OnePlus to announce the OnePlus 6T at October event

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• The new OnePlus 6T smartphone from OnePlus will be announced
  on October 30 during an event in New York City.
• The OnePlus 6T will come with a feature that few, if any,
  smartphones in the US have: An in-display fingerprint reader.
• The OnePlus 6T also won’t feature a headphone jack. 

The small smartphone maker OnePlus will announced its new
phone, the OnePlus 6T,
during an event in New York City on October 30 at 11 a.m. ET.

The OnePlus 6T will be the successor to the OnePlus 6, which was
released just under six months ago. Unlike most other smartphone
makers, OnePlus has a biannual release cycle, with each new
smartphone coming with incremental upgrades. 

With the OnePlus 6T, the upgrade will be slightly more
significant than usual. 

The company itself confirmed that the new
OnePlus 6T will come with an in-display fingerprint sensor.
That’ll make the OnePlus 6T the first smartphone with an
in-display fingerprint sensor that will be widely available to
buy in the US. There are other phones that feature in-display
fingerprint sensors, like phones from Vivo, Xiaomi, Oppo, and
Huawei, but they’re usually more prevalent in China, with some
being available in parts of Europe. 

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Indeed, the OnePlus 6T will also be the first OnePlus phone with
a US carrier partnership: customers will be able to buy the
OnePlus 6T from T-Mobile. Previously, OnePlus phones were only
available from the company’s website. 

The OnePlus 6T also won’t feature a headphone jack. 

“We found 59% of our community already owned wireless headphones
earlier this year,” OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei told Tech Radar.

In place of the headphone jack will be “more technology,” Pei
said, touching on improved battery life.

As for the design, most rumors are pointing towards a similar
phone as the OnePlus 6, except with a water droplet-style
notch.