OnePlus 8 Review: One Step Forward, 7T Steps Back By innoiso

Earlier this year I rank the OnePlus 7t, the best phone under 500. , and a lot has changed now. First OnePlus announced the OnePlus 8 8 pro and then 8t, and now you're, seeing prices for the 8 and eight pro drops, and so now wait what really okay! Well now the question is: is the OnePlus 8, the new best phone that you can get for under 500? Let's talk about it. This is into ISO, and this is the OnePlus 8 review. Look. I know that there are a lot of people that won't consider the OnePlus 8, because it's not the new hotness.

There are a lot of OnePlus fans that just want what the newest phone is, and so they'll opt for. The at the fact is the OnePlus 7t was still an excellent choice when the OnePlus 8 was announced because it was such a great value and with the OnePlus with the OnePlus 8 at such a low price, you should maybe consider it if you're not willing to pay over 500 600 700 for a new phone. I fully expected the OnePlus 8 to be just a step-up from the OnePlus 7t in terms of design, and I actually find that there are more similarities to the design of the OnePlus 7 pro last year, in that the fact that it has more curved edges both on the screen and the back panel and while from a visual standpoint, I don't think this is a big deal. I think, from an ergonomic standpoint. The result is its a little more difficult to grip onto the OnePlus 8.

Without touching the edges of the screen, the OnePlus 7t had my one of my favorite color palettes ever what I call Gatorade blue and the OnePlus 8 at least my model has this sunrise color, which is very, unique and pretty with this, this morph of purple orange and yellow all into this very reflective back and visually. I think this looks very appealing, but the result is pretty bad fingerprints on the back. I think this is a very striking design and unique design, but I would prefer a blue color, like the OnePlus 7t. Your other option for the OnePlus 8 is to get a glacial green color, which I think green is kind of in this year when it comes to phone designs. I think that looks very appealing, and I don't really mind the color palette of mine.

We've moved from the flat display and teardrop knots for the OnePlus 7t to a curved display with a hole, punch cut out in the OnePlus 8, and I really don't think visually. The cutouts look any better or worse than the notch, though it does look a little more modern, since most phones this year are going with the cutout. Now the OnePlus 8 does have a 90 hertz display, rather than the 120 hertz, that other phones release this year might have. But I don't really tell a big difference and I think the experience of using the OnePlus 8 is incredibly good. It's fast, it's fluid and the display itself is excellent.

Oddly enough, while it does have an end screen fingerprint sensor, like the OnePlus 7t, I found that it has a little less consistency for me. I don't know if that's because of scratches on the screen or just because I need to re-register my fingerprint again, but it's just a little worse of an experience having a lot more failures when trying to pick up the phone and use it quickly in typical daily use. I was getting about five to six hours of battery life on the OnePlus 8, which was perfectly fine for me and in general, the experience and the performance was obviously very, very impressive. Now when it comes to camera performance, the OnePlus 8 takes respectable photos. It has the same primary wide-angle and telephoto lens that we've gotten familiar with on a lot of phones this year, but I wasn't nearly as impressed with it as I was with my OnePlus 7t.

Now, generally, the photos are better than the OnePlus 7t in most cases, but I think the OnePlus 7t was really a step forward when it came to OnePlus catching up with other phone manufacturers. The OnePlus 8, side-by-side with other phones released this year generally stands up fine in bright lighting scenarios, but I found this odd middle ground. You see when the OnePlus 8 has mixed lighting scenarios where there might be a single bright subject on the screen and dark everywhere else. The photo really gets flattened so, for example, in this picture of this distant sunset with the stadium. In the background, I found that the grass in the foreground looks really flat and bland.

In addition, if you take a look at this photo with the grass and the apartment complex in the foreground, it's really odd, because this photo should be absolutely gorgeous, because in reality there were a lot of purples and reds and greens that the camera sensor really didn't pick up. The interesting thing, though, is once you turn the lights off and night mode is finally able to really flex its capabilities. That's when you get really, really impressive photos. For example, if you take a look at this photo of the same apartment complex, it's perfect. There are a lot of great colors that were brought out of the shot and if you see the basketball players in the foreground of this one, you see that there was still a lot of action captured, despite them being moving subjects in what needs to be a longer shutter speed and then take a look at this picture that I took with trees in the foreground and a parking lot.

In the background you see, this photo has a lot more depth than some of the other photos that I took in brighter lighting, which was really impressive for me all in. I think the cameras on the OnePlus 8 are good, but I think other manufacturers have really stepped it up this year, such that I think the OnePlus 8 is still a second tier camera phone now. Finally, let's talk about the OnePlus 8 software. Now OnePlus has always excelled when it comes to software performance and software experience, but I know that there are a lot of OnePlus fans that are not really happy with the direction they're going with the new versions of oxygen OS. Now there are a lot of visual similarities with oxygen OS to the newer versions of one UI, and I can understand that OnePlus fans specifically choose not to have Samsung phones, and so they don't launch one UI's experience.

Now. Personally, it's not as big of a deal to me, because I was specifically asking for OnePlus to come up with a new coat of paint for oxygen and OS, but I can understand their frustration for me. I think the added benefits of always on displays, which we've been waiting for forever, are more than worth any sort of downside of the visual experience of oxygen OS one other small note. I have noticed the vibration motor on the OnePlus 8 to be not as consistent as I'd expected out of OnePlus in recent years. It feels a little rattly to me, and it feel it makes this small ringing noise when I type on it and as a result, I've ended up turning it off, which instantly makes it a worse experience when I'm trying to type after my excellent experience with the OnePlus 7t, I had really high expectations for the OnePlus 8, and unfortunately I don't think they were really fulfilled, while OnePlus is still making excellent phones, and you can get those phones for really low prices, I don't think they really are able to iterate enough or add enough value every six months, and so this whole six months, cadence thing seems to be a little lost on me.

I would personally prefer, if OnePlus put all of their focus on making one or maybe two excellent phones each year, but OnePlus is doing this specifically to stay relevant in the fall time when they don't have a release. I'll have to see in the future whether the OnePlus 8t offers that significant jump in performance or experience that I was expecting out of the OnePlus 8. But for now I can tell you that the OnePlus 8 is a very, very compelling phone for a price of under 500. So if you are an OnePlus fan with maybe an OnePlus, 6 or 6t, or something along those lines, then you should consider it. I wouldn't recommend it for OnePlus, 7, 7t or 7 pro owners, just because I don't think it's that much of a bump maybe hold out a little longer for the OnePlus 9 release, and I'll be reviewing this one more time.

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Source : innoiso