OnePlus Open

The OnePlus Open is an ultra-premium, cutting-edge folding smartphone that represents the absolute pinnacle of current mobile engineering. Starting at around ZAR 35,000 in South Africa, it commands a luxury price tag to match its status as a top-tier foldable powerhouse—meaning its local distribution is highly exclusive and specialized.

Realities of Local Availability & Retail Footprint

While a starting price of ZAR 35,000 places it firmly in the luxury tech bracket, its retail presence in South Africa is targeted strictly at premium consumer tech channels.

Because this is a highly advanced, niche folding device rather than a mass-market phone, it is absolutely not distributed through value clothing stores, budget supermarkets, or mainstream mass-market retailers like PEP, Ackermans, Mr Price, Foschini, or Game. You will also generally not find it on standard display shelves at entry-level cellular shops. Instead, you can source this premium foldable through specific online marketplaces, high-end electronics hubs, and specialized tech importers:

• Major Online Outlets: Takealot and premier specialized mobile importing networks (such as Connected Devices, Zeek Online, or GeeWiz).

• Specialist Electronics & Cellular Hubs: Select premium branches of Cellucity, Makro, HiFi Corp, 4U, and Chatz.

• Mobile Network Providers: Available predominantly through select high-tier, premium MTN contract packages.

Next-Gen Features: What Your ZAR 35,000 Buys

Instead of digging through a dense specification table, here is a breakdown of the groundbreaking hardware that justifies the luxury price tag of the OnePlus Open:

• Revolutionary Dual Displays: On the outside, it features a fully usable 6.31-inch smartphone display. Unfold it, and you are greeted by a massive, stunning 7.82-inch Flexi-fluid AMOLED inner tablet screen with a virtually invisible crease and a smooth 120Hz refresh rate.

• Uncompromised Flagship Power: It cuts through heavy workloads with the high-performance Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, paired with a massive 16GB of physical RAM and 512GB of ultra-fast storage, making it built for intensive multitasking and desktop-grade productivity.

• Next-Gen Hasselblad Foldable Cameras: Co-developed with iconic camera brand Hasselblad, it boasts a revolutionary 48MP “Pixel Stacked” Sony main sensor, a 48MP ultra-wide lens, and a powerful 64MP periscope telephoto lens capable of 3x optical zoom and 6x lossless zoom—shattering the stereotype that folding phones have weaker cameras.

• Open Canvas Multitasking: Built specifically for the massive inner screen, the software allows you to run up to three desktop-sized apps simultaneously, seamlessly moving and resizing them across the display for unprecedented mobile productivity.

• Slim, Lightweight Titanium Craftsmanship: Despite being a massive folding device, it is incredibly thin (just 5.8mm when unfolded) and remarkably light at 239 grams, utilizing aerospace-grade materials like titanium, carbon fiber, and a proprietary cobalt-molybdenum alloy hinge.