OnePlus 8T (Lunar Silver) | Review | Sometimes a Flagship Killer By Ramy El-Naggar

Welcome to the review of the OnePlus 8t, so look I really like this phone and um, just let's go through things, one by one, so number one design, I have to be honest. The design on this phone is really quite average. There's nothing special about it. It doesn't really catch an eye, I'm not a fan of the design on the back. It's just it's basic, but not in a good way. You know I love a minimal design, but this is basic, not, not bad way but like and not a good way.

You know what I'm saying, but over one you're using and holding the phone, you get a really simple and solid kind of vibe. It's its a weird explanation, but just to give you a sense of what to really expect when you get the phone in your hand, that's kind of the sort of sense that you get and something about the back feels really nice and premium, but in a different way it's got a matte finish on the back, this lunar silver version, and it's glass, but it doesn't feel like a normal frosted sheet of glass. It feels a bit different. I don't know why I just but in a good way so yeah, I'm just you know telling you about that, but also I've never really gotten it. When people say a phone is really slippery because it's never really slippery.

In my experience, but this phone, this phone is quite slippery, like I, I've been close to dropping it a few times in terms of the build there's. No water and dust resistance rating, but OnePlus said sealed. They just haven't paid for the IP rating, so don't be terrified, just don't put too much confidence into it, and what I found kind of weird was that, even though it was a matte finish, it still gets really heavily covered in fingerprints, and it looks really, really greasy. Maybe it's the color that I got or something like that, but fingerprints aren't heavily prevented here I mean it looks much better than a glossy black phone with fingerprints. Believe me, but in terms of fingerprints, it's not the best, not as good as you would expect it to be typical one plus, you got an alert slider above the volume, very, very happy about that.

You can very quickly physically change between vibrate ring and silent, and in my experience like most phones, I've been reviewing recently. The microphone is positioned, really really really horribly, very easy to block even easier than most phones, and I don't know why- and maybe it's because on top of the fact that it's positioned badly, the microphone sounds so quiet on videos and voice messages. When I send a voice message, I listen to somebody's voice message, it's all good, but then, when I listen to my own voice message, I have to turn the volume all the way up, and it's just not even enough yet, and then that brings me onto the speaker, which I don't think is that good either because it doesn't get that loud like it's fun in terms of the quality of sound, nothing bad there. But it just does not get loud enough, and it seems like this is one of the places where OnePlus compromised a bit now for the display. It's a really, really nice display.

It's super smooth, superfast and just overall, really nice to use and there's something about it that I really, really like, which is something that I usually experience with: OnePlus phones that I don't know what it is, but their displays are just really, really nice to use, and I feel like they're underrated and not given enough credit. The haptics are pretty good, which is basically the vibrations you get as feedback when you press a button on the display or something like not a physical button, but it makes it feel like a physical button because of those vibrations and those are the haptics, so they're, not bad they're, pretty good to me, haptics define whether a phone is premium or not, because in order to have high quality haptics, the phone needs to have been engineered at a high quality. So this phone is definitely up there. Nothing crazy, but it's up there's an in-display fingerprint that everyone knows about and that works really, really fast. I think it's the best in display fingerprint I've used, plus the haptic feedback is really, really nice and animation is kind of cool.

Overall, the experience using it is quite nice. I think it's the best I used and tie with the OnePlus 8 pro now. Look real quick! If you think that this nova launcher setup is cool in the description, are all the links for the apps that you need to do it and a link to the backup file, so you can install this nova launcher setup yourself. The first 500 people to use the discount code. Remy is the best full capsule spaces get 20 off.

So, if you're interested, that's all in the description, now look one of the biggest things that really sell an OnePlus phone to me, including this one is oxygen OS, which is their skin on top of android. Now, first thing I want to mention is this: has android 11 out of the box, one of the few few phones that have it? So this already? It's a good sign right, they're, getting all these early updates that you're not even getting from Samsung or any of that so android 11, real, real good, but then auction OS the skin on top of android 11. All right. First off the customization is amazing. You get so many options that you don't get.

You can, I mean yeah, you can change the size of the icons. Furthermore, you can change the grid. Some even one UI can do that right, but you can also change an icon pack. I've never seen that in another version of android and the animations are very, very nice right, they're, like they're, not at iOS level, where everything is perfectly refined, but it's close and something about it is really fast, and so, with the 120 hertz display this phone feels so fast and smooth to use almost flawless. It's like I'm, I'm not even exaggerating when I say it's close to iOS, because iOS is really, really high up there, and you'll find that there is this common theme of functional simplicity, for example.

If you swipe and hold up the app drawer, you get a search. I didn't realize that until I did it by accident, but it's a really helpful thing: it's very simple, and yet it's functional and that's what functional simplicity is. It is the most refined version of android. It's very smooth, clean and animations are logical. You know they're not doing some weird things that just don't make sense, and overall the UI looks, and it's designed very nicely there's.

No, it just does everything right, there's also this thing called quick gesture, so you can do gestures on the screen when it's off just to quickly toggle certain things whether you want to play music or you want to turn on the flashlight. You have many options so that sort of thing it's just really, really useful and there's this new always on display, which shows you how many times you've unlocked the phone that day and as a bar right and in that bar, it's showing you your phone usage, basically with every black section. That's you using the phone and then the time kind of moves down throughout that bar throughout the day, to show you at what stage of the day you're at its kind of cool, so yeah, it's just this kind of things which really add up and show how OnePlus treat their software and how they prioritize it. And this links to the importance of software on a phone and the importance of software in this phone is massive. It sticks out because it's something that I think is underrated, because software, at the end of the day, when you're talking about a phone, that's the thing that you interact with the software through the display, which is why the display is important, but the software, that's what makes up a phone and on here this is my favorite version of android and so overall there's something about the simplicity of the phone that I really, really like.

And that includes the build, and it includes the software. It's an overall simple, yet functional phone, functional simplicity and every time I go back to an OnePlus phone. I remember why I love the company so much. No, they just do it, and they do it right and that's a reflection on what I've said previously and using the phone. How I would sum up an OnePlus phone in general, especially the 80, is one plus.

I have a love for speed at high quality. So not you know, speed in which everything is done lazily, so it ends up being kind of fast. No, this is high quality speed, which is all throughout the software and throughout the hardware. How is speed linked to hardware? Well, do you know about warp charge? 65? That's the charging, basically with the power brick and the cable and the phone that comes with this box and um the power. Brick is 65 watts and in my experience I got five percent to 28 in five minutes, like you forgot to charge it one night you plug it in for five minutes, and you're up by 23 and then went from 28 to 100 in 30 minutes and then what one plus say is it will go from 0 to 100 in 39 minutes.

So I find this feature killer and it is compensates for the battery situation and for me, it really puts the phone up there. The usage of the battery lasts me it's kind of an average battery. You know it does about five hours, and then it's done. You know I might end the day with 20 15, that kind of thing it's kind of a day and a half battery so yeah that battery situation is really nice, but even though it charges superfast one kind of con for me, it's actually kind of big con is no wireless charging. So yeah just bear that in mind.

For me, it's annoying because I just place my phone on a pad, and then it's charging, and I don't even need to think about a cable, but now I have to position a cable plug it in blah blah blah a bit annoying but um. It really depends on your charging situation. Now. Look the camera! It's uh! It's not bad! You know it's! It's pretty! It's all right! Furthermore, it's an OnePlus camera! You know they're, never really at the top, but they're not terrible. It's got a quad camera setup, a 48, megapixel main sensor, which is actually even though that might sound impressive.

It's a good sensor, but it's the same as the 7t and the OnePlus 8, which are well. The 70 is now a relatively old phone. It's also got a 16 megapixel ultra-wide, a 5 megapixel macro and a 2 megapixel depth sensor, and it can record at 4k 60. Uh, but yeah, I'm going to show you some shots. Look at these now this shot, particularly.

I really liked. I even posted an edited version on my Instagram. It handled everything so nicely here, the colors, the dynamic range in the clouds all of that night mode. It was okay, especially when it came to the main camera. Then it kind of fell apart with the telephoto, but something I noticed as kind of reoccurring theme here is hey.

The dynamic range was kind of spot on, but with OnePlus you get a lot of sharpening, which is something I personally don't like, because it can look a little fake. It's like they're, trying to compensate for a lack of quality that you get with any smartphone camera, but also with any ultrawide in any phone. It will fall apart very quickly if the conditions aren't great, but this is a very good example of that. The ultrawide here can fall apart very easily. The conditions have to be really, really good for it to work quite well now, since it has a large sensor, it means you get a natural background blur when you have product photography which looks really nice.

I like that and then the macro is kind of like it's. It's an interesting addition, but it's not that great, not executed. Amazingly, the video isn't bad and since, as a large sensor, if you look at this bottle here, you get a really nice blurred background. That's something I really like, and the detail is pretty good. It's a nice video, I'm not gonna lie, but you know you make your own judgment.

I'm not a fan of the telephoto lens on this phone as a whole in terms of the video and photography not the best, so yeah those were the shots. My overall outlook and my overall conclusion for this phone. Well, let's, let's first look at the price in the UK, you have the option to get 128 gigabytes, which starts at 550 pounds and for me, I think this is a killer deal, but then in the US you don't get 128 gigs, you only get 256 gigs, so it starts at 750 and in the UK for 256 gigs. You get 700 pounds, but basically the way I'm seeing it is. It starts at 750 in the US, and it starts at 550 pounds in the UK, and so I have a different answer and conclusion, depending on where you're located a big part of my love for this phone is software.

The software is insane, and I've already gone over, that I don't want to kind of bring it up again, but basically it's flawless, it's near iOS, and it's my favorite version of android, because it's very fluid to use the physical build is amazing for the money all right. It's like a flagship. The design is okay, and it has cut down on some features. You know wireless charging, speaker and microphone. Those things aren't great, but then it has a really nice feature like warp charge, which I think is a selling feature, because it's only seriously one of a kind.

There's nothing like it. But going back to what I said about the pricing in the UK, I would consider this a flagship killer. I really would because you're getting a pretty much flagship phone for half the price of what you would usually get a flagship phone for or nearly half the price. It's crazy in my opinion, and you get some better things like the warp charge like the software, but then in the US. I wouldn't call that a killer.

Now, it's still a good phone, but it's not a killer, because at the price range that it's at in the US, it has competition. And so you can't name something a killer if it's got valid competition and that's why it's not a flagship killer in the US. But in the UK I would say it is a flagship killer, but overall, looking at this phone, how I would sum it up the priority in this phone and in any one plus phone, but in this phone for the price, the priority is speed, and it results in efficiency, reliability, simplicity and a user-friendly UI in terms of design and function. So yeah, that's kind of my thoughts on this phone. I really do think it's a good phone.

I really do like it, but anyway, I really really really hope you guys enjoyed the video. Please, please, please, please subscribe if you haven't already, because it really helps me out, I'm trying to get 10k by the end of the year like and comment help with the algorithm too. If you could do that and check out my Instagram at the romeo Nagar, because you get a lot of techs on your feed. A behind the perspective and you get to see me work my magic, so yeah go. Go like go! Do that anyway.

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