The Lava Red OnePlus 5T hits the UK and Europe today.
The limited edition flagship smartphone first launched as an exclusive colour for China late last year.
Since then, OnePlus has sold a limited run of the crimson smartphone in India. And now the limited edition handset is coming to the UK.
To achieve the glowing red, OnePlus says its Lava Red smartphone undergoes an extensive design process – being anodised between two sandblasting techniques before adding an anti-fingerprint layer to create the final finish.
OnePlus 5T was already a pretty good looking phone, but for our money, the Lava Red finish takes this to new levels.
The beautiful handset has deep red antenna lines, a black faceplate and matching red ceramic fingerprint sensor.
The limited edition OnePlus is only available with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.
It goes on-sale today, February 6th, at 10am GMT on OnePlus.net for £499 in the UK.
To celebrate the launch, OnePlus has shared a brand-new Valentine’s Day commercial with actress and model Emily Ratajkowski.
OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei announced the arrival of the Lava Red OnePlus 5T on the company’s forums.
Pei wrote: “For our latest Limited Edition version of the OnePlus 5T, we’re turning towards the colour that has become synonymous with OnePlus: Red.
“This is the OnePlus 5T Lava Red, a radiant new variant of our latest flagship. Defined by its striking shade of red, our latest design effort is at once restrained and audacious.
“Months of fine-tuning and experimentation led to a device that seamlessly blends our distinct shade of red with the robust all-metal body of the OnePlus 5T.”
Presumably named OnePlus 6, the all-new smartphone will be unveiled late in Q2 2018, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has confirmed.
The Chinese smartphone start-up’s second financial quarter runs from April 1st to June 30th.
If the company is targeting the end of that quarter, we can expect the OnePlus 6 to launch in a similar timeframe to the OnePlus 5 last year.
Elsewhere, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau also confirmed the processor that will power the next-generation handset.
Like the much-rumoured Samsung Galaxy S9, the OnePlus 6 will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845.
“Of course, there’s no other choice,” Pete Lau told CNET during the CES tradeshow in Las Vegas earlier this month.