Don't make a MISTAKE: OnePlus 8 Pro vs Galaxy S20 Ultra By Jon Rettinger

So you're deciding on the best that Android has to offer. You want a bleeding edge display. You want a high refresh rate, huge battery, incredible cameras, 5g support and sitting atop that Android throne right now is the king of Samsung, the galaxy s 20 ultra and the new guy playing in the premium waters for the very first time, the OnePlus 8 pro and on a spec sheet. These phones look to be very similar, but with $500 separating these two, which phone is going to be the better buy, are you getting a $500 more with the Samsung King, the s20 ultra, or is the OnePlus bring enough to the game to make it worth the money? So let's first address the big elephant in the room here and that's that's price to this may of what appears to be quite a few people. What plus has answered the complaints? A lot of folks had with their hardware, no wireless charging subpart optics and better displays. They've answered all of those and more with the OnePlus a pro.

But, of course, that came with a price premium going up to just about nine hundred dollars. I'll be starting, then you've got Samsung, and perhaps the argument can be made that this versus is better to compete against, say the s twenty plus, but I wanted to take. The best bet. Samsung has right now, and that is the s20 ultra and that is credibly expensive device as well coming in at just under fourteen hundred dollars. But that was the reason we took these to the best of the best, the top and wanted to put them together.

Alright, so, let's start with design and build on the Samsung side. This is peak Samsung and is a behemoth phone at six point. Nine inches and I tend to gravitate towards the largest screen possible, but the six point nine inch display feels more like a smallish tablet than it really does a big phone, and this is a personal thing, but the phone was so big I had it replaced a wireless charger in my car to accommodate a phone of this size so taking the size add the equation: we've got is a beautifully made and beautiful hold device. The combination of glass and metal, smooth edges and a really nice weight to it makes a phone feel exactly what it is incredibly premium. So the OnePlus, if you pick it up, it, feels like a cold piece of metal.

It feels beautifully industrial if I could describe it that way, and you can see that OnePlus has put a lot of attention to little details. I love the way this foam looks and feels I love the color options that one plus has the blue version looks absolutely beautiful. These phones are very different from the sign languages are certainly distinct, but when you're, paying $1000 plus for a phone and holding these both in your hands, you're not gonna, feel like you got ripped off, buying an unfair feeling phone all right. So next, let's talk about probably one of the most important categories for these two phone cameras, and if you were to pinpoint like one category where you would see a $500 difference where the whole show would flex, you would assume it's going to be. On the camera side, it's got that space zoom a hundred times its peak Samsung optics.

Let's start what you're taking normal photos outside? How is it looking regular like I, knew, looks beautiful, you know, Samsung's images tend to be a bit higher contrast. The colors look a little brighter, because some I've described is looking a little more processed. I tend to like the way those photos look, but there's a lot of detail here, but the big story is obviously like that space zoom right. We did a whole video zooming in on balloons, and it is nice to have when you go in to a hundred times. It looks I know how I'll subscribe.

It then, like it, looks like an oil painting. Furthermore, it's not overly useful, but it is there I think what's useful about. Furthermore, it is not the hundred times, but going to fifty times is really nice to have in thirty times in the lower. You go the more useful it can be and that you know that 10 to 20 times those pictures are still very usable. If there's ever been an area where I think most people would agree, OnePlus had to step up their game, it was cameras.

You've always heard the knock down plus incredible software blistering speed, but the cameras I just wish they'd be a little better. What appears that OnePlus has listened, and they clearly put a lot of effort into not only the hardware that they put into these phones, but also the processing, that's being done, because the images look very close to what we get out of the s20 electrons. My eye, I really like the way. Those look, so I did see a difference in low-light, but not quite like night mode territory. The s20 ultra tended to take better pictures, less noise, then I had with the OnePlus, but when it did get so like close to pitch-black and situations where you'd want to use that night mode, OnePlus did a better job and just having this conversation that both of these are perfect, I think is a huge victory for OnePlus.

Video is also an increasingly important component. The camera systems well I found kind of interesting with video was that it's almost the opposite of what we saw with the stills. The OnePlus HDR in video seems to be really aggressive with the saturation and contrast and the s20 ultra is kind of a bit flatter, but the color still remains. It doesn't look as processed to my mind if the zoom is worth it to you, then you're going to want to spend that extra money to have that flexibility and options, but I think the subset of people who care that much about zoom but also have an extra 500 bucks hanging around is going to be small and I. Think that itself is a huge win for OnePlus.

The Samsung cameras are probably better than what you get with the OnePlus 8 pro, but that gap has been narrowed. So much then you factor in $500 difference. This comes out as a pretty strong case for the OnePlus 8 pro. So this is probably one of the coolest ad breaks that I've ever had the opportunity to take this. Are we VPN? It's not just a regular VPN.

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This is probably the most important category to me personally. So, let's start with Samsung, so it's a six point, nine inches HD plus panel, and it is absolutely I'm going to say breathtakingly beautiful on the s20 ultra get plenty bright and outdoor sunlight, which is really nice, as somebody who wears polarized glasses, I've had a lot of issues with Samsung phones in the past. The s20 line, I don't have any weird rainbow effect with that, so that was really nice to have colors bright and vibrant. It's OLED, of course, so 120 Hertz is capped at Full, HD, plus and I opted to have that settings I really like the faster refresh rate, and certainly there is a battery drain to be made, but interesting for Samsung company. That's really been known for giving users choice to take that choice away from folks here with the s20 line of phones.

So OnePlus are traditionally gone with little resolution display is the same battery life. They have stepped up the game incredibly when it comes to display- and this is kind of a similar discussion that we had when it came to camera. So it's slightly smaller at six point: seven inches HD+ and got that same 120, Hertz refresh, but OnePlus is giving you that choice that Samsung didn't. If you want to write it at a full resolution, you can do that. Of course, you will take.

The subsequent matter hit the gold as it goes along with it and the same things I said with the Samsung echo here as well: no shoots of polarized glasses, beautifully right in outdoors, blacks or black colors are bright and vibrant and dressing design choice that OnePlus made it to display is the waterfall display when it kind of curves over the side and aesthetically. Looking at the phone, it's beautiful, it's a beautiful design choice, but in practical use it takes away from the usability a little of the phone I had accidental touches on the side when I'm holding it sometimes swiping wasn't, wouldn't work. I wouldn't have my finger. All the way on the edge I prefer a flatter display. Well, I do appreciate the beauty of their waterfall.

A good thing you took away from the functionality of it has an absolutely otherwise beautiful display. This is a choice. Question right. If you want to run your phone at full resolution a hundred twenty Hertz, then right now the OnePlus 8 pro is going to be the way to go. If you want, perhaps the best overall best screen calibration that's available, then Samsung is still gonna, probably offer you the best well-rounded display, but the 1+8 display is so awesome to look at so amazing to use and gives me so many more choices.

So the first time I think I've been doing a versus against the Samsung phone I. Think I'm partial to what OnePlus is doing it's a kind of new category authentication. They have two different technologies for in screen, fingerprint reader. The s20 line is using an ultrasonic, whereas OnePlus is using an optical and always in my mind, I kind of viewed optical as a lesser technology, and I'm not sure why, but in practical use, it was interesting on the ultrasonic side, much faster I attended to unlock nine out of ten times and relatively quick on the one plus side. It was noticeably faster than the s20 and worked pretty close to perfectly so.

Both of these phones are running to Snapdragon, a 65, and they're theoretically, capable of most of the same things both have 5g support for varying flavors of a depending on which carrier you decide to go with both support, Wi-Fi six, which is awesome both support voice over LTE all right. So those are the big categories right there, a lot of little things that make it the phone I like to call them intangibles. The s20 ultra brings a lot to the table. So this is the latest iteration of Samsung's 1u I, there's still a lot of duplicate apps in there. Their secondary app store, sometimes to make things work, but it is a really nice interpretation of Android I think it's spotless where things are located.

They've added a lot of settings and options that you don't get in stock, Android 10. So, on the flip side, you've got oxygen, OS and I think that oxygen OS is perhaps the best interpretation of Android of any manufacturer out there. I really like the stock, Android, look and feel, but there's been some tweaks that have improved what you get with Android 10 and that's kind of what option. Os is it's close to stock Android with some improvement, so battery life is also a huge one right. We've got a 5,000 million power battery in the s20 Ultra and a little bigger than 45-hundred in the 1+8 pro, and I will say when it came to the 1+8 120 hertz did take a big knock on battery.

I was expecting a little better with battery life. It's still a full-day phone, but it's like barely a full day phone. Your usage may totally vary, and I did get that slightly longer battery life with the Samsung Galaxy s, 28 extra 500, William hours well process pushing a few extra pixels for a larger screen still got me easily through a day with about 10 to 50 percent, more than what I had on the OnePlus. Alright, so wireless charging is finally something and I can talk about with both phones. Samsung's had it for a really long time, and they were amongst the first to offer reverse wireless charging, and that is awesome to have as well.

The bigger story, though, is probably on the OnePlus side. It's the first time they've offered wireless charging, and it's QI compatible, which is great, but they also have an ETL accessory that enables 30 watt wireless charging, which is insane and reverse wireless charging, also here slightly slower than Samsung at 3 watts and IP rating, just like wireless charging. It's nice to have this conversation now with OnePlus. Welcome to the party, both phones, ip68 water, certified, so the OnePlus 8 Pro starts at about nine hundred dollars, and one plus has gotten a lot of heat for taking their phones, that high up market and I asked one plus why they did that. You know why I have really expensive proline, and they told me they wanted a phone that could compete with the best of the mobile world and the best in the mobile world.

Right now is a galaxy s, 20 ultra that's kind of why I picked the ultra as opposed to the other phones in the Samsung line for this test and there's a big price difference here, and you just take the MSRP and deals and sales out of the equation about five hundred dollars, separate the starting prices of these two phones and only a few situations where I could say, you're better off going with what Samsung is offering. If that zoom is really important to you. If you want to always have that zoom functionality, if you want to reverse camera rain, you have an extra $500 in your pocket. Then you're going to be very happy with the s20 ultra. If you can get a s2000 at a discount you're going to be very happy, but at a retail price despite being expensive, you are getting a lot of phones for the 1+8 pro they've answered a lot of the concerns that people have had.

You now have a really capable camera ray you've got wireless charging. You've got an IP rating here. Furthermore, you've got a lot of things that folks have been asking for. In a 1 plus phone, but a lot of those things come with a cost and that's why the phones have progressively gotten more expensive if both these phones could be had for the same price. The outcome here might have been different, but taking both of these as a $1,400 versus 911 I'm, going for the 1 plus 8 pro.

Source : Jon Rettinger