India R&D centre will be our largest such facility by 2022: OnePlus

Chinese smartphone company OnePlus' India R&D facility is making a significant contribution, especially in software development, and is poised to become its largest research facility globally by 2022, a top company executive said.

The R&D facility, set up in Hyderabad a year ago by the premium smartphone player, has over 300 employees.

"Our R&D facility in India is already playing a crucial role for OnePlus by establishing itself as a global R&D base for the brand, particularly from the software development front, with contributions towards global markets as well, including European Union and North America markets," OnePlus Vice President R&D India Ramagopala Reddy told PTI.

He said the India R&D team had worked on product innovation and software development for its OnePlus 8 Series and OnePlus Nord devices as well.

These include efforts towards camera software development, OxygenOS optimisations, UX/UI (user experience/user interface) design efforts, network ..