OnePlus 13 Officially Launched in Nepal — Is It Worth the Price?

OnePlus has updated its flagship offering with the newest Qualcomm processor, a gigantic battery, and a triple 50MP camera setup. It launched in Nepal on 5 February 2025.

What is the Price of OnePlus 13 in Nepal?

OnePlus launched its latest flagship, the OnePlus 13, in Nepal on 5 February 2025, offering a single 16/512GB variant and its price is Rs. 1,41,999.

Unfortunately, we are not getting the lifetime warranty for the green line issue offered to the Indian audience. Instead, the company is offering us one-year screen breakage insurance with the phone — which is fine, I guess; better than nothing.

The OnePlus 13 has plenty to offer, including the performance of the 8 Elite, IP69 water resistance, Sony camera sensors, and a large 6,000mAh silicon-carbon battery.

This article will dive into the further details of this phone, let’s go!

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OnePlus 13 Overview

Design

The OnePlus 13 comes with flat mid-frames and a quad-curved design. In other words, the edges on this phone are ever so slightly curved — 2.5D curved, if you will.

The phone boasts an IP68 as well as an IP69 rating — making it the only other phone than the Vivo V40 to have an IP69 rating in Nepal. On the front, it has a Ceramic Guard to ensure the screen doesn’t crack from a simple drop here and there.

It is available in Midnight Ocean, Arctic Dawn, and Black Eclipse colour options. The former flaunts micro-fibre vegan leather on its back panel. The material choice makes it a bit thicker, but lighter than its compatriots. Meanwhile, the other two options have glass slabs on their backs.

This phone also has an iconic slider on the side, which lets you toggle between sound modes.

Display

Panel-wise, the OnePlus 13 has a 6.82-inch AMOLED stretching 2K/QHD+ (1,440 x 3,168 pixels) in resolution maintaining 510PPI pixel density.

The display can reach a peak brightness of 4,500 nits and has a DC dimming feature which adjusts the brightness level based on your usage.

Similarly, the switch between different levels of smoothness ranges from 1 to 120Hz. The colours must be pretty vibrant with 100% P3 coverage and 10-bit depth.

In the meantime, the OnePlus 13 comes with Aqua Touch 2.0, which offers touch responsive when your hands are covered in water or oil, and even when you are wearing gloves.

Hardware

For its processing prowess, this phone relies on Qualcomm’s latest flagship offering i.e. the Snapdragon 8 Elite. This chipset is one of the most capable silicon in the market right now able to smoothly run games like Genshin Impact, which previously tested the limits of mobile chips.

Rest assured, raw power won’t be an issue on this phone.

Other than that, the OnePlus 13 ships in configurations with up to 24GB LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB UFS 4.0 storage. However, it only arrived in a single 16/512GB trim in Nepal — just like its predecessor.

The battery on this phone sees a significant upgrade, increasing from 5,400mAh last year to 6,000mAh. This makes it the first flagship phone in Nepal to surpass the 6,000mAh mark. It features a dual-cell silicon anode design, offering a higher power density than traditional lithium-ion batteries.

Furthermore, it supports 100W SUPERVOOC (wired) and 50W AIRVOOC (wireless) charging as well.

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Cameras

The optics department is equally stacked on the OnePlus 13. It has a triple 50MP setup on the back and a 32MP snapper with the Sony IMX615 sensor on the front.

The main and telephoto lenses are coupled with Sony sensors as well. More specifically, the LYT-808 and LYT-600 sensors respectively. These cameras also have ALC lens coating on top which helps reduce reflections and glares on images.

The ultrawide shooter on the other hand is paired with a Samsung S5KJN5 sensor and does not have any such coating.

Atop all this hardware, OnePlus is also utilising software magic to add details, and rid motion blurs/glass reflections to better the photos taken.

The phone can also record 8K@30fps and Dolby Vision 4K@60fps videos.

Software and Features

The OnePlus 13 boots on Oxygen 15.0 based on Android 15, which is apparently the lightest OS from OnePlus so far. The phone has some very interesting features.

Firstly, there is the “BeaconLink” — a walkie-talkie-like feature, which was also available on the Oppo Reno12 F that recently made it into the Nepali market.

Then there is the “Intelligent Search” that understands information from on-device files and notes allowing you to search for it using prompts. This feature is currently exclusive to OnePlus 13 and 13R.

Other than that, we get a bunch of AI features seen on other devices such as Circle to Search, text composition and rewriting, and so on.

Then there are some iPhone-related features too like seamlessly sharing files with O+ Connect and “Dynamic Island” knock-off.

While the software features are great and all, as of now, it is unclear how many years of updates the phone will receive.

OnePlus 13 Price in Nepal and Availability

The OnePlus 13 launched on 5 February 2025 in Nepal at the price of Rs. 1,41,999 for the single 16/512GB variant. You get a one-year screen breakage insurance with the purchase of the phone, which will be valid from the date of purchase.

The OnePlus 13 comes at a slightly higher price than we’d prefer, especially when compared to its launch price in India. But that doesn’t change the fact that it still outperforms similarly priced options like the S25+ in almost every aspect spec-wise. A solid flagship still!

What do you think about the OnePlus 13? Do let us know in the comments!