The arrival of OnePlus' next flagship model in October has been hinted at and teased for months Finally, a OnePlus executive has officially confirmed that the OnePlus 13 will be launched in late October

OnePlus' Chinese president Li Jie Louis confirmed on Weibo (discovered by Android Authority) that the OnePlus 13 is coming and will feature “the latest Snapdragon flagship chip” Presumably, this processor will be Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, which will be available at the end of October

Li claims that the OnePlus 13 takes a “giant leap” in both performance release and overall smoothness, reaching heights never before seen in Android leaked Geekbench scores from September that were allegedly tested on the OnePlus 13, based on Tom's Guide benchmarks, showed strong scores competitive with Apple's new A18 chip

He also said that the new phone will feature Color OS 15, at least in China, which is no surprise there since OnePlus is based on ColorOS and features ColorOS in China instead of the internal Oxygen OS used elsewhere is not

In addition to the new Qualcomm system-on-chip, he claimed that the performance improvements are due to the new Tidal and Aurora engine technologies; the Tidal engine is said to offer better performance and the Aurora engine is said to offer smoother animation

Li said that the Tidal engine offers better performance and the Aurora engine offers smoother animation

Li did not give details on the specific release date of the OnePlus 13 or whether it will only be available in China when the device is officially announced

Qualcomm's annual Snapdragon Summit will take place October 21-23 Presumably, OnePlus will release the 13 after the summit