OnePlus continues to release interesting news this week. Today, the Chinese company unveiled the OnePlus Nord CE4 Lite, an affordable yet feature-packed smartphone due to launch later this summer.
OnePlus also unveiled the Ace 3 Pro, a high-end phone series that will generally only be sold in China so as not to leave out high-end consumers. But what makes this upcoming phone interesting is its new “glacier battery.”
Generally speaking, mobile phone batteries haven’t changed much over the last few years. Sure, batteries are getting bigger, with most flagship phones like the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and Google Pixel 8 Pro packing 5,000 mAh batteries, and future models are expected to have even bigger batteries.
As spotted by Android Authority on Weibo, OnePlus promises to change that with its new Glacier Battery, which reportedly packs a 6,100mAh battery cell into the space previously taken up by a 5,000mAh cell.
While most batteries are made with a lithium-ion construction, OnePlus has built the new Glacier with “silicon carbon anode” technology. Co-developed by OnePlus and Chinese battery manufacturer CATL, the battery is said to last for two days on a single charge.
OnePlus says the battery features 100W fast charging, meaning it can charge from 1% to 100% in just over 36 minutes, and the company claims that the battery will retain more than 80% of its original capacity even after four years of use.
For reference, the battery is said to last for up to two hours of gaming, or three and a half hours of watching videos like TikTok.
According to a Weibo post, Glacier Battery’s “high-capacity bionic silicon carbon material” will allow OnePlus to create a smaller battery than the graphite batteries that make up a standard 5,000mAh battery.
The phone maker is no stranger to packing large batteries into its phones. OnePlus phones like the OnePlus 12 and OnePlus 12R have 5,400 mAh and 5,500 mAh batteries. The just-announced Nord CE4 Lite will have a 5,110 mAh battery, at least in Europe and likely in the US due to battery density regulations. In other regions, the device will have a 5,500 mAh battery.
Chipsets such as next year’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 3 Gen 4 are expected to be battery-heavy, so it will be interesting to see OnePlus’ new batteries leave China and make their way into other OnePlus smartphones and competitor devices.
