OnePlus 8 review: 5G killed the value flagship! By 9to5Google

Smartphone prices have skyrocketed consistently for a few years, but OnePlus was one of the few exceptions to that rule. That has changed, though, with the 1+8 which doesn't offer the same value, but has familiar trade-offs just now in a higher price tag. Let's find out why, thanks for watching 95 Google on YouTube, remember to thumbs up hit subscribe and enable notifications with the bow icon to be among the first to watch our upcoming videos, so the one plus eight is the supposed compact model in the eight series from OnePlus and while it's smaller than the pro it's still a heck of lot of smartphone. With a six point, five inch display in a tall 20 by 9 aspect ratio. Only the width feels particularly compact in the hand we have to say, there's no denying just how. Well, though, it's been designed as OnePlus has really improved steadily with each release.

The finishes of the interstellar, glow and glacial green model here are particularly eye catching, but I'm personally fond of the matte finish over the interstellar option. It's a fantastic phone in the hand, facts ?, the merging of the design language, but the curved display might not be too welcomed by some we'll talk about that more later. On. One thing to note, though, is that if you do pick this device up a lot, it won't come with an IP rating, but from a carrier it comes on ip68 rating, which is odd, considering that the hardware is identical, but of course that means, if water-resistant matters to you quite lot, you might want to go to a carrier and pick this device up from them directly. So the internals are as good as there ever has been, and there's no denying this software hasn't changed all too much.

It is oxygen OS, as you know it with a few little tweaks on top, it's still the most immediately snap experience, we've had but oxygen OS 10.5 still hasn't added a download toggle. Instead, it's buried in the theming section, which is still quite frustrating. There are some other new tweaks to including the dark mode 2.0, which themes apps that don't have proper dark modes. It's found in the OnePlus laboratory section, though, and of course, on top of that I have some frustrations with only working with a few select apps, all of which do tend to have documents already rendering the entire edition a little pointless. The cut and dry here is oxygen.

Us remains excellent, and it is benefited immensely by that 90 Hertz AMOLED panel, which may be curved but has a mainly flat, workable surface area. It's a good-looking panel with solid colors and decent brightness, and we must admit the punch hole notch doesn't detract from that too much and, in my opinion, is far better than a dewdrop, not without the power-hungry 120 Hertz HD+ display found on its bigger pro brethren. The increase to a four thousand three hundred million power battery really helps the longevity of the 1+8, even with the display brightness set 70 percent and with some heavy issues. Each 6 to 7 hours of screen on time are a piece of cake. It's still disappointing, though, that we don't get wireless charging, as that is only on the pro model, but they walk charge of tops up their phone into super quick fashion.

So it's difficult to complain too much. The lack of wireless charging is added to the camera as a typical corner cutting aspect of the 1+8. It still has a solid camera, it's not poor, nor is it spectacular. The weirdest design decision, though, is to offer a less comprehensive camera setup over the 17 ditching. These he'll photo zoom lens for a macro.

Shooter is confusing, but overall the OnePlus 8 comes with an acceptable camera, but of course there are films in and around the same price bracket that offers substantially better camera performance to us, though, the biggest problem with the 1 plus 8 is its pricing and its older sibling, the OnePlus 70. Yes, you do get the latest internals, but the cost of 5g as part and parcel of the snapdragon 865 chipsets really adds a premium that doesn't seem necessary.5G adds a substantial bump to the entry price and without the courage to justify the extra costs with AI minder. If you must get a 1 plus phone right now, and you don't want the pro, we still actually think the 70 is a better overall purchase with a marginally better camera and superior price. Unless you simply must have the latest chipset and 5g connectivity to add. We'll also have the 1 plus 8 review up in the coming days, but by all means, if you have any questions about the OnePlus 8, then slap them down in the comment section below, but until next time this is Damian with 95 Google sent thanks again for watching, and I will speak to you later.

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