Using the OnePlus 8 Pro for an ENTIRE MONTH | Extremely Detailed Review! By HowToMen

Fun fact, every tech YouTuber, who receives a one plus device right before pre-orders open, also get a beautiful exclusive unboxing experience and a book describing the new flagship this time around, 1 plus sent over the 1 plus a pro and the 1 plus 8 to the studio and by studio I'm in my small college, dorm room. So here's where I think about the 1 plus 8 pro and if it's worth dropping 900 dollars for it dropping thumbs up. If you want another review for the 1 plus 8 now there are 3 main features that caught my attention when using this phone, the first one was the display. Second was performance and third was water resistance. Obviously there are a ton of other upgrades and changes that we'll discuss, but those were my main satisfactions. So let's clear the air with the water resistance part, since that's the easiest thing to explain the 1 plus 8 pro finally has an official IP rating for water resistance.

It's IP, 68, meaning you can submerge this thing in a pool of water, and it'll. Be fine, that's great news, because that was really one of the main reasons that I missed having when switching over to a 1 plus now that it's here I can finally use my phone in the shower breath. Alright, now I mean like no I mean when I'm swimming actually yeah when I'm swimming now the screen of the phone isn't a specialist as the 1 plus 70 pro or the 7 pro. Obviously, it's missing that motorized pop-up selfie. So that's the main reason, and I'm not going to lie I.

Do miss it for two main reasons: one is for security, you'll know exactly when it's capturing your face and 2 it's just cool every time. The camera pops up I feel like it's a futuristic gadget from a James Bond movie, since very few phones out there had this Hardware feature, but still with this new front camera hole punch in the top left corner its unobtrusive and I. Never really noticed it, especially when the dark theme is enabled. Plus you can choose to hide it within the settings. Surprisingly, the phone even has a better screen to body ratio than its processor, which is mostly due to the screen being a bit larger at 6.78 inches. So it's the perfect sized screen for watching movies or playing video games.

Obviously, there are bigger phones out there like the galaxy s, 20 ultra, but the difference in size isn't tremendous plus, in addition to a big screen. It also comes with dual stereo speakers quad resolution, its AMOLED HD are 10, plus it's brighter at 1300 nits, making it the brightest phone that I've ever used yet, and it has way better color accuracy than his previous processor. They also managed to improve the auto brightness setting in the past. I've, never really enabled this feature on any one plus device. Since it's constantly lowered or higher the brightness a bit farther than I'd like now, I no longer have that issue.

You can even take it a step further and enable the new true tone, like comfort tone, feature to adapt the screen color to your current environment, making the display easier on your eyes. Those are all awesome display features to have in any smartphone. For my overall favorite upgrade of the display is that it now supports a hundred and twenty Hertz. This is awesome and, unlike Samsung, you can run 120 Hertz at full quad HD resolution. Obviously, I want to recommend not enabling the auto power saving mode since the battery life will drain much quicker, but it's still nice that OnePlus gave us that option navigating throughout the interface scrolling through my social feeds or just playing video games that support 120 FPS provided an indescribable experience.

It's hard to show off on camera, but I did manage to find this video by mark or tech that does a decent job of comparing a 60 Hertz display with a 120 Hertz display. The difference is more than noticeable also, even though you would think a bigger screen means a harder time holding the phone. That's not the case here. Just like its processor, the form factor of the phone is narrow and tall so that you can easily grasp it with confidence. However, that's not to say that it's easy to use with one hand, especially since oxygen OS, isn't as one-handed Bentley as some other smartphone software's out there like Samsung's one UI interface.

On top of that, the phone is a bit slippery to hold due to the back, be made on glass, and you are bound to get some oily imprints in there, especially if you get the interstellar glow model for the 1+8. So, as usual with any of my phones, I like to slap ad brand skin on the back, they have a variety of textures to choose from for almost every smartphone out there, but the one that I really enjoyed using on the pro is their teardown skin, because it lets you see the inside of the phone in detail, and it's really cool. How OnePlus secretly included a red battery on the inside the bronze colored bridle is hard, also looks pretty cool on top of it. If you'd, rather rocky Keys, for better protection, deeper and also sells some tough ones, simply called grip. You can even customize the grip by aligning each skin on the back of it.

I'll leave a link in the description if you're interested in checking out some of their products anyways the display is spectacular. There is one thing, however, that I don't bike, and that is the waterfall curve, it's not as dramatic as the 1 + 7 probes, but it's still prominent enough for my palm to create accidental touches when using the phone without a case, for example, when I'm typing on the keyboard. There are a few occasions where my palm will type out a random letter. F the Pro had less dramatic side, curves sort of like on the galaxy s, 20 ultra. It would be perfect.

The performance was the third feature that caught my attention. It's not unusual for a1 plus bone to be stupid fast, and this year was no exception. About a month ago, I reread the galaxy s 20 ultra and in that video I talked about how that flagship was the fastest phone. I had ever used period well, not anymore, because the OnePlus 8 pro is just as fast. It even feels a bit quicker at times.

The difference won't be as noticeable unless you compare the two side-by-side, but it's not just the new snapdragon each 65 chip set or the large ramp capacity, which now supports ddr5. It's also due to the simplistic stock like oxygen OS software. You see one of the things that I love about the software is that it's a lightly modified version of Android 10. If you're coming from a pixel, Motorola or an essential phone, this interface will be straightforward and recognizable and because it's a less feature, packed interface fun compared to one UI. It's no surprise that things just run a tiny bit faster, I'm, not sure if you guys heard, but some new additions to the software include some new dynamic wallpapers, both AMOLED and bright ones, that shift colors based on the current weather conditions in your area and every time you unlock the device live wallpaper animates beautifully.

There are two new features in the OnePlus laboratory within the settings. The first one forces a dark theme for some unsupported apps, like PayPal, Google, Translate, etc. I absolutely love this feature and hope he gets expanded to support a ton more apps and the second feature called hyper motion. Smoothing manages to convert 30 FPS videos into 60 or even 120 fps. It works with YouTube's net, the OnePlus gallery and more.

I personally don't enjoy watching fluid videos just because it looks weird, and it seems too realistic, but I can definitely see the appeal for those who enjoy watching sports or action-packed content. There's a new fingerprint animation called energy and the OnePlus launcher finally replaced the controversial shell panel with Google discover, however, be careful when installing a different version of the launcher off APK mirror, even if it is a newer version, because I excellently did that and is switch back to the shell panel on the pro since I wanted the new redesigned overview page. Those are the main software changes out of the box. The only thing I wish they could include in the future isn't always on display and according to the twitter, it seems like they're working on it, and I'm not going to lie. I did have some software problems when I first got the device, for whatever reason the Wi-Fi and mobile connectivity have been disconnected from me.

Randomly I never experienced so much instability for the internet connection on a phone before. Maybe it's due to be being on a mesh based Wi-Fi system and I know that I'm, not the only one who's experienced these connection issues, David Wright a cobra Andrew police, also said he was having the same problems recently. However, they did push out an update that enhanced the mobile data and Wi-Fi transmission stability, and that did greatly improve the connection, but I still occasionally experienced a couple of this connections. As for the software updates, OnePlus has a good track record. They promised bimonthly security patches and are usually among the first to get new major Android releases.

So if you were worried about purchasing a $900 phone that will get slow updates, that's not the case here. What is a slow effect is the battery life dying with an increased capacity of four thousand five hundred and ten William hours. This thing easily lasts the entire day, no matter what I do and, as you know, with this pandemic, going on we're all using our phones a lot more now and the e Pro has had no problems gave me through the hours of the content that I consumed on a single charge with quad HD resolution and 120 Hertz enabled I was able to gauge screen on time of around five hours. But when lowering the resolution to 1080p I managed to increase the screen time to about seven hours, which is impressive. Considering that the galaxy s 20 ultra only got me around five to six hours and I used that phone at 1080p resolution with a hundred and twenty Hertz enabled one of my favorite charging features on the Plus eight and a pro.

Is that a learned, you're charging habits and only completely charges to a hundred percent when it knows that you're going to pick it up and use it? For example, if you leave the phone to charge overnight, it will rapidly charge to around eighty percent. Then it will slow down and only complete charging in the morning when you wake up. In order to save the battery performance in the long run, and for that cherry on top, the one plus April finally supports wireless charging. It's another feature alongside water resistance that I always wanted, and they went above and beyond by releasing a new wireless charging station called warped charge. Dirty Wireless is by far the fastest wireless chargers that I have ever used, and the pro also supports reverse wireless charging, which I haven't seen too many tech reviewers talk about, starting with the charging station.

It can literally charge my device to fifty percent in just half an hour. It's insane. Furthermore, it even has a fan on the inside to keep the phone cool while it charges, which is also pretty fancy aesthetics wise. Furthermore, it's not the most appealing piece of tech that I've seen, and it's pretty expensive at seventy dollars, and it won't charge any other phone at the same speeds. But if you're planning to get the pro getting the station is a plus, it's really nice to just toss this thing in the dock and have it charge at similar speeds, just like those wired fast chargers.

As for the reverse wireless charging, it's definitely a cool feature to show off to your friends, but you're, not going to use it that often sent a doe charge extremely slow at 3 watts. It's still worth noting, though another thing that's also nice about this phone is the biometric unlocking speeds. It uses the same optical in display fingerprint reader, which seems to be a bit larger and performs a little faster. The freeze and lock feature is still insanely fast, but it hasn't improved over its processor. It doesn't really need to either because it still outshines most higher-priced flagships like the galaxy s, 20 old truck galaxies, note, n, plus or iPhone 11 Pro.

However, the fingerprint reader isn't the keying in terms of speed it unlocks just as fast as the s20 ultra camera performance, however, has changed, but in a weird way some would even go as far as to say that it has improved here's the thing with smartphone photography the norm is usually to provide an accurate representation of what's in front of you. In other words, the camera will usually try to replicate the same type of colors shadows, contrast highlights, etc. , but with the OnePlus 8 Pro, it seems like the pictures are taking on the main sensor, run through a filter and also get modified excessively to provide a dramatic or fantasy picture. The results usually include a stronger contrast. Various color balances excessive saturation.

It's a lot I'm sure there will be a division between people who love the pictures taken on this phone for being so unique and a good amount of people who don't for not being accurate enough I'm, leaning more towards the accurate side of the spectrum, but that's not to say how the picture is taken on this phone are bad at all. In terms of detail on the light performance, it provided solid results. Sometimes it can't be inconsistent and providing good quality shots, but, for the most part, I'm still satisfied, it doesn't come anywhere as close as Google's, Night side mode or Sam six-night mode, but it's still, okay in terms of what type of physical camera modules you get with the pro. It's still the same combination, a 48, megapixel main lens, with a larger aperture size, 8 megapixel telephoto, with 3 X optical zoom hanging out on its own Island, a 48 megapixel ultra-wide, which can still be used for macro shots and a new color filter camera, which I personally found to be useless. I mean its main purpose is to provide a single photo chrome, filtered mode and after looking at the results, it just makes the scenery look: gold, black and white.

As for the front camera, it seems to be the same: 16 megapixel module, but with a bigger aperture for better low-light performance. It's an OK camera, nothing over the top, like the galaxy s, 20 ultras, 14, megapixel front lens. A new camera feature that I thought was cool is that the OnePlus 8 makes it easier to take pictures of your pets, even if they won't stand still. It has a sensor that detects indoor flickering and adjust the shutter speed. It works for the most part, but it's definitely not consistent.

For example, there were a few times when the shots come out. Looking a bit blurry. Finally, for the video I just love that they offer the option to record in an aspect ratio of 21 by 9, more phones need to follow this trend, since practically every smartphone display release in the past, 2 or 3 years has a 21 by 9 aspect ratio, hopefully in the future 21 by 9 becomes the normal standard. / 16 by 9 after the video quality is been great. Everything is well exposed.

Videos are extremely smooth thanks to IS, and the audio sounds great thanks to the three microphones working in harmony. It reduces background noise, well still keeping your vocals loud and clear. So it's what the audio sounds like. Hopefully it sounds nice. Lastly appeal my favorite features.

I want to mention before I sign off are the alert. Slider is still a lifesaver when I want to silence my phone without pulling it out of my pocket.5G connectivity and Wi-Fi 6 is nice to have, but I really hope they can stabilize those connections with mesh Wi-Fi networks. The new haptic vibration engine that is 11% more powerful, is awesome for gaming and that new Glacial green color is beautiful, but I wish they would have also included an interstellar Go option, as I did with the OnePlus 8, because I would have definitely copped that model over this one. Indeed, do I recommend you go out and purchase this phone if you're looking to get an upgrade. Yes, there's a lot, the OnePlus a pro offers for your lower price than its competitors.

Obviously, a starting price of nine hundred dollars is still not cheap at all, but it's not an uncommon trend to price flagship. This high up, especially considering that it has the latest cutting-edge technology, including 5g, the newest processor, water resistance, the latest Android version, 120 Hertz fresh rates, a ton of cameras. The list goes on and on, and the only fun that even comes close to competing with the OnePlus 8 pro is the galaxy s 20 ultra, since a has similar specs and hardware, but it is $500 extra and that will definitely hurt your wallet. I think the only thing holding anyone back from purchasing the OnePlus. A pro would be that it doesn't have the best smartphone camera you're, not a fan of the curved display, or you're on a budget either way.

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