OnePlus 8T Review! Best Value Flagship 2020 By TechOdyssey

Hey everybody welcome back to tech odyssey. So today, I'm here to talk about the OnePlus 8t, and this has got to be one of my most favorite phones of the year. It's definitely one of the most fun phones of the year. It has so much going on for a 6.55-inch screen with a 120hz refresh rate 1080p resolution HDR 10 plus it looks gorgeous stereo sound, so you've got speakers on the top and on the bottom, which is solid, 4500, William battery, snapdragon, 865 and 5g, but there's a lot more, and we're going to talk about it in this video. But before we get into that, I do want to say if this is your first time stopping by the channel. I appreciate you being here if you enjoy the video please hit the like and the subscribe button and the little notification bell.

If you want updates when new videos come out now, let's talk about the OnePlus 8t, so the OnePlus 8t, like I said, is one of my most favorite phones and I think one of the best phones of the year. It has two different price points. You can get it for 6.99 with eight gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage, or you can pay 749 MSRP and get 256 gigabytes of storage and 12 gigs of ram. That's pretty neat, and I think it's a pretty good spec bump for only about 50 dollars extra. I don't really have any complaints there.

Overall, the price on this, I think, is very fair, and I think it works good. It's very powerful. The snapdragon 865 will zip. Yes, it doesn't have the 865 plus, but it doesn't need that there's only about 10 difference in performance between the 865 and 865 plus, really not that big of a deal. The 865 is in the Samsung Galaxy s20, s20, plus s20 ultra very good chipset 5g antenna on it, and it's got a full complement of cameras on the back there.

So this is a quad camera array. So what we've got here is a 48 megapixel primary shooter. We have a 16 megapixel wide angle, so you can take those ultra-wide photos. Get the whole scene in their see the whole thing. What's going on, you get a 5 megapixel macro lens camera.

On there, which I really appreciate it allows you to get those I like to call them the National Geographic photos. You know the ones where you take the little up-close picture of the ants or the dew drops that you have out on like a blade of grass or on a leaf or something the ones that let you light. It looks like you're using a magnifying glass like you're up real close, so you've got that in here, which is really nice, and then you also have a 2 megapixel depth sensor, so you can get high quality portrait shots as well, and you've also got a 16 megapixel on the front. So the cameras on this, I think, are okay. I've seen a mixed bag of reviews on the camera.

Some people, like, oh, my gosh, the cameras are terrible and then some people, like, oh the cameras, are just fine. I think the cameras work well as long as you have pretty good circumstances like if you've got good lighting, it's going to take great pictures. If you have less than ideal lighting, that's where it starts to suffer so in areas where, like maybe a pixel or an iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy, might excel this. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't, and I think that the biggest problem is inconsistency, not that they're necessarily bad cameras, because I've taken good pictures, and I've taken bad pictures. For instance, if you've got some perfect lighting and good scene lighting like it's dark outside, I took a picture uh.

You can see right here. I took a picture of this Applebee's outside, and it turned out better than my iPhone 12 Pro max, which is supposed to be perfect at low light photography, and then I also took this one here of this light bulb in my backyard, and it really didn't come out very impressive. So that's just an example there. The primary shooter, I think, is pretty reliable, though, and it's also capable of shooting 4k at 60 frames per second or 30, which is nice. One thing that I'm not crazy about, though, is the front-facing selfie.

Camera only does 1080p at 30 frames per second, and I don't really know what the logic was behind that, because it's definitely capable of more. Maybe it's a combination of the camera they put in there, but 1080p at 30 frames per second, that's like kind of the minimum to get by in 2020. I think, so you can do Zoom calls you can do duo. You can do all that stuff, and it even sounds good because you have the stereo speakers, the one on the top and the one on the bottom, very adequate volume very full sound. I think they did a good job there.

So yeah, I don't know what the decision process was with the front-facing selfie camera. If you want to improve the quality of the pictures on this phone, then you need to get Guam now, Guam is out there. I think it's called a Google camera. Everyone calls it Guam, it's the camera. You need to download it.

You can download a different camera setup to use on this phone. I don't use it personally. I always test out the phone and use it stock, but I know people that have installed it on there and if you know what it is, then you know what it is. Furthermore, I just I don't have a lot of experience with it. Furthermore, I've only ever installed it on the phone once it's not my thing, but it does make the camera look better.

Furthermore, I have a buddy of mine. English Dan reviews has taken a lot of pictures with Guam, and they look stunning. So there are ways it's not that the hardware is bad. It's just the software implementation is, you know not as refined and polished. So it gives me hope that as the phone ages, and they put out more updates, and they refine it, it will get better over time, but, as things are now, I think it takes okay photos.

Sometimes you have perfect ones. Sometimes you have. I thought it was going to look better. So that's it with the camera experience 4 500 ml amp battery. How is it well, I'm maxing out at about five hours of screen on time.

You might, can get more than that. If you're, not me- and you don't have the brightness turned all the way up, and you don't have 120 hertz on all the time. If you don't have adaptive, brightness turned off. If you don't have you know things like the timeout turned down to like 30 seconds, like I put mine on five minutes, because I'm always using my phone, I need to leave the display on for long periods of time. The longer the screen is on the more video you're watching the more games you're playing the faster you're going to burn.

Through this battery, I can get five hours on it. If I can get five, you can probably get six, maybe seven, just depending on the mixed use and how you use it. The beauty of this phone is the 65 watt warp charger. So this is capable of handling 65 watts of power. That's enough juice! To get this fully charged from zero to 100 in 39 minutes.

That is astronomically crazy and it's insanely amazing. I really enjoy that all the time whenever I charge this thing, it's still I've been using this for a couple of weeks. Now it still catches me it's like wow, it's so fast, and it doesn't get hot. It doesn't feel like it's going to catch on fire. I don't worry that it's a safety hazard, you plug it in you, come back a couple of minutes later, and it's like you can almost sit there and watch the numbers go up if you want to it's really impressive, so a 4 500 William battery is good.

It's slightly improved over the OnePlus 8, but this 120hz refresh rate combined with 5g, combined with the AMOLED display, combined with the snapdragon 865 yeah. It sucks up some power, but that's because it uses power. This is like a Ferrari under the hood, with very, very little on top of it to slow it down. So that's what I like about this phone. It's no frills! It's just efficient! Furthermore, it's fast! Furthermore, it's zippy! Furthermore, it's very enjoyable! Furthermore, it's great for multimedia, HDR, 10, plus display you get the best when it comes to watching content on your phone, especially if you're, watching HDR, 10 or HDR 10, plus videos, so 6.55 inch, ammo LED display. Furthermore, it is just super beautiful and then the 120 hertz refresh rate you get this nice smooth, scrolling experience if you use it in real life you'll.

I think that you'll appreciate it, and you'll enjoy it and the biggest difference I noticed is like when I go back and use other phones, and it has the 60hz refresh rate. This is so nice, so the refresh rate. What that means is how many times the images are displayed on the screen in one second, normal displays are 60 hertz, 60 frames, 120 hertz is a 120 times the screen refreshes. So you have less motion blur. Everything looks nice and smooth whenever you're using it, and it just makes for a nice experience, but of course it does eat up the battery.

So yes battery life, I can get five hours of screen on time, like squeaking across the finish line. That's okay to mostly get me through all day long for a normal person. I still think it'll get through the day, but if you're going to be doing some heavy gaming, heavy video watching then yeah you're, probably going to have to top up, but the beautiful thing is 65 watts of charging power and that charger comes in the box. It's not like. You have to go out and spend 100 to get the charger.

It comes with the phone. So I really appreciate that now it's charged by USB doesn't have a headphone jack. So if that's a breaking point for you, then maybe this phone isn't for you, but of course you can get a dongle and plug it in that way, fingerprint sensor it actually works really. Well, I like a lot. It's very fast.

It's very responsive. Furthermore, it's probably the best optical fingerprint sensor. I've used on a phone, so I like that, other things that I like it has facial recognition. So you can unlock it by scanning your face, that's cool! It has the mute switch over on the side here. So you can press that down turns the ringer and the sound on, and then you can press it up.

One more time for vibration and you can press it up one more time to turn it into silent mode. So that's also nice. It's running oxygen, OS 11, which is based on android 11. These guys are like if Google Pixel is the king of software updates. These guys are like the queen of software updates.

They get the operating systems very fast, pretty much the same time that pixel do they're, always pushing out software updates, they're, always doing refinements and putting out patches to make things better, and they're reliable with security updates. So that's one thing: I really love about these guys. Your phone will be updated. It will be relevant for a long time. This is going to see.

Android 12 is probably going to see android 13, so if they're still calling it that by then, but software experience great multimedia gaming, this is one of the best gaming phones of the year. Not only do you not have to pay a million dollars to buy one, it has everything for a great gaming experience. You have the enhanced refresh rate, so you don't have the motion blur. It looks beautiful when you play it: AMOLED display full 1080p, plus it looks gorgeous HDR content, HDR 10, plus great sound and tons of power with the snapdragon 865. So if you like to play games, you don't want to spend a ton of money on a phone.

This right here is going to be a perfect experience for you, and then you're going to get back in the fight just like that, because you can recharge it quick fast and in a hurry with your 65 watt charger. Now, it's not all sunshine and rainbows. It doesn't have wireless charging, but I don't think that it needs that one wireless charging is kind of like maintenance charging, or you throw it on there at night when you get ready to go to bed. If you've got power on demand where you can recharge 50 of your phone in like less than 20 minutes who need wireless charging, and I can't use it when it's on the wireless charger anyway, when you have it plugged into the bottom, you can recharge it and use it at the same time. So I've always been an advocate for wired charging.

Yes, wireless charging can be convenient, but if you can top your phone off and recharge the whole thing really quick, then I don't think that's a big trade off. I don't think that's much of a sacrifice. I'd rather have the superfast charging. It does not have an official IP dust and water resistant designation, no ip67, no ip68 OnePlus has shown off before that. Their phones are relatively water resistant, but the thing is: is they don't charge the extra money? Because if you want to get an IP certification here in the US, it's like an extra hundred bucks on top of the phone price.

So then you'd be looking at eight hundred dollars instead of seven hundred or six hundred dollars. So I'm okay with that just follow the cardinal rule. Don't take your phone in the water? Don't take any electronics in the water for that matter. Unless you've got like a protective case on it, and it's an underwater GoPro, and then you know, that's fine if you've got a fully encapsulated case, but I'm just not in the market to take my expensive phones into the water yeah I've really been enjoying this phone. I think that the battery life is good enough to get you through the day.

I think that the power the performance, the beautiful display, I think, you're going to fall in love with the enhanced refresh rate with the 120 hertz display. It's super smooth, and you do notice it some people. Oh, I can't tell the difference. Look, you can tell the difference and if you can't go use a regular phone after you've used this one for a couple of days and then come back. You will notice instantly.

I assure you, but I love that about it. It's just a good phone at a good price and OnePlus is very dedicated to keeping their phones up to date, and it looks. It looks nice. This is the lunar silver version, and they got a couple other colors, but it's just a really nice sleek phone built. Well- and I very much enjoy now- there's no expandable storage.

I can't remember if I said that earlier, but no expandable storage, so you're stuck with whichever one you get 128 or 256. The ram, I think, is less important than the storage space, but starting with only 128 and then topping out at 256. I wish there were some more options there, but unfortunately there is not, but that's all I've got on my review of the OnePlus 8t again I like it a lot and just for full disclosure. This phone was sent out to me by OnePlus 2 review. This is not a sponsored video, I'm not being compensated for this they're, not paying me anything, and they're not getting to see this before you are.

This is just they send it out to me for my objective, unbiased impression on the phone, so I can make this video and you guys can see my thoughts on the phone, but I do like it. I think it's better than one plus eight. I think it's improved. There are some concerns out there with the camera, but here's the thing it takes perfectly good photos. Does it always take amazing photos? No, not always, but sometimes it can, and if you get Guam you're going to get a lot more consistent experience here, and I think over time as they tune this up with the software updates.

I think it's going to get better and better, but still it takes perfectly good camera photos. I think that it looks fine. So that's all I've got if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them down. In the comment section, I will get back with you if you enjoyed the video, please hit the like and the subscribe button and the little notification bell if you want updates when new videos come out and as always thanks for being here, I appreciate you watching, and I'll see you guys next time.

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