OnePlus has announced its latest flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 5T, its first phone to feature facial recognition, a rear fingerprint scanner and a larger screen.

The 5T is the Chinese company's seventh smartphone, an upgrade on its previous OnePlus 5 handset which was released over the summer but has now been discontinued by the company.

OnePlus founder Carl Pei unveiled the new smartphone at an event in New York. The phone maintains the company's "dash charge" from previous models, as well as its dual camera, while expanding its screen to a 6-inch display.

Unlike many smartphones which have seen prices hiked year-on-year, the OnePlus 5T maintains the same price of its previous model, starting at £449. The phone is set to be released on November 21.

OnePlus 5T features

The 5T comes six months after its previous model and keeps many of the same internal workings of the previous model. Both use a Snapdragon 835 processor, making the phone extremely fast, and operate on OnePlus's Oxygen OS, its take on Google's Android operating system.

The phone was teased on social media by the company ahead of its release today. Here are some of the key features: