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OnePlus is stepping up the ultra-wide game with a 50MP camera
June 10, 2025
TheOnePlus 9 seriesis due to be revealed on March 23, and the Chinese manufacturer has started to disclose more details about the phones. Now, OnePlus has revealed that at least one of the phones (presumably the Pro) will be equipped with a 50MP ultra-wide camera.
Pete Lauconfirmed on Twitterthat the OnePlus 9 series will be equipped with a 50MP IMX766 ultra-wide camera. He added in afollow-up tweetthat this ultra-wide camera also delivers distortion-free shots. Presumably this is due to the free-form lens technology the company confirmed it would be using earlier this week.
Lau posted two ultra-wide images, with one showing a conventional ultra-wide snap and the other showing a snap from the OnePlus 9 series ultra-wide shooter (R). Check them out below.
This wouldn’t be the first phone equipped with the IMX766 camera sensor, as the OPPO Reno 5 Pro Plus (available in China) uses this sensor as the main camera. Nevertheless, the sensor offers a 1/1.56-inch size andreportedlyhas one micron pixels, making it less impressive on paper than Samsung’sIsocell GN250MP sensor. But it should still be an upgrade over the 48MP IMX586 used for theOnePlus 8 Pro‘s ultra-wide camera, featuring a 1/2-inch sensor size and 0.8 micron pixels.
OnePlus alsoconfirmed earlier this weekthat it will offer a Sony IMX789 sensor for its main camera, saying it will be the largest sensor in a OnePlus phone. The company didn’t disclose a resolution for this sensor though.
Either way, it stands to reason that one or even both of these sensors could appear on theOPPO Find X3 Proas well. This is because the OnePlus 8 Pro andOPPO Find X2 Prodelivered near-identical main and ultra-wide cameras last year.
More reading:The complete guide to ultra-wide camera phones
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