OnePlus 8 Pro vs iPhone 11 Pro: Don't Be Fooled By Jon Rettinger

Putting both these phones on the table, I'm going to pick up the lineage of OnePlus and the iPhone couldn't have started farther apart. The iPhone was the one flagship for everybody and the OnePlus one started history as the flagship killer, offering incredible experience for a low price, but, as these phones grew and matured, they came closer together and now with the iPhone 11 Pro and the OnePlus 8 Pro they are closer than ever before, even though they came out six months apart. They're still phones are available on the market right now, whenever I start these versus always like to start with the aesthetics of the phone, the look and feel of both of them and the iPhone 11 Pro is an evolutionary design. The design that works, the combination of metal and glass, giving a really premium feel both of these feel amazing. Obviously they are different sizes. You can get the 11pro and in the max version, if you choose, but both of these, at least in the hand feel like thousand-dollar phones.

So hardware is just a small part to me what matters most Swift phones, really above all else, almost is screens. That's what you are looking at it, your portal to everything that phone can do and the history of OnePlus screens has kind of been mixed. They've kept priced down, at least in the past, with lower resolution screens, I've been 1080, but really nice-looking. Panels and Apple has sort of been doing something consistent with their displays. They're, not pushing the bounds of refresh rate they've perfected, the Retina display and the iPhone 11 Pro is the evolution of that.

It's a five point. Eight inches, 60 Hertz OLED panel, and you've seen it before color representation is great. Colors are bright and vibrant 1300 miss display it's plenty bright when you're outdoors, it is a perfect display and beyond that, at a consistent display. It looked good in almost every scenario that you throw at OnePlus. Taking a new approach.

They've been upping their refresh rates. We saw 90 Hertz with last gen, and now we've got a hundred and twenty Hertz on the one plus a pro. It's a six point: seven eight fluid AMOLED display with a 120 Hertz of refresh rate, and I've, maybe been harsh on OnePlus screens in the past, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is a monk the best screens I have ever seen on a phone and that's including the latest flagships from Samsung. If you want perhaps the best looking display, you no longer have to look past. One plus 120 Hertz is absolutely amazing.

Things look buttery smooth, but you know that all the way up to HD+ you can take advantage of at 120, Hertz or refresh. Are they kind of one upping Samsung at the high refresh game? If there is a knock on the OnePlus a pro, this blade has nothing to do with resolution its design. That's got a waterfall display media kind of curves over the side and aesthetically. It looks beautiful, but I have had a lot of accidental touches when I'm holding the phone in my hands. Sometimes my palm accidentally touched things on the side.

It's hard to sometimes get your finger over to the side through the swipes doesn't always register. I love. The waterfall for looks, but from a practical standpoint, I have had some issues with the first thing. I remember when I turned on the OnePlus, a pro which I've had the privilege of playing with now for the past two weeks was. That is a perfect screen and now, two weeks later, I still think wow.

That's few looks absolutely beautiful and an area where Apple used to really excel the lower refresh of the 11pro I think is a sign where the screens on those devices starting to show their age. So you look back the recent OnePlus phones. Even amazing devices, they've been a little deficient to the competition when it comes to camera. It appears that one plus has heard those complaints, and they stepped things up in the camera departments. Significantly with the eight pro comes rocking four cameras, you've got a forty, eight megapixels, regular camera.

You got a forty-eight megapixel ultra-wide, which is actually the same main sensor that was in the OnePlus 70. You've got an 8 megapixel telephoto that can do three times: optical zoom and up to thirty digital you've got a fourth filter camera. There's a lot of stuff to sort of give you different filters and effects when you were shooting with the phone and the best way. I can describe the images that come out of the 1+8. If you like, what Samsung is doing with their cameras got to say, if you like, brighter more vibrant poppy images, you are going to love.

What comes out of the 1+8. I came away, really impressed with the quality of the shots significantly better than any previous generation of OnePlus cameras. So the point where I would now take the OnePlus 8 Pro, happily out with me and use it as my family shooter, it's my only camera. The quality of the images are that good and the iPhone, it's the iPhone. It's the same stories as other categories.

Everything you do some version of good apples, machine learning and device learning on the phone are absolutely incredible. Every shot you take looks good and the best I can kind of compare these photos is what comes out of the iPhone. The colors are a bit more muted. It almost looks like more of a raw image. What you get out of the OnePlus looks a bit more processed out every one you prefer it's going to come down to choice, honestly.

This is a toss-up when it comes to stills, but for the first time it's a toss-up I think that's a confidence. How much OnePlus has stepped up their game. So as good as the stills are video is an area where I think Andreas a hole has been very far behind they're. Looking at things from a pure spec standpoint, the iPhones got better video specs. The video fidelity that comes out of the iPhone is still better having the stabilization.

Higher frame rate is really nice to have, but for the first time and almost forever the video quality on an Android device and the video quality on an OnePlus phone. It's not only usable, but it is perfect. The phones have to perform well right and, let's start with the iPhone, the bionic line of chips have always been the most powerful, the highest benchmarked out. There. That's really no exception in this generation.

The 8:13 is a beast and is showing no sign of any aging at all. It is always a consistent experience. I think that's the best compliment that you can give to Apple, no matter what you're doing with the phone it's always consistent and, despite being just barely bigger than 3000 William hours, the battery on the iPhone has been absolutely amazing. This is easily a 1-day phone things like wireless charging are here as well and there's plenty more intangibles which I'll get to when it comes to the iPhone. When it comes to performance, it's what you'd expect it's.

What Apple is giving you year-over-year a powerhouse phone, that's going to be good and fast and give you pretty much all day battery life, no matter what you're doing with it. One plus's approach to performance is a little different. They take more of a brute-force approach to specs and couple all of that with their oxygen OS. You did a really fast performing phone. Now you can pick two different versions of the OnePlus 8 pro one with eight gigs or twelve different storage sizes.

We've got the 12 gig, so the max amount of RAM that you can have in the phone you take all of that, coupled with the snapdragon 865, the Adrian 650, and you've got a beast of a phone, but all that performance certainly comes at a price. You're not gonna, have a HD+ screen a 120 Hertz refresh without having a hit on battery. That's a 4,500 million power battery, but battery life was not as outstanding that was hoping for with the OnePlus 8 pro, and I could get through a whole day gently putting on the charger at the end of the day and around 10 to 12 percent, but certainly not a day and a half phone. The one thing: that's new with the OnePlus. A pro is wireless charging and there are different standards.

Actually that are inside the phone. You've got your regular QI charging you put on any charger and charged about five watts, but if OnePlus is going to do wireless charging, it seems that they waited, so they can make it insanely fast. So I've got their own proprietary wireless technology, it's kind of a mouthful. It's a work charge.30 watt wireless and the names tells you everything, it'll charge at 30 watts. If I take advantage of that, there's a $70 wireless charger need to buy to sort of get those crazy, fast speeds that was really impressive.

But again you got to spend $70 pick that extra pad. So this category is as much of an iOS and Android debate is really anything else. We're gonna talk about here. If you want the fastest version of iOS, of course it's the iPhone 11 Pro, and if you want the fastest version of Android, it's not Google's own pixel I think it's actually what OnePlus is doing oxygen OS and the OnePlus 8 pro, but boils down to both of these phones. You will not find yourself wanting for speed and performance at all, but like watching this video wondering how I got the back off of these phones I'm rocking the teardown skins from deep brand, they teamed up with Oak from Jerry recovery.

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So I think when it comes to the iPhone I like to start with, face ID apples, implementation of facial recognition is not only amazingly secure, but it's also ridiculously fast. I love how its ingrained if they operate system and worked for third-party authentication. That is something that I don't take for granted when I use an iPhone and other iPhone intangibles, be the iOS stuff, the bread and butter things like iMessage continuity. How well things are gonna work with your Mac computer? How well they're going to work with your iPad FaceTime, all those little things that make iOS so good and so compelling it's an ecosystem play when it comes to the iPhone. That is not to be undersold.

So, on the other side there is facial marking, that's built in to the one plus a pro. It's all being done that really tiny hole, punch sensor, but it's not really as secure is what you get with face ID, so one plus is really more opting for an in screen fingerprint reader. This is probably the fastest in screen fingerprint authentication that I have ever used, and so I would have preferred a more secure face. Unlocking this is a really close. Second, when it comes to the fingerprint medication here, I've been very impressed with it.

But of course this is an ecosystem plate. ? right, it's Android, there's a lot to be offered here from the combination of Google +, 1, +, +, oxygen, OS, there's a lot of things to like about. What's here, perhaps on the biggest selling points, the 1 + 8 Pro is 5g. Now, who knows that Apple is going to do when the iPhone 12 launches? Presumably that will have 5g support, but right now, until that phone watches, if you're comparing these two, and you want a device, it's going to work with 5g I'm pretty much every carrier, especially when it comes to sub 6. The OnePlus a Pro is the only way to go.

There's a lot of similarities as well. Right you've got Wi-Fi 6 on both of them. That's incredibly nice to have you got an official IP rating on both of these now IP 68, so don't worry about going outside or your phone gets wet. Both will be able to work, and this again boils down to the ecosystem story. Is it the safety, the security, the reliability of iOS and that the incredible speed and horsepower of one-plus both of these take very different approaches, but both of them equally do an amazing job of bringing intangibles to the user.

So if you can't tell them kind of in love with both of these phones for very different reasons, they take very different approaches to giving you an amazing experience and I love to see getting to the same point just via different paths, but that one plus a pro is interesting for one plus. It starts at eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars in the version we have is nine hundred ninety-nine dollars. Of course, that's the same starting price as the iPhone 11 Pro at $999. So now OnePlus is competing at that top tier of price and I asked one plus about this. Why they're going to that top patent? They said they wanted the eight pro line, so they're pro line to compete with the best in the business, and they still wanted to offer the one plus 8 as the phone that can compete on price, specs and performance and that's kind of an interesting approach right when you hold the 1 + 8 in your hand, you're not holding an inferior device, it still feels incredibly premium in the ham.

There's no plastic on here, that's going to make it feel cheap. It feels just as good as the pro brother, and you still get the snapdragon 865. You still get 5g. You still get those amazing cameras just a little different, so I like that approach. I think that you have options when it comes to OnePlus.

Do you want to spend the 900 or $1,000 if you want to go less and sacrifice a few things, especially when it comes to screen and cameras to still get a very well SPENT and well price and competitively priced 1, + 8, but comparing the two flagships, the 8 Pro and the 11 Pro? This is a tough choice to make, but we don't do any cop-outs here, putting both these phones on the table as somebody whose now kind of become OS-agnostic, I used to always go for the iPhone, because I knew the camera on the video would just always be better than somebody who's got. Kids I relied on my phone as the best camera, and that was always why I generally went to the iPhone, but this is a different story with the OnePlus 8 Pro. The cameras are amazing. The speed of the phone is fast. The video is perfect with both of these sitting in front of me.

For the first time in a while I'm going to pick up the OnePlus 8 Pro.

Source : Jon Rettinger