OnePlus 8 + 8 Pro Review: EXPENSIVE!... but worth it? By Android Central

This video is sponsored by proton VPN with every new generation of phones. Sampler seems to reinvent itself a little from the original, cheap, cheerful, powerful flagships to the more recent focus on luxurious designs and slick fast displays, and with these changes, price tags have crept up accordingly. It'd be unfair, though, to dismiss the newly launched one plus a pro as just another, expensive, Android flagship, while it is the priciest main like OnePlus phone to date, your 900 bucks gets you more phone than ever before, plus, if that's too rich for your blood, there's also the standard one plus eight smaller, less speck, but starting it to $6.99 in the u. s. These phones do a great job of conveying just how much Campus has grown since 2014. So let's dive in and see what they're all about I'm Alex rounder at Central- and this is a review of the one plus 8 and one plus a pro.

So the vanilla, one plus eight is just slightly smaller than last year's seven pro, while the eight pro is just a smudge larger both are more boxy than last year's Campus phones. But equally, it's clear that one plus riffing on a style the pro here, as opposed to resurrecting the vanilla one plus seven or seventy design. If you held a 7 pro 70 pro you'll, be very much at home with a brush, aluminum and matte glass here and if you're, a 1 plus veteran you'll, appreciate many of the design traits, including the iconic alert slider, they see a signature colorful one plus is called glacial green, which looks phenomenal. It's a bolder color than the blue hues of last year, and it really makes these phones stand out. If you want something even more ostentatious, though there's also the interstellar glow model which well, you can see exactly what's going on here, let's get the core specs out of the way before we go any further.

These phones are both every bit as trailblazing as you would expect from one plus, the latest snapdragon 865 processors, up to 256, gigs of storage and 12 gigabytes of RAM 5g in both models, big expansive screens, with just a slight blemish for that front-facing selfie camera both have bigger batteries than last year, along with warped charged 30t over that trademark. Already USB, cable and both have the same reliable, fast in screen fingerprint sensor and face unlock features, but while the meat and potatoes of both phones are fundamentally the same, the difference with the pro model this year is the gravy. There are plenty of extras here that look to justify the extra $200 jumping from the OnePlus 8 to the pro the pro is kitted out with Campus as slicking you 120 Hertz display, whereas the small model has to make do with 90 Hertz at a lower resolution. The eight also doesn't have an IP rating for water resistance compared to the shiny new IP 68 badge of the pro. That means you can use it more confidently around rain or whatever other liquids you might find yourself in or around the 8.

Pro is also the only model to get one plus is fancy new 30 watt, Wireless warp charge technology, so you get the same, quick charging speeds, whether you go wired or wireless. However, for all these Hardware feature upgrades, there isn't really much difference in the day-to-day experience of using these two phones. Besides the fact that one of them fits in the hand a little easier one plus is oxygen. Os software is back and hasn't changed a lot, since we last saw it in the 1 + 7 t, the biggest user facing changes include the retirement of the widget shelf on the home screen. You've now got the Google feed over on the left most home screen panel, plus there are a few more high-end features like the new turbocharged Network mode, the less you speed up your downloads for combining Wi-Fi with your 4G or 5g cellular connection.

Oh, and there are some sweet new live wallpapers, pre-loaded too, because of course there are. But overall, this is the same fast, clean and not experience. That's one, one plus so much praise over the years it's performant attractive and, of course, OnePlus has an excellent track record when it comes to Android platform updates right now, one plus the software doesn't really need anything more than a few minor tweaks from year to year, and so that's exactly what we see here. What's more with the debut of that glorious new 120 Hertz display oxygen, OS can now upscale video content shot at a lower frame rate to that higher number of FPS, while also upscaling HDR for added picture dev. It's also worth mentioning just how fantastic these screens look in person.

In addition to racking up, near-perfect benchmark scores, one plus is 120 Hertz panel is vibrant, smooth and bright, and the added benefit of a fast refresh rate goes hand in hand with a quicker touch response of 240 Hertz, making everything feels so much faster on the standard one per se. You'll get most of those benefits, just as a slightly lower 90, Hertz and really 90 is just fine here. You'd have a hard time telling these refresh rates apart, even with both phones side-by-side and yes, you do have to deal with that hole-punch cut out, which will be an eyesore for some people, especially compared to the blemishless front, face of the OnePlus 7 pro. But OnePlus says this new design makes it easier to implement ip68 water resistance, while also freeing up space inside for a larger battery, speak in which you would expect battery life to take a pretty big hit when you're pushing up to 120 frames per second on a regular basis. But in both cases the 8 and a pro hold up pretty well, even the pro.

With around a forty-five hundred million power battery won't be a multi-day phone for people like me, but I've still been able to get a full day of sixteen to seventeen hours per charge with around five hours of screen on time. It's a decent number, though. That's mainly been on Wi-Fi for obvious quarantine, related reasons. The baby, one plus eight, with its forty-three hundred million power cell, also ranches a solid day of use under similar conditions, thanks to the low of full HD plus resolution and slightly lower refresh rate and as well as larger batteries. OnePlus actually has a couple of neat software tricks to help you preserve the battery capacity throughout the life of the phone.

Smart charging learns how you use your device throughout the course of the day. So it knows what time you normally get up in the morning, and it can anticipate what time you'll need the phone to be fully charged. That, in turn means you don't need to charge it as quickly overnight, so you don't need to use the very fastest charging speeds available which can contribute to battery aging. This works, whether you're charging wirelessly or over a cable that would squirt remembering that, in the case of the OnePlus, a pro you'll only get those 30 watt wireless charging speeds to begin with. If you use OnePlus as first party charging pad- let's be honest, OnePlus phones have really excelled when it comes to camera formats.

Out of the box, usually they're decent to begin with, and there is some improvement with successive software updates. The OnePlus cameras have never really challenged the very best out there and look the vanilla one plus eight is not going to change that. This is a $700 phone in a world where $1200 phones also exist. So instead, the one plus eight includes last year's main camera from the seventh row, along with a 16 megapixel f/2 point to set up for the ultra-wide camera. This is pretty much unknown quantity and performs reasonably well, especially when combined with a nights cape mode for extra low light fidelity most of the Campus 8 camera experience is comparable, then, with caliber 7 pro with one major exception.

There's no telephoto zoom here and in its place, you'll find something that's fairly useless, a dedicated macro camera, which seems to be there just to make up the numbers. It is a little battling, so you'll get decent digital zoom results from the OnePlus age, but anything beyond 3x is a bit of a struggle. Also, unsurprising here is solid selfie quality with a 16 megapixel sensor, small pixels, on the lens and fixed focus. It is a fine job in good lighting that it can struggle in low-light and in close-ups, unlike the selfie camera of, for example, the Google Pixel, for you can't use the nights cape software mode to eke out more detail in nighttime shots, which is a little unfortunate for the new heartless in terms of camera. Hardware can be found in the OnePlus 8 Pro, there's an upgraded main camera module behind it.

F, 1.7 lens paired, with a new ultra-wide setup and a 3 x telephoto, just like the OnePlus 7 pro, so you're. Looking at a big improvement in a lot of the places that matter most in a phone camera, the OnePlus 8 pro has excellent color reproduction and improved dynamic range compared to last year's model, and when it hits portrait mode shots, look incredible and low-light shots, even without the nice game mode come out. Looking really great, though unfortunately, you still can't use nights cape with that telephoto lens. In fact, the telephoto is a little of a dud all round. It's not exactly bad, but it hasn't improved markedly from the 1 plus 7 Pro, and it lacks the telephoto range of competitors like the OPPO find X, 2 and BY p40 Pro shadows can become crushed easily and as you'd expect low light from this camera.

Just isn't great in general, then there's the somewhat confusing color filter camera. The fourth main shooter in the 1 + 8 Pro, which is a dedicated 5 megapixels, set up specifically to help apply filters to your photo and not convinced this gives noticeably better results than the software filters in every other phone out there, but hey it's there, and it lets OnePlus say they have 4 cameras. Well then, it picks around this camera setup are exactly that fairly minor complaints sometimes faces get smooth a little more than rival flagships. A sees Daniel beta noticed one or two instances have skipped frames when shooting 4k videos on his units. Other than that, though, it's hard to fault these cameras, um look I'm, not going to sit here and tell you the OnePlus 8 Pro has the best phone camera out there.

It clearly doesn't, but the vast majority of people I think, will be very happy with its photographic capabilities, whatever you're doing with your new 1+8 you'll want a fast, secure, internet connection so to help protect your connection against snooping and censorship. Wherever you are check out this video sponsor proton VPN, it's brought to you by the folks behind proton male with the same serious scientific focus on security and speed based in Switzerland and backed up by some of the world's strongest privacy laws. Proton VPN is high-speed, open source independently audited and one of the market leaders in the VPN space hit the link in the description to download for free or save 20%. When you buy annually it's interesting to look at the 1 + 8 +, 8, Pro COMETA, last year's 7 Pro, there's really not much in it in terms of size so, instead of size, the choice between these two mainly comes down to budget and what you want out of a phone for my money. The regular 1 + 8 is the less well-defined of the two.

It's priorities just seems slightly askew. It has the latest Snapdragon processor and for some battling reason, 5g as well, but also an underwhelming camera setup and a significant price hike compared to the equivalent phone in 2019, especially when you consider the 1 + 7 Pro remains on sale and discounted in many places. In essence, it's a 100 dollar premium over last year for more of the same, depending on your priorities. That may be perfectly fine, but as a C's, Andrew Martyn argues an editorial published today. A cheaper snapdragon, 765 chips and a more fully featured camera setup will probably make more sense by comparison.

I think the OnePlus 8 pro is much more well-rounded, as an overall product with its $8.99 starting price in the US. It's clearly going after the Samsung Galaxy s, 20 plus, and doing so with a very competitive design and compelling feature set except the anemic telephoto lens. The cameras here can go head-to-head with Samsung and for a lot of folks, the software experience performance and wireless charging speeds will be wins for OnePlus, so one plus is taking the heat of Samsung and many others. But this isn't quite OnePlus becoming just another big corporate II phone company with yet another expensive Android phone. The pro in particular is a sign of whomp losses, maturity and competitiveness, and it's well worth your time if you're shopping around any of the big Android flagships.

But if you're looking for the best in the mid-tier space, I'd suggest taking a look at last year's 7th row before settling for the vanilla, OnePlus AIDS. That's it for now be sure to check out our written review on android central. com and subscribe here on YouTube for all of our future videos. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time.

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