OnePlus has put a cooling fan and a 9,000mAh battery in the new Ace 7 and Ace 7 Pro, launched in China. Its product page calls the setup, in Chinese, an industry-first “dual-path glacier air-cooling system.”
Fans in phones aren’t new: Honor’s Win2 launched with two on October 21st. OnePlus splits its airflow two ways, though.
One path blows straight at the chip, through a 14-layer tower of fins like a graphics card’s, and carries the heat out. The other blows cool air onto the back cover, so the part you hold feels less hot.
OnePlus says that after an hour of a shooter game at 185fps, with the fan at full speed, the back near the chip runs up to 10°C cooler than with the fan off. Even its 100W charging figure, 60% in 30 minutes on the Pro, is measured with the fan on.
It also says the fan passed a 24-hour dust test, three times China’s standard, which answers the first question about a phone that breathes. Both still carry IP66, IP68, IP69 and IP69K ratings, and Oppo’s store adds a five-year fan warranty.
Both borrow the OnePlus 16‘s 6.78-inch, 1.5K screen, which runs at 165Hz everywhere and 185Hz in nearly 40 games. The 9,000mAh silicon-carbon battery fits beside the fan in a body 8.5mm thick, and OnePlus rates the Pro at seven hours of the same game at 185fps.
The Pro gets Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and a 50MP 3.5x periscope beside its 200MP main camera, but no ultrawide. For the Ace 7, OnePlus uses a V Series version of the chip, which it says shares its architecture, and an 8MP ultrawide instead.
OnePlus Ace 7 Pro and Ace 7 key specs
- Display: 6.78-inch flat OLED, 2772×1272 (1.5K), 1Hz to 165Hz, up to 185Hz in supported games, 2,000 nits peak, 3,840Hz PWM dimming
- Processor: Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (Pro) or Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 V Series (Ace 7), 3nm, eight cores (two prime, six performance), up to 4.608GHz
- Graphics: Adreno 840
- Memory (RAM): 12GB or 16GB LPDDR5X
- Storage: 256GB or 512GB UFS 4.1, plus 1TB on the Pro
- Rear cameras: Pro: 200MP main (1/1.56-inch, f/1.8, OIS) and 50MP 3.5x periscope (f/2.8, OIS); Ace 7: 200MP main and 8MP ultrawide (f/2.2, 112°); video up to 8K 30fps and 4K 120fps
- Front camera: 16MP (f/2.4)
- Battery: 9,000mAh typical (8,775mAh rated), single silicon-carbon cell
- Charging: 100W wired (charger in the box), 60% (Pro) or 58% (Ace 7) in 30 minutes with the fan on, per OnePlus; bypass charging while gaming
- Software: ColorOS 17
- Connectivity: 5G, Wi-Fi 7, NFC, USB-C (USB 2.0), IR blaster
- Durability: IP66, IP68, IP69, IP69K
- Size and weight: 162.30 × 77.37 × 8.50mm (8.59mm in the Pofeng and Cuihuo colors); Pro about 218g (225g in Pofeng), Ace 7 about 217g (223g in Cuihuo)
- Colors: black and white on both, plus Pofeng (Pro) or Cuihuo (Ace 7)
- Other: built-in fan with a vapor chamber, 3D ultrasonic in-display fingerprint reader, stereo speakers, shortcut key, notification light, 800Hz gyroscope
Price and availability
Oppo’s online store in China lists:
- Ace 7 Pro: 12GB/256GB ¥4,799 (about $720 or Php 46,100); 16GB/256GB ¥5,299 (about $795 or Php 51,000); 12GB/512GB ¥5,599 (about $840 or Php 53,800); 16GB/512GB ¥5,999 (about $900 or Php 57,700); 16GB/1TB ¥7,299 (about $1,090 or Php 70,200)
- Ace 7: 12GB/256GB ¥4,399 (about $660 or Php 42,300); 16GB/256GB ¥4,899 (about $735 or Php 47,100); 12GB/512GB ¥5,199 (about $780 or Php 50,000); 16GB/512GB ¥5,699 (about $855 or Php 54,800)
If the phone you use for gaming now doubles as a hand warmer by every third match you play, these new OnePlus models might just be worth a look.
