OnePlus 9 Pro (Pine Green) | Review | Solid Phone By Ramy El-Naggar

Welcome to the review of the OnePlus nine pro in the darkest hour, so I usually start off my videos talking about the physical look and feel of whatever device it is that I'm reviewing and to start off, I'm going to say that it's a very good-looking phone. In my opinion, the design is, it's got its own design, and it looks very sleek clean everything about it looks premium as well. It also feels premium when you hold it in the hand. It feels very sleek. All the curves are in the right places, and it has its own kind of individual look, and it doesn't overdo it, and it doesn't under do it. So it's its a nice balance.

It's a good-looking phone, especially with the matte finish that for me, makes all the difference, but something about a matte finish is it makes the phone very, very slippery like this is the first time, but not the first time, but with mad phones. It became noticeable for me that phones are actually more slippery, and you're more likely to drop it because of that matte finish so yeah, just something to throw out there, but just a quick kind of comment, and this isn't a con or anything. But just something I kind of noticed is, I feel, like the design of this phone was kind of inspired from the iPhone. It takes inspiration from the design of the back of the iPhone. You got that logo centered, like apple recently, centered the Apple logo, on their iPhones and the iPhone 11 Pro, and then for the camera bump.

They have a very similar design, not in terms of the shape, but in the way that the lenses are separated from the actual camera bump, instead of being one big black panel. So it does, it does have a little of a resemblance in that sense, but other than that it's an entirely unique design. But this isn't me complaining. I actually really, really like it. So, just just just some thoughts there, just something I kind of noticed now in terms of the green color was the lack of fingerprints on the back of the phone.

Like you, don't see the fingerprints smudged all over the back with this green color, especially because it's matte, but also the green, I imagine, does make a difference but yeah just something to say there like it's really it's its really hard to see those fingerprints, and they're very, very minor. If you look at it in the right light, but yeah, it just ends up adding to the whole premiums and making it look spotless. Now, in terms of the rest of the physical build, you have that alert, slider right above the power button. This is a signature OnePlus feature, and I've always told you that I love it, and it's its a bit different from what apple do app will have silent and ring, and then you can customize the silent to be vibrated or whatever. Here you have all three modes very, very quickly: accessible ring, vibrate and silent and very easy to change from, so this is it done right and I love that they're keeping it and I hope they do continue to do that now.

Looking at the front of the phone of course you have a display- and this is a 6.7 inch, AMOLED 1440p 120 hertz display, which goes up to 1300 nits in brightness, which is good and in my experience the brightness has actually been perfect, especially when I'm outside I haven't had any problems seeing the screen. It's not quite at Samsung's level, though, so I'm going to say that, but in terms of the rest of the display, like I said, it's 1440p, in other words it's 3k. So it's great when you're watching content other than that, not that noticeable. But if you're watching a lot of videos on there, then it will be how they appreciate it. I imagine and then, like I said, it's 120 hertz, meaning the screen refreshes 120 times per second, so it ends up looking very, very smooth when you're doing things like scrolling through and that's kind of thing, and with the 120 hertz, they announced something called LPO technology, which basically means that they have an adaptive display.

So the display can change from 1 hertz, all the way up to 120 hertz, based on what the content is that you're viewing on your screen. So if you're on a static image, something like that, it will go all the way down to one hertz and save you some battery and when you're scrolling through some stuff, it'll jump it up all the way up to 120 hertz. So you can really appreciate the fluidity and that feel that you get when you're just scrolling and swiping through the phone now with the display you're, also getting curved edges a lot of people. Don't like this, I think in a tech world, but also, I think, a lot of people do- and I am one of the many people that do because there's no, I haven't had any problems in terms of functionality where I have accidental touches, and they have a perfect software in terms of preventing accidental touches from the curved edges. But it is a little annoying with the keyboard because I feel like their software, does overdo it a bit.

So sometimes, if I was typing something on a keyboard, it just wouldn't click a key on the very side, because it would think it's an accidental touch, but other than that. That happened like once or twice other than that. It's all good and it looks very nice. So in my book it's only a pro but then on this display. If you look to the bottom of it, you have an in-display fingerprint.

You could also use their facial recognition, though it's not as accurate as this fingerprint, and it's a good fingerprint, it's very, very fast, very, very responsive as much as any in display fingerprint is, but something that I noticed about this is. It responds very, very well to wet fingers. So if your thumb is a little wet you just wash your hands whatever. You still got a bit of water in your thumbs. If you come and do the fingerprint you know chances, are it's still going to work? That's what happened to me and that was really cool to see.

I didn't expect it to work. I think it even worked better than Samsung in my experience, so that was kind of cool and other than that, like I said fast and responsive, but people have loved to point out that it is weirdly low down on the screen. Before this I was using a s10 as my daily driver, and they have the fingerprint really low down on the screen as well. So I'm actually really used to this. I had no problem using it and if, if you're not used to this, then you will get used to it and once you do, it becomes, you know very, very normal effortless.

I don't know why they didn't put it higher up, though, but you know what it doesn't even really matter. So then, if we go all the way up to the top of the display in that top left-hand corner, you will see a little hole punch, and you know that's where the camera is. That's where the camera is stored, but I kind of wish that they still had a motorized camera like on the OnePlus 7 pro. It just looks cooler. It was it's a talking point right plus it makes the phone look more futuristic since it's entirely screen and and and also it's just cooler- and I don't know I wish they kind of- did- that this works.

Furthermore, it's not like the punch was distracting or anything and, of course, everybody's used to it at this point it's much better than a notch, but it is what it is. I do kind of wish. There was a motorized camera, though so now for the battery on his phone is average. It will more or less last until the end of the day I'll. You know open it at maybe around 10ish, and it will lose battery at around 11 pm.

So it's its okay! It's its very average! There's nothing really that impressive about it. In terms of screen time I was getting, but then where they make up for this average battery is the charging is insanely fast. It is impressively fast. It is so fat. Furthermore, it is a trademark feature of this phone that I don't understand why other companies don't use this technology because it gets your phone to 100 in 30 minutes, which is crazy because say you forgot to charge your phone overnight.

If you say charge it during the 15 minutes that you're getting ready, that's over 50 charge. That will probably last you until the end of the day, depending on obviously your use, but still that's really really really impressive and of course they have the fast wireless charging which is 100 and 43 minutes, though you're going to have to buy their wireless charger, which is a little pricey, but the good news is their 65 watt charging adapter comes in the box, so you don't have to pay anything extra to get these 30 minutes of charging, and they call this feature warp charge 65 and the way it works is because there are two cells for the battery inside the phone that add up to the 4 500 William hour battery, that's totaled in there those two cells charge in parallel, and therefore they charge faster, and they still manage to keep a relatively big battery now. Do I think it's worth sacrificing that bit of battery life? For that really really really fast charging? I do I am thousand percent do, and I think every company should prioritize this more than they have in the past, because OnePlus here they're on another level. Now I've said it before, and I'll say it again in pretty much every OnePlus review that I've ever done is that OnePlus phones are all about speed. It shows in the charging it shows in the fluidity of the display, with the 120 hertz and that kind of stuff, but also it shows with the processor, it's powered by a five nanometer chip, which is the snapdragon 888, and it performs very, very well.

It works very, very well. The software oxygen OS 11, which is the skin they're using with android 11, also works very, very well with the processor, and it makes the experience just feel very snappy, very, very fluid, and overall it's my favorite android skin. It has a lot of customization and there's just so much about it, but in terms of speed and capability and power. This phone has it all, but I did have one concern this one time when I was sat in the sun it wasn't it wasn't even that hot it was hot, but it wasn't that hot and the phone overheated. And basically, I got a bunch of errors when I was trying to use certain features of the phone, for example the camera.

Whenever I tried to open that, it would tell me that the phone was too hot, and it needed to cool down, and basically the phone was very, very limited in terms of its use during that period, where it was overheated because the phone was trying to cool down, and it wasn't allowing you to use certain features which was concerning because it wasn't that hot, and it shouldn't have overheated. I don't know that you know this was a one-time thing. It happened once, but it was one of the few times when it was put in the sun, so whether you should be concerned about that. In my case, this is what happened. I recommend checking with other reviewers, who would have more experience with having the phone and heat and seeing how the phone did with that now.

A big thing with phones recently, anyway, are the cameras and that's a big part of what you're paying for when you get. This phone OnePlus spent a lot of money on this camera, and they advertise their Hasselblad collaboration like he'll like it was everywhere so yeah Hasselblad is a camera company, and they have collaborated with OnePlus in their camera system. I think it's like a three-year contract or something, but anyway this is the first of that collaboration, and you're. Getting with these new cameras, a 48 megapixel main sensor, a 50 megapixel ultrawide sensor with dual pixel autofocus. So that's very interesting there that they're very similar, it's actually more megapixels than the main sensors, so they're, trying to upscale the quality of the ultra-wide, and then they have an 8 megapixel 3.3 times optical zoom camera, and then they have a 2 megapixel depth sensor to help separate subjects from the background and that kind of thing now before getting into the cameras themselves. Just looking from the software side of things on the front first off, I want to say the viewfinder, the image and the video that you get in the viewfinder, depending on the camera with the wide, especially though it doesn't look anywhere near as good as the final processed image, and I don't know why that is like it can look really, really bad.

You take the picture, then you look at the picture, and it ends up looking much better than it did in the viewfinder. Just a weird thing about the experience like a lack of accuracy there. The pro, though, is the camera settings are very, very easy to change, and they're very accessible in the top right. You just click those three dots, and then you can change the frame rate. You can change the resolution, and it's very, very quick, and it's very nice way of handling that sort of thing.

So I really like the way they did that and then just a nice kind of little features. They have a new shutter button. It's like an orange button, it's a bit of incorporation from the Hasselblad company. So it's a bit of a signature, move there, and you're getting a different sound as well when you press it, which is kind of satisfying its nice, to see that I personally have always loved this sort of signature. Moves like this, but then for the cameras themselves.

Having already listed the specs first thing that I noticed was: the ultra white is a much larger sensor. It's supposedly equal to the main sensor in terms of quality, which is fascinating, and what OnePlus also said is that it has an edge distortion of one percent in comparison to an edge distortion of about 10 that you'll find with other brands. So you know I don't know that's what OnePlus said take that for what you will, but the ultrawide is looking very good as a camera, and it also because of the dual pixel autofocus allows you to take macro shots with the ultrawide, so you can get in very, very close and capture macro detail, which is nice, but then, in terms of the video. What I first think I noticed was the stabilization is very, very nice, very, very nice, and then OnePlus also are giving you 8k videos this year. Just like Samsung- and I have to be honest here they win in comparison to Samsung.

The 8k looks way better, it's not as cropped. You can use both the ultrawide and the main sensor for this 8k video. So you can get multiple angles and the stabilization is perfect, and it's not crowded it. Just it looks much, much better than Samsung. I don't know what they're doing differently, but then the most impressive thing to me- and this was an improvement in 4k- was the ability to record 4k at 120 frames per second.

It looks very, very nice, and I haven't seen it on another phone before, and this is just a great feature. It's all around a great feature. Nothing is better than a high frame rate, and if it's at a high resolution, then you're winning in all angles in all aspects, so it looks very good. It looks very professional with the large sensor as well, because you get a lot of both a lot of background blur, but the problem when it comes to video is that 3.3 times, optical zoom, it looks so bad. It looks hideous, I'm pretty sure, they're using a digital zoom.

Here I don't think they're using the optical, but it's unusable it's an embarrassment. To be honest. When it comes to the photos, the photos are pretty good. They're pretty good. The zoom is sometimes can do absolutely terribly sometimes can do well, it's very hit or miss kind of thing and the ultrawide is pretty nice, but what I noticed is there's a big difference with the color in the main and ultrawide cameras.

So it looks really weird when you're swapping between them. It's like they were taken in two completely different lights, but overall to sum up this phone, I do think it's worth it'll. Tell you why financially in terms of the price of the phone it sits, it does enter the flagship region, but it sits right at the bottom of that flagship region at 830 pounds. So then the question is: is it a high-end flagship? If it is a high-end flagship, then it's very fairly priced at what it is, but what makes it more valuable? What makes it worth it is in terms of the quality of the product. Is it a high-end flagship? Is it low-end flagship, isn't even worth being called a flagship, and in my opinion it's definitely a high-end flagship, so you're getting this high-end flagship in terms of quality of the product for the price of a low-end flagship? And for that reason it's worth it.

The reason I say it's a high-end flagship is because, in terms of build quality and design, it hits all the right spots in terms of specs you're, getting the latest processor from snapdragon you're. Getting a 120hz display, 1440p, that's more than what even apple do you're getting some of the newest camera technologies in smartphones, and then you're getting their signature feature of incredibly fast charging. It's an okay battery, nothing special about the battery, definitely not a high-end flagship battery, but what they have is this charging that nobody else has and, in my opinion, is even better than a perfect battery. Well, actually, you know what that's up for a discussion, but it is a perfect feature that I definitely don't take for granted, and it's definitely something you should think about when deciding whether you should buy this phone. So that's my opinion about this phone.

Take that for what you will use it to your own knowledge, maybe compare it against other phones whatever it is that you want to do to try and help yourself make the decision on whether you should buy this phone or not, but yeah, that's about it. I really hope you guys enjoyed this video. Please! Please! Please, please subscribe if you haven't already and give this video a like and comment for the secret algorithm check out my Instagram at the romeo Nagar. We just hit a thousand followers there. So thank you so much for that.

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