OnePlus 9R Review: Almost a Flagship Killer By editorji

The OnePlus 9 and the OnePlus 9 pro are terrific smartphones. We had a great time reviewing both of them here on edited, but for those of you who, quite literally scoffed at the price of the OnePlus 9 pro and even the standard OnePlus 9, then this the India exclusive OnePlus 9r may just be the right option for you now as usual. Before I get started, please do hit that subscribe button, so you don't miss out on any future updates and if you end up liking, this video then feel free to give us a thumbs up as well. So the 9r is the most affordable smartphone in the new OnePlus 9 series, with a starting price of 39999 rupees, it retains some of its elder siblings, the best qualities like 120 hertz, display a slick, software experience and superfast charging. However, the snapdragon 875g processor running this show over here is less powerful and the quad rear camera system isn't as fancy. But that being said, I feel these sacrifices aren't huge dealbreakers and don't take much away from the 9 series experience.

The OnePlus 9r is a slightly revamped OnePlus 8t from last year. In fact, they share so many similarities that the company, in order to differentiate between both the smartphones, decided to pitch the 9r as a gaming centric device. So does that mean that the gaming experience over here is as good as let's say what you get on the ASUS ROG phone, five um? No, but is this still a good smartphone for gaming? Yes, absolutely the OnePlus 9r eats games like Call of Duty for breakfast, thanks to the snapdragon 870 processors and the arena 650 GPU, delivering buttery, smooth gameplay, there's an enhanced cooling system here as well, which theoretically should help keep the phone cooler during gameplay, but I found it still got slightly warm even after a short session of Call of Duty. You also get a pro gaming mode which blocks notifications from apps calls and other distractions, so you can play without any interruptions. A very slick software experience complements this excellent performance.

Thanks to android 11 based oxygen, OS, 11 user interfaces, it's fast, responsive and never really disappoints, there's also a decent amount of customization options. So you can always tweak things just the way you like. As far as longevity is concerned, OnePlus usually offers two years of android upgrades. That's not bad, but it's a little behind the three-year upgrade promise of Samsung and google. The 9r gets the exact same but excellent display as the regular OnePlus 9.

It's a flat 6.55 inch, FHD plus AMOLED panel, with 120 hertz, refresh rate that has an uncanny smoothness to it. The colors are super vivid and with a peak brightness of 1100 nits, just like the OnePlus 9, it's easy to use under sunlight. However, this impressive screen does exert some pressure on battery life, especially with the 120hz refresh rate option turned on, but then again, OnePlus rail advantage has always been its charging speeds and there's a 65 watt charger in the box, which will juice up the phone to 100 in under 40 minutes. Now one could argue that the 9r doesn't look as premium as the other OnePlus 9 members, but it certainly feels very premium in the hand. The phone's glossy glass pack hardly attracts any fingerprint smudges and is also less slippery than the OnePlus 9 and 9 pro also a fun fact about the 9r.

It gets aluminum on the sides, while the more expensive OnePlus 9 gets a plastic frame. The backside gets a rectangular camera module in the upper left corner that houses four cameras instead of any Hasselblad branding. OnePlus, has only listed the sensor details of the primary camera. Other parts of the OnePlus blueprint remain the same: a convenient alert slider on the side, excellent sounding stereo speakers, USB type-c and, as always, no headphone jack. You also won't find any official water resistance rating or wireless charging, but I'm guessing these compromises.

Allow the price to drop the rear and front cameras on the 9r are exactly the same as the ones found on the OnePlus 8t. On the back, you get a 48 megapixel primary Sony, mix 586 sensors, a 16 megapixel ultrawide sensor with 123 degree, field of view, a 5 megapixel macro shooter and a 2 megapixel monochrome lens. Meanwhile, the front camera houses, a 16, megapixel Sony, mix, 471 sensor image. Quality in most areas is nearly the same as before I found the main camera perfectly usable for capturing everyday shots, but as Hasselblad's color correction algorithm doesn't extend to the 9r, I often got contrast less shots, also in more challenging conditions. The camera didn't always produce accurate exposure levels.

The ultrawide lens clicked some sharp images and did its best to match the main camera's color profile. Low light performance is reasonably impressive for this price point and OnePlus nights cape mode can always be relied on to brighten things up. Then there's the macro camera, which I found to be inconsistent in terms of detail and sharpness the rear camera lets. You shoot 4k video at either 30 or 60 frames per second and offers a crisp output. The is helps make video recording smoother and supports both 1080p and 4k at 30 frames per second, the single 16 megapixel front.

Camera takes punchy enough selfies in the right lighting conditions, but the portrait mode didn't always capture smooth cutouts of the top part of my head, which I'm kind of annoyed about, because I think I have a nice head. The OnePlus 9r gets a lot of things right. It's fast having a terrific screen charges really quickly, and it provides good value next to both the 9 and 9 pro honestly, if this phone had offered a more consistent camera performance, I would have outright called it a flagship killer, but still it comes close enough, and I guess that'll have to do for now. You.

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