OnePlus Nord N200 5G: The $240 Smartphone!? By Mark Linsangan

One thing that made OnePlus the company it is today is the fact that OnePlus started selling incredible hardware at such a low price back when the OnePlus one came out, it had flagship specs for half the price of what apple and Samsung was offering now fast-forward to 2021. OnePlus is pretty much on par with the likes of apple and Samsung and selling their flagship devices for over a thousand dollars, but OnePlus wants to somewhat take a step back and offer a smartphone that costs less than 250 dollars, and this is the OnePlus word n200 5g. The n200 is a 240 dollar smartphone that offers 5g connectivity, a 90 hertz display and a huge 5 000 William hour battery. Now I've had the phone for a few weeks. Now and honestly, it's a decent phone for its price, I'm not going to lie. There are some things that annoyed me, the more I use the phone, but we'll get to that later on.

So let's talk about the things that I like about the phone. The first thing would have to be its battery life. The five thousand William hour battery is plenty for your average person if you're spending less than 250 on a smartphone you're, most likely not going to be on your phone 24 7. So with this huge battery, you're, probably gonna average around two days of usage, maybe two and a half. If you're a light user, the phone does have fast charging up to 18 watts with the included charger in a box.

So battery life is superb, the charging is superb, and you're not going to have to worry about charging this phone every single night. The second thing is the 90 hertz display, okay. This is kind of 50 50 for me, because it's an LCD panel, which means colors, aren't as accurate and the phone's got pretty bad viewing angles. But besides that, the screen gets pretty bright and the 90 hertz option is really nice to see at this price point something we don't have on Google's 350 Pixel 4a. Now the overall display, though, looks pretty clean, with a hole, punch display on the upper left, and it's a flat display, which I love, but towards the bottom of the screen.

There's a noticeable chin which isn't a big deal but would have been nice to have a more symmetrical display. Lastly, the intangibles for a 240 smartphone. It has a headphone jack, a fingerprint scanner on the side that doubles as the power button, a micro SD slot to bump up the tiny, 64, gigs internal storage and the build quality isn't terrible. Yes, it's not made out of metal and glass, but the plastic back with the matte finish feels and looks really premium. The phone doesn't creak like most budget phones, I've tested so overall it feels like a phone that should cost more than 240 dollars, which I'm a fan of, and definitely something you'll enjoy.

Holding now the bottom firing speaker on the n200 isn't terrible either, which I'm actually quite surprised by it gets really loud with little to no distortion, and while it would have been nice to have stereo speakers to get some stereo separation, the single speaker is definitely passable, and I can watch videos and listen to songs comfortably alright. So, let's move on to the things that I didn't enjoy as much on the n200. The first one is pretty annoying, and it's the vibration motors inside this phone. It literally feels like OnePlus, used a motor from an android phone from 2010, and it's really annoying every time. I use the swipe gestures or type on the keyboard.

It's just really loud, and it's a terrible experience. Just listen to this next up are the cameras. Technically, there are three cameras on this phone, but the only real usable one is the main 16 megapixel shooter. The other two lenses are two megapixel sensors for the macro and monochrome sensor, which, to be honest, you're not really going to use, but the photos out of the n200 are just okay. It's what you'd expect from a smartphone, that's less than 250 dollars.

The photos are somewhat noisy or smudgy. At times, HDR doesn't look great, which means photos still tend to blow out the highlights, and last but not least, it's slightly over sharpened or over processed for my liking. Now you have to understand that this isn't a phone that will replace your point-and-shoot or mirrorless camera. It's fine for snapping photos here and there, but you're, not going to wow. Anyone with its photo quality, but it's also not a potato all right so with the name n205g.

This also means that the phone has 5g support right. Unfortunately, the 5g only works on T-Mobile, so if you have Verizon or 18-t you're just going to be on LTE, since it doesn't have enough 5g bands, that's on ATT and Verizon's network, which is still okay, but in a few years when 5g is the norm, and you don't have T-Mobile you'll miss out on faster data speeds, but for now it's totally fine to be on LTE. Lastly, the performance on this phone is disappointing, to say the least, maybe I'm just spoiled by using their flagship 9 pro with the snapdragon 8 processors, but the snapdragon 480, that's on its own is pretty terrible. It stutters quite often when switching between apps or just doing everyday normal things. I actually noticed it the most.

If I'm browsing the web with a ton of images or constantly switching apps or going through menus even on the Google Play Store, the phone would sometimes freeze or not respond to any of the swipes or taps which can be pretty annoying. But this isn't marketed towards me. It's for someone who just needs an affordable smartphone that they can use every single day that doesn't care about having the fastest or flashiest phone, but yeah. That's the OnePlus word n205g for 240 dollars, you're getting a solid device with some compromises in a camera and performance department. Now, if you're a patient person and don't really care too much about photo quality, this might be a great pickup for you now, as usual, all the links will be in the description below.

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Source : Mark Linsangan