OnePlus 8 Pro: Top 5 COMPLAINTS By Joshua Vergara

Thoughts continue on the 1+8 Pro, and after I talked about my favorite features about the phone, it's time for us all to partake in our favorite pastime, complaining, it's Joshua for GAAR. What's going on everybody here in my top five complaints when it comes to the 1 plus 8 Pro, ok, as usual with videos like this I have to give you my standard disclaimer that of course, these are my opinions, but I tried to think them out very carefully and connect them to what I think users might actually experience when it comes to using this new flagship device by 1 plus and if you think, I'm just spouting negativity in this video. Well, I did talk about my favorite parts of this phone in my top 5 features video that link is appearing in the card above, and it's found in the description below so calm down. Everybody I started off my top 5 features with the design, but there are some parts about it that I need to talk about we'll start off with something that's a little more smartphone existential and that has to do with this hole, punch design. Now this is something that we're pretty much used to by now, but with OnePlus, finally doing it with their latest smartphones, it kind of hits the final nail in the coffin on all of those weird pop up camera designs that we had from last year.20:19 was the year of weird smartphone designs, and it was actually a very exciting and fun year. As a result, even the OnePlus 7 pro had a pop-up camera of its own, and even if I wasn't the biggest fan of it, much less the quality of the camera itself.

It was still a sign that we were going into different creative realms in order to achieve the full screen display now. I know that having a notch or a cut-out in this particular case means that the phone will have a better chance of being water and dust resistant, which is clearly the case with the OnePlus 8 pro, but I just keep thinking back to a blissful short amount of time in 2019, when we were moving away from a time when smartphones were starting to get boring, and they were getting weird again and now in 2020 we're starting to move into another realm. That is very similar because phones themselves are starting to look more and more alike now, without getting too heady about all of this. From a practical perspective, the thin profile of this phone is surprising, like I said, but it also lends to a couple of weird handling quirks the curve on the display, actually kind of exacerbates the fact that palm rejection technology I hear needs to be tuned a bit better. Any haphazard touch of those curves on the sides will usually lead to something being swiped away or something getting pressed.

But now we are going to talk about that front facing camera, which is course in that cutout I'm gonna talk more about what is kind of missing in its feature set. The front-facing camera does yield some pretty good selfies and, of course, the portrait mode is available there to get a nice soft background. But there are some features missing here that you can find on plenty of other flagships, mainly high resolution or even high frame rate recording. It was what the LGA sexy. Thank you that I got a lot of compliments on one particular IG story, because it was recorded at 4k at 60 frames per second, which made it look amazing and IG stories now you're, not gonna, get that here on the OnePlus 8 Pro.

On top of all of that, even if you did just want to take selfies, the beauty modes are weirdly just stripped down. You just have level 1 2 & 3 without any customization now granted I'm, not the kind of person that actually goes into those beauty modes very often and tweets all the different settings, but I know people who do and then the last thing that's missing here is a night mode, so that your selfies can get a little of a boost with some long exposure, multi frame capture. The last thing is that the front-facing camera has a field of view. That's still a bit too narrow for my taste, especially for video for photos. You can maybe squeeze in one or two people, but when you're doing video, it's still pretty narrow, and it's something that I even noticed during a podcast on IG live with Nick Gray of Android.

One thing that might have been a little weird but pleasantly different, is if that color filter lens. That's on the back of this one was actually on the front. After all, filters are mostly used when during selfies, but that leads me to my next little complain about this, and it's just that the color filter lens doesn't make a lot of sense to me. So the lens is there, so that the filter is being done on the hardware level. That way, software processing power is dedicated to just the pictures themselves, and you still get all the different filters that you would normally get in the camera app.

The thing is here: if you don't ever use those filters in the built-in camera app anyway, then the color filter lens is just taking up space. Actually, it might have been cool if OnePlus was working with the likes of Instagram Snapchat TikTok, so that all the filters that are used incessantly on those applications actually take advantage of the color filter lens. Now that might be a false equivalency, but I'm just sort of thinking out loud here. The saving grace here is that the phone doesn't use the color filter lens to justify an exorbitant price point. I just want to know what else this will be used for, because I don't know many people who use the filters in the camera app, and thus this lens will dust.

My next thing is about expandable storage, of which the 1+8 Pro does not have, which is not that big of a deal again because, while OnePlus historically has never had this feature, I can see that not every user is like me, where I'm constantly downloading games that are like 2, 3, 4 gigabytes, big on to my phones, because I just like playing many games all at the same time, which is also the reason why I never finished them. So that's kind of a problem too, but a lot of space does get taken up and then, with all the 4k recording. I do I've already gotten the 100 gigabytes that were available in here down to even like 60 I, pretty much find myself in the same boat as a lot of you out there who have wanted OnePlus to adopt certain features like wireless charging and IP certifications of which you do get on the OnePlus 8 Pro. The difference here is, though, that, like the headphone jack, expandable storage probably will never come on any one plus device in the future. So this is just one of those pills that I have to swallow and by that I mean I'm.

Probably just going to have to dump out my data from time to time in order to free up space and now the final complaint that I have is more or less echoing. What a lot of you were saying in the live chat once the price was announced, and that was like people saying F in the chat, bunch rip, rip, rip or I PRI P, just saying that OnePlus has lost their way and there's no reason to even consider the phone. If it's not at a price point that you really want. Well, that's the thing. A lot of warm Plus diehards really want OnePlus to remain that one plus one plus two manufacturers and I get it I echo your sentiments because I was there when the OnePlus one was first announced in Beijing.

It was literally just me and one other correspondent there from America, and we were very privileged to be there to see what would be a historic company planting the roots into the smartphone market and watching this company with its guerrilla marketing, like strategies of like invites and low price points, despite having high-end specifications, basically undercutting what every other manufacturer was doing. It was nice to see the journey from that OnePlus up until where they are now where OnePlus is trying to not only live up to the standard of flagship killer, but they want their phones to also be considered flagships. But that is the perspective through which we should look at the other side of the coin, not even as a way of defending OnePlus and that price point, but just as a thought experiment, because now the OnePlus 8 pro does right. Next, to a bunch of other flagships on carriers and across many markets. So what does OnePlus bring to the table that our selling points an exceptionally smooth screen and superfast wireless charging offer a price of up to 999 dollars? Then you have LG which put a big battery in there LG v60, along with the ability to bundle in a dual screen case at eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars.

And then, of course, you have Samsung coming in with the galaxy s 20 ultra, which basically tried to set the bar for 2020, and this is where you start to ask of what exactly weighs into what you can consider an exorbitant price. But you do get certain extras in the Samsung camp-like Dags 100 x, space, zoom, 120, Hertz, refresh rate at 1080p, just to name a few, and then there are other things that quintessentially make up the galaxy experience. But do all of Samsung's additions actually equate to a $400 premium for you, or are you able to narrow down your needs to what the OnePlus a pro uniquely provides and I? Think when you look at it that way? The package over all the OnePlus 8 pro still manages to justify its price point, because, even if there are some things that are missing like I said in this top five complaints, video there's still plenty more about this. That is pretty damn great and unique in the market, making it so that, even if this phone's not $500, it still undercut some other flagships and manages to provide things that are practical and still very high-end. Well, look at that.

Even in this top five complaints, video I managed to end it. On a positive note: that's how you know that I'm not just bashing on a device we're trying to think through all the things that you might find, that our little peeves, or just little nuances of a device that you're putting your money down for I, want to hear what you all have to think. How do you feel about the 1+8 pearl? We will talk about the OnePlus 8 in a future video, as a lot of you were saying that you want to see content on that phone, but for now again to the comment, sections and let me know what you think about OnePlus as latest flagship device from there. I'm going to go ahead and call it on this one. Thank you so much for watching subscribe to my channel for continued coverage on the one plus 8 and the one plus eight Pro and from there I will just remind you to enjoy your tea.

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Source : Joshua Vergara