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True wireless earphones might be all the craze these days when it comes to personal audio, but the older neckband-style form factor remains popular even today. Among the most significant brands in this segment is undoubtedly OnePlus, with its iconic Bullets Wireless range of earphones having ruled the segment just when Bluetooth was reaching a point of affordability and practicality. Interestingly, OnePlus is still among the few major proponents of the neckband form factor, and recently launched the Bullets Wireless Z2 ANC in India.

Since launching the first Nord Buds about a year ago, OnePlus has been constantly releasing new models of its TWS almost twice a year. The clear and present theme has always been about offering better value by incrementally adding new features, which in a way, ends up justifying its changing price. OnePlus did the same with its recently launched Nord Buds 2 (Review), which added active noise cancellation (ANC) to its feature set with a slightly hiked price of Rs. 2,999 in India (up from the previous Rs. 2,799).

The OnePlus Nord 3 5G has officially launched as a successor to the Nord 2T (Review) in India. The new Nord flagship gets massive upgrades on paper over the model it replaces. OnePlus has packed MediaTek's flagship-series SoC and a primary camera sensor from the OnePlus 11 (Review). The Nord 3 continues to offer SuperVOOC charging, a beefy battery and a 120Hz display. However, the upgrades do come with an increase in cost over the outgoing model.