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OnePlus is building a spec monster for Q4 2026 with a 200MP camera, 9,000mAh battery, and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 SoC.

Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends

OnePlus has a habit of building flagships that make us genuinely excited, both for the specifications and the price at which they’re offered, then finding ways to complicate things.

The OnePlus 16 is shaping up to be yet another example of the same pattern, and an extreme one no less. It’s a device with specifications that look deliberately unreasonable, with bizarre availability rumors suggesting most of the world won’t be able to buy one.

Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends

What does the latest leak actually say?

The most recent batch of information comes from Chinese leaker Smart Pikachu (via Weibo ), who now claims the OnePlus 16 will sport a 185Hz refresh rate display, instead of the 240Hz figure that was circulated earlier .

That would be faster than anything that Apple or Samsung currently make, and even faster than the OnePlus…