OnePlus Nord 2 5G Review | Best New Mid-Range Smartphone? By Tech Spurt

So the OnePlus note 2 is available from today from 399 quid here in blight and according to OnePlus. This bright blue bugger has absolutely everything that you need, making it a true flagship killer, but is the OnePlus word 2? Actually all that and a bag of pork scratching? Or should you just HOI your cash at a Poco f3 or a Pixel 4a instead? Well, I've had my sim inserted inside that rather attractive chassis for just over a week. Now so here's my in-depth OnePlus word 2 review and for one the latest and greatest tech. Please do ROG subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers now. First up one week on, I am definitely still a fan of that OnePlus word 2 design yeah it's not as lovably compact as the pixel, but that curvy chassis is comfortable to clutch, and it's also tougher than tackling the times cryptic crossword after a whole heap of crystal meth, you've got gorilla, glass, 5, slathered, all over the front, end plus a pre-installed screen protector as well, and then gorilla glass 5 on the back end as well. Although the two layers are separated by a simple bit of plastic engine, but thankfully a full week on the OnePlus note, 2 is still looking box fresh and the good news is that, even though there's no official IP rate in here, it can definitely cope with a bit of moisture in the odd unexpected thunderstorm thanks UK weather, gray, sierra or blue.

His are the two color choices, and this blue model is rather charming, while also doing a not terrible job of hiding finger smudges and while the camera chassis has definitely grown over the previous node, it is not to iPhone levels of ridiculousness, and it's great to see. OnePlus has restored one of the biggest emissions from the cheaper word core edition phone. I'm talking about that rather nifty alert slider, which is a great way of just super quickly, silencing your phone whenever you need to- and yes, it could definitely do with being slightly stiffer for now uh, because they accidentally nudge it a couple of times when I was trying to slip the OnePlus word 2 into my pocket, or what have you? But it's definitely a great feature. Great to have now there's not too much to update as far as oxygen OS goes since my unboxing, except the fact that Netflix and Disney plus are now fully supported, post launch as expected, and most of the weird little bugs that I saw during that. Unboxing have thankfully been squashed now as well.

So, for instance, if you don't have the always on ambient display, active or just a couple of quick taps can now wake up. The OnePlus note 2, so you can see what's going on, reduce to wake. Also, now works, although it won't make the OnePlus note 2 scans for your face to try and unlock the device. But besides that, no issues with the face unlock that works well even in ambient light, and the in-display fingerprint sensor is also a winner very fast and responsive, even when your hands are a bit mucky. The only other, weird little oxygen west bug that I noticed in the last few days was when the auto rotate suddenly decided that it could no longer be buggered to function, no matter how much I toggled it on and off rotate your own bloody screen.

Your lazy, Wang but, of course, a hard reboot sort of that little sword right out and the other good thing about oxygen, OS smartphones. In fact, you don't get much in the way of crap ware pre-installed on there either OnePlus has just a few little bonuses, apps on top of usual android shenanigans, but something nothing to the extent of what you find on the likes of a Xiaomi smartphone or an Oppo smartphone. Where you've got your linked ins, your tick rocks, your bucking. come. It's got stuff like phone clone which can copy some bits from your old blower for you and good old weather, of course, which here in the UK, seems to predict non-stop apocalyptic rainstorms uh, which, to be fair, is usually on the money.

Nothing particularly notable was added by the latest version of oxygen OS, but all the classics are still here, including the zen mode, which can calm you right the down when things are getting cray-cray by playing peaceful music and sounds while also blocking out the world for a set duration and to make you feel even more chilled and relaxed. The good news is OnePlus is once again offering two years of voice updates and three years of security updates with the OnePlus nodes 2 as well, so you're set for a good bit of future-proofing. That's definitely better than what you'll get from a lot of rivals: borrowing the likes of google and Nokia, and if you do want to download a lot of apps games media all that kind of stuff. Well, the OnePlus note 2 offers a choice for up to 256 gigs of UFS 3.1 storage, but you might want to go high if you're going to download a lot of stuff, because you can't expand it later on with micros memory cards. There's no support for that whatsoever.

So maybe not quite everything you need now. I've got very few complaints when it comes to that 6.43 inch, AMOLED screen, which is bright, bold and rather bloody, brilliant visuals are pin sharp courtesy of the full HD plus resolution, while colors are proper poppy on the lovable vivid modes with more natural hues also available on demand. Contrast is sharp with deep blacks and crisp whites, although while the node 2 screens is hdr10, certified Netflix certainly isn't offering HDR support right now. OnePlus has also added an AI color boost and an image sharpener tool to the OnePlus note 2 as well, which is supposed to destiny any really crappy. Low-Res content make it look all fresh, but definitely don't expect this to turn any ugly 480p shenanigans on YouTube into glorious HD action.

More often than not, I couldn't even tell the difference, and that's before I even started hitting the scotch and going a bit cross-eyed, but even my knack at all, peepers could really appreciate that 90 hertz refresh rate whenever I was nipping around through the UI or the various menus and supposedly the OnePlus note.2 boasts the smartest auto brightness uh on any one plus sunset, but I have to say it's actually one of the worst performances I've seen in quite some time. Quite often I'll be sat there in a completely dark room and for some reason it would max out the brightness and pretty much burn right through my retinas. So, overall I have to say it actually seems about as intelligent as an inbred poodle, with a awful glue-sniffing habit. Still the stereo speakers are absolutely fine, and you've got a healthy bit of codec support when you're streaming audio via Bluetooth 5.2, but there's no headphone jack here. Ah seriously, none and I looked really, really hard.

So everything you need one plus, but here enough ripen, one of the biggest upgrades here versus the original word is the performance where you got run on the show is MediaTek's fresh new six nanometers dimensionally 1200, AI chipset. It's been custom-made just for the OnePlus word 2, and it's a bit of a blinder everyday running is smoother than a sea lion scrotum and no worries. If you want to get gaming either even memory. Chugging titles like gentian impact work just fine. As long as you don't max out the detail.

Settings you've got the occasional little Jedi here and there during gameplay, but it is perfectly playable and yes, the OnePlus note.2 can get a little toasty after a fair bit of play, but you can happily game for an hour or more without any degradation at the performance. You've got a 4 500 William battery packed inside this thing and with the default settings and goodbye 90hz screen refresh. I found that gave me all day play no worries at all generally around five to six hours of screen on time. Before I start to get into the serious drags and even with pretty much all the features toggled on including the always-on ambient display, I still found. I generally got around sort of five hours of screen on time, so really not bad at all, and on top of that, you've got that dual battery design, which means that the OnePlus note 2 supports the same fantastic warp charge: 65 tech as the OnePlus 9 flagships, smartphone.

So yeah you can expect a full charge of this beast in just around half an nourish which is brilliant for this price point. So, let's finish with the optics and that rear camera setup on the word 2 is headlined by a 50 megapixel Sony, mix 766 primary sensors with built-in optical image. Stabilization, that's a different setup to the original OnePlus node, of course, and while it's not quite up to the perfect results, you would get from the likes of the pixel 4 rear. But then what is? It is still pretty effing good. The usual quad pixel bin in shenanigans means you get 12.5 megapixel photos by default, and that is enough detail to keep your picks looking crisp when blown up. Although finer detail and is often lacking and in stronger light, you will occasionally see some bleaching, but the node 2 often does all right with a bit of contrast for a mid-ranger that upgraded dimensionally, 1200 AI chipset allows the OnePlus note 2's camera to detect and differentiate between 22 different subject types that is as long as you've actually got the AI mode active in the camera app and yeah.

I did find that this often produced less natural, looking results in favor of more vivid picks, but if you're not a fan of that, you can always just knock it off for living subjects. You can long press the shutter button and burst shot and then choose your favorite or let the phone pick for you instead, and this definitely does the job for any less obliging subjects who just won't bloody stand. Still I found that indoor and more ambient shots came out well too. The optical image stabilization helps to prevent blurry soft results caused by slight hand. Tremors and detail levels are perfectly respectable.

Even moving subjects are usually handled pretty well once again, and the portrait mode usually turns out attractive snaps with a gorgeous bit of Bucky action as for extreme low light, while the phone's focus still cops and that nights cape mode can ensure that you get brighter results. So it's well worth the pop, if again, unfortunately inferior to that Pixel 4a, the north 2 serves up a couple of bonus lenses, including an 8 megapixel ultra-wide angle, effort that does a decent job. Color reproduction is similar not entirely accurate, but not bad and yes, there's a 2 megapixel model lens. If you want to shoot black and white photos to feel like you're all arty and on the video front, you can't shoot 4k footage at 60 frames per second, but I was happy enough with my 30 fps horn movies. Viewed back on a monitor or a TV you've got a commendable level of detail, packed into every frame.

Just don't try and fight the light, and you'll get a good overall picture, although colors can once again be somewhat smothered when you're recording outdoors image. Stabilization is good, though, even at that ultra HD level, so you can move and shoot without puking juicing results. An audio pickup is generally clear from all sides, while wind distortion in too bad, so overall definitely good stuff. Last up that node 2 selfie shooters uses a 32, megapixel imx615 sensor, and this doesn't quite do skin tones full justice. I swear that even my northern skin isn't this bloody pale all the time, but it is otherwise fine again it does a good job with portrait shots, and you've got nights cape support for low light snaps.

If you want to avoid that screen, flash shiny face syndrome, so that right there is my full final frank one plus word two review, and I have to say if you want to go for that sort of stockist android experience with guaranteed updates for an extra bit of peace of mind and some pretty premium hardware, as well all for a respectable price. Then this is pretty stiff competition for that Google, pixel 4 sure the camera isn't as good as the Google Pixel smartphone, but the performance is definitely a step-up. So if you want to do lots of gaming on the likes of gentian impact, well job done. So that's why I think anyway. But what do you guys reckon have you already purchased yourself? An OnePlus word two be great to hear your initial thoughts down in the comments below.

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