OnePlus 8 Pro Review - The Best Smartphone Right Now? By Hardware Canucks

You've probably heard the rumors or perhaps looked at the lease. In fact, OnePlus has been slowly spilling the beans about their new flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 8 pro. Now the company is taking a different approach this time by launching two new phones, the OnePlus, 8 and OnePlus a pro, and these phones are meant to replace the OnePlus 7T and the 7 pro respectively. So I'm here, to give you guys a complete breakdown on some differences between the 7, Series and 8 Series, some features, they've added removed and finally discuss pricing on these new phones, because this is not the OnePlus. We used to know my friends. It's really not the Racer DeathAdder v2, the gaming icon that just got upgraded with a lighter body, next-gen sensor and optical switches for maximum reliability and speed.

The classic economic shaped handles, like no other find out why 10 million other users love the Death Adder down below alright, so I'm gonna start with the pro OnePlus has addressed a few issues that I've had with the 7 pro. So the edges on the display are less aggressive, but not completely flat. Like the 7T, the body is slightly taller and slimmer compared to the 7 pro. However, the camera bump is slightly bigger and noticeably protruded. So I'm, not a big fan of that.

The corners are less rounded, which I like, and the back looks absolutely beautiful, guys I have the ultramarine blue model, and while it is composed of Gorilla Glass, just like the 7 pro they've added a matte texture, giving it a really soft, smooth, anti-reflective look. Now you can pick up the 8 pro and 2 other color options. One of them is glacial green and the other is onyx. Black they've still kept the alert slider on the side, which is still warm up here, features of OnePlus devices, and you might notice something different about the selfie camera. If you recall, the 7 pro had a motorized pop-up camera resulting in a nationalist design, but they took a step back this time and when, with a punch, hole camera cutout on the top left hand, side of the display I don't mind it at all, since it is still the norm with modern Android smartphones.

But to me, it's just fascinating how they bragged about the durability of that motorized camera last year. Just the same, the OnePlus 8, on your hand, is a slightly smaller version of p8 pearl. The design is basically the same except the display, as the curve doesn't extend all the way to the edges, like the pro and I like that, the back is a welcoming change over the 7T, so you can say goodbye to that huge circular camera bump and greet yourselves with a subtle low-profile look, just like the pro. In fact, the eight looks very similar to the 7 Pro, but I'm, not a fan of this color. This is the interstellar glow model.

That's super reflective and a fingerprint magnet, but you can pick it up in different colors, just like the 8 pro moving on to the display I guess we all saw this coming. It's a 120, Hertz, quad, HD, plus AMOLED screen spanning across six point: seven, eight inches versus six point: six, seven inches 90 Hertz. With that same resolution on the 7 pro now do I notice a huge difference between the two. Yes, but it isn't that significant, and it shouldn't be your first reason to upgrade from the 7 Pro I should also mention that it doesn't stay at 120, Hertz constantly. In fact, when your phone is idle or when you're viewing anything static.

The phone dynamically shifts down to 60, Hertz and OnePlus did that to preserve battery life they're, also taking a step forward in providing a good quality display without sacrificing on color accuracy, as they do come factory calibrated, which is nice now. Unfortunately, my review samples started showing a weird green cast on the top right hand, side happy lowest brightness setting, and there were banding issues as well. Now I did end up confirming with some of my colleagues who are testing the exact same phone, but they didn't experience any of these issues. So I guess I just ended up perceiving a dud sample, but nonetheless this is a gray screen for content. Consumption and honestly I can't tell if there's a difference between the 8 pro and the 8 pro -.

That curved, because watching content on the 7 pro is really not that great. With that aggressive curve versus the 8 pro, which seems to be a little better. The OnePlus 8, on the other hand, features a 1080p plus display, just like the 7T, with the same refresh rate at 90 Hertz, which is really disappointing because it doesn't look like they've upgraded. Anything here I would have rather preferred 120 Hertz at 1080p, because that would have made a lot more sense compared to the 7T, because there's really nothing new here I mean sure the display on the 8 is a little brighter compared to the 7T, but I think OnePlus just took an L here. Both these phones come with dual stereo speakers, and they sound great I, didn't notice a huge difference between the 8, Series and SM series, and they still feature in display fingerprint sensors.

Oddly enough, the 8 Pro fell slower compared to the 7 Pro when it came to unlocking device, plus the pro had trouble. Reading my fingerprint as well I tried resetting and res canning my thumbprint multiple times it just still feels slower compared to these 7 Pro, which is just really weird. The specs on these phones are as expected, top of the line, guys OnePlus hasn't cut any corners here. They both come with. He Snapdragon 865, SOC, 8 or 12 good bytes of RAM, keep in mind that the 8 Pro comes with lpddr4 purses, lpddr4 X on the standard, 8 I'm, not sure, if there's a scientific way to test the difference between the two in real world, but I'm going to have to look into that a little later, both also come with 128 and 256 gigabytes of storage, with the 8 pro being slightly faster.

The battery gets a welcoming upgrade over the 7 pro and the 7T, so the 8 pro has 40 500 William hours and the aid gets 40 300 million powers and, as always, both these feature, the fastest charging protocol that OnePlus can deliver. In this case, it's work charge 30 T, it's basically the same as the 7 Series. However, they finally managed to add wireless charging support only on the 8 pearl and I repeat only on the 8 Pro, and it's fast guys, they're, calling it warp charged 30 Wireless, which tops the battery on the pro to 50% in 30 minutes and check this out guys. The charger itself is a unique piece of engineering. This thing comes with a fan to help dissipate the heat as it gets as a lot as 30 decibels, which on paper might seem quiet but not ideal.

When you have it beside your bed, there is a setting on the phone that can turn off the fan, but that'll reduce charging speeds. I spoke with OnePlus on the backbones of this technology, and it's quite fascinating at what they were able to accomplish. Basically they're pumping in more voltage and reducing the amps, which then results in higher charging rate and inside the phone. There are isolated charge, pumps that reduce the voltage down to a safer standard that can charge the battery. If you're interested in learning more I'll leave a link to an article by the verge explaining the whole process.

It's perfect stuff. Now I should mention that you don't have to get that dedicated wireless charger to experience wireless charging on the pro. In fact, this phone does support regular QI enabled wireless chargers just keep in mind that it's not gonna charge as fast as the dedicated charger that OnePlus offers. Now. This phone also features support for reverse wireless charging.

So that's something that you're looking into it's its nice to have, and finally, the pro gets the official IP 68 water-resistant ratings. So that's something that you were looking for. It's here: oxygen OS on the 8ne, a pro look basically the same compared to these 7 series. You've probably heard me say this before, but this is by far my favorite Android operating system even compared to Google's, offering there are tons of customization options. We've got new dynamic wallpapers that look perfect.

It's clean and simple to use they've had at a new feature, though, and it's called NEC technology, basically using advanced algorithms. It converts 24 frames per second content to a higher frame rate that should result in a smooth, playback experience. Think of it as one of those motion smoothness that available on TVs that convert 24 frames per second content to 60fps, but you're now getting that on a smartphone. Now, honestly, I'm not a fan of this feature, because if I shoot content in 24 frames per second I'd rather watch it in that frame rate. Because then you kill that cinematic experience now.

Luckily, you can't turn it off through the settings, so thank you, OnePlus for giving us that option. Finally, let's talk about those cameras. The 8 pro features a quad camera setup, so there's a forty-eight megapixel ultra wide-angle lens a forty-eight megapixel standard, wide-angle lens and an 8 megapixel telephoto, that's 3x optical zoom, and up to 30 X digital zoom, then there's a color filter camera, which is really a dedicated camera, but it can be used to create artistic lighting effects in real time according to OnePlus, which looks very limiting and quite frankly, useless, because these filters can be applied in post through a third-party software. So I don't really see a purpose. For this feature, the 8 gets three cameras, but they've made it worse.

This time, so you get a 16 megapixel, ultra wide-angle lens, a 48, megapixel main sensor, hands and a 2 megapixel macro camera. That's right, 2 megapixels, so they've chopped the telephoto lens like what's found on the 77 Pro any a pro, and instead they're using the main wide-angle camera to crop or digitally crop to get that telephoto effect. Honestly, at this point, I don't really know what to say guys. In fact, I just decided to take all these phones for a little photo shoot and just see how they stack up against each other. Let's start with that 2 megapixel macro lens on the standard 8, it's awful guys, I mean they shouldn't be legal in 2019, the color balance is off.

Obviously, you lose a ton of detail. It's a very questionable decision by OnePlus. In my opinion, now, moving on to the main sensors OnePlus has improved white balance and that results in true to life colors out of the box. But the implementation of this new sensor comes with major compromises. Dynamic range is significantly worse, especially compared to new 7 pro and a 7T.

The colors looked washed out on the 8 series, whereas if you look at the 7 Pro on the 7T, there is a good balance of contrast and saturation generally I'd still pick the 7 Pro, because the out-of-the-box pictures look way better than these new phones. And if you look at this shot right here, it's just so weird to see the 8 Pro get destroyed by its predecessor. The selfie cameras are noticeably better on the 8 series, but I really wished it OnePlus improve the contrast factor. That's what's missing here. I didn't see a major improvement in low-light and who knows what software updates can do to these phones later on.

So definitely stick around for my long-term review. When I visit the camera on me hate series. So how much do these new phones cost? You guys ready for this? The OnePlus 8 starts at $700, and for that you get a gigabyte of RAM and 128 gigabytes of storage for an extra hundred dollars. You get 4 extra gigs of RAM and twice a storage. Now the OnePlus 8 Pro starts at $900 for 8 of RAM and 128 gigabytes of storage, and, if you only absolute specter variant prepared to spend $1000 on an OnePlus fellow, that's right, OnePlus did it.

They finally managed to come out with $1000, smartphone, and I'm still in shock from learning that you see well, this is not the OnePlus we used to know people. In fact, they cannot be considered as the so-called mid-range smartphone manufacturer in these days, because they've officially entered the elite smartphone market to compete against Samsung and the rest of competition and I can't quite blame OnePlus for pricing, their phones and $900 and $800 or $700, because if you really think about it, when a smartphone manufacturer decides to come up with their flagship smartphone and if they're, the first in line to hit the market in 2020 with a certain price point, in this case its Samsung with the s20, because those phones start up $1000, it automatically gives other smartphone manufacturers to compete with that price points. And while the pro and the 8 are still less expensive compared to the galaxy s, 20 series it just it's just a way how the markets going to go. And unfortunately it's us, the consumers paying that premium which, which is just unfortunate, then OnePlus will sell the 7T and the 7 Pro at much lower price points compared to the 8 and the pro and I think that's a pretty good deal, because these phones are still really, really good, and I'd still recommend them. Any time of the day, but that's that's where I stand right now, it's just I, don't know I can't give you guys a full verdict on the 8.

Any pro in fact, stick around for my long term. View of these phones later on I actually have some unfinished business, because I have to review the s20 ultra, which is in the works, so I'll stick around for that, but until then stay safe, spend responsibly, and I'll talk to you guys in the next one. You.

Source : Hardware Canucks