For a limited time, buy the OnePlus 13 and get a free OnePlus Watch 2

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OnePlus is holding yet different Back to School income lawsuit for its flagship phone, the OnePlus 13. Right now, if you acquisition either the 256GB oregon the 512GB OnePlus 13, you'll person a escaped OnePlus Watch 2 (normally $300) successful either Radiant Steel (gray) oregon Black Steel -- your choice. If you don't privation the wearable, you tin alternatively person a Wood Grain Magnetic Half-pack Case for free.

Be alert that the OnePlus Watch 2 acquisition has a strict 700-unit limit. Once each 700 smartwatches are gone, the institution won't beryllium giving immoderate much distant during the existent promotion. But you tin inactive drawback the case.

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Don't interest if you miss retired connected the escaped smartwatch. A OnePlus typical told america that "once supplies tally out," shoppers tin participate the codification "BACK2COLLEGE" astatine checkout and person a $100 discount connected the OnePlus 13. Adding the codification astatine the clip of this penning volition not little the price.

Although the codification won't work, it is imaginable to discount the OnePlus 13 done the company's trade-in program. You tin commercialized successful immoderate device, successful immoderate condition, and person a bully $100 discount. I should besides notation that the woody applies to each colour enactment for the OnePlus 13: Black Eclipse, Midnight Ocean (blue), and Arctic Dawn (white).

The OnePlus 13 is the company's latest flagship smartphone, and it's a top-notch instrumentality -- earning ZDNET's coveted Editors' Choice Award for April 2025. We praised the exemplary "because it nails each the fundamentals of a large smartphone acquisition portion starring the marketplace successful immoderate regards," ZDNET's Kerry Wan wrote successful his review.

It features the almighty Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, a 6,000mAh Silicon NanoStack battery, 80W accelerated charging, and a precocious absorption standing of IP69. This means the telephone is wholly sealed against particulate and tin past little submersion underwater. At a glance, this seems excessive, but according to Wan, "it's a payment that users volition admit erstwhile they slightest expect it".

OnePlus 13

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Photography is different country wherever the OnePlus 13 shines. Its triple-lens strategy captures bright, highly elaborate images, though post-processing tin make overly saturated pictures. I besides can't hide to notation the stylish design, which flaunts a vegan leather backing that makes the telephone visually striking and comfortable.

How I rated this deal

As per ZDNET's standing system, I springiness the basal woody a people of 3/5. When I accidental "base deal," I americium lone taking into relationship the escaped OnePlus Watch 2. Together, the telephone and wearable outgo $1,200, but this woody shaves disconnected $300. However, if you instrumentality vantage of the "trade successful immoderate device, immoderate condition" program, that people jumps up to a 4/5 since you'll beryllium redeeming $400 successful total.