OnePlus will make it easier to use your phone in the rain

Many smartphones today come out with IP water resistance, so you won’t have to worry about the phone getting caught in the rain. However, if you’re trying to use your phone in a downpour, it’s still pretty tedious. Well, OnePlus has a new technology called Rain Water Touch, and it will let you use your phone in the rain.

The issue here isn’t with water ingress; the issue is that when you’re using your phone while the screen is wet, the phone can get confused and think that you’re touching it. Because of that, you’ll see random inputs on the screen where you’re not touching it. This can even prevent the phone from picking up your input altogether.

With Rain Water Touch, OnePlus plans to fix this

OnePlus posted a video on Chinese microblogging site Weibo, (via Android Police) and it showcases the upcoming OnePlus Ace 2 Pro standing next to an iPhone. Then, we see water jets being blasted at both phones. This is to simulate a harsh downpour of rain.

While both of the phones are being doused, the testers were able to use the OnePlus phone with no issue at all. The iPhone, on the other hand, suffered the same issues that capacitive touch screens have been going through.

OnePlus achieved this through the use of a proprietary chip. Alongside the main SoC, this chip, along with some algorithms, makes sure that the phone doesn’t register random touch inputs when the screen is wet.

This isn’t only an advertisement for the chip, we also get a glimpse of the upcoming OnePlus Ace 2 Pro. This phone, among other things, is the handset that’s going to bring a whopping 24GB of RAM. That’s the kind of spec you’d expect to see in a computer; and a pretty good one at that.

OnePlus is set to announce this new phone in the next couple of days, so you’ll want to stay tuned for more information on it.