Here are a bunch of official reasons to be excited about the upcoming OnePlus Nord CE5 mid-ranger
OnePlus continues to unconventionally build buzz for next week's Nord 5 and Nord CE5 announcement, today revealing a number of the latter handset's key selling points.
Update from July 1, 2025:
Shortly after publishing our piece below, OnePlus added even more official Nord CE5 details to the company's Indian website, further confirming the presence of a "flagship-class"
Dimensity 8350 Apex chipset inside the upcoming mid-ranger, as well as a 7,100mAh battery. Wait, what?!
Dimensity 8350 Apex chipset inside the upcoming mid-ranger, as well as a 7,100mAh battery. Wait, what?!
That's right, the 5,200mAh cell capacity reported by Tom's Guide was apparently (majorly) wrong, with the Nord CE5 instead looking set to pack "OnePlus' biggest battery ever" and deliver a mind-blowing "2.5 days" of endurance between charges as a consequence. Meanwhile, the 50MP Sony camera with OIS mentioned below is now completely etched in stone... without any info on the second snapper found on this bad boy's back or its single front-facing cam.
Nexus Blue might be the prettiest Nord CE5 hue after all. | Image Credit -- OnePlus
OnePlus will also treat cash-strapped power users to a whopping 12GB RAM in a top-of-the-line Nord CE5 configuration, and last but not least, an eye-catching "Nexus Blue" paint job is confirmed to join Black Infinity and Marble Mist in "select markets" (including India) soon.
The original story from July 1, 2025 follows below:
Or rather that was the case until today, as the Nord CE5 now has a wealth of official information attached to its name. Teased on social media as a "max" performer with a "big-time" battery under its hood, the fast-approaching mid-end handset is confirmed by a company executive in an exclusive talk with Tom's Guide to pack a MediaTek Dimensity 8350 Apex processor.
This is a pretty fly chipset for a budget-friendly mid-ranger. | Image Credit -- OnePlus
That sounds like an improved version of the existing Dimensity 8350 SoC found inside such impressively powerful mid-rangers as the Motorola Edge 60 Pro, Oppo Reno 13 Pro, and Realme P3 Ultra, so the company rep's claim that the Nord CE5 will offer "significant performance improvements" over other phones in its price category is unlikely to prove exaggerated in any way.
Keep in mind that the Nord CE4 is priced at the rough equivalent of $270 and up in India, which obviously means that its sequel is likely to be similarly affordable. Of course, the ultra-low-cost smartphone will have other stuff going for it than just above-average raw power, with that "big-time" battery confirmed to sit at 5,200mAh capacity and support 80W charging technology to go from 0 to 100 percent juice in under 60 minutes.
Curiously enough, those otherwise remarkable numbers might mark a downgrade from the 5,500mAh battery capable of charging at 100W speeds inside last year's OnePlus Nord CE4.
The Nord CE5 looks good in black and amazing in Marble Mist. | Image Credit -- OnePlus"
That may have been a necessary compromise for the Nord CE5 to adopt an unusually high-quality 50MP Sony LYTIA 600 sensor equipped with optical image stabilization for its primary rear-facing camera, not to mention a gloriously stylish design (for a budget 5G phone) with Black Infinity and Marble Mist color options. The latter is described as "really something else", with an "almost sandy design with marble highlights once the light hits it."
Unfortunately, the odds of seeing this undeniably gorgeous device officially released in the US are slim to nonexistent, and alas, the same actually goes for the higher-end and even prettier OnePlus Nord 5 as well.
If it makes you feel any better, a 43mm OnePlus Watch 3 and the OnePlus Buds 4 with state-of-the-art active noise cancellation are confirmed to see daylight stateside next Tuesday, which... is obviously not going to be enough to rain on Samsung's July 9 Galaxy Unpacked parade.
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