Director teases ‘smooth’ OnePlus 7 after rumor about 90Hz screen

The president and founder of smartphone maker OnePlus, Pete Lau, has teased the manufacturer’s next smartphone with the words “especially smooth” after a rumor surfaced that the most expensive version will get a 90Hz screen.

Lau talks about a phone that is ‘fast and smooth’, after which he finds it ‘especially smooth’ adds to. Software on phones with higher refresh rates looks extra smooth, because the display shows more frames per second.

Android Central reported on Wednesday the rumor that the OnePlus 7 Pro, the manufacturer’s suspected 5G phone, would have an OLED screen with 90Hz support. In practice, such screens work with a variable refresh rate, so that the screen shows as many images per second on the screen as the hardware can handle. In a graphics-intensive game, that may be lower, but that still looks smoother than a 60Hz screen with a fixed refresh rate, which shows stuttering if the GPU can’t render images at a frame rate close to 60fps.

According to Android Central, it would also be a screen with 1440p resolution, where OnePlus has been using full HD screens since its first smartphone in 2014. The Chinese producer has not confirmed the information.

OnePlus usually starts teasing and releasing information some time before the presentation of a new phone. According to an earlier rumor, the presentation will take place around mid-May. OnePlus would like to present two phones this time: a OnePlus 7 with a 6.4″ OLED screen with full HD resolution and a OnePlus 7 Pro with a 6.64″ screen with curved edges and 5G support.