OnePlus has completed its busiest event with its first (mechanical) keyboard and its latest TV, and both will hit the Indian market later this year.
Let’s start with the first. The OnePlus Featuring Keyboard 81 Pro is the first device from the OnePlus Featuring brand, a new “co-creation platform”, which in this case pairs OnePlus with popular keyboard maker Keychron.
The OnePlus Featuring Keyboard 81 Pro is very similar to the Keychron Q1 Pro mechanical keyboard. It comes with, you guessed it, 81 keys and an American layout. There is integrated RGB, while the casing is CNC machined aluminum.
The keyboard has Bluetooth 5.1 built in but can also be docked via a USB-C port. Inside is a 4,000mAh battery, which should last 100 hours with RGB at its lowest brightness level.
It comes with two types of switches: the more tactile “Winter Bonfire” and the linear “Summer Breeze”. The “Winter Bonfire” keycaps are made from PBT plastic, while the “Summer Breeze” keycaps use what OnePlus is calling “Marble Mallow.”
The different switches
The keyboard has a laptop-style layout (it lacks a numpad) and is hot-swappable—you can swap switches without the need to unsolder them.
What makes OnePlus Featuring Keyboard 81 Pro unique is the alert slider on the back, which gives a wink to OnePlus smartphones, and the rotary knob, which can be customized to activate various functions.
The alert knob and slider
OnePlus featuring Keyboard 81 Pro will go on sale in April. OnePlus hasn’t revealed the price yet, but the Keychron is $199.
Moving on to the OnePlus TV 65Q2 Pro. It is the successor of the 2019 OnePlus Q1 Pro.
As the name suggests, the OnePlus TV 65 Q2 Pro increases the diagonal from 55 inches to 65 inches. The panel is a QLED 4K with a refresh rate of 120Hz, HDR and DCI-P3 coverage (97%).
The TV comes with a built-in 70W soundbar that simulates 2.1-channel audio and has a 30W woofer. The speaker is Dolby Atmos certified and is tuned by Danish audio company Dynaudio.
The OnePlus TV 65 Q2 Pro runs Google TV running Android 11 with the custom platform OxygenPlay 2.0 on top. You will be able to use a OnePlus smartphone to control your TV via OnePlus Connect 2.0.
The OnePlus TV 65 Q2 Pro will arrive on 10th March for INR 99,999.
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