OnePlus 8T unboxing: $749 is expensive for an affordable flagship... By Mobile Tech Podcast

It's time welcome to another day, another unboxing. This is the OnePlus 8t. That's the box, some images at the bottom, the OnePlus logo. Here one plus very well done, let's open it up! Oh, it's taking its sweet time, but here we go nothing here. Nice little detail here, 80 on the side, 18 on the other side, all right, so we've got a divider first. Let's take a look at that.

I'm pretty confident! That's all the paperwork for this. So here we got the invitation letter. This is a pretty standard thing from OnePlus with the sim removal tool. Let me uh show you this because it's like always a little message. That's friendly here you go.

I will leave this up for you to read all right. Then we've got a quick start guide. It's got. Instruction tells you where all the buttons are and everything, and it's in multiple languages, all right, and then we've got some SAR information, some stickers, of course, nice, and then we've got the safety information stuff that nobody cares about. Now.

We've got the phone in the box here I'll get to that in a second we've got a charging cable and this time it's an USB type c, two type c charging cable. This is a long usual most one plus phones up to the warp charge.30T used a c to a cable with an on the adapter, but this has changed now because of 65 watt charging. So let me show you this adapter there it is and, as you can see, it's got these rounded corners instead of being kind of squarish, here's all the information, but if you want a 65 watt charge, you need this charger. You need this cable and need this phone. So that's kind of interesting.

That's one of the big features of the OnePlus 8t. Instead of 30 watt charging, it's gone up to 65. And the way it does. This is with dual batteries that are charged in parallel, but anyway that's it for the box folks. So nothing else here.

Let's look at the phone, shall we so let's open this up here we go. So this is the phone. Let me get that I'm a sticker here we go and ta-da. Oh, it's a very similar color to the OnePlus word and the camera. Pod is fascinating.

So let's talk about everything on this phone, but before we do, let me fire it up there. We go so as usual for OnePlus there's a pre-applied screen protector here doesn't make a huge difference unless you're a clumsy person, I don't generally leave them on. So this is a 6.55 inch, AMOLED screen and one of the nice things about it. Just like the word. This is a flat screen.

There is no rounded curves like there was on OnePlus, 8 and 8 pro, which I like a lot better. I really don't like the waterfall edges. This is oxygen OS 11, so it looks a little different, the uh, the welcome screen than it used to on an OnePlus phone 6.5, inches 1080p, 120 hertz. That's the big news. Instead of 90 hertz on the OnePlus 8 six months ago, we're now getting 120 hertz on this display, which is really nice.

You got a hole punch here for the front camera, and you've got a bit of a chin down here, not too much but just slight, more bezel at the bottom, as you'd expect. So the battery system is interesting, 4500 William hour total battery, but it's divvied up into two cells that are roughly equal, so 2250 William each and this charger here can charge these in parallel. So both of the cells get charged at the same time by this charger and the end result is super high speed charging times like we're talking 35 minutes from CT to 4 yeah. So that's uh kind of cool OPPO's been doing this uh with other phones like the opp, fine x2 pro that I unboxed and reviewed a while back, and so it's nothing new. The BBK group which Oppo is a part of OnePlus, a part of, has been doing 65 wide charging on a bunch of phones.

Now so yeah cameras. Let's talk about cameras, maybe let's start with the front camera quickly. So the front camera is a 16 megapixel, camera f of a 2.4 with them one micron pixels. It's fine, then, on the back, we've got four cameras. Two of them are kind of useless, very much like the word.

The other two are the meat of it. So we've got a 48 megapixel Sony, mix 5x6 main sensor. That is the same camera as on the word, the same camera as on the OnePlus 8. This is a nice setup. It's got is, it's a proven sensor that works really well.0.8 micron pixels, its pixel bins, four to one to create a 12 megapixel photo with 1.6 micron pixels. I was hoping the OnePlus 8t would get the eight pros, mix 689, which is a better 48 megapixel sensor, but it didn't, so that's what we're stuck with it's not really stuck.

I mean this is a good sensor, f, over 1.7 is, 48 megapixels, all right. Next, we have an ultra-wide. The ultrawide is a 16 megapixel f of a 2.2 with 123 degree. Field of view could be one micron, but I'm not sure. Then we have a 5 megapixel dedicated macro camera.

I'm not sure if it has autofocus, but certainly going to be an improvement over the 2 megapixel from the OnePlus word and the OnePlus 8, because those were fixed focus as well, but very low resolution. So I really hope they put autofocus macros are kind of useless. Unless you have autofocus and at least it's got more pixels and more detail at five megapixels and there's also a two megapixel monochrome camera here, I'm not sure what it's used for maybe depth sensing or extra light gathering for better dynamic range hard to tell there is no wireless charging on this phone, just like the eight. So keep that in mind and again 4 500 William hour battery in here. This is a snapdragon 865 with either 8 gigs of ram or 12 gigs of ram.

It's lpddr4x, it's not the fastest LP gddr5, but it does have either 128 or 256 gigs of UFS 3.1 storage, and that is nice and quick, which is welcome news. We don't know the pricing at the time that I'm doing this review. So if I know the price by the time I publish a video, I will put it right here: let's give you a quick walk around, so you got a notification slider very one plus here you can slide this between silent, vibrate and sound on power lock key here. This is, on the right hand, side on the bottom. Here you've got the speaker.

This has stereo audio, it uses the earpiece for a second speaker. It has USB type c and dual sim tray, no micro SD. On the left side, we got the volume rocker right, it's pretty much standard stuff, and then you got on top just the secondary microphone. I presume the primary mic: oh yeah, it's right there in this antenna band. That's it that's the layout! That's the OnePlus 8t folks, a slight upgrade really over the OnePlus 8, the big news being the 65w charging your, getting a slightly better macro camera and a different screen.

That's 120 hertz and doesn't have round edges. That's basically it really in terms of differences between these two phones, so stay tuned I'll, obviously have more about this phone pretty soon. But before we finish, I wanted to show you: this came with some cool cases as usual for OnePlus. So there's this uh 3d printed light looking case, which um we also got for the OnePlus 8 and 8 pro. You know I see 3d printed looking like because it's got these this kind of weird, like steps on the edges here, I don't think it's 3d printed necessarily, but it's got that you know DIY Homebrew vibe to it.

It is somewhat flexible, and then you've got a really cool circuit board like case here that one is pretty sweet. So I'm kind of excited about that notice that there's no case in the box there's usually a transparent CPU case with one plus phones, but that's gone, so I think I'm going to probably set it up with this case, because that's a really cool looking case right, so folks, stay tuned I'll have more content soon. This is the OnePlus 8t and uh yeah. Please subscribe like to tell your friends click on the notification bell below to get notified comment below. Let me know, would you buy this phone? What do you think of this phone? Do you think OnePlus is heading in the right direction with this OnePlus 8t, especially since we know there's not going to be an OnePlus 8t pro? Are you going to look into getting this phone, or are you going to wait for the special edition of the OnePlus word? That's coming to the U.

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