OnePlus 8 Review with Pros & Cons & My Thoughts By Geekyranjit

Hi guys this is transit and in this video let's do the full review of this OnePlus 8, and this is the Indian unit, and I've used it slightly over a week. So I'll divide this review between pros and cons, but before that here are quick specs for the OnePlus 8. As you can see, it's having a six point: five inches uh full HD plus AMOLED screen, which is actually 90 hertz, and it's part by the snapdragon 865 then. Hence, it supports 5g and other specs are on the screen for your reference. So lets uh drop down between the pros and cons and guys. I won't get into detail about physical overview and all those things watch my unboxing.

If you want to buy- and I yes- I know this- is a Chinese smartphone uh, I'm personally not going to use it. But again I just wanted to give you out the review. Maybe some of you might be interested in this so again, I'm just dividing it between the pros and cons so that you can decide if this is right for you or not, if or any other smartphone is right for you anyways. Let's talk about it and the first thing that I actually liked about this smartphone is strangely the in hand feel uh. The in hand feel is actually perfect of this handset.

So it's having that 6.55-inch screen it's actually comfortable to hold, because the back is also rounded a little. So it does not feel very big, and the biggest thing I would say is that the weight balance has been done well on this one. This was always a problem for me with the OnePlus pro series. I always felt that the weight balance of those phones was not good, but this one is actually done very well and in hand feel is actually good, and so it feels actually a way more comfortable, though it's having a 6.55-inch screen now. Next, if we move to the performance yeah, you know guys because of the snapdragon 865 soc.

The performance is amazingly fast and again uh. The thing that I personally like about OnePlus is that OxygenOS almost close to stock android with some sprinkle of edition stuff that you would like to use so, hence, in terms of daily usage, I would say: I'd never had an issue with this one. The performance is amazingly fast on this phone. So that's not an issue also in terms of screen. It has that 90 hertz option, but I'll talk about the screen later on in the video.

Now, if we talk about the cellular call quality on this one again, as you can see, both my sims are on this one. As of now uh, that's the ATL, and even with my Jio sim, and I have to say in terms of network reception, the network reception is good on this one, I wouldn't say that's the best or something but again, I would say slightly above average, and I did not have a problem with network reception and also coming to the cellular call quality. The earpiece is actually very good loud and clear, and even the microphone quality is good because I used it over eight days and none of the other parties complained that my voice was muffled or something like that. I also did take a lot of calls by Bluetooth headset. I tried the.

What do you say uh? What was that me? Uh tws2 uh headset with this and used it for four five days: uh there. It was fine and even with the uh wireless uh, z, neck band that I used and in terms of Bluetooth range also. Ah, that was good. So in terms of cellular quality and stuff, that's nice. And now, if we talk about uh, uh, one thing I forgot uh, it also supports voice over, Wi-Fi and here in Hyderabad.

Italy does support that, and I was able to make calls with that uh. So again, uh if you live in a low network area and if you have a Wi-Fi that is voice over Wi-Fi intel and Jio, I think so. Other providers that support this handset does support that and works very well uh. Now I'm talking about the battery life, I was getting on this one on paper. This has more capacity compared to the OnePlus 7t.

This has a 4 300 William hour battery, but I would say uh the battery life I was getting on this one is closer to what you might be getting on the OnePlus 7t. I didn't. I was expecting a lot more uh, but to be fair guys, I was using this phone mostly on the 90 hertz, not on the CD 60 hertz. So that is something you have to note and in terms of screen on time. I'll add some screenshots.

Also, here, as you can see, the lowest I was got was about four and a half hours and the highest was slightly over six hours, so I would say the average sot that I was getting was about five half hours on uh this one uh, though the standby time is good. For example, as you can see yesterday, I didn't use this smartphone a lot and if you go to the battery stats over here uh, let me actually show you here, as you can see, it's still showing that we have about 20 battery life, and it's been almost about two days of the charger and screen on time. As I've told you, I didn't use the phone a lot, because I was testing the laptop. I was using that much, but even after two days, that's almost over 48 hours. We have a screen time of 4 hours, 31 minutes and still we have about 20 battery uh left.

So as you can see uh. So that's regarding the battery life, so the battery life. If I have to sum up, I would say it's good enough. I would say it's not the best. I have seen not the worst that I've seen on flagship, android phone.

So that's regarding the battery life now moving to gaming again uh. I did try a little of gaming. I did try just a call of duty on this one, and it played fine without any issues. Again, you should expect that, because of the snapdragon 865 soc, that's the most powerful uh. What do you say, soc processor, that you can get on android as of now, so no issues with that now also talking about memory management? Here again, the memory management is done well, for example, these are some of the apps that are used in the morning and, as you can see, they are in memory again.

Don't have to worry about it, even YouTube heavy app and, as you can see, so that's the case. As you can see, uh most of the apps are resided in memory. So in terms of memory management also, it was fine and again because of that oxygen OS. It was a fluid experience now moving to uh another thing that is the camera on this one. I was very skeptical about the camera uh before I got the phone because on paper, if you look at even at the rear facing camera, the specs are just very average.

The main camera has a 48 megapixel. Then we have a 16 megapixel, ultra white and a 2 megapixel for macro and front facing is that 16 megapixel, but uh consistently when I shot photographs with this phone, the performance that I got was amazing. Here are some of the samples to give you an idea and, as you can see, most of the pictures that I took came out very good. In fact, the biggest surprise for me was that even an artificial lighting, indoor lighting, as you can see, some samples taken in this office itself came out very good, but even in very low lighting conditions. As you can see here, uh this was almost night and that I took the snaps came out very good, very low lighting, just a little of lighting coming out from the kitchen, but then also as you can see, it does actually very good job and these were taken in the normal mode, not in the night mode.

Hence, I feel the camera performance has improved drastically uh, I would say uh, and that was a pleasant surprise to me, even in artificial lighting, where most of the phones actually struggle this one. Actually did a very good job, but the surprising thing was that when I invoked the night mode, this picture was taken in the night mode. It did not do well, I shut off the night mode and, as you can see, this was the flash. Obviously it came out good, but when I shut off the flash manually also, I got this picture, so strangely I would say: don't use the night mode. It is not doing a good job but general pitches that I took with this.

One came out very good, and even if we talk about the front facing camera the front facing camera performance, though it's just a 16 megapixel, we are these days getting 32 etc. with the front facing, but the performance was actually perfect. So, in terms of camera, I would say the camera performance was a surprise for me, though it does not have a telephoto lens. We do have that zoom option in the interface, but it's just a digital zoom. I think, so they're leaving that zoom stuff for the pro series, but nevertheless, I frankly did not have huge expectations with the camera, but the camera was the biggest surprise for me personally now uh.

Let's move to some of the cons that I have noticed with this device, and the first con is that, as you can see guys, I'm not using it with the case right now, and I feel uh. This is a fingerprint magnet as you can see over here, but apart from that, this phone is also very slippery uh about two three times it actually slipped out of my hand and fell, and even around my desk when it was there uh it just the vibration motor was there, and it just slides out uh coming to vibration, motor uh, I would say this is a good thing. This is not in the car I forgot to mention the vibration motor is improved. I would say uh so haptic feed pack has definitely improved, but if I compare it with some of the other flagships that I liked, I would say, those are my benchmark for haptic feedback. For example, the pixel 3 XL, which I had or even the iPhones- I don't think so- the haptic motor or feedback is on those levels but anyways coming back to the cons.

Uh next thing is that no physical LED notification light still and still I don't know why OnePlus does that it has an AMOLED screen, no always on display. Yes, you have this. If you just pick it up, it gives you an idea, but I want to have an uh always on screen. That is what I miss with many uh when I'm using one plus devices for Samsung devices, for so long have always been providing on. We don't have that always on, so you have to tap in and stuff, and you don't even have a physical notification light so sometimes uh.

That was the thing that was annoying to me, but now uh moving to another uh thing is that uh. This is again regarding the screen. Don't get me wrong, it's an amulet screen. I don't think so. The camera might be able to capture it.

Let me adjust the brightness and see if it is able to do it uh. What I noticed is that if you look at the screen like this fine, but again, if you start tilting it a little, you have a pinkish shoe. I don't think so. My camera will be able to capture it. This is a general problem with many of the AMOLED screen, and sadly it's there even on this one again I would say this is prevalent in a lot of smartphones only except some high-end Samsung.

You don't get that issue, but here I would say it's slightly on the higher side. If you look at it like this, most of you won't notice it, but on a white background and stuff, if you just tilt it like this, the screen actually tries, and you get that slight pinkish shoe, and I'd notice that immediately but again um. I am. I noticed these issues uh, so that's why I've noticed what normal user might not, but this is something that I felt was slightly more compared to many of the other uh screens that I've seen that are having an AMOLED screen now coming to another thing: is that uh? This is again a particular issue that I noticed, and this is uh when I at night all the lights are closed uh, and I keep the phones at the lowest brightness. Even at the lowest brightness.

I felt that the screen was pretty bright compared to many of the other. What do you say? Flagship android phones that I've used that come with the AMOLED screen, for example, Samsung, etc. They can go a lot lower in brightness, so even at the lowest brightness I felt the screen was too bright, and it was hurting my eyes if all the lights were closed, and sometimes you have to use it at night, like that, I felt that the lowest brightness is not as good as earlier OnePlus devices, because some earlier OnePlus devices did go even lower, but I did notice flickering on that here. Flickering does not come, but again the brightness also does not go that low. That is something that I have noted now.

Uh coming to another thing: is that uh? I still don't like that. The OnePlus is skimping on that headphone jack. That is something I feel that is solely unwanted, and they should bring it back, and this is a peculiar thing that I noticed- and this is regarding Wi-Fi on this one uh, this handset- sometimes it's not every time, but about 10 of the 10 or 15 percent of the time. Uh right now, it's connected to Wi-Fi. It was telling me, though, it's connected to the Wi-Fi.

No internet was coming, and I had this issue and though other devices other smartphones etc. I was testing were connected to that Wi-Fi router without any problem, and this is a router I've been using for a long time never had an issue with any phone, but here I had it and what I have to do it for fixing it is. I have to just shut off the Wi-Fi and just enable it back, and then it used to connect uh. So that is a bug I think, so I hope OnePlus fixes it with the OT update, but that was something that initially I noticed that was a creating issue for me and now. Let's also talk about the pricing of this one in India, uh OnePlus officially started it with the 42 000 new variant.

But now, if you look at the Amazon, India page it sold officially by Amazon, they have just removed that 42 000 variant. So it starts at 45 000, and you get that 8 GB and 128 GB storage. And then we also have one more variant: that's for 50 000, that's 12, GB, ram and 256. So essentially now it's starting at 45 000 and if we start comparing it with the earlier version of one plus, that is one plus 70 that was launched at 38. But now you can get that for 35 000 currently on Amazon, so there's a price gap of about 10, 000 rupees and yes, I feel the cameras have improved considerably.

I would say yes, this is surprising to me also- and it's not a bad phone, but does it justify that 10 000 price difference from the OnePlus 7t uh to this one? Yes, this has 5g, but uh. Will you be having 5g realistically in India in the next two years? That is a question that you need to ask, so I feel uh OnePlus should have priced it slightly more aggressively, and what was that marketing stunt? Why did you even launch that 42 000 variant, if you don't want to sell it in India, stop doing these gimmicks? I would say so again. We also have the pro variant, and I would say that 45000 price point would have been justified if this handset had the IP 67 or 68 protection, but officially this one does not have that they have left at it. For the pro series, with the pro series, if you go, you will get slightly better camera, it has that proper zoom, and it also has IP rating and wireless charging. Those are the things that aren't missing on this one, don't get me wrong overall, the phone is fine, I would say, but I feel OnePlus is charging a little of premium and trying to push you towards the pro instead of this one.

But again it's your money, and you have to decide which one is better. I would say, if you're on a tight budget still even the OnePlus 7t is a good smartphone. It's not an outdated smartphone, but again, if you are willing to spend this is not a bad phone anyways guys, that's it for this review and if you guys are still not subscribed to my YouTube channel hit that subscribe button. This is transit and I hope to see you in my next video take care guys.

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