OnePlus will release the Ace 5 and Ace 5 Pro on December 26. The brand revealed the date after the phones were listed at the Oppo Store in China. Louis Jie, president of OnePlus China, confirmed that the vanilla version will sport a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, while the Pro will go one step further and run on Snapdragon 8 Elite.
The executive added that the OnePlus Ace 5 will be so powerful that the chipset will feel like Gen 3.5. It will be more than just an upgrade; it will overhaul the premium smartphone experience.
The new phones will also come with a thin Si/C battery, which OnePlus calls Glacier Battery Technology. It is essentially a thinner cell while increasing the mAh capacity, but we are still looking for exact details.
We expect Ace 5 and Ace 5 Pro to share the majority of their hardware, including the 6.78” LTPO AMOLED display, 50 MP main + 50 MP telephoto + 2 MP macro camera combination, and the dimensions will likely be similar.
The chipset is one expected difference, but we might also see the Ace 5 with a higher battery capacity, while the Ace 5 Pro will have a 6,100 mAh cell.
