OnePlus has quietly flipped the switch on a new teaser campaign, hinting at two big launches on its official site: the OnePlus 15R and a mysterious wearable simply labeled the New Watch. The company is saying almost nothing, but the images are already being zoomed in and dissected by fans who think they have seen this phone before.
Look closely at the silhouette, especially the circular flash and camera layout, and the picture starts to look very familiar. 
The 15R appears to be yet another global rebrand of the Chinese-market OnePlus Ace 6, a strategy OnePlus has used repeatedly for its R series. If that holds true, the 15R should inherit the Ace 6 formula: a slightly larger display than last year’s 13R, Qualcomm’s newer Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset for flagship-grade performance, and a huge 7800mAh battery paired with 120W wired fast charging that can refill the phone in a fraction of an hour.
The trade-off, unfortunately, is once again in the camera department. While the 13R finally gave value hunters a dedicated telephoto camera, the Ace 6 – and by extension, most likely the 15R – drops the telephoto module and sticks to a more basic rear setup. Early teasers strongly suggest just two usable cameras on the back this time, with the third ring mostly there for design symmetry and flash. On paper, it feels less like evolution and more like subtraction, and long-time OnePlus followers are already joking that the brand has gone from OnePlus to Oneminus.
This is part of a broader pattern across the 15 series, where every new leak seems to hint at slightly weaker camera hardware than the previous generation. For a company built on the bold promise of never settling, that shift stings. Community threads are full of sarcastic riffs on the old slogan – from never settle to never buy, or never stop settling – capturing a growing frustration that each new release gives with one hand and takes away with the other.
Yet from a practical angle, the 15R could still be one of the most sensible OnePlus phones if the pricing lands in the sweet spot. A giant 7800mAh battery and 120W charging are the kind of everyday upgrades that normal users feel far more than a slightly sharper zoom shot. For heavy social media users, commuters, gamers, and people who simply hate battery anxiety, this spec sheet reads like a dream. If OnePlus can keep the display quality high, optimize the Snapdragon 8 Elite for sustained performance, and avoid aggressive cost-cutting on the main and ultrawide cameras, the 15R might end up as a best-value pick in markets like the US in 2026, even if camera nerds look elsewhere.
Alongside the phone, OnePlus is teasing that New Watch on its European sites. Right now it is nothing more than an outline and a name, but even that is enough to raise questions. The silhouette hints at a familiar round watch face, likely a continuation of the existing OnePlus watch design language, and you can safely expect the usual mix of fitness tracking, notifications, and tight integration with OnePlus phones. The real unknowns are whether OnePlus goes all-in on software and battery life this time and how far it will push health features to compete with the more mature smartwatch ecosystems already on the market.
Together, the OnePlus 15R and the New Watch look like the next step in the company’s ecosystem story: a performance-first phone with monster endurance, plus a companion device to keep you connected and tracked all day. The big question is whether users will accept the compromises that now seem baked into the R series, or whether the gap between the brand’s old promise and its current reality has grown too wide. We will find out when OnePlus finally stops teasing and officially lifts the curtain on both devices.
1 comment
i loved old oneplus but nowadays the slogan feels like never stop settle, specs look good but the soul is kinda gone