, saving a lot of time.

For outdoor sports enthusiasts, OnePlus 13's wet-hand touch is also beneficial for special scenario usage. For example, when we encounter rainy weather while cycling outdoors and the phone screen is wetted by light rain, we don't need to wipe the phone. We can quickly open the map software to check navigation with water droplets on the screen, allowing us to find temporary shelters faster and more conveniently.

In addition, OnePlus 13 also uses ultrasonic fingerprint unlocking! Compared to under-display optical fingerprint modules and under-display short-focus fingerprint modules, ultrasonic fingerprint modules do not need to illuminate the finger to identify fingerprints. When I unlock my phone in a sleepy state in the morning, I no longer need to be blinded by that light. Ultrasonic fingerprints are not affected by perspiration, water stains, or other liquids, and the recognition speed and accuracy are higher. It can be accurately and quickly unlocked in any environment, definitely a detail experience that is hard to go back to once you try it.

In Conclusion

The screen performance of the OnePlus 13 is undoubtedly one of its greatest selling points, from the Full Equal Deep Flexible Edge Straight Screen design to the DisplayMate A++ certified 2K screen quality, as well as the application of Sun Display Technology and Eye Protection