OnePlus 8 Review: Updates Changed My Mind.. By Pocketnow

I hesitated to review the 1+8 on embargo because it just did not feel finished. If you watch my comparison against the 8 pro, the camera was not even living enough to the 7t, but you know good things come to those who wait. After that video was done. We received the software update, fixing camera issues and then another software update right after our comparison against the iPhone 11 and then a couple of days ago, we've received another so now that I've spent a little more than a week, testing more of the final product that you'll receive on retail I'm, hey Metairie event up with pocket now, and it's time for our full review of the one plus eight for those of you that are new to one plus I'd like to call this one of the brands, that's responsible for less expensive iPhones, and you can fight me on that premise. All you want, but come on. Apple announced their iPhone SE the day after the OnePlus 8 became official and listen.

It makes sense. OnePlus has been taking over the market with their less expensive phones with flagship specifications and after two u. s. launches plus an extra carrier deal. What do you think was going to happen? The question is: should you care, even if brands are noticing in the past, recommending OnePlus phones was easy because of the price gap, where the one plus eight sees the most substantial price difference when compared to its predecessor at $100 and sure at $6.99, you can buy an iPhone 11, you can buy a Galaxy S 10, but I do believe that you should care, because once you look into the value proposition of what this phone is offering you'll notice that there are actually substantial differences. Let me start this video by telling you what I like the most about this phone, and it starts with those details, visually you'd, say: there's really not much different, but I disagree.

Some of my favorite devices of 2019 were the galaxy s 10 and Galaxy Note 10, and it's as if OnePlus use them as inspiration. If you see it from the front with the screen off, you'd swear, it's the S 10 and thus much heavy compact discs. Look of the note 10 can be seen in this interstellar globe. Back now, honestly, for me, the S 10 was more about how impossibly light it felt for being such a large phone and that permeates to the 1+8. Somehow this phone is about the same height of the 70, but as two millimeters narrower and the hair, thinner and all well-being 10 grams lighter and that's also including a battery.

That's 12 percent larger I mean if we're gonna talk, efficiency. Let's focus on the major reason for the price hike. The OnePlus 8 should not be compared against anything else, because this is a 5g phone and sure I know that a lot of us reviewers like to downplay 5g because of its current importance, but that's not going to last long and I know that a lot of you don't upgrade your phones every year. So, if you're, given the option between upgrading to last year's technology versus upgrading to the future, I think for the same 699, the OnePlus 8 becomes a far better value proposition. This phone is capable of sub 6 on T-Mobile and is also the smallest phone that I know of that's capable of millimeter wave on Verizon with a couple of design differences call 5g overkill.

All you want, but trust me you'll. Thank me later. Another value benefit of going 1, plus s that the rest of the internals are Hardware, that's hard to compete with. We have the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 85 enough of the fastest flavor of RAM and storage in the industry. The latest Wi-Fi and Bluetooth standards, dual-sim capabilities.

If you go unlocked and a wired charging technology that'll, take you from zero to 50 percent in 22 minutes. That's included in the box flip this phone to the front and can I just say that this is the first time that I've truly loved the OnePlus display in the past. They were good but not great, either too dim or the colors were just not right. Obviously, if you want to go, quad, HD or 120, Hertz you'll have to go for the pro variant, but the fled, HD, plus and 90 Hertz won't be easy to find at this price range at 6.55, inches, diagonal and 20 by 9 aspect ratio. This fluid AMOLED allows a nearly identical footprint to the 70, but then push a screen to body ratio a bit further to create a bezel, less impression.

I know some won't be fans of the curves, but because this phone is not what I'd call too large to hold I haven't had much of a need for palm rejection techniques. Colors are vibrant, it pushes B mm, it's so you'll be fine and direct sunlight and content. Consumption is fantastic thanks to dual firing speakers. Last but not least, there's the software powering the show introduce plant with a clich? that stock Android is better than anything else which I wish were reflected in the sales figures of the Google Pixel oxygen. Os is what I'd like to call more than stock, because it shares the visual elements but adding a ton of useful features.

The first thing, you'll notice, is how fluid it is, which is a blend of the company's legacy approach and the 90 Hertz were frustrated in action so long as you choose to enable it because yeah this user interface is about choices. If you like the new Android gestures they're here, if you'd prefer the old three buttons, navigation they're. Also, here, if you like the Google Assistant, it's here natively, but you can also choose to use Amazon's assistant for a blend of both four you can set one to the gesture and the other to the power button, want gestures to launch specific applications or control your music. While the screen is off. That's also here one facial recognition or a fingerprint scanner on the display, or both yeah they're, also here and I, now, love how notifications are only visible in the lock screen of your face is detected so long as you choose that those fans have the 3-way mute.

Slider can even pick what each of these modes does to tailor more specific behaviors, and then there are the added perks that are unique to OnePlus, like Zen mode, to keep you off your phone for a bit. Gaming features for those of you that don't want to be interrupted and want to boost performance and my favorite reading mode, which is self-explanatory, I'd like to call oxygen OS, the most complete and thought-out version of what Android should be and how it should behave, and not just for its user interface, but also because of its endurance generation after generation. We continue to praise OnePlus for its battery performance and this phone, regardless of being the smaller variant when compared to the eight pro, provides just this good battery performance. So for those of you that we're worried about size differences, don't this phone is just as good by now I'm sure you're asking yourself. What's the catch and of course there is's no such thing as a perfect phone and coroner's have to be cut to make this an affordable, 5 phones.

Let me begin with the reasons I'm mixed about this phone, and it starts with water resistance, but there's a huge asterisk here, as this is to unlock variants. So I know that there is no IP rating, meaning the most I can tell you is that it's splash proof, which is the usual OnePlus jargon, but then, if you dig into the specifications of the carrier, variance meaning T-Mobile and Verizon, those phones appear to be IP, 68, and I already confirmed with OnePlus. It is an IP 68, rated phone. So if you're interested in a certification, you will have to go for a carrier. Variant second is wireless charging.

At a time when even the $399 iPhone Asst II includes the feature, it is really hard to justify why this phone does not offer it, and even if the company were to not give us the warp charge version, any sort of wireless charging would have been welcome for this price tag. Third is camera performance. If you watch the progression of how the set of cameras has behaved between my last, do comparisons you'll understand why I decided to delay this review? It first started as being okay for the price to good enough to compete with the iPhone 11 and certain elements: ?, okay, fine I'm, starting to like it. My biggest complaint is all the promise on the spec sheet. You'll hear numbers like 48 megapixels on the primary, with a crop approach for 2x telephoto, a 16 megapixel ultra-wide and a 2 megapixel macro, and you're like wow.

It's got to be great, but in real world performance, it's more of an a-minus which is far better than the B that I would have given it weeks ago during the day, you'll notice, far more consistency than on my first couple of videos. Colors are not as warm as your typical iPhone, but I'd like to call these more consistent to what my eye is seeing on this hazy day and, of course, having an ultra-wide is always an added bonus for more epic shots and I actually like to call this 2x digital crop from the primary to be good enough for lossless street photography, at least during the day. Just do yourself a favor and don't try zooming in any further, as results start getting choppy and washed out. Sadly, the claims of a triple camera system are to laugh about with this macro. It's not the same to add macro capabilities to a standard lens like on the 70 than to pretend that you'll get decent results from a 2 megapixel shooter.

There is no detail. Colors are washed out like absolutely everything about it is just unusable, and this bottle of over-promising and under-delivering extends to other features. For example, let's talk nights cape. This phone claims to have my capabilities from the ultra-wide, which is not even available on the iPhone 11 Pro, but the results are no better than if you didn't use it at all. Why offer something you won't do well like seriously just stick to the primary camera you'll, like the results, they're more detailed, even if colors are at cool for my taste oddly I, prefer the portrait photos from this phone over the pro, because I find them to be more natural, where the 8 is so basic that it actually passes something a real camera would do, but then what I'm? Sadly not a fan of, are selfies and selfie portraits.

Once again, it makes me wonder why this company claims so many megapixels from the sensor. If the results were so washed out, I mean dynamic. Range is fairly decent, but the lack of details just gets to me and then, when we jump to video I'd, give this phone more of a b-minus or worse. If it wasn't for the fact that most Android phones will perform nearly the same, this phone is capable of 4k at 60 frames per second from the primary camera, with some very good stabilization. But it comes at a cost.

See Android can't seem to shake off the warping and more reproduced by the codec, and this phone is no exception. You can't switch focal lengths and dynamic range is fairly decent, but nothing that I would trust to use in any of my videos as a B camera, and then it's just unfortunate that OnePlus phone still cannot provide selfie video at 4k resolution. The chip supports it and the megapixels are here, and yet we get washed-out results match with a crop that almost seems like if they just ported the feature from the 1 + 6 and never really improve the code in any way. To conclude, let me just say that I'm really happy I decided to take my time with this review. I really wanted to love this phone because there are so few five G options in this footprint, but I was just so underwhelmed in the first few days, and I'm just really happy that software updates have changed the story.

It now is more cohesive. The 1+8 is no flagship phone, there's the OnePlus 8 pro for that, and obviously a price tag to match. Now the OnePlus 8 speaks more to the mainstream consumer. That's looking for a phone, that's good for the price, or it's we'd like to call a flagship killer. Those debating that it's priced like to say the iPhone 11 just have it all wrong.

You really have to stop living in the past. Every 20/20 flagship has 5g and the reason why the 1+8 matters is that this is a future-proof phone for those same $6.99. The OnePlus 8 has proven to not just be a great smartphone for the present, but also a good investment for the future. The start was a bit rocky, but if three software updates in less than a month or any indication, it's only proof that OnePlus is really investing in improving this product. For the long run, I have no problem in recommending it as one of the best 5g solutions for those of you looking for an inexpensive way to jump on board.

Just keep in mind that the camera is still not amazing. Let us know what you think about the OnePlus 8 in the comments down below. Would you pick this phone over the OnePlus 8 pro, or is there any other flagship, 5g phone out there that you're, looking at while you're at it, follow us on social media subscribe to our channel for more videos like this? One also follow me on my personal handles to see me test phones in the same apartment building, because that's the smart thing to do. Please give this video a thumbs up. If you liked what you saw I'm, hiding it again, I.

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