OnePlus Nord N200 Review By Android Authority

How much does it actually cost to get a 5g phone a little. Over a year ago, 5g was limited to only the most premium of flagship phones, but today can be had for a little under 250 dollars. Still is the OnePlus word n200 anything more than a readied apple phone, I'm Luke park with android authority and here's the TL;DR on the word n200, for this video I'm going to give you the two long, don't read version first, if you want a budget 5g handset that has a great display amazing battery life and an attractive design, then the n200 might be the phone for you, but the n200 has mediocre cameras and isn't the fastest budget phone we've seen on the market. If 5g isn't everything for you, then there are other alternatives to be had for similar prices that offer a little more, such as the word n105g coming in at 300. So, let's break that down a bit at face value. The n200 offers a lot of bang for your buck, starting with the design.

It isn't anything we haven't seen before. In fact, the design here is identical to the Oppo a935g. Still, it's a fairly attractive one for a budget phone. The back is made of frosted matte glass that doesn't pick up many fingerprints. The front features a nice 6.5 inch 2400 by 1080 90hz display. In fact, this is one of the few phones in this price bracket to feature a high refresh rate panel.

Keep in mind this isn't an edge to edge screen, as there is a fairly large chin even for budget phone standards. The right side features a single power button that doubles as a fingerprint sensor, but this year the famed OnePlus ringer switch is MIA. The other side sees the standard volume rocker and on the bottom, there is an USB c port single firing, speaker and 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. Besides the absence of the ringer switch, I'm pretty pleased with the overall design of this phone, although maybe somewhat boring. It still looks modern enough to hang with the higher tier models that OnePlus is offering, while balancing out the price still there's one thing about this design that isn't quite up to par and that's the haptics.

Quite frankly, these might be some of the worst sounding and feeling haptics that I've used in a long while they are incredibly loud and very rattly. In fact, here's a quick clip showcasing this other than that the phone looks great, and this is even more emphasized by the inclusion of a beautiful, full HD plus 90 panels. I'll be honest, I didn't expect to see a display this nice at this type of price point. It's an IPS panel, which means the colors are rich with deep blacks and bright whites and the sharpness is pretty good, as well with a pixel density of about 495 pixels per inch, it's no AMOLED screen, but for a device at this price point, it's really hard to do better. Also, you can switch it from 90hz to 60hz if you want to save battery life.

Now speaking of battery life, the OnePlus word n200 ships with a 5 000 William hour battery, which in our testing, lasted well over two days with about eight hours of screen on time. This is nothing short of fantastic for any device, but especially for a budget device. Still, this phone is limited to 18 watt fast charging and takes roughly 75 minutes to fully charge. This isn't out of line with other offerings, such as the galaxy 832 5g, but there's no wireless charging present here on the n200 from here. The pros start to drop off a bit and the cons start to appear more obvious, the biggest con being the poor camera performance.

Now, let me be clear for 250 dollars, you're going to be hard-pressed to find any budget handset that can produce any decent results, but even still the camera system on the n200 is only okay. The n200 ships, with a triple lens system featuring a 13, megapixel main camera, a 2 megapixel macro lens and a 2 megapixel depth lens outdoor and well-lit photos handle pretty well with good contrast, color and detail, although in some cases detail can be lost in the shadows. Also, sometimes the color gets a little shifted to magenta, but this has only happened a few times. HDR performance isn't that great either, and it struggles to retain the highlights and shadows often blowing out the highlights too much- and you can really see this in the sky. Shooting indoors is a completely different experience, because the primary lens ships with the maximum aperture of just f 2.2- it's not a very fast lens, which results in some dark and less detailed images. Most images taken indoors are muddy, with a fair amount of noise present and, depending on the scenario, are downright unusable.

Unfortunately, the 2 megapixel macro lens isn't much better either and even in direct sunlight produces some less detailed images. Now don't get me wrong, it's still usable, but still struggles with the issues of the main sensor. The 16 megapixel front-facing camera is a whole other story altogether. It can produce some fairly decent results, but in portrait mode the background blur is a little rough. Also, it has a tendency to either darken the background or the foreground of the images depending on the scene in this mode.

Besides, there is a fair amount of over softening happening which softens my skin tones a little too much all in all it's serviceable, but don't expect amazing results. The only other relative con might be the performance of this phone first off. Let me be clear: in no way is this phone slow or unusable there just might be certain tasks that aren't well suited for this device. That said, the n200 ships, with four gigabytes of ram 64 gigabytes of on-board storage, which is then expandable to one terabyte via micros card OnePlus, gave the n200 a snapdragon 480 processors, which is a newer 5g chip designed for budget devices. The only major concern I had regarding performance was the lower four gigabytes of ram and would have liked to see six gigabytes as a minimum.

Still the snapdragon 480 performs respectably and in everyday use. I didn't experience any sluggishness or stutters. I did notice that load times in certain apps or games were a tad slow, probably due to the four gigabytes of ram, but other than that the performance was smooth. Furthermore, I'll, also put up some benchmarks here. To give you a better idea of the performance and that's close to wrapping up this device, like I mentioned earlier, the n200 is one of the few phones to feature 5g at this low cost.

Keep in mind that 5g is limited to the sub 6 gigahertz spectrum, and there is no support for millimeter wave technology still T-Mobile or metro's sub-six-gigahertz spectrum in the U. S. is growing fast. So just take a look at coverage support before investing in this platform. One quick thing to know is that software support for the n200 isn't amazing and the word n200 will receive one major android software update in three years of security updates its on par with other budget offerings, but still lacks behind Samsung's four years of support.

So is the OnePlus word n200 worth it or is it just a readied saxophone? Unfortunately, it's probably more of the latter than I would like, considering that the word n10 5g offers a better camera and performance experience and only costs 50 extra, it's probably the better buy. Still the n200 is a worthy upgrade over the n100, and it ships with a better display and faster processor. At the end of the day, the n200 provides a good enough experience that covers the basics. To be honest, it's hard to beat the value at 250, but if you're willing to shell out a couple of extra bucks, then the word n10 5g might be the better buy or if you really don't care about 5g and want an amazing camera experience, then the Pixel 4a might be for you all in all the OnePlus word n200 offers a great 90hz display, an amazing battery life and some usable cameras for a very reasonable price. Well, that's going to wrap it up for this video.

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Source : Android Authority