Over the past few months, we’ve had something of an arms race over smartphone display brightness. This was kicked off by Apple, which announced with some pride that the iPhone 15 can hit 2,000 nits of brightness. Not to be outdone, Google promptly announced that the Pixel 8 Pro would reach 2,400 nits.
Now OnePlus has blown this out of the water with its newly announced OnePlus 12. The Chinese company says its phone will reach an eye-searing 4,500 nits of peak brightness, though it remains to be seen what its usual ‘sitting’ level is in everyday conditions.
