OnePlus 8 Pro 1 Month later Review - They FINALLY did it! By Brian Alex

Yes I know it's been a while, but it just doesn't make sense to release a review a week late, so I rather embrace it and test the phone thoroughly, and now that the OnePlus, a pro, is also much more expensive phone I have to ask: can it possibly be worth it Hamlin, and this is my one plus a pro review design? Not much has changed from the 7 pro and the 70 pro in the design department. It's just a little more refined with more square corners, almost no bezel and a hole punched instead of a pop-up, selfie camera I personally, don't really mind that, especially because it finally means that the 8 Pro has an IP certification, so you don't have to be afraid of getting it wet. The camera bump on the back is also not significantly larger and makes the phone rock on a table even more, but for one you can counteract that with the included case and two, it's a trade-off. That might be more than worth it more to that later. They also made the already very premium vibration motor, even better. What unexpectedly, really liked is the glacier green color, even though I don't really like green and that's probably because under most circumstances it's actually more of a light.

Blue and not green in person, it's more similar to the 70 and the glass is also matched, so it doesn't attract fingerprints. They Pro is still having the handy alert slider alongside the super tactile buttons, and also some very good stereo speakers to add to the awesome media experience, speaking of which display this is the best phone screen I ever used period. The 120 Hertz, refresh rate just adds so much, but the difference to 90 Hertz is much less noticeable than the jump from 60 to 90 Hertz. Still, it's very welcome scrolling, which, let's face it, you do a lot just becomes a breeze. It's just plain fun to watch animations on this phone, and the best thing is that the high refresh rate even works at the full 2.5 k resolution colors are beautiful too, and the screen is blindingly bright, which also helps with the HDR 10 support. I, just wish that one plus would have reduced the edges a bit.

Yes, they look cool, and they are not as bad as on some other phones, but I still don't prefer the slight distortion they produce. You probably also heard about the miss process on the screen and while it's better than it used to be, it's still annoying while typing I'm happy to report, though, that my screen doesn't have any green tint. If you use performance, I have 2 8, 128 gigabyte versions of this phone, and now some of you might be confused because OnePlus doesn't actually sell that configuration in green but as it turns out in China, you can get all colors in all storage configurations. So if you want the cheaper version in green or a black phone with more storage importing it, for example, through trading Shenzhen, it's not option paired with that. A gigabyte of RAM and 128, gigabytes of storage or 12 and 256 gigabytes.

If you go for the higher-end model, is of course the snapdragon 865 that I kind of have a love/hate relationship with on the one handed of course makes the phone superfast, as he would expect from OnePlus. This phone just flies through the UI, but, to be honest, we've reached the point of diminishing return and I can't really perceive a difference to the 855 plus. If you count out the 120 Hertz display, that's not a bad thing. This phone is still the fastest Android phone around and basically never having to wait for something to Lotus great, but on the other hand, the snapdragon 865 always has to be paired with a 5-3 modem, which is really expensive in turn. Making phones with the chip really expensive too I say this because I think we're still some time away from 5-3 becoming a necessity, but I guess it's nice to have.

If you plan on holding on to the phone for a couple of years, I don't live in a 5g area by the way, so I couldn't test it, and my 5g capable sim is an e sim anyway, which they Pro granted, like almost every other phone, still doesn't support software for this I kinda feel like a broken record. At this point, oxygen OS is still the best Android skin. There is I really like stock Android, and this is that, with only some very useful additions and tons of customizations I just wish there was a 90 Hertz option for the refresh rate to save some battery, and there is still no always-on display which I'm going to keep complaining about until it's there at least one Plus announce that it's coming. It would definitely make the fastest under screen fingerprint sensor even faster, because you wouldn't have to tap to wake the screen. First, the instant face unlock also always a great feature on past.

OnePlus phones is also back thanks to the hole punch, selfie, camera did I, say camera. The camera was honestly what I was most curious about when I first saw the pro. That's because OnePlus as cameras have always been fine, but just never quite at the same level as the pixel or the iPhone, but now also thanks to a few updates after launch, I can say that it's finally up there and that's great, because the only thing that was keeping me from using an OnePlus phone, as my only daily driver, it pro, is the main 48 megapixels imx6 89 sensors. A wide-angle also had 48 megapixels, an 8 megapixel, 3x telephoto, and that fourth 5 megapixels infrared one-plus disguises as a color filter. We'll get to that.

But let's talk normal photos. First, OnePlus has really done a lot with their processing. Dynamic range is good without overexposing. Colors are a lot more natural than in the past, even if they still lean a bit into the more warm and saturated range, but not close to as much as on Samsung, and the pictures also have much more contrast. Now.

I still often prefer the photos from the pixel in terms of their even more contrasting looks, but it honestly comes close to being a preference at that point. Unfortunately, there's still no cheek Ahmad I. Think, though, that a lot of people might even prefer the pros photos, since the colors are more punchy out of the box, especially good for food photography because of the very big sensor, there's also some very nice depth of field, and I'm, especially impressed by the ultra-wide camera, which does come close to the main sensor on a lot of occasions. The zoom is still a bit soft, though there's 20 okras the gold standard there Lynette shots are also quite amazing. The night mode is definitely up there and can pull a lot of detail and colors even out of very dark scenes.

Let's also talk about the infrared camera, real quick. You probably already know that you can use it to look through plastic and I also do believe that OnePlus originally wanted to market this as a feature, but then realized too late. That seeing through plastic also means seeing through some synthetic clothing and thus buried it in the camera settings. So it wouldn't cause controversy which it still did. Mr.

boost Abbas has a good video on this, but I think as long as you use it responsibly, it's a cool feature, even if the photo quality from it is garbage. Video quality is very nice good stabilization, natural colors, but it can't quite beat the iPhone, even if the gap is getting slimmer. What disappointed me a bit was the quality of the selfie camera. It seems to blow up the shadows too much and also struggles. A lot with natural skin tones I only take selfies for videos, though so I don't really care overall, because they Pro has an ultra-wide camera, which the pixel does not I would honestly say that this is the best camera package you can get on Android I say on Android, because if you take video and the slight edge and photo quality into account, the iPhone still is a bit better battery.

Because of the 120 Hertz screen battery life has been pretty average I got about 4 to 5 hours of screen on time with the screen at 2.5 k and 120 Hertz. This means that more than a day at these settings is not possible. You can, of course, turn things down to 1080 P, which extends battery life by another one to two hours, but charging every morning is a price I'm willing to pay for the screen. Speaking of charging, of course, you can still charge the battery superfast to about 70% in only half an hour over the cable, but now, finally, you can also do it. Wirelessly I've missed this for so long on, one class phones, and now it's even possible at almost the same speed as with the cable, it's about 10 to 20 percent slower in practice.

I really love that feature and the wireless warp charger has a set place on my desk. It's also good that I can just quickly put the phone on there in the morning while getting ready, because the fan is too annoying to keep it running for a longer, and why is the cable permanently attached at night? The fan does turn off, though, and you can also just charge it on any old keypad I'll, be it a lot slower and reverse charging? Is there to this phone really? Has it all? Doesn't it well, except maybe for the headphone jack conclusion? Historically, OnePlus phones have not only been a good choice for enthusiasts because of their speed, but also just for normal people who wanted a perfect phone at a good price, and that's still true for the 70, for example, but not for the 8 pro and I don't buy the argument that it's still cheaper than s 20 Ultra as a way out. This is now a proper flagship with a high price to match, but that doesn't really matter. If you need this much smartphone in your life. This is the best option out there.

The displays the best performance is the best charging is the best. It checks all the boxes for water resistance, wireless charging and stereo speakers and now, finally, the camera can sit with the other flagships to just battery life suffers a bit it's excessive, but in a good way, unlike the Samsung Galaxy S 20 ultra get subscribe. So you don't miss that video. If you want all that, then buy it, I would say it's worth it, but most people probably don't and would be just fine with knife and 11 or a1 plus 70, for example. If you enjoyed this video, you know which buttons to press don't forget to press that for the button on Twitter and don't forget to stay home and stay healthy, I'm Breanne thanks for watching, and I'll, see you in the next one.

Source : Brian Alex