You can see it in the marketing: one of the biggest things that manufacturers try to market their phones with are the cameras. We're getting professional-grade cameras in our pockets these days, and with how image-based social media has become, it's important that your phone can capture and edit photos well.
Speaking of editing, we've all been in situations where a single thing ruins a photo. If only we could magically get rid of that one element of the picture. AI-based object erasers aren't new, but OnePlus is going to be releasing its variant, AI Eraser, in this quarter of the year.
OnePlus' AI Eraser Has The Right Technical Jargon To Convince You It'll Do Its Job
AI features are the big thing on phones these days, and if you're trying to release a flagship device without any degree of AI infusion in 2024, you're fighting an uphill battle. It's no surprise that OnePlus is marketing some features on their smartphones with the word “AI”, and the AI Eraser is one of those.
Expected to be released for select OnePlus devices, this feature is basically like Object Eraser on your Samsung Galaxy phone or Magic Eraser on your Google Pixel. Whatever the name, these erasers do the same thing. They help you remove unwanted objects and people from photos you take on your smartphone. Under normal circumstances, this would be hard to achieve through traditional editing software.
When using OnePlus's AI Eraser feature, the phone's “advanced visual understanding” of photos will allow it to remove unwanted objects in your pictures and replace the spot they were in with “contextually appropriate elements” simply by tapping or circling. OnePlus says they made it this easy because of their “user-centric design philosophy”, though everyone else makes it easy and it wouldn't be as appealing to use if it wasn't.
Only Some OnePlus Smartphones Are Going To Get This
OnePlus has said that its AI Eraser feature will be coming to its smartphones in Q2 of 2024, which we've just happened to enter. It will begin to roll out to most regions this month, but Q2 2024 is the only information given for Europe. That leaves any day within a huge three-month window for the feature to decide to roll out, though it'll hopefully be soon.
However, unless you're using one of the recent OnePlus flagship devices, you won't be fortunate enough to have this feature. It'll only be coming to the following:
- OnePlus 12
- OnePlus 12R
- OnePlus Open
- OnePlus 11
This list is pretty interesting, for multiple reasons. Sure, it's no surprise that the OnePlus 12 and 12R, the latest flagships from the company, will be getting this privilege. It's also not too shocking to see the OnePlus Open and OnePlus 11 on this list if we're keeping it a buck. But where's the OnePlus 11R?
That's a good question. The major difference will likely be the chipset at play since the OnePlus 11 and 11R have the same base configuration (8GB/128GB). The problem has got to be the chipset, as the OnePlus 11 (and the Open) runs on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, but the 11R goes for a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. That's not a shabby chip, but perhaps there's something it's missing that makes it impossible for the AI Eraser to work.
