I have the new OnePlus 8 Pro here.
I've also got the new regular OnePlus 8, but i have been reviewing the OnePlus 8 Pro. So hey what's up guys I am your mohammed farooq. Welcome you all again.
I used to be close to say it is a great little phone, but this is often not a touch phone. this is often an excellent , big phone.
Anyway, as i have been reviewing the 8 Pro, I keep brooding about what we expect with OnePlus phones now, because the list is getting pretty long. We expect great screens, decent battery life, fast charging.
So tons of what I'm gonna find yourself talking about are the items you would possibly not have expected from OnePlus, which on this phone is wire less charging and IP68 water resistance.
Also, you never know what to expect with OnePlus when it involves the cameras, so we're gonna mention that tons too. One thing you always expect from OnePlus may be a relatively low price, and OnePlus remains undercutting Samsung with this phone, but it's a starting price of $899, which suggests that the 8 Pro is quite an upscale device.
If you are looking for something a touch bit less costly but still new, take a glance at OnePlus8, which starts at $699.
Anyway, the thing about OnePlus is there's always very,very high expectations for these phones, and therefore the question about the 8 Pro is, can it meet them? So real quick, I wanna talk about the things that you simply could expect from a flagship phone in 2020, including from a flagship OnePlus phone.
If that they had screwed any of this up, we'd really call 'em out, but they didn't, so we will run through it really fast.
Build Quality
First is build quality, i feel the build quality during this thing is basically great. I already mentioned that it's IP68 water resistance. I also love this type of translucent matte back on the rear here.
The screen, of course, covers almost the whole front of it. it's extremely fast, it's a Snapdragon 865 with either eight or 12 Gigs of RAM, or 128 or 256 of storage.
One thing I do wanna call out, though, is i actually do like OxygenOS, which is OnePlus's customversion of Android, and that is because the things that they add on top of Android is typically just there to regulate the phone itself or to regulate the special features that OnePlus does. it isn't there to undertake and obtain you locked in to another random ecosystem that you simply don't care about.
Let's talk advance features .
Now, one thing you haven't always been ready to expect out of OnePlus phones may be a great screen. But they solved that with in the last few years and this year with the OnePlus 8 Pro, they only knocked it out of the park. this is often a tremendous screen. It is 6.78 inches, which is honestly too big on behalf of me , but if you wish big phones, you'll likely be proud of it.
They did a hole clock in the corner, which I actually prefer because it doesn't have weird mechanical stuff with the pop-up selfie camera.
The bezels are very, very tiny with in the top and therefore the bottom and it wraps around to the left and the right. But the large news, of course, is that it's a 120Hz refresh rate, if you would like it, and you actually want it, because any phone during this class must have a high refresh rate screen. It makes scrolling such a lot nicer looking.
The animations are smoother, everything is best at a120Hz, highly recommend it. One thing OnePlus allows you to do this Samsung doesn't is use that 120Hz at its full resolution 1440 by 3168. And you'll roll in the day , but it'll definitely hurt your battery life, so I kind a recommend you do not . i have been leaving this at1080 about half the time and that i haven't noticed that big successful and i have definitely noticed the improved battery life.
OnePlus is additionally really pleased with the colour accuracy on this screen, i feel it's pretty good. They even have added someother weird features, like there is a motion smoothing feature for videos inside Netflix or inside Amazon Prime, which sounds awful because motion smoothing is certainly awful on your television, on the phone though it actually didn't offend me quite the maximum amount , and i am unsure why. Anyway, i like to recommend you allow it off also, because I also noticed successful on the battery life once I had it turned on.
Now, another thing that we were expecting, because we saw all of the leaks, is that this is often the very first OnePlus phone to support wireless charging, so we'll put it on the charger and ba-da-da-da, it's charging wirelessly, hurray. It'll work with any standard Qi charging pad, it'll also do reverse wireless charging. But the large new thing is that this charger right here, which costs 70 bucks, by the way, it's a vent and a lover , it's their Warp Charger and it can charge wirelessly at 30 watts, which is incredibly fast for wireless charging.
They assert it can go from zero to 50% during a half an hour and that i tested it, and it does, it charges up half way in half an hour, whichis pretty impressive. Now this is often the part where I wish I could tell you what to expect when it involves battery life, but it varies really,really widely on this phone counting on what you're doing with it.
It's got a 4510-milliamp hour battery, but you'll activate the complete 1440 resolution, you'll turn 120Hz display, you'll activate an ambient display, you'll activate the motion smoothing if you're watching a bunch of video. you'll do all kinds of stuff to only destroy this battery if you would like to. If you switch a bunch of stuff off, you'll get through a full day, and that i have, and if you turned it all on, you'll crush it in like four or five hours, which I even have . i feel that I'm confident in saying that this thing can last a full day. However, I'm not confident enough to mention that the battery life is stellar.
Now, when it involves camera
I actually never know what to expect out of OnePlus. Some years they're trash, some years they're pretty good. But this year with the OnePlus 8 Pro, I'm actually expecting tons , because again, this phone starts at 900 bucks and that i think that OnePlus mostly delivers.
There's like one situation where it is a problem, but let's just get into it. the most sensor is 48 megapixels, but it defaults to 12 megapixels,which is that the right call, it's technically employing a new Sony sensor.
there's a zoom lens ,which has, quote unquote, lossless up to 3X starts to be okay then at 10X which really falls down then . then there's an ultra wide sensor, and that i actually give OnePlus a lot of credit on this one, because they're using the sensor from last year's 7T, which suggests that the ultrawide features a far better sensor than ultra wides usually get, and i am getting good results as a result.
I feel the ultra wide is pretty good. Also, there's a color filter camera, if you wanna do weird color filter effects without post-processing, i do not know who asked for that. i do not know why it's there. Let's just talk results. So on the most sensor, I'm pretty proud of dynamic range, I'm pretty proud of color, and i am also really,really proud of detail. i really like using this phone for macro photos too.
You'll get pretty close and obtain really, really fine detail there also . you'll shoot 4K 30 video with their super steady stabilization thing turned on.
But again if you actually wanna shoot video with a smartphone, i feel your best bet remains an iPhone 11 Pro.
Now, when it involves night mode, i used to be actually very impressed with this thing. It held its own up against a Pixel 4, iPhone 11 Pro, or a Galaxy S20, didn't expect that out of this phone. So, everything is great, but there's that oneplace where it falls down, and weirdly, it's in like dimlighting, not super-low light, but like twilight kinda dark kinda yellow lighting. And here's what happens.
Therefore the OnePlus 8 Pro wants to try to what tons of phones wanna do, which is slightly brighten faces, trying to form them more even, and also smooth the mout just a touch bit. I do not like that considerably , but it's fine in most lighting conditions you cannot really tell, except for some reason indim lighting condition, this phone's worst tendencies just get multiplied, it makes my face way too bright, way too smooth, it over smooths, it's quite ,well, it's quite a bummer.
Portrait mode is ok , it's portrait mode, it's about what I expected here. Basically, overall, if they will fix that dim lighting issue, they might hit sort of a solid B-plus or could also be even an A-minus on this thing. They're just almost there. i do not know if they are doing this anymore, but once I was in grammar school , we didn't get grades, we got these weird report cards that said, doesn't meet, meet, or exceeds expectations. that is what I wanna do with the OnePlus 8 Pro, I'm gonna provides it a meet expectations, not an exceeds, but that's because my expectations were so high.
Conclusion
They're charging 900 bucks for this thing, and let's be honest, the Galaxy S20 Plus is gonna be discounted to about this price all of the time, which suggests that OnePlus doesn't get free passes anymore when it involves quality or the amount of features that it offers during this zone, and fortunately the OnePlus 8Pro has all those features, and it's the standard . this is often a really , excellent phone that basically isn't missing any premium features. It just needs a touch bit more work on the camera, because hey, it's OnePlus,what else did you expect? So guys comment down is that this mobile is basically good.
