OnePlus 9 Review: The Best Android Phone By TechSpaceCowboy

Okay, so I have yet to review a one plus phone, so uh I got a one plus nine and here's my full review alright. So the version I got uh is the entry version uh. It's got a snapdragon 888 chipsets, eight gigs of ram 128 gigabytes of storage, pretty much standard for your like android flagship, tier uh, and that's. This is definitely in that tier starting off at 729 us that puts this literally at the same exact price as the iPhone 12 mini, so that kind of, I would say, makes it a better phone than the iPhone 12 mini for a couple of reasons: one battery life. This is a 4 500 William hour battery, and it's it lasts way longer than 12 mini does and that's obviously on purpose. Now, when talking about battery and charging of course, you got your warp speed charging through the USB type c port, USB type c awesome, and you got fast wireless charging um, which is nice to see that the default one plus phone has wireless charging.

I know it's something that in the past they've kind of slept on for a while, but this has got it, and it's great um also the fast wireless charging it comes with. If you use their specific charger, it can charge wirelessly superfast. I didn't buy that specific charger. I personally don't care about fast charging that much, and I care even less about fast wireless charging. Personally, I prefer slower charging because it's better for your long-term battery life.

Now me reviewing tech. I don't really keep phones for more than a year, so my like long-term battery health battery life- whatever is not it's not super important to me, but I'm more like the idea of batteries lasting a long time, because the average person that buys a phone like this that pays 729 bucks for a phone like this wants to last awhile without having to replace the battery. Now it comes with a crazy, fast charger in the box, the warp charger um, it's an it's a big brick, and it comes with a really nice USB type-c cable in the box. So that's another advantage. This would have over.

Like other phones in its price bracket, if you're looking at like Samsung or apple right now, you're not gonna, get a charge, brick in the box, with the current gen phone, so this is going to have it that could be an advantage to you. It could be. Who cares if you're? Like me? I already have a wireless charger next to my bed and I already have two go chargers that have much higher wattage than normal stock in the box chargers. So I don't care about the charger. Personally, I have plenty of charge bricks, the one that's in the box is literally going to stay in there, I'm sure the fast charging works super.

Well, I just don't care about that aspect of the phone. The next thing I wanted to talk about quick was the biometrics. This phone has an in-display optical, fingerprint reader, so there are two types of in-display fingerprint readers, one optical, which uses light to shine through the display to reflect light off of your fingerprint, and it reads your finger that way or there are ultrasonic ones that use sound waves on under the display. Now, from my experience, the optical fingerprint readers are a bit faster, although I believe they're less secure. This holds up to that.

It's an incredibly fast optical, fingerprint reader. I love it. MHD mentioned this and I kind of noticed it too. The optical fingerprint reader on this is really low. It's like think back to the iPhone 5s or later those phones that had touched ID in the home button.

It feels like they were trying to emulate that they put it right where the home button on an older style iPhone would have been so for some people. If you're used to an iPhone that actually might be a default place, you put your thumb to scan it, so maybe that makes sense uh, but for anybody that's used an optical or ultrasonic fingerprint reader, that's under the display in a different phone. That was a lot to say anyone, that's done! That is probably used to pushing somewhere like up here uh, but no you're pushing way down here. That's like where you know where iPhones have the thumbprint reader. One big thing they did this year was: they did this partnership with Hasselblad to have these all new cameras, um, and they're? Pretty good cameras.

I like them. I'm I've said in multiple videos before cameras are cool but uh like I just at some point, you're just taking pictures of things right um. Furthermore, I found these cameras to be perfect quality for the pictures and photos and videos right. Furthermore, I'm not gonna, be I'm not a camera expert, uh, they're, good quality uh, it's kind of like point and click. The one thing I noticed was just the delay right.

The snapdragon 888 is a super powerful processor. I'm surprised that when you click the button, you don't get a photo right away and are able to take another one. I'd click it and there'd be a delay before the picture processed, and it was stored to memory. Furthermore, I mean that's fine, just at this, this target market, this price point kind of surprised. It's not a little faster, not a big deal um.

I don't have like any kids that are doing sports or something they're trying to capture them right at the moment, but if I did, I might care about that more. The next thing is the display. What what a great display it's a 6.55 inch, 120 hertz OLED, display it's its gorgeous. It looks fantastic. It responds super well and with the software design, plus the 120 hertz display, this phone is snappy like super superfast um.

I'm glad to see that, because I tried the OnePlus word phone, for example, that had a 90 hertz display and while the higher refresh rate was noticeable, the input lag was like of. The sample rate was definitely lower on that uh. This is incredibly, incredibly fast. The software is designed to make it feel snappy and it just everything is really, really good and fast. It's real time.

What I'm doing on the screen and what my fingers doing, I couldn't imagine it being any faster. Another thing I want to talk about is this design all right, one plus like again. This is the first one plus phone I've used, but every one plus phone has really rooted in and stuck to the camera in the middle on the back design and uh. I don't like it. I hate cameras in the middle on the back.

This one has kind of adopted what all the other market trend is doing and put the camera in the corner. When you look at the back of your phone, for whatever reason, I think we all kind of project a little of a personality onto it like it's a face like its somebody's head and when you put your camera in the middle, your camera looks kind of UN inhuman. I know it's not human, but it looks inhuman like unfriendly right. It looks like uh like the cyclops from Hercules like a big old chunky guy over there. It doesn't look good with the camera in the middle.

Furthermore, it just doesn't look good. I don't know what it is about that it just doesn't look right when you put the camera in this kind of rounded hump in the upper corner. It looks like a happy face. That's an open eye, and it's winking at me. I don't I sound crazy.

I know, but I think there's a psychology to putting it in the corner. Also, the camera bump doesn't stick out too far from the phone. If you get a case, that's gonna. Even you know it's not that thick of a case. I think you could flush that camera bump up no problem.

I think it would work just fine, so talking about the material on the back. It's a plastic. I love it is it. It's perfect feel in the hand like who doesn't say that phrase nowadays um, it feels durable, yet quality um. The only problem I have with it is its like kind of shiny.

This like purple haze. Whatever I got, I'm not gonna, say the real word for it, it just so many fingerprints and how dirty it looks. So I would feel like I would you have to get a case for this long term, not just to protect it uh, but because damn it will look dirty as hell, and that leads me to kind of my last category for the phone and that's just like the little things right. What about one plus do? I think they just did right that are things that maybe get looked over in a phone that don't show up on a spec sheet very easily and one they matched the button layout for the most part with the iPhone button layout. They got the volume on this side power over here um, but they also have.

What I have not many other smartphones have is a mute, switch right or an alert slider whatever you want to call it is, it's a switch that you can use to mute your phone quickly. You know that it's muted what they did right with this one uh that iPhone hasn't even done right. They have a three stage, alert slider. If you slide it all the way up, it's completely muted and there's not going to be any vibration or anything if you're to the middle position you're in the vibrate stage, where it'll vibrate, but it won't make any noise and then all the way down. It's in the ring position, the three stage alert slider.

I love the idea that if it's in your pocket- and you just slide it all the way to the top, you know you're not even going to get the vibration because, let's be honest in a quiet room, you still hear the vibration is awesome. Other little things, the haptics right, the actual motor that vibrates you know when you, you switch it to the alert slider and do other things they're, perfect. They don't feel cheap. They feel like they put a pretty high quality haptic engine in this, which I love or haptic motor vibrator, high quality vibrator. Another thing is uh the keyboard because of that really nice vibrator in the phone uh when you're typing on the keyboard.

If you have the clicks turned on, which I almost never do. But if you do uh, it's just a really subtle like it. Just it feels like just tapping back at you. It doesn't feel like there's some heavy happening on the inside of the phone. It's a big difference, and you notice it also OnePlus default.

Software on this is just minimal blow, wear very, very close to stock android, something I am so thankful for it's so much easier to know what I'm getting into it just stock android. I've always liked um, and it just seems to make more sense to me to keep it as close to stock as possible, because one it's already good software, two, you uh you get updates as quickly as possible and three you don't have to do as much work like. Why would you spend millions of dollars on software development when Google's saying here take this software? It works great you're going to get software updates immediately. I don't understand why companies spend so much time and money not going with stock android OnePlus. Well done it's pretty close to stock android.

If you want to just put it all the way at stock android, I'm I'm not. There's no problem with that, because they do that. There's minimal bloatware on here, um, there's no like when you get a new Samsung phone, there's a butt ton of other apps on there that you don't need, and you don't want. You have to go and delete them now. OnePlus does have a few on there, but the total app pre-installed base was less than 40, which I can't believe that's a metric I'm using, but under 40 pre-installed apps.

There you go now. I know OnePlus used to be kind of targeted at the really cheap entry level like hey we're. The flagship, killer, brand, and they've clearly moved a lot past that now, in my opinion, they checked every box. I want on a smartphone uh. This is the ideal android phone.

The only thing I would tweak at all- and this is just a personal thing- is it's just it's just a little big for me. Uh. It doesn't quite fit my one-handed test um, which is: can the fingers touch on the other side of it? If I stretch I can get there but comfortably holding the phone like normal, my fingers. Don't quite touch on the other side, my middle finger, my thumb, I have to stretch it to make it work. That's the only thing because, I'm you know long term I'd be putting a case on this to keep it protected, and that makes it a little bigger, which means that one-handedness of it uh it just gets a little hard to type one-handed on such a big display, but that, but that's it that's the whole bit.

This is the best android phone I have used, yet I'll say it. I said it I I know any who, that's my take on the OnePlus 9 um yeah. I love it great phone. Furthermore, I want to hear your comments and takes in the your your thoughts, thoughts in the comments below. Let's chat about it.

What do you think about the OnePlus line of phones? What do you think about the OnePlus 9? How does this stack up to other phones, how's it set up to previous OnePlus phones, how's, it's stacking OnePlus versus apple? How are these guys doing with all that being said, my name is Ryan. This is the text box. Thank you for listening. You.

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