OnePlus 8 full review By GSMArena Official

Hey, what's up guys will here for GSM, marina OnePlus was known in the past for flagship killer phones that offer a ton of great features for the money, but now we have the OnePlus 8 series, which are the most expensive models so far. The vanilla one naturally offers a bit less than the pro one. So does it even worth upgrading to let's find out in our 1 plus 8 review. OnePlus phones have always had awesome, build quality and the OnePlus 8 continues that tradition. It's actually really similar looks wise to last year's models, except that it is a bit taller and more narrow. Ours is in the Glacial green color and the frosted finish is silky smooth.

This helps add a bit of grip together with a matte aluminum frame and the phone is resistant to unsightly fingerprints too. One big change in this year's OnePlus lineup is the addition of ip68 water and dust resistance. It's a welcome change. They'll just know that only one plus eight sold by certain US carriers have the official certification on paper. Another change in this year's models is that you won't find a flat screen.

They're. All curved now, which you may or may not prefer the OnePlus AIDS is a six point. Five inches AMOLED with a 1080p resolution. OnePlus keeps experimenting with solutions for the selfie cam. Unlike the notches or pop-up selfie cams of previous models, the OnePlus 8 has a small punch, hole cutout, which is Hyde Bowl with a black bar.

This is one of the best screens we've seen in this class. It supports a fast 90 Hertz, refresh rate, so content on the screen looks more fluid and smooth. You get those deep AMOLED, blacks and punchy. Colors, though these can be tuned to be quite accurate in settings. Max brightness is excellent: ? about 500 nits in manual mode and up to 800 in auto mode when in bright conditions, the optical fingerprint reader says under the display, and it feels quite comfortable to use and super responsive to wake up and unlock the phone for audio.

The 1+8 is equipped with stereo loudspeakers it's a hybrid setup with the top speaker, doubling as the phone's earpiece for calls performance is great. The speakers are pretty well-balanced, with excellent loudness, lively, mid and highs and decent bass. It comes as no surprise that there's no headphone jack on the 1+8, so you'll need to use USB, C or wireless headphones or carry around a 3.5 millimeter adapter for standard ones. You don't get expandable storage either, but at least the internal storage isn't too tiny? You get the choice of 128 or 256 gigs. The phone runs on one plus is oxygen: OS 10, based on Android 10.

As always oxygen OS provides a nearly stock Android experience, which is quite clean, snappy and load free. One of the few changes with a new version is at dark mode.2.0 offers better integration with third-party apps. Otherwise, there aren't many custom features here. Most of them are provided through Google's, apps and services. One reason why the OS feels so snappy is the OnePlus dates powerful, Snapdragon 865 chipset performance-wise.

This is one of the best Android phones out there right now, and you shouldn't expect any hiccups in everyday use. The chipset also supports those faster 5g network speeds. If those are available and gaming performance is awesome, the OnePlus names battery life is impressive too. Its battery is a little bigger this year at 4300 million powers, and it scored an excellent endurance rating of one hundred and eight hours in our proprietary tests. Regardless of screen refresh rate charging speed is also quite competitive.

With its 30 watt charger, we were able to go from a dead battery to 69% in just half an hour. You don't get the wireless charging of the pro version here, though, now onto the cameras, there's a triple camera setup, which includes a 48 megapixel, quad Bayer main cam, a 16 megapixel ultra wide-angle cam, with fixed focus and a 2 megapixel macro cam, instead of a telephoto like last year. What starts off with the main cam, which is the same as last year's model photos come out in 12, megapixels, and they're. Decent colors are punchy, dynamic range is wide and detail is good. Sharpness could be better, though, and there is some noise you don't have a telephoto like on the OnePlus 70.

Instead, zoom shots are a crop from the main. Can these lack detail and are soft, fuzzy and noisy portraits are taken with the main cam, and it does a good job subject: separation is accurate and the D focus backgrounds generally look convincing. You can also do two times zoom portraits, but due to the cropping and upscaling involved, you lose a good amount of detail and sharpness. The ultra-wide camera is pretty good. Shots have excellent, dynamic range and sharpening looks good.

The images are overall still a bit soft, though compared to the main camera. While you could take some nice macro shots with the ultra-wide last year, since it had autofocused this year that roll has been taken up by the 2 megapixel macro cam. It actually has fixed focus, so getting a sharp photo takes some trial and error, and the quality isn't very impressive. Now on to low-light photography. These results from the main camera are just okay.

Dynamic range is good, and the colors look nice, but there's plenty of noise detail is lacking and sharpness could be better. We didn't see any major improvement over the previous generation of OnePlus phones. Night mode does help with the quality a lot though it eliminates the noise, brings out more detail from the shadows and highlights and add some sharpness. The whole process is quite fast too, almost as if you are shooting in the normal photo mode. The ultra-wide camera like most out there isn't good in the dark and produces some soft and noisy photos.

The colors and dynamic range do match the main cameras, though turning on the night mode again adds some much-needed sharpness, reduces the noise and brings out more detail from the highlights and shadows. The 1+8 16 megapixel selfie camera is quite good. It produces sharpen colorful pictures with a rich detail and wide dynamic range. The selfie portrait mode looks just as good as the portrait mode from the main camera to the edge detection is surprisingly accurate. Moving on to videos, the main cam can shoot in up to 4k at 60fps.

Its 4k footage looks nice color wise and has wide dynamic range, good trust and no noise, but sharpness is a little lacking here. The ultra-wide camera can also shoot in 4k. We found its footage to be pretty similar in quality to the main cam, though a bit on the softer side. There's electronic stabilization available for your 4k videos at 30fps, which does a great job in smoothing things out and there's a 4k super, steady mode which uses the ultra-wide lens and clubs to create an even smoother effect. So that's the one plus eight.

It's got a lot of going for it. There's a beautiful frosted glass build which is water-resistant and an awesome curved OLED screen with a high refresh rate. You get great stereo speakers, flagship level, performance and excellent battery life with fast charging. So what's the issue here? Well, it's the cameras that are pretty underwhelming. You might even call it a downgrade over the OnePlus 70 is set up since you lose the telephoto and the ultra-wide no longer has autofocus, but at the same time the price is a hundred euros more and while the OnePlus 8 does offer a little more than the 70 feature wise, it still has its shortcomings compared to other flagships.

It's sort of like in this middle ground, between flash of killer and full-on flagship, that's hard to justify buying if you're looking for the most bang for your buck. Thanks for watching guys, stay safe and see you on the next one.

Source : GSMArena Official