OnePlus 8 Pro Review - The Better S20 By Dave2D

There was this comment that one of you guys posted in one of my earlier videos where someone was like: you either die a flagship killer or he lived long enough to become the flagship and, at the time I thought was a pretty funny joke. But that phrase is a remarkably accurate depiction of what we have today. The one plus a pro is a full-blown flagship like we're talking, IP certified water resistance, wireless charging, a very flagship camera we'll get into that little. But this is its a flagship, a perfect one, but it's also equipped with flagship pricing. This is now a $900 smartphone. The base price for the one plus a pro is 900.

Bucks and I mean there's a lot to be discussed here, but okay, I'm going to start this video off with. Let's do it like this I think anyone who's interested in a one plus a pro is probably interested in a Galaxy, S, 20 or an S 20 plus, because they have a lot of things in common between them. The big one for me are the displays. They both have these fantastic 120 Hertz panels. The OnePlus 8 pro has a 1440p panel.

It's super bright, super color, accurate. It's a top-tier display visually I'd, put it on par with the s20 plus. Furthermore, it really is that good. Furthermore, it's honestly strange to me that OnePlus is able to get these displays like a smaller coupling like this is able to get displays. That is better than like the vast majority of smartphones out there, but it really is like a kick-ass 120 Hertz panel now I can personally tell the difference between the 120 Hertz panel and the 90 Hertz panel from last year's one plus seven Pro, but I have to look for it now.

I'm, maybe I'm sensitive to it, like I play a lot of games at high refresh rates like I go for that stuff, but I have to look for it right. It doesn't like jump out immediately as being better like the 120 over the 90. There is a big difference being 60 and 90, but if you are someone who's fortunate enough to have a device that does have a 90 Hertz panel, don't let that 120 Hertz jump be the main reason why purchasing this like it? It is noticeable if you look for it. The other thing is like its refresh rate on a phone right. This isn't like Pet tit of Reddit browsing.

You don't need that tactical advantage of 120 hurt screens it's nice, it's slightly easier on the eyes, but if for the people that just haven't experienced it ever, it's not the most important feature in the world, it's just nice to have. The performance is amazing, as you would expect from a snapdragon 865 with UEFA's 3 storage and the LP ddr5 X memory. It really is a crazy fast phone. There is a chip inside the 1, plus a pro from a company called pixel works which helps to amp up the visual experience, so it does stuff like color, calibration and upscaling contents to HDR quality content. But it's got this neat feature called motion, smoothing which can reduce any kind of motion blur or visual judders in certain types of videos.

Now at the front of this, camera does not have the pop-up camera like the 1 plus 7 Pro. It's got a whole bunch of camerae and I don't mind it like I thought. I would care, because I spent an entire year on a phone with no front anything. No, not no bezel, no camera and this hole. Punched I thought would just be like an eyesore I, don't mind it at all.

Now, I, don't think this is like the end stage of front-facing cameras. I do think that the under display cameras will be appearing soon, like we've seen rumors of that tech appearing like the note 20 from Samsung later this year, so I wouldn't be surprised if one Plus picks up that Tech in the next year, maybe even less, but in its current state. It already looks fine to me. It's got superfast face, unlock superfast, fingerprint unlock. Furthermore, it still has a curved edge.

I've talked about this plenty of my videos, but the s20 series. This year they kind of reduced the curvature on their edge, so it's not as easy to get miss clicks and accidental swipes, but the OnePlus 8 Pro still has a pretty big curve on that edge. Now, one of the easiest ways to combat this is to have case. They include a clear one with one plus a pro. It's got never settle kind of like frosted in the back, so you can show off that, never settling.

If you can see that while you rock it, but it does help with accidental clicks on this device. Now they like I, normally don't cover cases on this channel, but I got it on this one. In the media kit, these things came in like look at the color I'm gonna. You think this channel is gonna. Get these cases and not talk about them.

I mean come on dude. These are like the most 2d cases. I've ever seen like the color is perfectly teal. It's got the OnePlus sandstone texture to it. So if you want that kind of textured grip, it has that it also is slightly different in terms of design from the previous sandstone cases on OnePlus phones.

So I mean this is just from long-term usage, but these cases tend to crack over time like just on the edges, because they don't have a full bottom. It's kind of cut out, because these are built in a way to I mean they're just fully. It's a full case around the edge. So I think these will last longer without cracking like previous sandstone cases have, but there's also I'm going to so much detail about these cases, but they're teal. They deserve it um.

It's got these lines in the design and even after only a couple of weeks of using these they've become quite dirty. So I think that over time these lines might become dark from use. But that's just the case. Okay enough about these. Damn things um the phone itself.

So this has a blue ultramarine color, and it is a very blue color. It comes in a green also in the same kind of satin. Finish, I much prefer the visual appearance of that green over the blue. This is just super loud, it's just not my thing, but it's a very nice texture. It's got this smooth finish, and they've also matched the edges of the phone to have that same kind of smooth finish, there's another color variant that I have here.

This is not an 8 pro, but an 8 notice had to wipe it to get rid of the fingerprints, but this is called interstellar glow, and it's similar is to the Samsung's aura glow, in the sense that it's, like a reflective, polished finish. It's a different process, though this is more of like adolescent, mirrored effect where the Samsung material looks almost prismatic. There's 30 watt wireless charging on this, which is superfast and I, was able to get the advertised 50% in 30 minutes. I do find it a little warm to the touch warmer than I'd, like even warp charge. Just the regular 30 watt warp charge does make these devices warm, but it feels slightly warmer on the wireless charger which could the battery durability over time.

Battery life is great on this device, so this is getting a comfortable seven hours of screen on time. That's with 120 Hertz 1440p like that's just right. You, if you drop the resolution or drop the refresh rate you just get longer from there, but seven hours of screen on time with everything turned up. That's a huge win in my books, okay speakers. So there are stereo speakers.

They sound, perfect, but when I try to compare to the s20 I think that music sounds better on the 1+8 Pro I think movies sound better on the s20 I can't explain it. I feel like maybe they handle sound like punchy, sounds a little better on the s20, and it's not just like bass or any kind of mid-tones or anything. It's just music sounds better on this. In my opinion, movies and shows sound better on the s20. Take that, for whatever you will the haptics on this device are also improved.

It feels more ping now, instead of like thump and buzz, this, like the 1 + 7 Pro, already had pretty good haptics I, just like this better. It just feels sharper and more precise. Now the S 20 this year, they also have improved haptics I would say that the s 20 vibration, motor or haptic motor feels more robust, like you can do more stuff with whatever mechanism they have in here, like they've, created sensations that when you take pictures it feels like something's like rolling around in there really quickly. You don't get that with this. This is just more of like a cleaner, precise ping, which I personally like, but they're, both good now I need to talk about the cameras, because I think the camera on the 1 + 8 Pro, is probably the most important feature.

First, it is huge, like the camera bump on this thing sticks out like if I'm eyeballing, like 3 millimeters, it's very large. It's like BAM you're. Looking for this a ramp because I got a ramp for you, it's a very, very big camera bump, especially you don't have a case on it. Now, I'm, ok with the bump the size of the bump, because this year, for the first time ever in one-plus history, they have an excellent camera. Like a truly excellent camera that can sit on the shelf with any of the top-tier flagships, because before this, every phone that has ever come out from OnePlus its, but the review is always the same.

Like the camera system. This year is good, it's perfect for the price, but it can't compete with the top-tier flagships. That's like the OnePlus story. It's what you guys been hearing for years. It was what I've been saying for years, and it's probably what OnePlus has been hearing for years in their reviews, and they got sick of it.

Quite frankly, this is an excellent camera. It's perfect in daylight. It's sharp great color fast, like superfast shutter. The ultra white is on point. There's some color shift between the lenses, but it's better this year than last year.

The 3x telephoto I would say is where these two cameras differ, the most because the regular lens and the ultra-wide they're, both perfect on the s20 and the one plus a pro, but the 3x zoom they both look great I, do prefer the images from the s20, though it just has better contrast to me, and the whole image looks a little cleaner and when you crank that up to a 30x digital zoom, they also have some differences. The Samsung looks cleaner, it's just way less noisy, but that software is potentially a little too aggressive, because now you're losing detail that the OnePlus kept. It is noisier, but you can always Denise in post, but I'm not sure if you can regain the loss of detail, but let's be real. We're talking about 30x digital zooms. Here, I, don't know if people can be using it.

That often, but if that's super important to you well now you know the differences between them. The nighttime photos are also perfect. All three lenses perform really well now. I do feel like OnePlus phones have a bit of an advantage for the type of low-light shooting that I like to do. If you follow my channel I shoot a lot of like nighttime landscapes, and the thing is the low-light feature in this phone is called nights cape, so maybe the software is perfect at just picking out architectural details and amplifying that stuff in low-light, but they just they look so good on the OnePlus a pro they did an incredible job this year, I like the camera for the first time ever I can be like this is its an amazing camera, and it also has that super macro feature.

So you can zoom in on things and see details that are both gross and fascinating at the same time, and the video function is also perfect. Well, stabilized good autofocus, you're gonna, like it, I'm gonna, talk about the biggest difference between these phones, which is their software. Now I'm, someone that values the kind of clean nature of oxygen OS like I'm, someone that doesn't even like I, don't like text in my apps you can. You can tell that I'm going to prefer something like this I just like stuff as clean as possible. One UI is excellent, like 2.0 looks so much better than it has in the past, but it still has redundant apps like the moment, you have a Samsung browser and, like Samsung, pay, that's baked into the phone it. You know it's its not as clean as oxygen OS, but they're both good.

It's just that if you value like the most minimal cleanness software experience possible oxygen OS on the OnePlus is going to win. Okay. Now, let's talk about pricing and that's I think where I'd like to close off this video. This is a $900 phone which is so much more expensive than this was when it launched. This was a six hundred and seventy dollar phone I think when I launched the OnePlus 7 pro.

This is nine hundred bucks, which is two hundred and thirty dollars more yeah, two hundred $30 more um. My math isn't that great right now, but this is a huge jump up in price. Now someone that pricing comes from the IP certification and some of that price comes from, like the wireless charging, I'm sure, but I think the biggest portion of that jump up in price is the camera like when you want to compete in the big leagues, and you want to have cameras that can compete with iPhones and Samsung's and pixels. You need to the best lenses, the best sensors and that stuff is crazy, expensive, it's what we have. We have a perfect overall package I.

In my opinion, this is the best flagship on the market right now for Android users, but the price tag is weird for one plus now I think those last year I made a video entitled I think was called like the OnePlus. We knew is dead or something like that, and basically was just the story of how one plus had shifted very quickly over the years from a company that was very budget minded to a more premium device right now we're seeing extremely expensive flagship. This stuff is its flagship territory. Now, if you didn't I, think one of the problems that reviewers have when it comes to products like this, and it's not a problem, it's just something that we inherently look, though, it's the way we look at devices. We look at track record.

We look at history, we have expectations of a product will be and what they should be right. So imagine you didn't know anything about these phones like these -. Let's say you had the s20 in the OnePlus, a pro they didn't have any branding. There was no kind of association of history or expectations with these products. I think most people, just blind reviewers out there would be like this is the better phone empirically objectively speaking, this is the better phone all round, because it's its faster, it's cheaper! It's everything about! This is a better film, but because this is a Samsung branded phone, we have expectations and because this is a 1 plus branded phone, we also have expectations.

We want this to be cheaper because at one point in time this was really cheap and at one point in time this was the best camera system on Android phones. So that is the problem when it comes to reviewing stuff like this, because part of me wants to review this stuff completely objectively without any bias without any kind of any agenda. But I think it's gone to the point where we see OnePlus has shifted to a completely different space. We can no longer look at this brand as a hey I wish they were cheap, hey I wish they were. You know, $600 phones at the top, and it's its not gonna.

Be that way anymore. What they have made is, in my opinion, the best flagship it's expensive, and it is what it is now in this video I did not talk about this phone. The 1+8 I actually think this is the more important phone of the ? I. Think, there's a way more important and interesting discussion to be had with this phone, but I didn't include it because it's going to be in a separate video. I'll probably drop it in two or three days, but stay tuned for that.

I just feel like the 1+8, it's the best flagship in Android right now, in my opinion, okay, hope you guys enjoy this video thumbs. If you liked it subs, if you loved it, I'll see you guys next time.

Source : Dave2D