Feed: Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics
Feed Link: https://www.engadget.com/
---

Title: OnePlus is replacing its Alert Slider with, yes, an AI button

Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 13:00:26 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/oneplus-is-replac...

OnePlus has revealed its artificial intelligence plans for its devices,
starting with the introduction of the Plus Key, which will replace the Alert
Slider. The Plus Key, like its predecessor, is a physical button that users
can customize to launch the camera, to initiate translations or to start
recording. More importantly, it launches the new AI Plus Mind feature, which
can record and recall information found on screen. When a user wants to take
note of important information such as schedules, event details, reservations
or listings, for instance, they can press the Plus Key to activate AI Plus
Mind and save those details. (Take note that the feature can extract details
from both images and texts.) Alternatively, they can swipe up on the screen
with three fingers.

What AI Plus Mind does is save relevant content to a dedicated Mind Space,
where users can browse various information that they've saved. Users can then
search for the detail they want to find using natural language queries. Both
the Plus Key and the AI Plus Mind will debut on the OnePlus 13s in Asia. AI
Plus Mind will roll out to the rest of the OnePlus 13 Series devices through
a future software update, while all future OnePlus phone will come with the
new physical key. Notably, the new button and feature bear similarities to
Nothing's physical Essential Key that can also save information inside the
Essential Space app. Nothing was founded by Carl Pei who co-founded OnePlus.

The company is also developing several tools for the OnePlus AI, including AI
VoiceScribe that enables users to "record, summarize and translate calls and
meetings directly within popular messaging, video, and online meeting
applications." AI Translation will consolidate the brand's translation
capabilities via text, live voice, camera and screen into one app, sort of
like Google Translate. AI Search will enable natural language queries to
search for local files and notes. Meanwhile, AI Best Face 2.0, which is
coming this summer, can correct issues like closed eyes in group photos.

OnePlus

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/ai/oneplus-is-replac...
ai-button-130026087.html?src=rss

---
VRSS v2.1.180528