OnePlus 9 Pro Review - Genuine Competitor to Apple & Samsung! By PhillinYouIn

Hi guys, what's up, welcome back to fill in you in where we talk about the latest and greatest tech products. Today, I've got this thing. It's the OnePlus 9 pro now for years, OnePlus have been the nearly guys of the mobile phone world, the top of the midfield runners, but not quite able to punch their way into the Olympic medal places. Now last year with the OnePlus 8 pro, they made some seriously, seriously good strides, but they were still let down by one thing, and that was the camera. Well, that's potentially all changed. This year you see OnePlus have partnered with a company called Hasselblad.

Now, if you've not heard of those guys, they make this kind of things and this kind of things. So they kind of know what they're talking about now. Returning viewers will know that I record these very videos on an iPhone 12 Pro, because the camera is simply that good. But surely, if OnePlus have teamed up with Hasselblad, I should be replacing it with this thing right. Well, we're going to get on to the camera comparison a little later on in this video.

As always, I'm going to put chapter markings in the description below so, if there's a particular thing or element you're looking for you can just skip right ahead if so choose, but we're going to start with the design of this thing. The version I've got right here is the morning mist edition, which is this kind of silvery blue effect, which starts misted at the top and slowly but surely becomes more mirror-like as you get towards the bottom. To the point where you literally can see your reflection in the thing it is highly prone to fingerprints, though, for me, the color scheme is a little out there, and the good news is that, if you're not into something that's quite so adventurous or ostentatious, there is a matte black and matte green option available as well. For most of us, we're probably not gonna care, because when you're spending, the better part of a thousand pounds on a phone you're, almost certainly going to wrap this thing in a case, and now on the subject of a case really nice touch from OnePlus they've actually included one in the box, which is brilliant. I don't know you guys, but whenever I order a new phone, I order a new case with it.

Exactly the same time, and I find it comes about two weeks after I actually received the phone, it does feel a little on the cheap side. It's not like OnePlus thrown you a really premium model, but I guess at the very least it does. Have the nice never settle writing on the back. You need a motto for most of your day positioning in terms of pricing and specs. It's got eight gigabytes of ram on 128, gigabytes of storage and that'll start 830 pounds, and then that will scale up to 930 pounds for a 12 gigabyte edition and 256 gigabytes of storage.

In reality, there aren't many real use cases for 12 gigabytes of ram, in my opinion. So unless you really need the 256 gigabytes of storage, the uh eight gigabyte versions is probably going to be the model to go for and while I'm not reviewing it today, there is an OnePlus 9, non-pro version. Size-Wise. The phone is reasonably long, it's longer than an iPhone 12 Pro. It doesn't feel particularly weighty, albeit there is a slight sort of top heaviness to it.

Just courtesy of the camera bump on the backside of the phone, we've got the OnePlus logo, which isn't too obtrusive. The back is entirely glass and I think the Hasselblad camera bump on the back is probably the most stylish camera bump. You can get on a mobile phone right now got aluminum all the way around the outside. So continue with that hugely premium and polished feel the left side. Has the volume rocker again it's a metal button on the right side.

We have the power sleep wake button. We've also got the silent switch, which is actually a three point switch which moves it between silent, vibrate and loud. So that's a nice touch if you actually like the option of being able to utterly silence your phone, unlike some other phones like the iPhone where it's vibrate or loud, and that's all you get bottom, we've got our sound output, USB c port for charging and data transfer and the sim card slot. No, it is a dual sim card slot. So, if that's your use case, this phone is going to be right up your street both the front and back of the OnePlus 9 pro are gorilla glass 5, but it's worth noting gorilla glass 6 is available on other premium smartphones, so it's not exactly the cutting edge in terms of glass protection levels.

OnePlus have tried to make up for that by including a pre-applied screen protector. Personally, I'm not the biggest fan of it. I feel the decision to put something like that on. There should be left to the consumer. It's better than aftermarket screen protectors you can put on there, which I find typically just utterly dull the experience I actually found the sensation a little, grating significantly less noticeable.

If you use the case, that's included, or you buy another aftermarket case of your choosing, if you're put off by the sensation that you get from screen protectors, no, it's not as bad as aftermarket ones, but I wasn't a massive fan of that design decision from OnePlus the display on this is absolutely lovely. So it's an AMOLED display with a 120 hertz, refresh rate, which is to say the number of times your phone's image will update every single second. That alone was almost reason enough for me to consider dumping the iPhone 12 Pro in favor of this, which just doesn't compete with a level of smoothness when scrolling through a screen. Trust me that 120 hertz refresh rate just means the experience of using the phone scrolling through different screens deleting text. It makes a much more pleasant working experience than I find with other phones with lower refresh rates.

Having higher refresh rates can lead to a drain in battery life. Fortunately, OnePlus have included a dynamic, refresh rate feature, which means it adapts to the kind of content you're viewing. If your screen is stationary, it drops the refresh rate and if you start ramping things up playing games, all the like you'll find that it will ramp up the refresh rate as well. So you can get the best possible user experience. The phone is pre-configured to use a full HD resolution, but within the settings you can up it to a quad HD resolution as well, which is effectively a midway point between HD and 4k in practice.

While it does smooth out the edges, I don't feel like you're, going to notice the difference for day-to-day browsing, and it's going to have a much more significant impact on your battery life. So for me, I would just leave it in full HD with that 120hz refresh rate and just go to party town in terms of the component inside the phone. The CPU has been updated from a snapdragon 865 to a snapdragon 888, which is now built on Qualcomm's five nanometer process. So it's definitely a step-up. The phone continues to have 5g available for as and when it comes to your area and whichever respective country you're in.

If we take a quick look at some benchmarks, we can see that we have got a year-on-year improvement over the prior edition, where we use geek bench to measure the performance of the phone. We can see about 30 improvement in single core performance and the better part of a 20 improvement in multi-core performance in practice for the kind of day-to-day tasks you're likely to do on your phone in 2021, this thing's not going to skip a beat on any of them operating system-wise. It's the latest version of android OnePlus is oxygen OS over the top of its oxygen. Os doesn't make too many drastic changes to the android operating system, so it'll feel familiar to the vast majority of users, changes and options. They do include particularly around the settings menus the ability to change your styles of your icons, the shape certain background, cool stylistic, sort of customization options, and, as I mentioned earlier, one of the nice touches is the way they've configured the OS.

So even though it's quite a long phone in terms of length, you don't need to stretch your thumb too much, because a lot of the iconography only occupies the bottom two thirds of the screen, making it a perfectly usable phone battery life on the 9 pro is really, really impressive. I think the vast majority of users won't have any trouble getting this through the entire day and then simply charging up overnight. Even if you are an excessive power user, you're going to be crazy impressed with the 65 watt warp charger, that's included in the box uh my test. I got this thing down to one percent plugged it in, and I had it back at 100 in around 32 33 minutes, which is just mind-bogglingly fast, crazy, impressive, really, good, work, OnePlus and now the moment of truth arrives. Let's talk about the camera now I don't know about you guys, but I find if I just watch a YouTube video with stock images taken on the new phone.

It doesn't really tell me a lot so for comparison purposes. I've included the same or similar images as taken on my iPhone 12 Pro. The main shooter on the back of this is a 48 megapixel camera, which is incredibly large now to actually get the most out of it. You do need to go into the settings. You do need to set it to use the high resolution imagery it's actually a little cumbersome.

It requires you to hold your phone extremely steadily and use it in brightly lit conditions to get an image. That's actually well-formed, so in practice, you're not going to be able to maximize that full 48 megapixels, but, that's not to say the standard. Camera image is bad in fact, far from it, it's really, really good. So on this shot here the regular wide lens capture. If you look at the light reflecting off my back Labrador, it's actually done a pretty good job of capturing his shape, but it has left some rest of the scene feeling a bit overlie in this shot.

The OnePlus has captured the skyline really beautifully, but when we look at a little more detail, we can see that, while the iPhone gradients nicely, the OnePlus is left feeling with a slightly more singular blocky like color in this wide-angle shot where the photo has captured the scene really nicely, but again we're lacking a bit of the vibrancy that we get with the iPhone, not half bad. But when we focus in on some detailed text, we can see that the OnePlus just starts to lose some of its sharpness, focusing on a little more at just how. Well these cameras manage to pick up details. We can see at face value. It looks largely the same, but when we zoom in on exactly what it's managed to capture, it's left the text appearing with an embossed effect and the whites around the rest of the sign losing their white balance and almost becoming a little.

Dirty. Also take a note of the sunlight reflections in the car on the right hand, side of the image which appears significantly crisper and realistic on the iPhone speaking of reflections. We then move on to sunlight in this image. Whilst the OnePlus does a better job of screening out the flare on the lens than the iPhone does, it doesn't do as much of a good job at suppressing the rays of light from the sun itself. The rest of the image appears a little muddier than the equivalent one on the iPhone one area where the OnePlus 9 pro really does beat out.

The iPhone is that it has a 3.3 times optical zoom, whereas the iPhone has just two times- optical zoom, which means by the time this reaches 3.3. The iPhone is now slumming it with digital zoom capabilities and, what's more, the OnePlus camera will pump all the way to 30 times digital zoom. I can't really figure out why anybody would want to use 30 times digital zoom. As you can see, the image quality is less than poor, but if you happen to be the kind of person who has a use case for 30 times, digital zoom, you go. Let me know in the comments below and while you're down there hit that subscribe button for me, so you don't miss any future great content from filling you in now.

In terms of its pure video recording capabilities, the OnePlus 9 pro outstrips the iPhone in every regard. When it comes to the stats on paper, it can do 8k at 30 frames per second 4k up to 120 frames and standard HD 1080p at up to 240 frames per second. It does have HDR, but doesn't push to the full-blown Dolby HDR standard which you can get with the iPhone 12 Pro, but all of those stats are irrelevant. The OnePlus 9 pro can't pick up good images whilst using those shooting modes. So let's take a look in terms of camera and image stabilization.

I was really impressed with the OnePlus going toe to toe with the iPhone at walking speed pretty comfortably. I found that the OnePlus 9 pro didn't quite do as good a job as the iPhone as managing to smooth out sudden judders in my movement. So let's take a look at the front-facing webcam and microphone on both these devices. So right now, you're listening to the OnePlus 9 pro, not entirely sure what the automatic color correction on the nine pro is. Uh is trying to do.

You see the sky kind of weirdly fading in and out there. No such evidence of that on the iPhone, which is typically rock solid, as I think as we all come to expect from iPhone cameras. Now, the iPhone can actually record up to 4k 60 frames on the front-facing camera, whereas the 9 pro is limited to HD, regular HD. Only so in summary, for me, the iPhone has just about edged the OnePlus 9 pro in the vast majority of categories, but you know it's close. I mean it's really close and when you think that OnePlus has supposedly agreed a three-year partnership with Hasselblad- and this is just their first attempt at really improving upon the camera experience that comes with OnePlus phones, I'm really excited to see what OnePlus and Hasselblad can bring to the table in the course of the next couple of years.

So no I'm not going to be swapping out the iPhone for the OnePlus 9 pro as my daily YouTube shooter, but there's absolutely no reason why you, as the consumer, shouldn't consider buying this thing. It is cheaper, after all, if you're in the mood for video shooting capabilities with higher frame rates- or you want to make the most of that 48 megapixel camera, then yeah. This thing should be right up your street. I have absolutely no qualms recommending it to you whatsoever, thanks for watching today, guys if you want to get a better feeling for just how good the iPhone 12 Pro is for recording YouTube videos. Why don't you check out some more of my YouTube videos I'll leave links all around here somewhere subscribe if you haven't already hit the like button, if you enjoyed today's video- and I will of course see you in the next one?.

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