OnePlus 5 sports fingerprint scanner on front; may include 3.5mm headphone jack

Placement of Fingerprint scanner

There were quite a lot of rumors surrounding the placement of fingerprint scanner on the new OnePlus 5 phone. As a confirmation to the realistic one, Liu Zuotu, CEO of OnePlus stated that the phone will have a fingerprint sensor placed on the front. He confirmed this on his Weibo account while answering to a comment.

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Phone will not ditch 3.5mm headphone jack

Apart from a sensor, there was also a confusion regarding the presence of audio jack on the device. Now, a new tweet by the Co-Founder of OnePlus, Carl Pei, speaks about the presence of 3.5mm headphone jack.

He hints that the audio jack may not be placed on the bottom panel like the OnePlus 3T. Though he did not directly mention the presence of audio jack, his explicit response in the twitter is making everyone to believe that they may not ditch it to follow the current trend.

Other rumors yet to be confirmed

Recently, the company has confirmed that the name of the upcoming OnePlus smartphone will not be OnePlus 4. This is another hint by the company that they may name it as OnePlus 5. 

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But there are few rumors which are still flowing online with so many confusions. According to those rumors, the phone will feature a dual-camera setup where the alignment of the cameras is not yet confirmed.

Some rumors do say that the phone will be packed with an 8GB of RAM which raised the eyebrows of many. This list keeps growing until OnePlus gets launched this summer as speculated.