OnePlus 8T full review By GSMArena Official

Hey, what's up guys will here for GSM arena? This is the OnePlus 8t, and it's the company's latest effort to produce a premium yet flagship killing device. It isn't that cheap, but it does pack a bunch of features you wouldn't find in a typical mid-ranger. Let's see what it's all about in our full review. The OnePlus 8t is a premium mid-range device with flagship level specs, and it has a gorgeous looking design. Ours is in the glossy and mesmerizing aquamarine green. The phone's curved back is made from gorilla glass 5 and the matte aluminum frame offers a comfortable grip.

Gorilla glass 5 also covers the front display one difference: you'll notice from the OnePlus 8 and other models is that the screen is flat, not curved here, which some people might prefer. But besides that, it mostly looks and feels the same, including OnePlus signature hardware slider for controlling notification alerts. Unlike the OnePlus 8 pro, the 8t doesn't have official waterproofing unless you buy a T-Mobile exclusive model which is ip68 rated, otherwise you'll make do with some built-in splash proofing. The OnePlus 8t's display is a 6.55 inch AMOLED with a 1080p resolution and, like the 8 pro you get a superfast 120hz refresh rate and 240hz touch sampling rate as a result, moving elements on screen like when you're swiping or scrolling appear even smoother than what you'd get on a 60 or 90hz panel, and this screen is more responsive too. This display does have its quirks, though, to save power the display will normally dial back to 60hz after you stop touching it, which you can see here, but if brightness is below 50, or you have dark mode on, it will maintain a steady 120 hertz and just note that some apps, like YouTube, Google Maps or full screen video playback, will always run at 60 hertz and, despite the high refresh rate display, the OnePlus 8t enables high refresh rate gaming in only two titles, PUBG and Fortnite other games, even ones that can support higher frame rates, are capped at 60fps.

Otherwise, this OLED display is good. Colors can be very accurate if you tweak them in settings. Max brightness is good too up to 500 nits, with a manual slider and over 800 nits in auto mode when in bright conditions, overall, a decent showing for audio. You get a set of stereo speakers with a bottom firing unit and the earpiece acting as the second one, there's no 3.5 millimeter jack here. Audio quality from the speakers is pretty nice.

The at scored a very good mark in our loudness test and music has well presented, mid and highs, as well as a bit of bass. Waking up and unlocking the phone is done with an under display optical fingerprint reader. It's superfast and responsive to your touch and, like other one pluses, the 128 or 256 gigs of onboard storage aren't expandable, but at least it's of the new faster UFS 3.1 variety now onto the interface, which is quite a bit different from what we've seen before it's OnePlus new OxygenOS 11, based on android 11, which we haven't even seen yet outside the pixel phones. Android 11 brings plenty of new features, but even with those aside, you can see that OnePlus is going for something different from stock android. Here it's weird because that's something that's always been celebrated about their phones.

The interface looks and feels more like Samsung's, one UI than stock android. Actually, a lot of the UI elements have been shifted toward the bottom half of the display to be easier to reach. Meanwhile, the space at the top of the screen is used for large headings or titles. This same design, language is used across several of OnePlus first party apps, but there are still plenty of google apps here too, like phone and messages. OnePlus has also slightly altered.

How dark mode works here? You can set it to beyond permanently or to come on according to a schedule, and another new feature is that you get an actual always on display here. Previous OnePlus phones had one that was sometimes on. You can put this on a schedule as well, and there are a bunch of customizations, including some artistic ones. The OnePlus 8t is equipped with a snapdragon 865 chipsets, just like you'd find on the OnePlus, 8 and 8 pro. It's not the latest and greatest hardware anymore, but still flagship worthy performance is excellent across the board.

Thanks to not only the powerful chipset, but the fast storage and memory too, not only do the interface and everyday tasks run buttery smooth, but the heaviest game titles do too battery life is pretty great as well. The OnePlus 8t has a 4500 William hour battery and with it was able to score an excellent 104-hour endurance rating in our proprietary tests. One way in which the OnePlus 8t pushes things to the next level is with its warp charge technology. It comes with a huge 65 watt adapter with it, we were able to charge the OnePlus 8t from zero to an incredible 94. In half an hour.

The OnePlus 8t's camera setup consists of a 48 megapixel main camera, with is a 16 megapixel ultra-wide angle, cam, with an extra wide field of view, a 5 megapixel macro cam and a monochrome sensor. You don't get a telephoto like you do on the OnePlus 8 pro. The main camera saves 12 megapixel photos by default, and these are pretty good with excellent contrast, punchy, saturated colors and wide dynamic range. There is enough detail, though complex details could be better like in foliage, for example, sharpness isn't ideal either with a hint of visible softness.48 megapixel photos taken from the main camera look much the same, except they have a larger file size. Even though there's no telephoto cam, the OnePlus 8t can achieve two times: lossless digital zoom.

It does this by cropping the 12 megapixel center of a 48 megapixel photo and the results are really nice. You get superb contrast and wide dynamic range and the same level of sharpness as the regular unsuited photos. Portrait shots from the main camera turn out quite pleasant with more than enough detail and proficient subject. Separation. The colors aren't very realistic, though there is an option to take a two time: zoomed portrait.

These are softer and often noisier, 16 megapixel ultrawide photos are softer than the ones coming from the main camera, and the noise levels are a bit higher. We do like them, though. Detail is okay, and these photos fit a lot in the frame even more than the OnePlus 8 plus they have great contrast and dynamic range and the distortion correction does a really nice job close-up shots from the macro. Camera come out in 5 megapixels, and these are ok. You get a good enough detail, but a lot of times the colors are off or even washed out plus, since this camera has fixed focus, it's tricky to take a sharp photo low light.

Shots from the main camera are very likable. They are almost always multi-stacked and their capture takes a couple of seconds. Some fine detail is smeared, and the sharpness isn't great, but the exposure and the contrast are good, and the colors are saturated even a bit overboard at times. Snapping a photo in nights cape mode also takes a couple of seconds, and the result is not that aggressive. It acts more like HDR, restoring some blown highlights, brightening the skies and revealing more detail in the shadows.

Nighttime photos from the ultra-wide camera are multi-stacked as well, and the aggressive noise reduction smears a lot of the fine detail. These images are soft and sometimes blurry at least they have good contrast and well-preserved. Colors nights cape mode works on the ultrawide camera and these photos are noticeably brighter with better exposure, even punchier colors and sometimes a bit more detail. Sophie's are taken with the 16 megapixel front facing cam, and these are very good. The detail level isn't excellent, but it's good enough, and you get great contrast, good dynamic range and mostly true to life.

Colors now on to video recording 4k video from the main cam isn't great, the detail, level is average, and so is the dynamic range. You don't get much detail in shadows. The colors don't look particularly realistic either, but contrast is good. The ultrawide camera's 4k footage also has average detail as well as lower dynamic range than the video from the main camera. Colors are again unrealistic here.

Electronic stabilization is always on, and it does a decent job of smoothing things out. Finally, the OnePlus 8t adds a new video portrait feature in 1080p resolution. It uses the main camera and creates a decent. Looking blurred background behind your subject. So that's the OnePlus 8t.

You get a gorgeous looking glass design, a super high refresh rate AMOLED display nice, stereo speakers, flagship grade performance, a versatile camera setup and a sleek user interface, not to mention the excellent battery life and lightning fast charging. All in all, it's pretty great. There are just a couple of nitpicks here and there like the lack of support for high refresh rate gaming and some shortcomings. When it comes to camera processing, we would have loved to have seen the camera from the OnePlus 8 pro here, but when comparing to just a regular OnePlus 8, the at is very similar, but the upgrades here are definitely noticeable, and it costs less than the OnePlus 8 did when it launched for offering so many great features at this price. The OnePlus 8t deserves a recommendation.

Thanks for watching guys, stay safe and see you on the next one.

Source : GSMArena Official