OnePlus 8T vs 8 Pro comparison review By Tech Spurt

They say that things move fast in the world of tech, and they show in kitten the fresh new OnePlus 8t is here to replace the older OnePlus 8, which came out just six months ago, although this time around there's no OnePlus 8t pro, which means that your 2021 plus lineup now consists of the 8t and the original OnePlus 8. Pro question is, of course, which OnePlus smartphone is going to be best for you. Well, let's do a full side-by-side comparison, so we can see how this stick up for the camera tech, the performance battery life, everything that you need to know and from the latest greatest. Please do poke, subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers so. First up, there is no way in good faith. You could describe either of these smartphones.

As compact. That said, the OnePlus 8t is the more miniature of the two at just 6.55 inches compared with the six point. Seven eight inches, one plus eight pro. Besides the obvious size difference, there are a couple of other ways to tell which one is which as well so, for instance, the OnePlus 8t has got slightly more rounded corners compared with the older airport, for a slightly more comfortable hand feel, although to be fair, the fact that the OnePlus 8t is more comfortable to use it's more likely to be down to its smaller stature. Another OnePlus 8 pro you'll also notice that the screen just bends ever so slightly around the edges, as well as a slightly curved display, rather than the OnePlus 8t.

It's completely flat. That's for the actual materials! Well, it's gorilla, glass, 5, both front and back on the OnePlus 8t and the OnePlus 8 pro as well. Not that you really know that when you have a squint at the back of both of these smartphones, because they've got this lovely matte finish it's kind of frosted at glass, and one of the benefits of that besides, looking pretty damn lovely, is the fact that they're actually quite resistant to fingerprints. So you won't get lots of greasy marks, all of them uh. You know you will have to give them a buffing on your pants every sort of couple of days or so, but nowhere near as bad as those mirrored glass smartphones, you've got a choice of three different colors here with the 8 pro you've got this glacial green version.

Otherwise, you can also get it in ultramarine, blue or onyx black. Meanwhile, the OnePlus 8t is available in this Luna silver model. Otherwise, the aqua marine green, however, bear in mind that which color you choose also dictates what specs you get with these OnePlus handsets as well, so, for instance, with the ht. This lunar silver model has eight gigs of ram and 128 gigs of storage. Whereas if you go for the green version, then what you get is 12 gigs of ram and 256 gigs of storage and unsurprisingly, that will cost you a bit more now.

As far as ruggedness goes, I have no complaints with either of these smartphones. I've dropped both of them now from a sizeable distance onto a hard floor, and it was a sphincter clenching moment both times. Don't get me wrong, but they're both still working absolutely perfectly. Not even a scratch or a crack or a dent to speak of that said, the OnePlus 8 pro has picked up a couple of scratches on that display over the last few months, and it doesn't come with a pre-installed screen protector. Unlike the OnePlus 8t, however, while the OnePlus 8 pro is fully ip68 water and dust resistant, so absolutely fine, if you take in the swimming pool drop it in the bath.

Something like that. The OnePlus 8t is only splash proof, so it'll be fine if you take it out in a bit of a drizzle, but I wouldn't do any more than that when it comes to actually unlocking these one plus handset is an in-display fingerprint sensor in both cases, and usually I'm not a fan of optical sensors. I prefer a physical sensor, but you know what the OnePlus 8 pros has been doing the job for months now I haven't had to reset my prints or anything like that, which has been a bit of a blessing, and so far touch word on the OnePlus.8T seems just as responsive and accurate, and you do have full face unlock support as well. So for whatever reason your hands are a bit grubby or whatever, as you can see, a quick tap of that power button, it scans your mug, and you're, basically straight into your desktops again. Now, let's move on to the software and at the time I'm shooting this.

The OnePlus 8t comes with the latest version of oxygen OS oxygen s11 on top of android 11 fresh out of the box. Meanwhile, the older OnePlus, a pro, is still running OxygenOS version 10 on top of android 10, but you've got many of the same features here. You'll notice that uh quite a lot of differences are aesthetic. So, for instance, the settings menu looks a lot nicer, in my opinion, on oxygen, OS 11. And, as you can see everything in the settings and in the OnePlus apps as well sort of shunted down a little.

So it's easier to use one-handed, definitely a good thing, considering these phones are absolute beasts, but of course, naturally, that oxygen, OS 11 update, will be coming to the OnePlus 8 pro imminently, along with android 11 as well, so you'll get the same. Software features on both smartphones. Basically, and if you want a closer look at the best bits of oxygen, OS 11 definitely go check out my full tips and tricks guide, which is live right now. The display tech is very similar on both these smartphones as well. You do get a gorgeous AMOLED panel on both of these handsets.

Of course, it is bigger. On the pro with six point, seven eight inch display compared with the six point, five inches, one plus eight t and of course you do get that flat finish on the 8t versus the slightly curved effort on the pro. Besides that the main difference is the resolution. You've got a full HD plus finish on the OnePlus 8t, whereas it's bumped up to a quad, HD plus resolution on the OnePlus 8 pro for super sharp visuals. That said, even when watching very high definition, video side by side on the 8 pro and the 8th t, there's minimal uh difference.

To be perfectly honest, you have to squint really hard so notice. The finer details on the 8 pro and the 80 is certainly great for watching a bit of movie action on the go. Both smartphones are capable of producing incredibly natural. Looking colors you've got a just noticeable color difference of just 0.3, so yeah really realistic natural. Looking visuals, that's helped along by the really sharp contrast on both these smartphones as well they're, actually both HDR 10 plus certified.

At the time I shot this video, although you can only get HDL content on Netflix on the pro the 8t hasn't been certified yet, but that should be coming very soon. Indeed, if you jump into the display settings on both of these smartphones, you've got loads of bonus mods to play around with, for instance, the vibrant color effect which you have on both the 8 pro and the 8t, and this just gives those colors a real boost which, as you can see here, working on the airport alongside the 8t, does really make an impact. As usual. If you dive into the advanced section as well, then you can go to screen calibration, as you can see, they're both set to natural at the moment, but you can boost them up a little with the vivid setting, otherwise dive into advanced you've got the RGB the AMOLED wide gamut set and display p3 as well and from the advanced settings. You can also change the resolution of the 8 pro bump it down to full HD plus to match the 8t if you want to preserve battery life, and both of these displays support a 120 hertz refresh rate.

Otherwise, you can see from the little of blurb here. The refresh rate is actually switched between 60 and 120, depending on what you're doing uh. In order to preserve battery life when needed, but you can bump that down to 60 hertz full time if you do want to get a bit more power efficiency on the go, you do have a stereo speaker, output on both the 8 pro and the OnePlus 8t as well, although I would recommend connecting a pair of headphones if you do want to get a decent, sound experience. Of course, you don't have a headphone jack on either of these blowers. Unfortunately, so you are stuck with Bluetooth if you do have a good bit of Dolby Atmos support, which can dynamically tweak the sound based on what you're doing, watching a film listening to music whatever and as for the storage.

Well, that's your choice again, based on which color you get either 128 gigabytes of storage or 256 gigs. If I can actually find the storage section here, we go um, so plenty of space for all of your media and files and such forth. Even if you go for that base model, although there's no micro SD support for expanding that, it's also worth pointing out that you've got the faster UFS, 3.1 storage on the OnePlus 8t, compared with the older UFS 3.0 on the OnePlus 8 pro, so it's slightly more efficient at the right and speeds, and also a bit more power efficient too, and that's particularly good news. If your burst shot in a lot of high-res photos just means it's a little quicker and faster with the actual processing. Now what you get stuffed inside both of these smartphones is the snapdragon 865 premium chipsets from Qualcomm.

You don't get the plus model here on the 8t despite previous rumors, but to be fair, not many manufacturers have gone with that. As you can see from my geek bench scores, the OnePlus 8 price goes slightly higher. That's because this is the 12 gigabyte model uh, whereas I've only got the 8 gigabyte, OnePlus 8t, but certainly as far as performance goes. Even if you go for the base, 8 gigabyte model, both of these blows will blaze through the latest games like PUBG mobile Call of Duty on top detail. Settings no worries at all and, of course, you've got that game space feature on both of these handsets as well.

It's been slightly improved and updated for oxygen OS 11. So it's just easier to call up you just pull your finger down from one of the top corners basically, and it adds a great little selection of features, including the ability to message mates while you're gaming. You got the notifications block on there, so you are not disturbed and, of course, the usual fanatic mode as well. You got full Wi-Fi 6 support on both of these one plus handsets, and they both support.5G connectivity as well, because you've got Qualcomm's x55 modem, slapped in there alongside the 865. On the battery life front.

It's basically uh identical as far as the actual capacity goes to 4510 William cell here on the OnePlus 8 pro standard 4500 here on the OnePlus 8t, but it's actually a dual battery design here on the 8t for the new warp charge, 65 tech. So while the older OnePlus 8 pro only supports 30 watt charging, you've got 65 watt charging here on the 80s. You get full charge in about 40 minutes, or so it takes over an hour here on the 8 pro. As for the battery life. Well, I have found that that has degraded somewhat on the OnePlus air pro over the last six months and that shouldn't be a hardware issue, because you've got a battery care feature on here, which basically prevents overcharging.

If you do leave it plugged in all night long, but I definitely do find that with a lot of screens on time. I often struggle to make it all the way, through a big long day with the OnePlus 8 pro with OnePlus 8t. So far, touch wedding can just about make it through a long day with plenty of screens on time, but it is very early days with that. One still, so I'm going to keep on testing it for my full review, but while the OnePlus 8t definitely wins for the fast charging tech, it's worth, knowing that only the air pro can charge wirelessly again at that 30 watt rate and last up, let's finish with a squint at the camera tech which, as you can see for the fresh due OnePlus 8t, has gone away from that traditional central position, and it's actually been shunted away in the corner. Now that primary sensor on both of these smartphones is a 48 megapixel, but it is a different sensor as well.

The OnePlus 8t uses the same mix 586 from Sony that the original OnePlus 8 used, whereas the ear pro upgrades that to an IMAX 689. In terms of the shutter speed, the focus, speed and everything, nice and nippy. On both of these smartphones, they do shoot at 12 megapixels by default, but you can quickly bump that up to 48 megapixels, if you want a maximum resolution photo as long as the conditions are quite bright. I did find on my side-by-side test that the OnePlus 8t seems to cope a little better, sometimes in high contrast situations compared with the pro you also get more natural, looking colors on the at, whereas the pro tends to boost the vibrancy. Quite a bit.

You've also got an ultra-wide angle: option on both the OnePlus 8t and the OnePlus 8 pro. But again it's different tech. You've got a 16 megapixel lens here on the OnePlus 8t, whereas the pro has another 48 megapixel effect. So you get sharper details with the aid pro, but both of them are pretty rubbish when it comes to the color reproduction. Now, as well as that ultra-wide angle, you also get an actual telephoto lens here on the ear pro as well, which offers a three times hybrid zoom, whereas in the case of the OnePlus 8t, there's no telephoto option, so it's digital zoom all the way.

So I definitely prefer the flexibility of the OnePlus, a pro's camera setup. That telephoto lens is great for getting a little closer to your subject without disturbing them. It's a great use if you're an owner of a pet or a kid. The OnePlus 8t finishes off it's a quad lens setup, with a five megapixel macro lens and a two megapixel model lens as well. So if you dive into the filters, you can get your mono mode on the go that just shoots.

A nice detailed, black and white shot right here on the airport. You've actually got a color filter lens for your photochromatic mode, but that has basically been disabled, because people were worried. It could see through very fine thin clothing, so that does absolutely bugger all now, and you've got the usual standard array of bonus mods on both the 8t and the OnePlus 8 pro so, for instance, a portrait mode which can just help to keep your subject nice and crisp and blur out the background with a both style effect. Much like this and in those low light situations, you've got the night skate mode as well, which takes lots of different shots, different exposure levels and then blends them together for more evenly balanced shot. It tends to work pretty well, as you can see, there, you've got a lot more background detail uh in both of these shots compared with what you would get with just using the standard, auto modes and your full manual controls.

If you dive into the pro mode, it's the same setup on both of these smartphones uh. So you can capture raw images as well as JPEG at the maximum 48 megapixel resolution. You can have a piddle about with all the different settings and if you dive on into the video mode as well, you do actually have a new video portrait mode uh here on the OnePlus 8t, which is something that I believe is coming to the 8 pro in a software update so again, that'll just have that both style effect in the background uh. But apart from that again perfectly the same setup, 4k resolution, video at up to 30 or 60 frames per second. Otherwise, you can see here only the OnePlus 8 pro offers a HDR mode, which is ideal.

If you've got strong contrast situations, it doesn't make a massive amount of difference, but it does help just a little to brighten up those darker areas and last up, if we flip around to the front facing camera, it's a 16, megapixel snapper in both cases, as you can see, sort of fairly wide angle view and everything you've got the usual portrait mode, smarts and all that good stuff, and it doesn't really matter which phone I use. To be perfectly honest. It still looks like I'm in mental anguish and that deep breath right there is how the OnePlus 8t stacks up against the older OnePlus 8 pro so, which smartphone are you tempted by, as you can see quite a few differences between the two and sometimes the 8t is better than the pro. Sometimes the pro's better than the 8t so be great to hear your own personal thoughts and preferences slap them down in the comments below and for more on the latest greatest tech. Please do put subscribe and hitting that notifications bell, cheers foreign.

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