Before you Buy a OnePlus Nord… By Dave2D

Okay: let's talk about the OnePlus word: this is a phone that is very easy to like very easy to recommend. I think a lot of reviewers are going to be crowning. The OnePlus word, as like the best android smartphone in this kind of price point in the four or 500 price point. This is the king for 2020. , it's that good and if you look at the performance to the price, nothing really beats it. There's stuff, that's comparable right! A lot of people are bringing up.

You know phone x phone, why it's got similar hardware, but if you're looking for someone that has spotless software great support years of software support this kind of sticks out as being something special, it's so good to the point where even its own brother or cousin, like the OnePlus 8, the regular OnePlus 8. This looks weirdly overpriced in comparison to the OnePlus nor duh. So the way I'm doing this video is I'm going to do a mini review of this phone, and then I want to talk about a purchase decision because there 's's there's stuff. I want to talk about all right. Let's talk about the good first, the screen, 90 hertz super fluid very fast flat edges.

There's no accidental, miss clicks or swipes. Like I frequently get on the OnePlus 8 pro, the build is good. It feels very one plus, like the actual heft and weight of the device, feels good feels like a solid device, but it definitely looks less premium to me, like the texture on the side trim like it's a plastic trim, so there's just a bit of a kind of wobble to the finish. It's not like a perfectly smooth finish like it would be if it was metal- and it just gives this slightly less premium, look to it if you're being picky and if you're looking for it, but the actual build of the phone seems quite good for one with a plastic frame. The back material is glass, and I like it, I don't think there's kind of issues with a plastic framed phone like this at least not structurally.

It's never going to be as strong as a metal phone for sure right, but I think they did good for a 450 dollar phone. The battery on this thing is excellent: it charges up really fast. It took just over 50 minutes to go from zero to 100, like the full fill up and the screen on time. Nine, maybe ten hours some days, it's just a very comfortable, full day battery the processor. So this was where I thought there'd be some deficiencies, but it is quite hard to notice a difference like this is from someone who's looking for differences right, so there's the occasional hiccup when you're watching embedded videos on certain websites, if you're on Reddit, and you're scrolling and there's a video playing, sometimes it can stutter for a split second and for gaming.

I thought there'd be a more noticeable difference like when they mentioned that the snapdragon 765. You know you would notice it most in 3d games. You can notice it, but it's not like the games are unplayable like I'd, be very content playing most games on this phone. The snapdragon 765 is perfectly good, so some things I don't like the mono speaker. I mentioned this in my preview, but it's something that I personally value like.

I, like my stereo sound when I'm using my phone in landscape, and you don't get it with this phone uh it doesn't have. Wireless charging doesn't have any water resistance, it's not the biggest deal, but I do miss wireless charging in particular, and I don't like the vibration motor, it's quite weak. So if you're, someone who prefers strong haptic feedback on their phone you'll be a little disappointed with the one on the OnePlus word all right camera system. This is uh, it's a fairly good camera system. I don't think it was something that was unexpected right.

I think that the photos that are coming off this thing are pretty much what I would have expected from a four or five hundred dollar OnePlus phone. Now OnePlus is marketing it as a flagship camera. It's the headlining feature they have on their website, but when you put it against some legit flagship cameras, it doesn't really hold up. The images are very similar to the OnePlus 8 I'd, say it's a bit softer and the colors look a little flatter on the word. The ultrawide camera isn't as good to me.

So the images look more washed out here, it's nice to have like, I always prefer ultrawide over zooms, but the actual image quality on this ultrawide sensor isn't fantastic. I think the OnePlus 8 shoots better ultrawide than the word and same thing goes for the 8 pro and like the iPhone 11. Obviously those shoot noticeably better ultra wide than the word, the low light photos are pretty good. I actually think that the night shot photos are cleaner on the word than the OnePlus 8. I was a little surprised by that.

The photos just keep a lot of the detail, even in really dark conditions. Now the macro lens, the third lens going down is terrible like if you look at the OnePlus 8 pro those macro photos are fantastic. That's, like top tier macrophotography on a smartphone compared to this thing, the word. It's just awful and take a look at this photo. This was done on the Pixel 3a, it's using their AI zoom feature, but you can get pretty good detail to the same kind of zoom as the macro lens on the OnePlus 8 pro, not as good as the pro, but noticeably better than this two megapixel sensor garbage on the OnePlus word.

I can't help, but imagine an alternate scenario where the OnePlus word, instead of having six cameras, had three, maybe even just two cameras, one on the front, one in the back forget the zooms and ultra wise, just one perfect sensor. So the camera system, the OnePlus word, is good, but I would consider it to be like a b-tier camera system, it's not on par with like a pixel or the iPhone 11's or the p40 pro from Huawei or even its own OnePlus 8 pro. Those are all truly flagship camera systems. This is not so if you're in the market, and you're looking for this phone, you want to buy it you've pre-ordered it, or you plan on pre-ordering it. The camera system is, it is what it is just aware of what you're getting and if it's legitimately important to you like, if photography, is something that's very valuable to you, I would look somewhere else as attractive as this phone is for its price point: I'd go for like a Pixel 3a or even the upcoming foray, because those are those take better photos.

Okay, there's one other thing: I want to talk about it just popped into my mind. Just before I hit record on the camera here, it was the idea of like what's next, how does OnePlus position their upcoming, OnePlus, 9 or OnePlus 9 pro like? If you take like this, is so good, and it's it makes other phones, look weirdly, overpriced right. How do you sell a one plus nine or one plus nine pro in the future, alongside this phone? That's only in, like I don't know six seven months, it's not super far away. It just popped into my mind like how are they going to do it? What do you think? What do you think is going to be the distinguishing feature between the nines, like the nine and the nine pro and the word? Do you think it's like just camera system cause like that's the biggest difference right now, right, at least between the eight pro and the word? How do they do it? Okay, hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs, if you loved it I'll see you guys next time.

Source : Dave2D