OnePlus 8 Full Review! By Nick Ackerman

So, what is up guys Nick here, helping you to messier technology, welcome to my 1+8 full review now this is the smaller Edition and a quick disclaimer OnePlus did send this out for review, but they did not pay for this video. These opinions, this review is all my own, and so before we get going pricing, the OnePlus an is going to cost. You $6.99 us and that's for 8 gigs of ram 128, gig storage, and if you want this model to interstellar glow, it's going to go for $7.99 and that one comes with 12 gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigs as reviewed here now. A quick note, if you are in India, for example, the prices are significantly less going for around 40 1999 rupees that is kind of similar to around 550 us. So a significant price savings. If you are in India also the prices in the UK might be pretty similar to the US, but yeah pricing do vary by region.

One plus eight weighs 180 grams, which makes it lighter than not only the OnePlus 8 pro it's bigger brother that just launched beside it, also lighter than 1 + 60 70. As well as 7 pro, this is one of the lightest OnePlus devices ever launched. However, don't be fooled and thinking. This is a super light device, because there are lighter phones on the market, but 401 plus with a 6.5 inch display. This one is pretty darn light, I think for the size of the screen.

You're getting built feels typical OnePlus. So what I mean by that? Well, you have a glass back here and by the way the interstellar glow, as you can see, is a fingerprint magnet so consider the Glacial green. If you don't want to get smudges all over the back of your device now over here on the sides typical OnePlus, and that we do have aluminum sides, but they are pretty nicely matched to the interstellar glow here now. This one right here also does not have an official IP 68 resistant rating. So if you're looking for that, you have to go with the pro.

However, I'm sure it's going to be pretty resistant, but OnePlus Bryon want to pay to get that official rating on here. So that doesn't mean it's not a durable phone still durable. Some people might really like how this thing just changes colors in so many direction, so I mean if you want a flashy looking color look at that I mean this looks like orange on this angle. This is gonna, be the phone for you. If you want to stand out as color, let's explore the body a little further.

So on the camera lens, you do have a little of a bump here, so it does stick off the body a little, but that's extremely easily fixed just go ahead and put a case on this phone and call it a day. This is the nylon case right here you can get from one Plus as well drop it on the table, good protection, all good to go. So definitely no big issue there going further down on that camera. You're going to notice that the flash the dual tone LED flash is under the glass. It's not exposed above the glass.

So that's a good touch right there now. Also on the right side, you will see yourself the classic silent switch from one plus, as well as the power button all so economically. Like how that power button does rest in a pretty nice place, you're not reaching all the way to the top to press that power button I think it's in a good location. Now you can see the front is dominated by this six point: five, five inches, fluid AMOLED, 90 Hertz display 88.7 screen the body, so you do have a little of bezel. This is not a full screen display yet, but maybe you need some because if it was an all screen, you probably would be accidental pressing everything, but this is a curved panel as well.

So if we take a look at the sides of this phone yeah, that can definitely sometimes happen, but this one's not quite as aggressively curved I find is the one on the OnePlus 8 Pro. Now also on the left side, you can see, we do have a volume marker right here has pretty good tactile feedback and on the top we do have ourselves and Menace slits up there and on the bottom we do have ourselves USB, C 3.1. This is a speaker grille right here and antenna lines, and also we do have ourselves. Our SIM card tray right there now the earpiece is integrated within up here, as well as the speaker overall I would say that the body is definitely a clean. Look.

It's a nice looking phone there, it's not much more else to say about. He got one plus brandy right there and one plus branding right there. It's really just going to come down. Do you want the shiny, flashy interstellar glow, or do you want the matte color option that doesn't attract fingerprint? It's like flashy color, not as flashy, but no fingerprints comes down to your choice. Let's discuss a display.

First thing: I want to mention. Does the whole bother me not really it doesn't really get in the way of your content. I think you'll forget about it. After a couple of days, talking more about the display, fluid amulet and ninety Hertz. If we go into display settings here head over to advanced refresh rates, you can see you can switch it between ninety Hertz and sixty now.

What is ninety Hertz do? Well, it basically makes your scrolling extremely fast. Now some people have said. Why are you know scrolling that fast who the heck's going to scroll? That fast? Not me no way and not me, you don't have to scroll that fast I'm, just showing you its capabilities. You can still scroll it smoothly right here. There's the rock right there say what's up, but anyway you could keep scrolling through and go a little smoother.

Oh yeah, a very smooth display, boss performance here on this 90 Hertz I. Don't really feel a huge difference between this in the 120. Now, if we go back to display advanced refresh rate 60 Hertz here, if we knock it down, you'll notice, an immediate stutter, unlike the scrolling, it doesn't look anywhere near as smooth as 90 Hertz, so at 402 PPI. This is a 1080p. This doesn't go to HD resolution.

That's a little of a downside if you're coming from a 1, + 7 Pro, but it should give you better battery life now. This also supports HDR, 10 plus, and one thing I'd like to mention is that the calibration of the display- you have many ways to calibrate it. Now some people have said Nick bro. Why does your OnePlus display look pink in my previous video I actually had it on the AMOLED wide gamut, which gives it a little of pinkish color on camera, hop over to natural a lot more white vivid can also change the tone of it, but you can really just get down to whatever you like? You can see. If we go to warm look, how pink that looks? Maybe over here, look how cool that looks.

It really comes down to how you like it personally I kind of like it on natural and if I want some color I just go to vivid, but there's a lot of customization here, which I do appreciate for this 1 +, 8 I think the cons for this display or that it's just so curved I rather see a know, flatter display on the premium OnePlus device. Also, you know you could say that this whole and display is not as aesthetically pleasing as the 1 + 7 Pro. But overall you cannot deny. This is a beautiful display with very good color representation. I really don't have anything really to complain about I mean for this price you're getting top-tier displayed, one plus eight for sure one plus eight does run Android ten oxygen OS.

Ten point five point: three updates should last about three years on this phone. So what is this one plus eight oxygen? Os give me you say I say look, this is what it gives you. It gives you a clean pixel like experience with some customizations from OnePlus, so you can see, looks pretty similar to a pixel up here, but you do have gen mode over here which allows you to you. You know put that phone down for a while, so you got things like the reading mode, cleverly hint it up there. If you want to do some reading.

Also, if you go into settings you can see there are some nice customizations here, but they're very clean and minimally laid out. There 's's nothing really confusing about this whole. You know software, it's simple to use. If we go over here to hit home screen, you could see down here home screen, layout, icon packs. We can change between the hydrogen OS icons, which I tend to like more than the circular icons.

It gives it a different look. Also, you can go to the more get a little Play. Store put your own icon packs on right from oxygen. Os very smooth also includes some nice wallpapers on board. It's a smooth software on here.

Smooth light doesn't really get in the way. It doesn't add too many features but adds the ones you want useful ones, and that's about it. There's nothing really else to say about it. You can go from the side to get to the Google Assistant from the corner, just like any other Android phone. You do have the back from the sides, which I think that's one area where the curved display does work well and off to the left, no more OnePlus shelf.

Furthermore, you do have the Google now page right there. So pretty neat I mean oxygen OS. It works well on this phone there's a hidden space where you can add applications. If you don't want people to see those apps, but at the same time, if people know that's there, then they will be able to see your hidden applications. Are there any cons to this software? Well, yeah.

There's a couple: there's no one handed mode in here which to me doesn't make sense. Its neither is there one on the OnePlus 8 Pro either I would like to see that also, if we go to customizations, I have to go to tune to turn on the dark mode. Now I like to have a dark mode, but I want to schedule dark mode where I don't have to think about it. It will change when the nighttime comes. I like to see that- and that brings me on to the performance you have seen in the speed tests this thing and just absolutely flies through all the applications you can throw at it and yes, it'll fly in gaming as well.

It will get some updates and be even better in gaming than you're, seeing on these early on reviews that there's a game mode on here. But this thing is a powerhouse in performance, a powerhouse Android phone. One of its strong selling points is the Snapdragon, a 65 Arena 650, the X 55 5g chip in here it doesn't have the millimeter wave 5g performance, a lower band on here, but still definitely faster an LT, so a blazing fast blistering, fast Android phones for less than 800 bucks high. So we're talking about performance. What about the biometric security? So you can see yeah I couldn't even look at the phone had already seen my face.

That just shows how quick the face unlock is. We do have an optical fingerprint sensor, meaning you cannot tap it from the lock screen with it's not on, but if you just tap to show boom get right in also that was another con of the software. There's no always-on display I like to see that you have to tap to show it or if it's off you can lift, and it will show, but boom get right in very fast in display fingerprint sensor. So we have a 16 megapixel ultra-wide camera that one's very similar to the one on the 1 plus 7 Pro. It comes in and around 116 degrees field of view, so there are wider wide angles on the market, but it's still pretty wide over here your standard wide at 48 megapixels.

Now this one right here is the same: IMF 586 camera sensor from last year's 1, plus 7, Pro and down here a 2 megapixel, dedicated macro camera for macro shots, but I, don't really like this camera I'll show you why a little later on the macro camera specifically I would have rather I had a telephoto on this one. Ok, so let's go ahead and take a look at a photo sample. So I do have the work charger right here. Let's open up the camera and let me go back to the photo section now. The main camera does focus pretty well, don't have much of an issue there now, if I do punch in also pretty good.

No, that's not a telephoto camera. That's a software zoom, but it still looks pretty darn sharp because it's kind of cropping in on that main sensor, which is pretty high resolution 48 megapixels. Now, if we go ultra-wide, pretty good field of view right there, and I would say the photos match up very nicely, and it's pretty smooth going between the cameras a little of a jump there when going between the wide-angle, but that's only if you're going too fast, it should be pretty smooth for the most part. You can also switch to 48 megapixels, giving you a sharper resolution, but where I'm really disappointed as this super macro camera, it just looks terrible compared to the other sensors and that's because it's 2 megapixels, it kind of seems like an afterthought like. Why did you even put that there I would rather have a telephoto camera on here? It can pull in some pretty nice up-close shots, but I've been finding it to produce a lot of blurry samples.

I'll show you that a little later, if we go to video resolution here, 4k at 60, it is limited to like 5 minutes or something like that. So if we do hit, video you'll see limit it to five minutes long, but the focus is good. It's perfect on the video, so I think this is a very usable video camera for a smartphone right here. Definitely going to be usable and also take a photo in video, and if we come back out of there, you're also going to see that this camera hooks you up with slow-motion panoramic modes. Time-Lapse, you can do portrait modes.

You can also back it out on the portrait. You can also do nights cape, that's like a night mode for them. Also, pro mode so yeah lots of things you can tweak in the settings such as aspect ratios, you can do an ultra shot. HDR camera seems about similar to the 1 plus 7 Pro on this phone. So take a look at some of my results and let me know what you think: let's take a look at the front-facing camera now I'm a little let down by this camera, not because of the quality.

It's pretty sharp, but I. Don't like the video on the front. It's only 1080i, and it crops in pretty close I want to see a little wider of an angle on the video and I want to see 4k on the front, especially at this price point. Well other things on this phone: your storage is not expandable on this device. So if you're going to get a 128 gig you're going to have to be happy with that.

If you needed 256 gigs go with that, this doesn't have the strongest audio performance when it comes to these speakers, they're just not as loud I found some competition, but they're still passable, and it does have extremely fast Bluetooth 5.1, so connecting to devices is gonna, be a breeze with the OnePlus 8. Now it does have Wi-Fi 6, so Wi-Fi performance should be extremely fast as well. On this device and another thing I like about this phone, is it does have improved haptics, hey, what's wait! What's up, this is wait can't type. This is the new one plus eight I just cannot type today to save my life, but there it is one plus eight definitely improved haptics. Here on this phone, your phone call quality on this phone is actually pretty stellar.

I haven't had any drop calls people sound, very clear I like it for phone calls, and you might be wondering Nick bro come on talk about the battery already. The battery is right here at 76 right now it does have battery optimization, optimized charging battery saver mode I'm, getting five to six hours screen time on this phone standby doesn't drain quite as slow as some other phones out there, but it's not terrible. What's really beautiful is how fast is phone charged is one of the fastest charging phones on the market at 30 watts. This thing blazes and keep in mind if you were wondering there is no wireless charging on this device. So if you try to get that wireless charger, it's not gonna work for this one.

You got to go for the one plus eight pearl for that one, so the one plus eight pearl is this phone worth your time and I think that if you're looking for a great value, strong performance, Android phones at the lowest price, I mean you want $1000 type phone, but you don't want to pay thousand dollar type Android phone money. This one is gonna, be a strong contender and should be on your list. So are you picking up the one plus eight? If you are go ahead and use a link down below it will direct you right to the one plus page? And let us know if you guys prefer this phone and if you don't, let us know down below as well thumbs up. If you enjoyed it and Nick helping you to master your technology, I will catch you all in the next episode be sure to be well and peace.

Source : Nick Ackerman