OnePlus 8 Pro | Six Months Later... By Tech Spurt

So we're well and truly balls deep into silly season now there are smartphone launches happening pretty much every single day, but one of the upcoming launches that has got tech spots like myself, particularly hot and bothered, is the OnePlus 8t which will be launching globally on October, the 14th. Now I'm definitely still a fan of the OnePlus 8 pro, which launched six months ago. Just when 2020 was starting to take a serious downturn, it's not perfect sure, but it is one of the more impressive flagship smartphones to launch this year and that's why I've been using it sort of on and off the last six months, certainly comparing it with other flagships to see how they stack up. Unfortunately, the OnePlus 8 pro has not dropped in price at all. Over the past half a year, it's still 800 quid for the base model or 900 quid. If you want this green model with the 12 gigs of ram stuffed in size, but with the 8t, basically lingering on the horizon, who knows we might see some perfect deals on the airport very shortly.

So I thought now would be a great time to re-review the OnePlus 8 pro go through all the updates that have happened over the last six months. What has changed with the overall experience and how it stacks up to the current flagship lineup? So here's my full OnePlus 8 pro 6 month review and from all the latest greatest tech. Please do put subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers now six months ago, this 6.8 inch behemoth seemed excessively huge but of course, smartphones keep expanding, and just these past couple of weeks I've reviewed the likes the Nokia 8.3 and the Poco x3, which are 6.8 and 6.7 inches respectively. So I've got to say the OnePlus 8 pro no longer seems like a giant, although it is definitely a proper handful and that super smooth glass back means that handling it can be a wee bit precarious at times, especially hot, stopping when you fumble it as you're walking somewhere in a hurry. I was really hoping that OnePlus would have implemented a dedicated one-handed mode by now, but no dice.

You can still drag down that notifications bar from anywhere on screen, but there's no dedicated screen shrinking feature so using apps 100 is still a massive pain in the region. Still in better news that slippery back end has at least stayed in good nick over the preceding months, and it only needs the occasional bit of buffing on your pants to get rid of any greasy smudges, but definitely 100 slap a screen protector onto the OnePlus 8 pro as soon as you get it, because there's none pre-installed on there and those little nicks and scratches are really starting to top up now and speaking of the screen. Let's shift straight on to that, because it's caused a lot of raised eyebrows since the OnePlus 8 pro first hit stores, there's lots of online chatter background sort of vehicle time about a handful of users having green screen issues. Basically, if you had the OnePlus 8 pro set to 120 hertz refresh rate and the brightness was really low, and it was a full moon out, then occasionally the blackout elements on the display would have a sort of green tint to them. Personally, I could not recreate this problem at all.

I had it on 120 hertz and I tried the full range of display settings comfort, tone on and off had the RGB on vivid board no dice with any of it, so really weird one overall, but hopefully those users that were having issues have had them rectified in subsequent updates. What I can say, though, is that the level of display customization on offer here is absolutely unparalleled dive into the screen calibration. For instance, you can get that RGB level on the go, which is really, really great. If your editing picks on the fly, you can completely mess around with the color temperatures. You've got all manner of eye comfort modes on there, so nice and easy on your peepers and the phone is more than smart enough to automatically tweak all of those display settings to suit the ambient conditions and whatever you're up to at the time, and I've got to admit.

I do get a bit of a kick out of that motion. Smoothness features these days, which seems to have improved over the occasional stutter and buggy effort from launch. It is a love or hated feature which makes your YouTube or Netflix videos look hyper smooth, just like them hobbit films from back in the day, and I just happen to love it now that it's not CAC. Now back when I first reviewed the OnePlus 8 pro, I did find that those curved edges did happy usability somewhat. My palm flesh would kind of intrude on the screen and accidentally select things that they shouldn't have done, which is about as much fun as it sounds.

Thankfully, OnePlus seems to have actually sorted this issue out in the subsequent updates since launch as well, which means that those curvy bits no longer cause any consternation. Although those slope edges can occasionally make things a little, fiddly still like, for instance, in diesel, when you're trying to scroll quickly through your albums list, but I tell you what big shout out to that fingerprint scanner which is built into the whopper of a display with these in-display fingerprint sensors. I often find out, I end up re-scanning my digits every month or so because they just simply stop recognizing my fingers. They've got a memory of a pissed up goldfish I'll, tell you what with OnePlus 8 pro I've, never once had that problem. It just works in absolute charm, and the face recognition is still super swift, as well as for the software side of things well, oxygen.

Os hasn't really changed up that much at all, since the OnePlus 8 pro first landed, you've still got a stock android vibe there with greater customization and the likes of the always on display making this one of my favorite manufacturer launches. Now, if you're not familiar with OnePlus oxygen OS, and you want a closer look at some software bits and definitely go check out my full OnePlus 8 tips and tricks guide from back in the day that I'll show you everything you need to know, and I have to say the overall experience here on the OnePlus airport is as slick as an oily otter, although it's not quite perfect, even after several updates. Just occasionally, one of my apps, like google, chrome or something like that, will play silly buggers, and I'll have to go into the apps list and just flick it away into oblivion, restart it in order to get it working again. These are definitely just weird glitches, though, because the performance is right up there with the very best smartphones of 2020, even six months on that snapdragon 865 chipsets, boosted by 12 gigs of ram in my review model, means that the OnePlus 8 pro can absolutely piss its way through any app or game you throw at it. I love whipping this thing out and killing the living out of just random people on Call of Duty.

Although the sloppy edges definitely means that games are best played with a controller that fanatic mode is still a great way to avoid disturbances when you're gaming as well. It hasn't changed up at all in the past six months, but it still does its job perfectly. Unfortunately, it's not quite so good happy fun times. As far as the battery life is concerned. Back when I first reviewed the OnePlus 8 pro, I felt I tended to have about 20 battery life left at the end of a fairly hectic day, whereas several months on and several updates on, it actually seems to have degraded somewhat these days, I seem to just about squeak through a full day on a full charge, although even then it is sometimes by the skin of my ass.

That said, that is with the display setting to 120 hertz, refresh rate and quad HD plus resolution as well. If you bump down from 120 hertz to 60 hertz, you tend to get a full day a little easier, but then, of course, what is the point of stumping up all this cash for a super premium smartphone, if you're not going to use all the super premium features at least that 30 watt wireless charging is still crazy, quick with one plus warp charge, 30 chargers. Stick a dead, OnePlus 8 pro on that bugger for half an hour, and you'll get 54 charge. Well an hour gives you just shy of a full battery. That is, of course, with the charger in full-on beast mode, where you've actually got fans wearing away on the charger trying to keep the phone cool, as it is charging that battery not an ideal situation if you're going to be sleeping with your head right next to the charger, but the great news is you can actually schedule when it goes into full-on beast modes: you can just have it trickle charging instead during the night, so you have a nice peaceful bit of slumber and last up as ever, let's have a shifty at the quad lens rear camera, which six months on hasn't really evolved at all.

Despite most over-the-air updates, contain a variety of so-called camera improvements. The only noticeable changes with the infamous photochromatic lens, which originally produced absolute nightmare fodder like this. However, it was then swiftly discovered that this lens could kind of sort of see through some very, very thin clothing, which led to OnePlus, of course, retract and support for it, and there's been a heck of a lot of back and forth with it being semi-reinstated and everything. But the upshot is it basically does nothing now. So it's pretty much a waste of space unless you want to mess around with manual patching still.

The 48 megapixel primary lens is a cracker serving up bright, sharp, well-defined photos. Even when contrast is working against you, especially if you shoot using the default four in one pixel binning modes, colors still look slightly more vibrant than in real life, which is an effect that I personally like, but others might not. While the night mode means that you get bright, clear photos in very low light, although the likes of the pixel 4 phones are still better when it comes to accurate, color capture there, the ultra-wide angle lens on the telephoto lens do their respective jobs well and while the three times optical zoom can't match crazy space, zoom rivals it is more than enough for just everyday shenanigans, although both the ultra-wide angle and the telephoto lenses produce warmer colors overall, when compared with the primary lens for an even less natural finish. I definitely can't complain with the quality of my 4k horn movies, with the option to shoot at either 30 or 60 frames per second. Those visuals are sharp and colorful again the audio comes through nice and clear and that HDR mode comes in handy when you're shooting on a bright day.

Image stabilization is as good as ever, but you can also switch to the other lenses. If you fancy a different viewpoint. Sorry there's my full thoughts on the OnePlus 8 pro six months after it originally launched, and I originally reviewed it still really enjoy going back to it. Certainly in those tiny little gaps in between review samples coming in, of course, personally, I definitely find it one of the more enjoyable flagships launched in 2020, and that's one of the reasons why I'm really excited to see what comes out of the OnePlus 8t series. But that said the OnePlus word, if you've got it in your area, definitely check that out as well, because it's about half the price, and it still offers a really slick bit of performance and pretty much the same software experience.

So if you've been using the OnePlus 8 pro. Definitely let me know your own mini review down in the comments below. Please do put subscribe ding that notifications bell and have yourselves a lovely rest of the week cheers everyone loves you now.

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