The OnePlus 15 clears its final hurdle for a US launch – here's why we gave the flagship a rare five stars

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The OnePlus 15 clears its final hurdle for a US launch – here's why we gave the flagship a rare five stars News By David Nield published 28 November 2025

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The OnePlus 15 is coming to America (Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)

• The OnePlus 15 has just been approved by the FCC in the US
• That's the final step before it can be cleared to go on sale
• Our OnePlus 15 review recently gave the flagship a rare five-star rating

Open up our OnePlus 15 review, and you'll see we gave the phone a rare five-stars-out-of-five score: it's undoubtedly one of our favorite phones of the year, and it looks as though it's about to go on sale in the US too.

As spotted by Android Authority, the OnePlus 15 has now been approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US. That's the last major step for a gadget like this to take before it can actually go on sale.

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US availability for the OnePlus 15 has been promised since the smartphone was unveiled, so this isn't a surprise. But the recent US government shutdown meant that the paperwork for the OnePlus 15 got stuck in limbo.

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Pricing in the US will start at $899.99 for the black version of the OnePlus 15 with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. As yet OnePlus hasn't issued an official update, but we'd expect the smartphone to go on sale in the US very soon now.

A five-star phone

OxygenOS continues to impress (Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)

OnePlus has always made some of the best Android phones in the business, ever since the first one appeared in April 2014. Our OnePlus One review is still online, and you'll see we gave the phone 4.5 stars out of 5 at the time.

The OnePlus 15 that launched earlier this year earned full marks. We described it as "better than perfect", with the performance, battery life, and cameras all exceptionally good – three of the most important considerations when weighing up a phone.

It has a design that looks good as well: although it's not as flashy as some of its rivals, it has an understated charm of its own. The OxygenOS software continues to impress too, and is very much one of the better implementations of Android out there.

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Samsung tends to dominate when it comes to Android phone sales in the US, but we're glad to see OnePlus still releasing its handsets in the region – the OnePlus 15 earned a higher score than both the Samsung Galaxy S25 and the Google Pixel 10.

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Dave is a freelance tech journalist who has been writing about gadgets, apps and the web for more than two decades. Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you'll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.

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