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OnePlus CEO hints that the OnePlus 5 will come with UFS storage
August 11, 2025
OnePlusCEO Pete Lau (Liu Zuohu) has hinted that theOnePlus 5may arrive with UFS storage on social media websiteWeibo. In a message posted yesterday from a OnePlus 5 device, Lau joked about how UFS storage had “become a selling point” of flagship phones.
While this isn’t confirmation that UFS storage would appear in the OnePlus 5, the OnePlus team, of course, know that their social postings are being watched eagerly as we run up to the OnePlus 5’s official launch next week. Following Lau’s post, if the OnePlus 5didn’tcome with UFS storage, fans would likely cry foul, and OnePlus has already lost favor with the community recently when it revealed that it wouldn’t upgrade theOnePlus 2 to Android Nougat(despite that it has only received one major Android update).
Further, OnePlus is expected to increase the price of the OnePlus 5 compared to its previous devices (one of our sources hassaid as much), so it seems pretty likely that UFS is in store rather than the less capable eMMC storage. We would also expect UFS 2.1 to be in keeping with the powerful 8 GB of RAM and Snapdragon 835 chip combination that has been speculated.
BothSamsungandHuaweihave been caught out recently for claiming their smartphones house UFS 2.1 when they were arriving with a cheaper alternative. OnePlus, meanwhile,admittedto “rigging” benchmark results earlier this year to try and make its OnePlus 3 and 3T flagships appear more capable than they are. With this in mind, fans and critics alike are going to be keeping a keen eye on what OnePlus claims about its new flagship handset, and what the reality is.
For more on whatUFS memoryis capable of, hit the link, and go here foreverything we know so far about the OnePlus 5.
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