OnePlus Ace 7 and Ace 7 Pro: Cooling Fans, 185Hz, 9,000mAh

OnePlus has launched the Ace 7 and Ace 7 Pro in China, a pair of gaming phones built around a piece of hardware you almost never find inside a smartphone: a cooling fan. Both models pair that fan with a 185Hz display and a 9,000mAh battery, and they went on sale in China on November 3.

Key specs: 6.78-inch 1.5K LTPO AMOLED display (165Hz in normal use, 185Hz in supported games), Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in the Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 V Series in the standard Ace 7, 200MP main camera with OIS, 9,000mAh Glacier battery with 100W SuperVOOC charging, built-in dual-path cooling fan, IP66/IP68/IP69/IP69K ratings, and ColorOS 17 based on Android 17.

A fan inside the phone

The headline feature is OnePlus’s dual-path Ice River cooling system, which puts a small fan inside the body with two airflow channels: one blows directly over the chipset, the other across the inside of the rear panel so the back stays cooler in the hand. The fan draws air through a vent built into the camera island, which OnePlus calls the Storm Island intake — you can see the grille beside the lenses in the official images. OnePlus claims the system can lower chip temperatures by up to 10°C during long gaming sessions, though that is the company’s own figure and has not been independently tested.

Both phones also support bypass charging, which feeds power straight to the components while gaming instead of routing it through the battery, cutting heat and wear on the cell. A dedicated temperature sensor decides when the fan spins up.

Built for high-refresh gaming

The 6.78-inch display is a 1.5K LTPO AMOLED panel (2,772 x 1,272) co-developed with BOE. It runs at up to 165Hz for everyday use and pushes to 185Hz in supported games, with up to 2,000 nits of peak brightness and 3,840Hz PWM dimming. OnePlus says the phones held an average of 184.9 frames per second in Peacekeeper Elite and Delta Force at 185fps in its own testing, with peak temperatures of 38.7°C and 40.2°C — again, the company’s lab numbers, not independent results.

Under the screen, the Pro runs the full Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, while the standard Ace 7 uses the slightly cut-down V Series version of the same chip. Both get OnePlus’s Wind-Chaser gaming core plus dedicated T3 touch, G3 network and P4 display chips, up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.1 storage, and an ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor.

Cameras: this is where the two split

Both phones share a 200MP main camera with optical image stabilisation. The Pro adds a 50MP periscope telephoto with 3.5x optical zoom, while the standard Ace 7 gets an 8MP ultra-wide instead — and the Pro has no ultra-wide at all. A 16MP camera sits on the front of both. The Pro also records 4K video at up to 120fps and 8K at 30fps.

Each phone comes in three finishes: black and white, plus a gradient option — the Ace 7’s orange-toned Tempered finish and the Pro’s blue-white Windbreaker finish. The phones weigh between 217g and 225g depending on the finish.

Battery and charging

The 9,000mAh Glacier battery is the same in both models, paired with 100W SuperVOOC wired charging. OnePlus claims up to seven hours of gaming at 185fps or 24 hours of video playback from a charge, based on its own lab testing. There is no mention of wireless charging.

Prices and availability

The OnePlus Ace 7 starts at CNY 4,399 (about $655) and the Ace 7 Pro at CNY 4,799 (about $715), both for 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The Pro tops out at CNY 7,299 for 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. Both went on sale in China on November 3 through the OPPO online store.

OnePlus has not announced a launch outside China. Unconfirmed reports suggest the Pro could form the basis of a future OnePlus 16R for India, but the company has said nothing about that, and past R-series phones have not always kept the Ace hardware intact — so buyers outside China should wait for an official announcement. The OnePlus 15, by contrast, is already going global.