OnePlus 8T Review: the Best Worth-buying OnePlus Phone in 2020 By gizmochina

Hello everyone welcome to gizmo china. I'm Kieran OnePlus has finally released the OnePlus 8t if you're familiar with the brand. You already know that the t-series best fits the company's early philosophy of giving you the best value for an affordable price tag compared to the pro series. T-Models have cheaper prices but reserve the core experience and performance of a flagship. We are increasingly hearing complaints about the pro's, expensive price tag which no longer aligns with the philosophy of flagship killer once popularized by OnePlus. So now the pro models are just flagships instead of flagship killers.

On the contrary, the more affordable team models can be called flagship killers, but how about on the OnePlus 8t? Let's look at its design. First, the at comes with a different design philosophy than the previous models. The camera setup no longer lies at the top center of the back. Instead, like we've seen on most 2020 flagships, it has been moved to the upper left corner. But, to be honest, the design of the camera combination looks a bit ordinary and boring.

Nothing really catches my eyes here, but OnePlus has still used its fantastic glass at the back, which does lead to both outstanding visual and holding experience, whether it's the aquamarine green, that we have in our hands or the lunar silver color. At first glance. What really impressed us is the lightweight and thin body. The weight of around 190 grams is really unusual for a 2020 flagship smartphone and feels refreshing. Over the past years, OnePlus has invested heavily in its display, making it a huge selling point for its flagship models and from what we can see on the OnePlus 8t.

We can indeed experience the high quality display, so clearly the company's efforts have paid off and the screen deserves praise compared to the 2k display on the OnePlus 8 pro the 1080p display of the 80 can be considered as a downgrade. However, it's still one of the best 1080p smartphone displays in the market to us. The biggest surprise of the 6.55 inch 1080p fluid display is neither the 120 hertz refresh rate nor the certified HDR 10 plus support, but the smooth automatic brightness with the maximum 1100, nits and 8192 level. Adjustable brightness viewing dynamic contents on this display turned out to be a great experience, no matter in indoor low light conditions or bright outdoors. In addition, unlike the 8 pro's curve display, the 8t uses a flat panel, which is definitely a good message for those who are worried about miss touches from curved displays on its predecessor.

However, the flat display doesn't deliver as immersive experience as the curved screens on the OnePlus 8 and 8 pro models. As for the cameras, I think most of you won't be so excited from the hardware perspective. The 8t applies a 2019 flagship setup, a common quad combination led by Sony, mix 586 main camera sensors. Apart from this, the combination contains a 16 megapixel, wide angle, camera a 5, megapixel macro camera and another 2 megapixel monochrome camera. Unfortunately, there is no telephoto camera on the at anyway.

Let's look at some samples shot from these cameras. Well, we didn't actually expect the Sony mix 586 to give us surprises, as it has been on the market for almost two years. But when we compare the sample shot on the at and the 8 pro, we found that the at is much more competitive than what we imagined it's probably because we compared it to newer flagship sensors. The mix 586 has got mature software optimization and now is able to maintain stable performance under most conditions under good lighting. The samples shot on the 8t have no big difference from what we shot on the pro from the color contrast to color preference.

They shared a close image style and both produced excellent resolution and the 48 megapixel original resolution of the IMAX 586 also allows users to catch more detailed images with the 48 megapixel high resolution mode. My and the true difference appears in their night shooting under night scenes. The insufficient noise control of the mix 586 was showing on the 8t. Otherwise, the brightening strategy used by the 80s camera is not so smart. It's more like a process to simply improve the overall image brightness without correcting its exposure.

Now, let's look at its wide angle: camera as the 48 megapixel mix 586 sensors is used for the pro's wide angle, camera. No doubt it took a huge lead in this round. The at16 megapixel wide angle. Camera has good color, reproduction and good contrast and also has a slightly wider angle. Otherwise, it couldn't surprise us over resolution and noise control when you compare with the samples shot by the mix 586 on the pro which is using a four in one pixel technology, the samples from the at are much noisier.

When we moved to night scenes. The gap was much smaller, but the pro still has an advantage on overall brightness and clarity, but the at is a bit better at extreme brightness control. Let's look at the macro samples now, although the at as a dedicated macro lens, the 5 megapixel resolution didn't show as much strength over the image, details and pureness and in low lighting the condition turned out to be worse. The monochrome camera is mainly used to help record information between black and white in the monochrome filter. We can see that the contrast and gray gradient are pretty good from the samples.

Finally, we shot a few videos on the 80 and also on the 8 pro for reference. Well, it didn't exceed our expectations. Anyway, let's see the video demo shot on the OnePlus 8t, the at also equips a snapdragon 865 chipsets, which should lead to a very close performance as the pro from the result of the benchmarks. We found that there's really nothing different about the CPU and GPU performance. All the results were so close to each other, but comparing it with all the smartphones running the snapdragon 865, the results were not so outstanding.

Then we moved to actual gaming. Unfortunately, we didn't have access to the best gaming performance of the 865 chipset on the at. It seems that, for some reason, the software would have a 60 frame rate limit in some games, so in PUBG mobile, although we unlocked 120 hertz mode, the phone could only run it at 60fps without much fluctuation. The next game we played is Jensen impact, which is a new game, run on multiple platforms for fluent gaming experience. It requires high performance of CPU and the game itself has a frame rate lock of 60fps under highest graphics.

Most of the time the 8t maintained a high level frame rate, but the visual experience got a bit more fluctuated than what we expected, and then we tried several other games and the at is still able to give us excellent gaming experience. After all, snapdragon is still one of the best chip sets for android phones and surprisingly, it had an excellent cooling effect during our 30 mins gaming test, which is quite impressive for such a lightweight phone. The performance of battery and charging is one of the few upgrades for the at. They both equip a four thousand five hundred milliampere hour battery, and we did a four-hour power consumption test between the t and the pro starting with full power. We continuously use these two models to play: 720p videos for an hour then used social media apps for another hour spent another hour of TikTok and finally played PUBG mobile.

For the last hour, due to the higher display resolution, the OnePlus 8 pro eventually consumed 4 percent more power than the 8t in the test. After the test, the at still had 55 of power left, which is a pretty good battery, result for a snapdragon 865 phones, and we also have to mention that it has 120 hertz display. The greatest upgrade should be the 65 watt fast charging efficiency. The full charge test only took us 33 minutes, which was much faster than the pro's 30 watt charging efficiency. But a disappointing downgrade in the charging department is that there is no wireless charging.

So that's it. If I had to pick one model which adheres to OnePlus core philosophy in 2020, I will pick the OnePlus 8t. It has flagship level performance, one of the best 1080p displays upgraded charging efficiency, lighter body design and good camera performance that went well beyond our expectations and, most importantly, it has a reasonable price as a flagship killer. How do you like the OnePlus 8t? Is it the best 2020 OnePlus phone for you? Let us know down below and don't forget, to subscribe to our channel and give us a thumbs up. If you like the video, it means a lot to us and helps keep us motivated to produce such reviews.

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