There will be no OnePlus 4, or at least that's what the latest information tells us. The company would simply give up said name to go on to present its next flagship as OnePlus 5. In addition to this, it seems that it will have a design similar to that of the Xiaomi Mi MIX.
OnePlus 5
The OnePlus 4 might never make it to the smartphone market. Instead, the OnePlus 5. A priori, some users might think that this is because the OnePlus 3S has been launched, which would act as OnePlus 4. But it would not be so much this as the fact that the 4 is considered as the number of bad luck in Asia, and that is why we have already seen how this number has been avoided by the large manufacturers.
For example, the internal name of one of the great Samsung mobiles was modified for this very reason, and before it also happened with the Live V5, which was called like this because it was not called Vivo V4, coming from the Vivo V3. Let us also bear in mind that Vivo, Oppo and OnePlus belong to the same company, BBK Electronics, so it would not be strange that the same criteria were applied to this mobile.
Actually, this would not be relevant, because the mobile it will not be different from what that supposed OnePlus 4 would be which we had talked about before, and that would arrive in the middle of next year, with a processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 and with high-end features.
Ceramic design like the Xiaomi Mi MIX
Another of the data that has also recently arrived with respect to this mobile has to do with the design that it will have, and it seems that the manufacturing material of the new OnePlus 5 will be the same as that of the Xiaomi Mi MIX, being therefore ceramic, and leaving behind other materials such as metal or glass. Ceramic gives it a pretty good look, while maintaining a very high level of resistance. It seems that the supplier of the ceramic housing for the OnePlus 5 would be the same as that of the Xiaomi Mi MIX, therefore the use of this material for the manufacture of smartphones is a good business for said company. Be that as it may, it is worth wondering If the OnePlus 5 will also stand out for dispensing with bezels. However, considering the limitations of this design, and the fact that the company launches little more than one mobile per year, it may not be a very smart bet.