UPDATE: OnePlus has now confirmed the OnePlus 10R will launch in India on 28 April with same design as OnePlus Ace. Renders of the device have also appeared on Twitter.

OnePlus has been in the news a lot recently. The company has announced an event on 28 April where it is expected to reveal three phones - including the OnePlus 10R, though there will be another event in China before that date.

The company confirmed via Chinese blogging site Weibo that the OnePlus Ace will launch on 21 April and it also revealed some official images of the device. Following this announcement, OnePlus confirmed the OnePlus 10R would launch on 28 April and again showed off some images, with the designs the same.

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If you've been paying attention to the OnePlus news recently, you might be a little confused. The images of the OnePlus Ace look identical to the images said to be the OnePlus 10R.

Sharing very similar rumoured specs, there's been a lot of deliberation as to whether these two devices are in fact the same device but with different names. It now appears the two devices will have the same shell but different names for different regions. The OnePlus Ace will launch in China first - as OnePlus has confirmed - and it will then launch in India under the OnePlus 10R a week later at the 28 April event.

The official images - and those leaked on Twitter - of the OnePlus Ace and OnePlus 10R show a prominent camera housing in the top left corner with a large sensor at the top and two smaller sensors below. Some of the rear is ridged and the edges are flat. No alert slider is shown in the images and there's no headphone jack either, but black and blue variants are shown.

OnePlus previously confirmed the device would run on the MediaTek 8100 chipset and it is also expected to offer 150W fast charging, which is a pretty big upgrade on the OnePlus 10 Pro.

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Other rumoured specifications include a 6.7-inch Full HD+ display with a 120Hz refresh rate. The triple rear camera is said to be made up for a 50-megapixel main sensor, coupled with an 8-megapixel sensor and 2-megapixel sensor. The front is said to be a 16-megapixel sensor.

According to the Weibo post, the OnePlus Ace will launch in China on 21 April at 7PM local time, which is 12PM BST, so watch this space for the official information. For the 28 April event, you can read our how to watch feature for more information.