OnePlus 8 Review By MobileTechReview

This is Lisa from mobile tech review and this is the OnePlus 8 it in the 8 Pro lunch. At the same time, in April 2020, we already reviewed the pro, so we're gonna look at the 8, which is in the United States, also offered by both T-Mobile and Verizon. For the first time, we're gonna look at it now, so the OnePlus 8 isn't as inexpensive a phone as the 1 pluses of all its 700 to 800 dollars, depending on whether you want it with 8 gigs of RAM and 128, gigs of storage or 12 gigs of ram and 256 gigs of storage. There's no micros card like you'd, see on a Samsung s Galaxy as twenty-plus or something so get it with the amount of storage you need. What brings the price up from previous generations is in part that Qualcomm snapdragon, 865 processors, plus 5g modem. Those are more expensive than previous iterations from Qualcomm for CPUs, so that puts one plus in the difficult position of being the flagship killer and wants to go and now being up there almost price the same as flagships, though it's still considerably more affordable than the pro version.

What do you lose here? You don't get a telephoto lens camera, which is a little of a disappointment for those who would like to take wild animals. Your pets, kids, whatever without getting up in their faces, for example, be nice to have them for a more flattering portrait. I do, however, get a 2x digital zoom. That's pretty well done because we're talking a 48, megapixel main camera sensor, that's pretty big, so they have a lot of pixels to sample there. That sensor is not as big a sensor, though, despite the same megapixel rating as the main camera on the OnePlus pro 8, and it shows in the pictures in terms of detail and other things, to contrast and all that won't get a little more into the camera, but there you go.

So what do you get since? Well, you do still see three lenses on the back of this phone. Well, you get a 2 megapixel, dedicated macro camera, which I don't see the point of because the phone's isn't previously from OnePlus could take pretty good macro shots without having a dedicated lens, but there it is I find a little fidgety to get that one to actually focus till you really have to hold it kind of close in on it beyond the price issue, which made some OnePlus fans who love them when they were the $600 phone and so on, it's a nicely built phone, it's premium, not that one plus phones felt or seems in any way. But this is your usual glass sandwich, and it's available in three different colors there's a glacial green, which we had in the OnePlus Pro 8, that's one color that they share between them and that's the lowering configuration that's with eight gigs, around 128 gigs of storage and there's the one we have, which is called interstellar glow and that one is in the 12 gigs of ram 256 gigs models, so the more expensive one and there's also onyx black, which I believe is also in the higher storage capacity. That's $100 more so interstellar glow. Let's just talk about that for a minute.

You know in some pictures it might look like a clone of Samsung's aura, glow color, which is really more milky. This one is more cross between kind of chrome and alloy, wheels, it's much more silvery and very reflective and a little more neutral in its own color. And it's nice enough. Looking. But you know, fingerprints that'll be your issue ah, but this one doesn't have that fast.

Superfast wireless charging that the OnePlus 8 pro has. In fact, this one has no wireless charging at all for a phone in this price range. That is, are hurt, and I'm pretty disappointed about that, and you know who you are. If you care about wireless charging, you can move along right now. The display on this is full HD plus resolution.

It's a nice time. Looking OLED display it's quite good, it's not as close pixel dense, obviously, as the OnePlus 8 pro, it's still good, looking display with 1100 nits of max outdoor brightness a little less bright than the pro, but those are pretty good, specs subjectively. Looking it looks quite nice, I find it may be slightly more reflective outdoors which might have to do with the slightly lower maximum brightness, and it's a 19 Hertz refresh display, which we've seen from OnePlus before not the hundred twenty Hertz that they do on the pro and then Samsung is doing on the galaxy s 20 line. This is a six point. Five inch display, so it's a little smaller, not a lot six point: seven eight inches on the pro I really can't say: I feel a huge difference in the display size, but somehow the phone feels noticeably just more hand friendly and pocketable and I have really large hands: I'm tall woman, so yeah.

If you're used to big phones, this one will be pretty comfy. The eight pro is a big boy for sure. It's also a little lighter this one, this one's 180 grams, which is pretty fair for a phone of this size. Class' is the plus size, kind of phone and that's 20 grams, lighter and then the pro is, which feels like it: one heavy phone as ever it's a one plus phone, which means lately really great haptics. The screen is curved on this, which you can see, and it's it gets annoying.

Folks at this point, you know that much of a curve accidental touches that sort of thing inside the box by the way, unlike the 1, +, 8, Pro and previous 1 plus phones, you don't get a free, clear case in the box. Really yeah, we have a USB-C port, as you would expect, and you'll use that for Wired audio, if you wish, and if you want to use Bluetooth, is Bluetooth 5.1 with not just app decks, but apex HD AAC l documents, some profiles that we don't always see. That will please the more audiophile oriented folks who are using wireless or true wireless, headphones and earbuds. The phone runs Android 10 with oxygen OS and, as always, I love the skin that they put on there. It's lightweight a few handy things that you want nothing that you don't the whole Samsung throw everything in there and test it doesn't deranged you, and you know that sort of thing it's well done always and yes, we still have the alert slider.

So it's very easy with the slider switch to put on vibrate or completely mute the phone yeah that the phone has an in display, fingerprint scanner just like OnePlus has been using, and this is the optical kind. So it's not the most secure, but it's very fast. A lot faster than the Samsung Galaxy has 20 in there. Ultrasonic, fingerprint scanner, and you've got facial recognition, which is the usual 2d kind again. Somebody can fill it with a picture of you, but unless you're James Bond, you probably aren't too worried about that.

So here's where 5g gets a little complicated here and this isn't like some of the more mainstream phones like the galaxy s, 20 family of phones that have all the kinds of 5g working on all the carriers. Not so much here, so I think we have the unlocked model. So the unlocked miles pretty much works as well as a T-Mobile model on T-Mobile and that does of low and mid-band 5g. It doesn't do that really fast millimeter wave that has very small footprint, especially for T-Mobile, so no loss there if you're on Verizon- and you want that millimeter wave coverage, which is pretty much all Verizon- is focusing on right. Now you need to get the Verizon version from Verizon and I believe it that one it is only the higher configuration that one would be the $800 mom and if you're on AT&T good thing that this has a lot of 4G LTE bands, everything you could ever want there, because AT&T is not letting non AT&T sold phones on to their 5g network at this point.

Well, they change. I can't tell you only AT&T can tell you about one and if you're in other countries, well look at the bands and ask your carrier and figure it out for yourself, so it's a kind of it's there and sometimes not they're kind of 5g situation right now, depending on your carrier, your country and all that sort of thing. Speaking of carrier things. This is a little weird, but OnePlus says it's ip68, water-resistant yeah that, yes than these times, you can actually wash your phone. If you need to, if you get a carrier version, but for the unlocked model, they don't say it's IP, 16 I think it's probably physically the same when you pop out that SIM card slot there's a little rubber gasket and all that certain things, probably the same as the old days with OnePlus, where they said that it was water resistant, but they just didn't pay the extra for the certification to save you money.

We didn't have to pass along that cost. There's that speaking of that SIM card slot is a dual SIM carrier, but here in the United States, when using it, it only shows as one SIM slot available. So let's talk a little more about those cameras, because I think that's the one of the biggest differences other than the wireless charging between this and the pro models and yeah the cameras are noticeably different. I was really pretty pleased with the OnePlus 8 pro cameras and again watch my review. If you want to see more about that- and here this was kind of average results, you know and not any worse than the OnePlus 70 from the last generation or something but nothing to write home about the main lens.

As you might guess, the 48 megapixel one does the best job. This exercise is smaller, there's that, but it's not that I noticed a little more difficulty if it's a bright sunny day with it, sometimes overexposing highlights didn't quite have that crispy sharpness and colorfulness and I saw, though on the pro model, and I'm not feeling like, if you had said a Samsung Galaxy as 10-plus from last year, or something like that, like you being seeing an upgrade for sure the wide-angle lens is 16 megapixels on like the pro or that one is also 48 megapixels. So a little of the second class citizen. Here and again, you can see that the photos just aren't as sharp and detailed and crispy and the exposure on them could be a little better, and you know OnePlus always does camera updates I bet they tweak that and improve the exposure. So it's! Okay, it's not fantastic and there is no telephoto, but they kind of almost fool you with the user interface, because you see the usual like triple trees.

You know two trees, one tree and the way it indicates the different zoom levels there. So it is basically 2x digital zoom, and they do a pretty good job at that. Those pictures are more blocky and a little more noisy, but they look pretty good, so I can see when they put that there. So at least you have a way that is OOM in easily. But if you go on beyond that to three or five or no 810, let me tell you: it quickly turns into a muddy nasty, muddled mess.

I tried taking a picture of a bunny rabbit. It wasn't even that far away, and it just turned into watercolor madness. There's a 16, megapixel, selfie, camera perfectly competent and the cameras on the rear can shoot 4k video up to 60 frames per second. There is no 8k I, don't mind that much yet optical image, stabilization on the main camera, which is pretty much true of all, even flagship phones. They only stabilize the main camera, but I have to say the video I'm in all the shooting modes look pretty smooth to me.

So how about the battery? Well? This is pretty good. It's got a 4300 William battery, that's a nice step up from the previous generation of one-plus phones, and it's almost up there with the 4500 William Samsung Galaxy s, 20, plus, which at least size was this most directly competes with non price-wise because that one is still $1200 this price, though with Samsung phones. There are so many deals and trade-ins and all that you probably almost never paid full retail, but anyway 4300 million. It's happy to see that the pro has forty-five to ten Williams, so not much of a difference, and that really like is gonna, depend obviously on what you're doing you know in the drill. If you're playing games a lot GPS saying all that sort of thing your battery life is shorter, but talking about average use with auto brightness enabled, which for finally is pretty usable on an OnePlus phone.

By the way it doesn't make it super dim all the time and being on 5g on T-Mobile, which is low band 5g I'm easily got six hours of screen on time, which is pretty darn good for today's phones get especially given the fairly high specifications on this, not bad, but no one is charging again. So that's the one plus eight it's in a tough position, expensive enough is $7,800 that you have high expectations. For example, you can get one of the s10 family phones as 10 plus, for example, for around the same price or perhaps even less. It's tough with the OnePlus. Eight probably got all the flagship boxes ticked in it's a lovely phone, but there are things to like here, mostly oxygen, OS and they're.

Pretty good about Android updates here are very nice skin and a really nice display on these holds its own against Samsung phones. Most definitely only super mobile tech review be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more cool tech, videos and thumbs up. If you like this vid.

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