OnePlus 7 Pro ‘The Lab’ programme announced, will offer early access to select customers

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has opened ‘The Lab’ programme for business again. The company has a tradition of offering its consumers a chance to try out its upcoming smartphones before they are launched officially. And right after announcing the launch date of its new OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro handsets, the company has started taking applications for The Lab. However, it is worth mentioning that the programme is only meant for OnePlus 7 Pro smartphone, which will be the company’s flagship device for the better part of 2019.

Recently, the company also announced that OnePlus 7 Pro, along with OnePlus 7, will be unveiled on May 14 at launch events that will take place simultaneously in New York City, London, and Bengaluru. This is the first time that OnePlus will be launching a smartphone at three locations at the same time.

The company has taken to its official OnePlus forum to announce that it is opening The Lab for OnePlus 7 Pro. The smartphone maker has also added that interested customers can start applying to review the upcoming flagship device. It is worth mentioning that you can register yourself on the platform till May 3, 8:00 pm ET, which is basically 05:30 am IST on May 4. The registrations are being done on OnePlus’ website and the company will take six days to review the applications. OnePlus will be choosing 15 customers to review the smartphone and the list of winners will be announced on May 9.

As we mentioned earlier, this is not the first time that OnePlus is running The Lab programme to give some customers early access to its upcoming smartphone. The first edition of The Lab started with OnePlus 3 in May 2016. Last year, the company ran the programme with both OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T under its The Lab programme. And this year, it is doing it with OnePlus 7 Pro.

OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has teased that OnePlus 7 Pro will come with a ‘fast and smooth’ display. The smartphone will reportedly sport a 6.7-inch QHD+ (1440×3120 pixels) display that will have a refresh rate of 90Hz. The handset will run Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 processor and will reportedly come with up to 12GB of RAM.

For imaging duties, the device is said to feature a triple rear camera setup that will comprise of a 48MP primary sensor with an f/1.6 lens and OIS, an 8MP telephoto sensor with an f/2.4 lens and a 16MP wide-angle sensor with an f/2.2 lens and 117-degree field of view. Reports also suggest that OnePlus 7 Pro will house a 4,000mAh battery that will come with support for 30W Warp Charge.