OnePlus 8 Review: Is it Still a "Flagship Killer?" By Mark Spurrell

Hey guys mark here, and today we're looking at the one plus eight, and before I say anything important about this phone can I just say that I really love the matte coating on the back, like I, absolutely love this thing. It looks great in every single picture, I've seen, and it somehow looks better in real life. There's barely any fingerprints showing up which makes it so easy to shoot, and it feels great to the touch other phone manufacturers take note. We can do more this all right now to more important things. OnePlus has always been a more budget to mid-range oriented brand that aimed to give you the best performance and flagship features at a much more affordable price point. I think the OnePlus 8 does follow in those footsteps but to a lesser degree, this time around the design is definitely up to flagship standards with an ear bezel list display and a hole-punch camera glass.

Back with that, beautiful matte coating and a painted aluminum frame that matches the Glacial green color on the back, the whole phone feels premium for sure, and I'd stack it right up there with the Samsung s20 in terms of build quality and feel you are missing. Some features here that are present on truly flagship phones. However, and we'll talk about that in just a bit, the display that OnePlus has gone for with this phone is a huge six point. Five five-inch AMOLED screen that caps out at a full HD plus resolution of 2400 by 1080, but runs at 90 Hertz as opposed to 60. It has the pixel density of 400 pixels per inch, meaning the display is still decently sharp, but I would have liked to see the 1440p resolution with the 90 Hertz display, like the 1 plus 7 Pro, had given that the OnePlus 8 pro has a 1440p and a 120 Hertz display.

There still would have been enough differentiation between the two new phones and the OnePlus 8 would have been an even more compelling phone at its current price point, the one plus 8 display is HDR.10 certified, however, both colors and contrast are very vivid and very accurate straight out of the box. The decision to go with a hole punch over the teardrop we saw on last year, 70 I, think, is fine. Some people think that the teardrop is a little less intrusive overall, but I suspect that this decision was entirely made because the hole punch is a newer trend and most people associate teardrops with older, more budget phones. At first glance, the display does curve over the edges of the phone. However, it is a much less aggressive curvature than other phones, more comparable to the edges of a say and s20 than something like the 1 + 7 Pro, which I like underneath to displace it's an optical fingerprint reader and I have a love-hate relationship with these things, because while they are a bit more designed friendly when hidden behind the glass, they tend to be less accurate.

Thankfully the one on the 8 is very fast, and it's almost as accurate as a physical fingerprint reader. So no complaints here, the frame of the phone is still classic one plus it's got that lovely alert. Slider on the right sided phone that every manufacturer should be putting on their phones by now, as well as the power button and on the left side of the phone. Is the volume rocker on the bottom of the phone? Is the dual SIM card tray a three point, one type C port and the speaker grille for the stereo speakers? Actually, let's talk about those speakers for a second because they deserve some recognition for sure they sound really, really good. They have Dolby Atmos support for a more 3d, sound effect, they're very loud and actually sound, nice and balanced I'd, say they're close to on par with the iPhone 11 series, and those phones have some of the best speakers.

I've tested to date. That paired with the great display makes the 1+8 a great phone for watching content on the go, whether it's movies with the HDR 10 support or your favorite YouTubers, one of the one plus's points of differentiation has always been speed and the OnePlus 8 delivers. Here too. It's equipped with the latest snapdragon 865, as well as eight gigs of ram in the Glacial green color or twelve gigs of ram in the wacky new interstellar glow color, and this variant has 128 gigs of UFS 3.0 storage. Everything feels extremely fast in oxygen OS, which can I say, is easily one of the best Android skins right up there with Google's own version and while I haven't had the phone for very long.

The phone hasn't hiccuped tour bogged down in any way. So far again, performance is at a flagship level. It ran a Geek bench five score of 902 in single core and 31:13, a multi-core which puts it on par with the average benchmarking score of the s20 ultra 5g I mean they have the same chip, so I guess that makes sense. Now, let's talk about the cameras in true OnePlus fashion, the cameras on the 8 just aren't that great the standard, 48 megapixel wide camera is good as it's the same IMF 586 sensor that was on last year's 1 plus 7 pro the 16 megapixel ultra-wide is just ok, though it's not nearly as sharp as the wide-angle camera and the edges of the frame have some bad distortion. But the truly terrible camera in this thing is that two megapixel macro lens yeah.

You heard that right, two megapixels I can actually get a better court on quote macro picture by using the 2x crop from the main camera. The 16 megapixel selfie camera is decent, though it's no pixel for or iPhone 11, but it gets the job done. The rear cameras, aside from the macro, shoot video in 4k up to 60fps and the front-facing camera shoots 1080p at 30fps, I'll, be posting more sample photos or videos on my Instagram or Twitter, so feel free to click on the links in the description down below to have a look at those while the cameras aren't superb. The battery life on the 1 plus 8 is I thought that the 90 Hertz refresh rate and the massive display on this phone would deplete the battery fairly quickly but turns out that this phone has one of the better batteries of all the phones that I've tested so far this year. OnePlus is stuffed a 4300 William hour battery in here, and it easily lasts me a full day on part of another one, with my light to medium use, five and a half to even six hours of screen time as possible on this phone, and if you want more battery life, just reduce the screens refresh rate to 60 Hertz, but I.

Don't think you'll need to do that unless you're really strapped for battery, and you're, far away from a charger OnePlus, also bundles for their fast 30 watt warp charger in the box, and it'll charge. The battery from 0 to 50 percent in about 22 minutes, I wouldn't even be super mad. If the battery life wasn't great but because it is the fast charging. Speed is just the icing on the cake. However, long pause for dramatic effect, the OnePlus Heat does not come equipped with wireless charging, like the pro model does, and this is another area where the 8 doesn't quite measure up to other flagships, I, don't personally care because I prefer using fast chargers to slow or wireless chargers anyway.

But it's something to know for sure. There's also one more thing that makes this phone fall a little short of flagship territory, water resistance. If you buy this phone unlocked, it does not come with official IP water and dust resistance rating like the 8 Pro does. However, this is a bit weird because the Verizon and T-Mobile versions of this phone do, and I'm pretty sure it's the exact same phone I suspected this phone is just as water-resistant as the phones from those carriers, but am I going to test that theory nope not eager to risk losing this phone yet because I actually like it a lot and that segues us nicely to my final thoughts of this first impressions type. Video.

The 1+8 is a great phone one of my favorites this year, in fact held back by its mediocre cameras and lack of wireless charging, but that doesn't change the fact that overall, it's a great phone depending on where you live, though it might be worth the price, or it might be a little less worth the asking price, for example, in the US, this phone costs $6.99 USD, but here in Canada it cost 1100 Canadian before taxes which converts to almost 800 bucks, a full hundred dollars, US more expensive that hurts one plus. It really does regardless I still think the 1 plus 8 is a great phone. The price still undercuts other 5g devices like the Samsung, S 20 and, while I wouldn't consider it quite the flagship killer, the other one plus phones used to be that doesn't stop the OnePlus 8 from being a great contender. If you liked this video, please give it a like and subscribe to spoil my channel and, as always, have a great day.

Source : Mark Spurrell