Is OnePlus Nord 6 An Upgrade? And When is it Coming to Nepal?

OnePlus Nord 5 was one of the best premium mid-range phones to launch last year, and its successor has just made its appearance on the world stage. That said, the OnePlus Nord 6 will likely launch in Nepal very soon as well.

Now the new phone arriving is exciting and all, but with Nord 5 just getting a price jump, I am a bit worried about the price. So…

What is the Price of OnePlus Nord 6 in Nepal?

We all know the pricing situation is grim right now, and the OnePlus Nord 6 is expected to see a significant price jump over its predecessor.

As such, we expect the OnePlus Nord 6 price in Nepal to be Rs 80,999 (8/256GB) and Rs 89,999 (12/512GB), which I know is quite a steep increase from Nord 5’s update pricing.

Even in India, the starting price of the OnePlus Nord has climbed from INR 29,999 to INR 38,999 — nearly an INR 10,000 jump. If anything, our estimate could even be on the optimistic side for Nepal.

Also, the Nord series typically competes against Samsung’s Galaxy A50 lineup and vivo’s V series, both of which recently launched their latest iteration here. Vivo is asking Rs 83,999 for the V70, while Samsung set the starting price of Galaxy A57 at Rs 84,999.

So, Rs 80,999 for the Nord 6 feels like a fair estimate. Which, again, at the end of the day, is just our estimate.

As for the launch, we expect the phone to arrive in Nepal next month. Hopefully, OnePlus Nepal doesn’t delay it like the Nord 4, which came almost a year late. Well… it was around seven months to be exact, but it surely felt like a whole year had passed.

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That was the pricing, and it’s worrying. But that’s not all I am worried about. The OnePlus Nord 6 has brought many upgrades over its predecessor, but it cut some corners too.

Where? What? We’ll discuss all that in further detail in this article. Let’s go!

OnePlus Nord 6 Overview

I wasn’t really a fan of the OnePlus Nord 5 design, and not because it was bad. It was sleek and clean looking, but for me, it resembled the Galaxy A56 a bit too closely. And I did not hold back when complaining about it. I mentioned it in the coverage article and also in the review.

Thankfully, they have stepped away from the pill-shaped camera island on the corner kind of design to a look closer to the brand’s flagship offerings. And I can easily get behind that. All iPhones have a similar look, almost all Samsung phones have a similar look, and I don’t mind all OnePlus phones looking the same.

As for the display, we have a slightly smaller 6.78-inch AMOLED panel (vs 6.83 on Nord 5) and an HBM brightness level that is 400 nits higher at 1,800 nits. However, the headline-grabbing feature is the 165Hz panel, which isn’t just there for inflating the specs sheet.

OnePlus ships the Nord 6 with the “Adaptive Frame Booster” feature, which can boost the in-game frame rate to 165 FPS despite games not supporting such high frame rates natively. This isn’t a new feature for OnePlus, though, as Nord 5 also came with this feature. However, in our testing, this feature only boosted the frame rate up to 120Hz.

But again, I would have only gotten an average frame rate of 90FPS if it were not for the game’s native settings. Maybe the frame boost up to 144Hz had not rolled out when I tested the phone.

So, I can at least vouch that the feature works. Hopefully, I will get to experience what 165 FPS gaming on a phone feels like when the OnePlus Nord 6 arrives for the review.

That said, the phone is backed by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 for performance and handling gaming. The RAM is still an LPDDR5X unit, while the storage has been upgraded to UFS 4.1 from UFS 3.1. We will likely get 8/256GB and 12/512GB variants, just like the last time in Nepal.

The battery is where we, the Nepali audience, may be disappointed because it seems there are two different OnePlus Nord 6s in the world — the Indian variant with a 9,000mAh battery, and the global variant with a big, but not as big, 7,500mAh battery. We will likely be getting the latter variant in Nepal.

As for charging, we are looking at 80W of SUPERVOOC, 13.5W PD and 55W PPS support, which is the same as the Indian version. But we are getting the short end of the stick on reverse charging (wired) speed as well, which is 27W across the southern border. Meanwhile, we might have to settle for just 6.5W of reverse charging support, which is over four times slower.

And talking of the cameras, this is where the corners have been cut. Well, technically, it seems like a shift in focus rather than cutting corners.

Firstly, the selfie camera has straight up gone down in resolution, from 50MP to 32MP. And the rear camera setup looks unchanged, with 50MP main and 8MP ultrawide, but you need to dig into the surface to see the changes.

The main camera now uses the Sony LYTIA-600 sized at 1/1.953”, replacing the larger 1/1.56” Sony LYT-700 from the Nord 5 — roughly a 25% drop in sensor size. Similarly, the ultrawide sensor has switched from the OmniVision OV08D10 to the OV08F. While both share the same 1/4-inch size, the OV08D10 appears to be a more premier option.

So, the camera department hasn’t particularly been “stonks”. But it appears to be a deliberate choice, as OnePlus seems to be transitioning into a gamer-centric brand. This is further backed by the decision to focus on the “6-axis” gyroscope OnePlus is providing in Nord 6.

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So, as it stands, OnePlus is in a transition phase to a gamer-centric phone, and Nord 6 is one of the prime examples of it. It comes with a 165Hz display, which isn’t just for the number. It allows you to play games at 165 FPS, which is one of the first in the smartphone world. This transition comes in exchange for camera quality, which was already mediocre on the Nord 5. So, there are some sacrifices with the OnePlus Nord 6.

Now, how does that impact the Nepali market? We will have to wait and see at what price the OnePlus Nord 6 launches at.

What are your thoughts on the OnePlus Nord 6? Let us know in the comments below!