OnePlus 8T Initial Review: Familiar speed By Joshua Vergara

Another year, another t variant. The thing is these are exciting phones from OnePlus because they tend to optimize the package and in some ways make it a little more accessible for everybody. It's Joshua verger! What's going on everybody, here's an initial review of the OnePlus 8t before I give you my final complaints and takeaways with all the craziness that's going on right. Now, though, I hope you don't mind me taking a slightly different approach to my content with this right here, the OnePlus 18. The reason why I say I'm doing things a little differently with this one is because I probably won't do a full real world camera test with this phone, because there's just so much stuff on its way and with a t variant of this device. Actually, a lot of this you might be familiar with already I'll explain a little more once I get to the camera section, but for now let's take a look at the unboxing experience, and then I can tell you about the design of this new OnePlus 8t.

The thing is, I did get the press kit, so it's probably a little catered to people like myself, who are going to be reviewing this device, but ultimately, what you're seeing here is what the retail package will have. The only thing that we'll be missing in the North American side of things is an included case in the box, but that's okay, because OnePlus is perfect with their first party accessory. So maybe you can put just a little of extra money towards a case that will dramatically change the look. That said, the phone is a looker curve on the back, but a flat display up front, and the thing is, I might not be the biggest fan of this shade of blue, like I wasn't on the OnePlus word, but I have to commend them for the actual design cues they took. As far as the hardware is concerned, the camera hump is not all that tall, and it's got this very symmetrical.

Look with three on three different diodes, but on the topic of just how awesome the accessory support is for the OnePlus 8t. What you get in the box is a 65 watt, fast charger. The warp charging on this thing is insane, as we have come to expect from OnePlus flagship devices, and then, of course, you get the red, cable, the signature, red cable. We went through the setup for this device and already oxygen. Os 11 is what we're greeted with now oxygen.

Os 11 is going to come baked into this device. You can already see. I have the always-on display turned on, and I'm using it with the new inside AOD, which I'll talk about a more little bit later. The thing is oxygen. Os 11 is also going to come to the OnePlus 8 pro and the OnePlus 8.

So this software update is going to be available across more than just this particular device. You still get the snapdragon 865, you still get uh 8 and 12 gigabytes of ram and 120 or 256 gigabytes of onboard storage. It is a 4 500 William hour battery and, like I just mentioned it supports 65 watt warp charging that is included in the box. Clearly, the highlight of this particular phone is going to be the display that 120 hertz in this fluid AMOLED display. It is hardly a surprise that the display is a highlight on an OnePlus flagship phone and on this phone.

I have really enjoyed doing things like playing gang shin impact. I just started it and watching or enjoying really any form of media and even though 120hz might not be supported technically by a lot of media, that's out on the internet, at least in the interface, the actual software that you'll be staring at every single day. It is supported and ultimately, pleasing, and it's exactly the kind of fluidity we've come to expect from OnePlus, and another marquee thing about this display is that it just gets super bright at eleven hundred nits. I definitely have kept myself up playing gamin impact in bed, because this thing was just shining right into my eyeballs, also shout out to the fact that this is a flat panel. The curve on the back would just make ergonomics better, so you're going to get high, refresh rate you're going to get great, AMOLED colors, and then it's flat making it better for one-handed usage win-win-win.

So let's go ahead and talk about some of this oxygen OS 11 goodness now it is still one of the cleanest android iterations out there. There are some enhancements this time around, and it seems, like things, have changed a little stylistically, not that anything has changed. For the worse mind, you, you still get a lot of the same features that we've enjoyed from oxygen OS like, for example, in the display settings. You not only get the dark mode which makes things easier on the eyes, but you get even further things in the vision, comfort modes like changing up the color temperature of the display, or even going straight into a reading mode. That gives you that Kindle like experience with a monochromatic rendering ergonomics, was a big deal for the oxygen OS 11 engineers, as I've noticed a lot of stuff renders, on the bottom, half of the phone.

We've already seen this with things like folders and whatnot, but it's just a lot easier to reach everything when it's while within reach like, for example, if you go into the camera- and you want to share your last taken, photo or video you just hold on to that icon and everything is right there next to where your finger has been pressing and then there are actually a few changes to the way that it uses its game tools. Now you go straight into the game space. Add your games to this particular app and then in the games. You can actually swipe down from one of the corners, and you'll get a number of different tools, one of which is an option for you to make a floating window of a particular application that you should be able to change. But for me, I've had Instagram there.

This whole time I haven't figured out how to change this particular app. Yet uh but yeah it'll be great to get telegram on there, but this is also a new way of getting to other options like the fanatic mode, so that you can just turn off all distractions power up the phone even more and get that gaming performance to its top-notch, there's even more to talk about in oxygen OS 11, but I'm actually going to wait until I do a full, dedicated video on it. After all, I did start a series here on my channel where I'm looking at the different iterations of android 11. So we can see how the different phone manufacturers sort of flavor android in their ways the thing is oxygen, OS 11. Some of the features that they have been saying their going to have on here, are still coming in a future firmware update.

One thing I can show you right now, though, is this inside AOD. This always on display is a good look. It's a unique look: four oxygen, OS 11s particular always on display, and it's supposed to show you not only the number of unlocks that you have done throughout the day. But it's also going to show you how much time you have spent on your phone. I actually can't really decipher exactly what the coloring or the gaps are, because the explanation inside the inside AOD settings is actually a bit unclear, but maybe that description will get a little more updated uh.

Even then, we're going to get other always-on displays like Bitmoji AOD, which should be fun and then a canvas AOD in which you can actually input a portrait of you or someone that you know, and it will create a sketch of it automatically, which you then put at your lock screen. So those are things that I'm looking forward to, and then I will explore other parts of oxygen OS 11 and bring it to you in a dedicated look at OnePlus as flavor of android 11. So, let's get into the cameras- and this is where I had to make that decision- regarding how to tackle my content with the OnePlus 8t, you see, while the camera hum might look pretty different and there are some different lenses on here. Ultimately, what you're looking at here is a retooled version of the cameras that you saw in the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 pro. The main sensor is still 48 megapixels, and you can trigger the 40 megapixel mode right inside the photo app uh.

You can go into the pro mode, and it's also there in JPEG 48, so you still can get high resolution photos. However, the ultra-wide angle is a 16 megapixel ultra-wide angle lens, and that will allow you to still do 4k video recording, even 4k cine recording, which I always enjoy, and you can change among the different lenses as you are recording your 4k. The wide-angle lens on the 8t, though, is the widest they've ever made it's 123 degrees, which is pretty nice to have, especially in video. The photos don't show too much distortion uh, given how wide the angle is. So it's not too bad now, whereas in the OnePlus 8 pro the ultra-wide angle, lens was also 48 megapixels, and it was used as a double timed macro lens.

This time you actually get a dedicated macro lens at five megapixels. Now the thing is five. Megapixel does mean that you can get some pretty good, maybe decent macro shots. If that's what you're looking for and then, if you hold on the shutter button, you can get a macro video of sorts. Obviously, for many of you out there, the jury is still out on whether a macro lens is a worthy addition to a camera package.

But that's what you get here, and then the last lens is a two megapixel monochrome lens. Now it would be nice to just get black and white photos with something like this we've done that before, but ultimately, the monochrome lens is probably helping with some low-light capabilities and also a bit of depth sensing. That's because one of the main modes that they are touting on this phone is a video portrait mode. Now it's going to use the main sensor, which means you can't use the ultra-wide for it, which is why I kind of have to hold the camera like this and pretty far away. But you can see here.

I have a fairly soft background that is being digitally added on, so you get kind of that, like perfect portrait. Look, but now I'm in motion, so video portrait mode might be something that you would like using if you're going to take some videos of like say your partner or any of your friends or someone gets someone to take the video of you so that you can throw it up and have this nice soft look. So just looking at the footage of the clip, I literally just showed you I'm actually really impressed with how well it was able to figure out not just the cutout of me, but also to provide that soft look in a way that doesn't actually look too digital. Perhaps that's going to be partially because of that monochrome sensor being able to provide a bit more information, whether it's depth or otherwise, so that it can actually figure all of that out in real time for a video mode, and this is all being done on a 48 megapixel sensor. So it's nice to see that OnePlus is creating a t line without having to go too far into the high numbers or anything like that, because that's definitely been the philosophy for some upgraded variants in the past.

Of course, it would be great if the portrait video mod was available on the front-facing camera, because that would make it a little more practical. After all, when you're doing the portrait, video you're, usually the one has to shoot somebody else where you have to get someone to shoot you. The thing is also the front-facing camera, even though it is fairly wide. It is like many front-facing cameras. It tends to fall apart in even medium light situations like this, and it's only recording 1080p video, which is something I always mention in every video.

I wish that we could get higher resolution higher quality recording from the front and then, of course, one of the main modes would be the nights cape mode and nights cape in particular, already does a pretty good job of creating a better result out of a very, not ideal scene. But then there you have nights cape video, which I'm still kind of figuring out exactly how it's working here. What I think is happening here is that it's pixel binning the main sensor, but it does crop back out a little when you compare it to a regular one times, video. So after getting some photos and videos around the house, I came to the conclusion that the camera experience actually informs the entire experience of this phone. See you get a lot of enhancements here that are significant in the software sense.

You get oxygen, OS 11. , you get the warp charging included in the box and, of course, the wonderful 120hz fluid AMOLED display. You get basically the experience you would expect from OnePlus, but that also means that this is not going to be a very revolutionary step forward. After all, it is a t variant again, not a bad thing, especially since this phone is coming in at under 800, and it's going to be available here in North America, particularly in the US on Verizon and T-Mobile. So as usual, OnePlus is finding ways of getting their phones uh into more hands for slightly fewer prices than typical flagships.

That's still a win, and the OnePlus 8t continues that pedigree. So that's what I'm reserving my final judgments for. I may not do a full real world camera test, because the camera package, even with its enhancements, is ultimately very familiar, but once oxygen, OS 11 hits its more final stages. I will definitely do more looks at the way it does android 11 and then use that as a bigger backdrop to the final perspectives I have on the OnePlus 8t. Let me know what you want to know from those videos they might be coming a little later on, but I did want to make sure I got you some perspectives on this and showed you why the camera, while perfect, is not necessarily revolutionary, but I did want to show you some of the new stuff that OnePlus did put in with all that said, you can look forward to everything that's going on this particular month.

October is uh, definitely underway, and it's a very busy time uh. So yeah subscribe to my channel if you haven't already, so you can keep up with everything that I'm doing here at JV drop some likes on this video at the very least and then get into some discussions in the comments down below. Let me know what you think of the OnePlus 8t have those discussions and yeah I'm going to go ahead and call it on this one. Thank you so much for watching take care of yourselves and each other and enjoy your tea. Everybody.

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