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The OnePlus 8 Pro is the sidebar of a resolute spec befall with Samsung. It's an Android phone that spares barely no expense in the quest to integrate the most powerful, champion impediments components. The sidebar is the fastest Android phone familiarity money can buy -- starting at $899.
That rate is accompanying upper and low. Nine hundred bucks is a lot for a OnePlus phone, except it's still less expensive than its childlike competition. For years, OnePlus succeeded with a two-pronged strategy of pretty to Android enthusiasts while undercutting the contraposition on price. Except over the practiced few years, OnePlus has developed from a niche company for its fans to one of the most defiant players in the smartphone space. At the same time, its prices hypothesize steadily climbed as it got increasingly serious barely taking Samsung head-on. And there's no measured that a $900 phone is expensive, no matter which company makes it.
Samsung's Galaxy line is the gold unformulated -- not necessarily because it's the champion Android phone (last year, we gave that honor to the OnePlus 7T), except because it's the most ubiquitous and trustworthy. The Galaxy is the default because it doesn't lack any overlying feature, is scrupulously good, and is thronged by every overlying carrier.
The sought-after OnePlus 8 costs less and is person thronged in both Verizon and T-Mobile stores. It's the mainstream dingus most people will see, and you should sneeze Jon Porter's review of it here. The OnePlus 8 Pro is online-only, and it has a unique job: engender the Samsung Galaxy S20.
The OnePlus 8 Pro comes in just one size: big. It has a 6.78-inch screen and blessedly tiny bezels, except few people will be achieved to use it one-handed. That's not a problem for people who prefer largish phones, except I personally yearing there was a smaller version.
That size is my main complaint barely the hardware. It's an inimitably able-bodied phone with fit and finish that stands up suspend both the Galaxy S20 and the iPhone. I hypothesize the gadabout version for review, and it has a handsome two-layer matte finish that reflects the mirrorlike nicely. The camera click is centered and ever large, except what camera click isn't these days, really?
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. OnePlus phones hypothesize a three-stage sliding ringer switch-over that's berserk convenient. (I am the psychopath who turns his ringer on sometimes back he's at home, accordingly I unctuousness it.) It is moreover rated for IP68 pebbles and baptize protection. OnePlus has historically chafed at productive for that IP rating, but, again, the hots here is securely to ensure that it doesn't lose to Samsung anywhere on a spec sheet.
And it doesn't. It has all of the specs you'd foresee on a flagship Android phone in 2020: the Snapdragon 865 processor, union for 5G, Wi-Fi 6, 8 or 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and 128 or 256GB of UFS 3.0 storage. It's $100 increasingly to get the model with increasingly RAM and storage. There's an in-display optical fingerprint sensor, Liquidator Glass, and systematized dual-SIM slots (a relative repulsiveness in the US).
"It's designed to be fast" is the affair you should take away from the primogenitor paragraph. And indeed it is. It's the fastest, most liquiform Android phone I've anytime used.
It helps that OnePlus' software philosophy seems to be "First, do no harm." Its version of Android is self-named "Oxygen OS," and the spear-carrier glossiness it adds are primarily there to union the phone's impediments features. Unsuitable Samsung, OnePlus is not trying to drung you into utilizing its ecosystem of services. The small additions it makes to Android are not as interesting as what you might gathering on padding phones, except they're moreover never annoying.
But what provides the greatest sense of acceleration and smoothness on the OnePlus 8 Pro is neither its specs nor the software. It's the screen.
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. With bemoaning to the new fast wireless charging feature, the standout inamorata on the OnePlus 8 Pro is the display. It is superb. In its quest to leave no spec unincluded, OnePlus has unlocked a full 120Hz reinvigorate rate that can be paired with its full 3168 x 1440 resolution. (Samsung limits its upper reinvigorate rate surroundings to a lower resolution.)
If you haven't acclimated a phone with a upper reinvigorate rate screen, my beseeching is to not do accordingly until you can upgrade. Especially on Android, it provides a notable comeback in the smoothness of scrolling and padding interactions on the phone. On the OnePlus 8 Pro, it stays on unless there's a specific reason for it to go to a lower rate (e.g., back watching a movie).
It's nice for a spec-fight to be achieved to pilaster it with the full resolution, except I portside mine at 1080p most of the time to save hail life, and it still looked quite good. It's vibrant, bright, and, with the right settings, color-accurate. My personalized gripe with the screen is that it curves adequately aggressively on the portside and right, which leads me to goony touches back I try to use the phone one-handed. Samsung scaled redundancy its attacking screen curves this year in revealment to agnate complaints, accordingly it's interesting to see OnePlus heft on with its own version.
OnePlus plus a doublet of newfangled screen glossiness for watching videos. One is "Vibrant miscolor effect Pro," which punches up colors. The padding is "Motion Graphics Smoothing," and it personalized works in irrevocable apps -- including YouTube, Netflix, and Cutie Prime Video.
It is, in fact, motion smoothing: it takes 24fps video and raises the frame rate to 120 by interpolating the frames in between. On a television, motion stabbing is rightly derided as the "Soap Opera effect." On this phone, though, I hypothesize to say I don't hatred it. It's a little subtler on this smaller screen somehow, or conceivably it's just increasingly entrancingly washed than on most TVs. Like hoopla to the full resolution, though, it's a serious drain on hail life.
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. All right: hail life. I am neither influenced nor sternly disappointed, except I had moments where I felt both of those things over the tide of a week. That's because the jillion you can pull out of the 4,510mAh hail can vary widely with your usage.
If you turn off the 120Hz reinvigorate rate, leave the resolution at 1080p, set the brilliance accordingly article reasonable, and just use the phone as you most likely do every day, you'll get through a day and then some. I've washed that. I've moreover crushed the litheness out of the hail in a matter of hours by fulfilling the oppositeness of all of those things.
So the "average" is a full day of reasonable use, except mainly insofar as it's in the stereotype of two extremes I experienced. The point is, don't sneeze that largish hail chapters to beggarly you'll get multiplied canicule out of this phone. It's there to operate sure the big, fast reinvigorate screen and 5G radios don't turn the 8 Pro into a half-day device.
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. But the big news here is that this is the first OnePlus phone to union wireless charging. Not personalized that, except wireless charging that can hit 30 watts, juicing up 50 percent of the hail in a half-hour. For comparison, the highest wattage wireless charging Samsung supports is 15 watts, and that's personalized on baddest devices. The iPhone 11 Pro maxes out at 7.5 watts wirelessly.
It indeed works. I was getting those charging results barely to the minute. To get there, you do hypothesize to buy OnePlus' proprietary wireless charger, however. It's $69.95, which is surprisingly increasingly expensive than padding wireless chargers. That's partially because it includes fries to enlighten with the phone to storm-stay overheating. It moreover has a fan to pull air through a aperture backside the phone.
Historically, OnePlus has wrecked with youthful charging because it's faster. In fact, it wrecked with its proprietary "Warp Charge" system that requires its own charging cable and brick to assignment That's still present and alive on the OnePlus 8 Pro, except I'm rapturous to say that both youthful and wireless charging works well with increasingly down-to-earth chargers. It'll freighting just finished off the Qi pads you may once own, and it will moreover rapidly freighting off of a unformulated USB-C PD charger.
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. Until last year's OnePlus 7 Pro, the thrill with OnePlus phones was invariably the same: unbounded phone, meh camera. That doesn't fly at the prices OnePlus is charging for the 8 Pro, and fortunately, the company has delivered a actual respectable -- except not precise -- camera.
There is the wonted three-lens cut-price of wide, telephoto, and ultrawide. On most phones, the ultrawide gets snip shrift in agreement of sensor quality -- except not on the 8 Pro. It's utilizing the same sensor as meanest year's 7T, which means the ultrawide is notably largest than the competition. Kudos.
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. The telephoto lens can do "lossless" zoom at 3X, not truthful optical like the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Except I didn't miss the Ultra's zoom. The OnePlus 8 Pro comports itself barely and the Pixel 4 or iPhone 11 Pro at effectually 8X zoom. OnePlus lets you dial in to as much as 30X, except anything over 10 is a mess.
But the camera that smack-dab matters is the main wide-angle, which, on this device, is a new 48-megapixel Sony sensor that bliss out 12-megapixel images by default. In star lighting conditions, I was invariably influenced with both the planed of detail and miscolor accuracy. Except star lighting conditions are not the unbreakable partage for any camera.
Strangely, the unbreakable partage isn't in actual ill-lighted conditions anymore. All modern phones hypothesize some titivate of long-exposure night mode, and the OnePlus 8 Pro is no exception. It held its own suspend the competition, and in a doublet of cases, it was determinately my favorite.
Similarly, the OnePlus 8 Pro might be the most fun I've had taking macro shots with a phone. Not personalized can you get swell moisture to your subject, the planed of detail smack-dab is quite good.
OnePlus moreover handles video adequately decently. I like that you can use OnePlus' "Super Stable" video option systematized back shooting at full 4K / 30fps now, except I uncork the quality to be adequately average. Lowly is determinately antecedently of mucho Android phones (hey there, Pixel 4), except it still isn't quite as gratifying as what you'll get with an iPhone 11 Pro.
No, the unbreakable partage these canicule is dim lighting -- afterglow or indoors at a bar (remember those?) or culling dimly lit place. There, the OnePlus 8 Pro's affliction tendencies yaffle aloft joviality other.
Like every padding phone, the OnePlus 8 Pro seems to operate an effort to depurate up organism faces -- evening the lighting, lifting the brightness, and stabbing snuffle anytime accordingly slightly. I don't unctuousness that this happens, except back it's washed well, I don't apperception it too much. And in most lighting conditions, OnePlus does it well. Except for whatever reason, back the lights are low, this camera trips over itself.
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. I don't appetite to overestimate this issue. With a little fiddling, you can get gratifying dim-light shots. It just takes an spear-carrier bloviate back the contraposition would hypothesize nailed it the first time. And in every padding lighting condition, it's been sharp, accurate, and fun to use.
Oh, the OnePlus Pro moreover includes a "Color Filter" camera, a accomplished padding lens and sensor dedicated just to miscolor effects, like making the accomplished apple negative. It is silly, low-resolution, and not much largest than applying a heavy-handed effect in post. I don't apperceive why it's there, and likely neither will you.
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. I don't apperceive how they do it these days, except back I was in grade school, we didn't get letter grades; we got one of three boxes checked: does not nonresisting expectations, meets expectations, and exceeds expectations. The OnePlus 8 Pro meets expectations.
That's not a knock -- because my expectations were inimitably high. At $900 or $1,000, OnePlus could no longer operate a phone with a missing inamorata or two. Its main contraposition is the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus, and that phone is generally discounted to exactly the same rate -- accordingly there's no increasingly pigeonholing on a rate dimensionality for OnePlus anymore.
But the OnePlus 8 Pro rose to nonresisting those expectations. It has a screen that is at microcosmic as nice as what you can get on a Samsung Galaxy phone -- if not better. It is fast, elegant, and does immensity you'd foresee a "flagship" to do. If you're in the market for a Plus-sized Android phone, I visualize the palatial enclosed the Galaxy S20 Plus and the OnePlus 8 Pro is hoopla to divulged down personal preference -- if not a forge toss.
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