OnePlus is out with its first phone as an Asia-only tech brand. The OnePlus 16, with the inclusion of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, Qualcomm's chip that keeps pace with the iPhone 18 Pro , is one of several next-gen stunners out in China right now. At a glance, the phone has a vibrant 6.78-inch 185Hz OLED display, a 9,000mAh battery with 100W wired charging, multiple 50MP cameras as well as a 200MP main camera, and up to 16GB of LPDDR5X Ultra RAM (no sign of the LPDDR5X Ultra+ RAM that was optioned for the OnePlus 15 last year) along with UFS 4.1 storage. All this raises the question of whether any good equivalents are out right now.

Powered by the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 (separate from the standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6), Vivo-owned iQOO has released both the iQOO 16 phone and an iQOO Pad Ultra, while Xiaomi has unveiled the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max. We're likely not going to see those phones come to the United States.…