The simple answer to that question, of course, is that no such device exists just yet, but believe it or not, we now seem to know pretty much everything there is to know about it, as well as its non-R-branded cousin.
A 6.7-inch beast with a flat (ish) screen and alert slider
Said flat-ish AMOLED display is expected to measure a generous 6.7 inches or so in diagonal while sporting a 1.5K resolution (the exact pixel count remains unknown) and supporting silky smooth 120Hz refresh rate technology.
Moar megapixels, moar battery capacity, more money?
You know the largely useless 2MP macro sensor found on the back of the OnePlus 11R alongside a solid 50MP primary shooter and a decent 8MP ultra-wide-angle lens? The 12R will apparently get rid of it entirely, opting instead for a very much useful and very competent-sounding 32MP telephoto sensor with 2X optical zoom capabilities next to basically the same 50MP main and 8MP ultra-wide rear cameras.
On the front, meanwhile, the single 16MP selfie snapper is likely to go virtually unchanged, with another big change reportedly coming from the battery size department. Even though it definitely doesn’t look chunky in these freshly leaked factory CAD-based renders, the OnePlus 12R is expected to add 500mAh to the 5,000mAh battery capacity of its predecessor, bumping up the total to a very rare 5,500mAh for “mainstream” high-end smartphones today.
With the blazing fast 100W charging not going anywhere and the storage and memory ceilings once again hitting 256 and 16GB respectively, we can’t help but fear that the 11R’s reasonable price will have to go up to cover for the aforementioned processor, camera, and battery upgrades.
Of course, the OnePlus 11R is not available in many markets, costing the rough equivalent of $490 in India in an entry-level 128GB storage/8GB RAM configuration, for instance, and unfortunately, similar geographic restrictions are likely to apply to the 12R early next year as well, which sounds like a much bigger problem than a possible price hike.
