OnePlus brings a 90Hz smartphone to the US for $180

OnePlus is finally bringing its new, cheaper "Nord" line to the US over the next two weeks, complete with actual US prices. The most interesting is the OnePlus Nord N100, a $180 phone that comes with a 90Hz display, a pretty incredible price point considering some companies still sell $1100 smartphones that only have 60Hz displays.

That 90Hz display for a super low price sounds neat but comes with a lot of caveats. First of all, this is a 720p 90Hz display, second, it's an LCD instead of the usual OLED. But hey, for $180 you have to make some sacrifices in the name of speed.

The full N100 specs are a 6.52-inch, 1600×720 90Hz LCD, a Snapdragon 460 (That's an 11nm, eight-core SoC with four 1.8GHz Cortex-A73 CPUs and four 1.8GHz A53s), 4GB of RAM, 64GB of UFS 2.1 storage, and a nice-sized 5000mah battery. The phone has a rear capacitive fingerprint reader, a USB-C port, a headphone jack, a MicroSD slot, and stereo speakers. Sadly there's no NFC, and with an LCD, you won't be getting an always-on display mode. Also at this price point, you can also forget about fancy extras like water resistance or wireless charging.

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