OnePlus 8 Pro Ultramarine Blue Unboxing and First Impression By TecworkZ

"Music" Hey guys it’s Sagar from Tecworkz and I finally managed to purchase the OnePlus 8 Pro. I can’t stress this enough that this is NOT a review unit. Like all other phones that you see on my channel, I have purchased this myself. I just went to one of the OnePlus Experience stores and was surprised to see that they had quite a few of these in stock. That catch was, they just had the 12GB RAM and 256GB Storage variant and I got it for Rs.59,999. Now I was planning on getting the Ultramarine Blue anyway, but for others who did not want the 12GB RAM variant, found them out of luck.

The box is exactly like the one, that the OnePlus 8 came in. There is 8 on the top lid, and OnePlus 8 Pro on the left side. And on the right side, there is OnePlus branding in this new font. With that out of the way, let me tear this plastic off, and lets take a look inside. As I lift the lid, 1st thing that we see is the OnePlus 8 Pro itself.

Design of this 8 Pro looks mostly like that of the OnePlus 7 Pro. I am going to keep it aside while we take a look at other things in the box. The phone was sitting on this white box, which contains an invite to the Red Cable Club, just as we saw in the OnePlus 8’s unboxing. Then there is this leaflet containing all the SAR values, some stickers from OnePlus, and other paperwork like the quick start guide, letter from the CEO and safety information. And lastly we have this happy looking SIM tray ejection pin.

Then we get a thin transparent flexible TPU case to protect your phone. And it says Never Settle on its back. Under this case sits the signature Red USB Type A to Type C cable for charging and data transfer, and finally we have the Warp charger 30T. If I’m not wront, this is the same charger that we got with the OnePlus 7T and the 8. Those are all the things that we get in the box.

Let me keep all these things aside, and get back to the phone. After removing all the plastic and this sticker from the back, this is how the Ultramarine blue colour looks. It has a matte soft touch feel to it, and while I wasn’t too sure about getting this colour, I am glad I did, because it is growing on me. Now this phone is definitely bigger than the OnePlus 8 in all dimensions. It is taller and heavier, but my main concern is that it is also wider.

It does get a curve to the back to make it easier to hold, and the display is curved as well, but then that raises a lot of other concerns for me. Last time I used the 7 Pro, and I hated the curved display because the palm rejection was not that great and there were too many accidental touches. I will have to use the 8 Pro for some more time to see if that has been fixed or not. While the phone boots up, let us take a look around it. Starting with the bottom, we get a SIM tray on the left, a microphone next to it, then there is the USB type C port for charging and data transfer, and finally a speaker grill.

The SIM tray can hold 2 nano SIM cards, one behind the other, and there is no microSD card slot to expand the storage further. On the right side, there is the Power / Sleep wake button and my favourite, alert slider. At the top there is just a noise cancelling microphone, and this ridge as a part of the design. To the left, there are just the volume up and down buttons. We often overlook this, but all these buttons are very well built.

They are made of metal, don’t rattle at all and are very tactile. Coming to the back, there is this OnePlus name in the new all capital font, the new logo above it, and then there are these cameras. This camera module sticks out quite a bit. Main camera gets a 48 megapixel Sony IMX689 sensor with F/1.78 aperture, 7 element lens and Optical Image Stabilisation. Next camera gets the 48 megapixel Sony IMX586 sensor with F/2.2 aperture and 120 degree field of view. This wide camera can also take macro shots.

This is how a macro lens should be implemented. And if you think this sensor sounds familiar, that is because it is the same sensor that the OnePlus 8 used for its primary camera. Then there is this 8 megapixel sensor with F/2.44 aperture and 3x telephoto lens. You can take upto 30x digital zoomed images with this camera, and it gets optical image stabilisation. And finally there is the controversial 5 megapixel colour filter camera with F/2.4 aperture. This was the so called X-Ray camera that everyone was going crazy over.

OnePlus has disabled it for this Indian variant. Some people who upgraded to Oxygen OS 10.5.10 in the US said that this camera is working for them again. But I have also upgraded to the said Oxygen OS 10.5.10 version, and it is still disabled for me. I will be making a very detailed camera review for this phone in the next few days, so make sure you are subscribed to the channel and have the notifications turned on. Coming to the front, there is this mammoth 6.78inch FluidAMOLED display, with a resolution of 3168x1440 pixels. The display has 120Hz refresh rate and HDR 10+ support.

It is curved at the edges, and while it looks very futuristic, I am not a big fan of these curves. With these type of diaplays, Light refracts at funny angles while watching videos, and there are too many accidental touches. Many people have reported some issues with the display, but I haven’t seen any of them. OnePlus is making these phones in India, and hopefully they have figured out a way, and fixed all the issues with the display. Above the display there is this speaker grill, and the selfie camera gets a punch hole style cutout.

Inside, the 8 Pro packs in the Snapdragon 865 processor and Adreno 650GPU, 8/12GB LPDDR5 RAM, 128/256GB of UFS 3.0 2-Lane storage. To back this all up, it gets a 4510mAh battery. I am a bit worried about the battery performance, because I am not sure this battery is enough to power this huge display and at 120Hz all the time. When it is time to charge it up, the 30 watt charger makes sure to juice it up quickly, and if you have the OnePlus wireless charger, it also supports 30 watt wireless charging. It is running on the latest version of Oxygen OS which is built on top of Android 10, and if you are curious, you can also install the Android 11 beta on this phone.

I have said before that Oxygen OS is one of my favourite interfaces. I love how simple and minimal it is, and it still offers us a lot of features. Now I have had this phone for less than a day, so it is not enough time to check its overall performance or know about its battery life. So I will have to spend more time with it, I will let you guys know more about it in my full review. Right now, I can tell you that this is a huge phone, and if you have average sized hands, you will have a tough time using it.

I am really exited to test out its camera, and compare them with the other phones that I have. If you are looking to buy this phone, it is going on sale from 15th June, and I will really appreciate if you guys but it from the affiliate link in the description section. That is it for this video guys. Please hit the like button if you enjoyed this video, and subscribe to the channel for more quality tech videos like this. You can also check out some of the other videos from this channel.

This has been Sagar, and I’ll catch you guys in the next video. Take care.

Source : TecworkZ