OnePlus Nord 2 5G review By GSMArena Official

OnePlus is back with their new OnePlus word 2 5g, and this time around, they brought a few upgrades that could make this one a true flagship killer. But we've heard this term flagship killer time and again this year. Does the word 2 5g have what it takes to join the club, I'm will for GSM arena and, let's find out in our full review if you're familiar with last year's OnePlus word, the OnePlus word 2 5g, might give you some d?j? vu. It has the same size, weight and shape as the first model and our blue haze finish brings the same vibe as last year too. This porcelain-like finish covers the curved back panel made from gorilla glass 5. , it's quite catchy and does a decent job at hiding fingerprints, and I, like the chrome accent on the two-step camera bump.

The glossy frame is made from plastic and offers a decent grip. As we've seen on previous OnePlus phones, you have a physical slider to quickly silence your notifications with or set them to vibrate or ring there's no official IP rating, but the phone does have some splash proofing built in to help protect from light rain or drops of water on the front of the word 2 5g is the same display as last year, a flat 6.43 inch AMOLED protected by gorilla glass 5 with a 1080p resolution and a 90hz refresh rate. The major difference you'll find this time around is that you have a single 32, megapixel selfie cam, instead of a dual selfie setup. This means that the punch hole is smaller and less intrusive. This display looks great, it's colorful and contrast and color accuracy is good too.

You also get HDR 10 plus support. Brightness is decent here. We measured a maximum of around 440 nits with a brightness slider, and this boosts up to 630 nits in auto mode when out in bright sun, and the high refresh rate means that swiping and scrolling text or the interface looks quite smooth and OnePlus is promising to whitelist a number of titles for high frame rate gaming in the near future. So the high refresh rate should finally translate into smoother gameplay. The word 2 5g brings a pair of stereo speakers ones at the bottom and the other doubles as the earpiece.

The speakers scored a very good mark on our loudness charts. The audio quality is average with well-presented highs, but some lackluster mid and bays still. This is a nice improvement overall from last year's single speaker. However, just like last year's model, there's no traditional headphone jack. Here there is an under display fingerprint reader for your biometrics and is quite accurate and responsive.

It isn't always on by default. Unless you have the ambient display enabled you need to use the power button to wake up the screen. First, one neat trick is that you can open a menu of shortcuts by holding down on the fingerprint scanner great for finding something right when you wake up the phone. The interface of the OnePlus word 2 is oxygen, OS 11.3 based on android 11. , unlike what we saw in the past from OnePlus oxygen OS.

These days are pretty far from stock android, but is still incredibly fluid and responsive. There are custom OnePlus apps for the gallery. The file, manager, notes and weather other functions are provided by Google's apps. The task switcher is easy to use and even allows you to tap and hold an app panel to enable split screen. You get plenty of personalization options to customize the looks of your interface from icon packs, to colors to different always on display patterns.

Another interesting feature is zen mode which blocks the phone for a certain period of time, giving you a chance to take a breather, and you get the choice of 128 or 256 gigs of storage on board, which isn't expandable this time around OnePlus decided to go for a MediaTek chipset in its word model, rather than one from Qualcomm. It's far from a downgrade, though it's mediated density 1200, which is the most powerful chipset they produce to date, and it provides 5g connectivity performance wise, is just about on par with the snapdragon 780 and 870 chipsets, not quite top flagship grade, but right up there in the charts. As far as the thermals go, the word 2 does a decent job. It does throttle under prolonged stress, but was able to maintain decent performance about 76 percent of the maximum. This is no dedicated gaming phone, but you should be able to play all the heavy games.

No problem, the OnePlus word 2's battery life is very good. Considering the battery's 4 500 million power capacity, it was able to score an endurance rating of 102 hours in our proprietary tests, but even more impressive is the charging speed. The word 2 brings OnePlus warp charge technology which combines a 65 watt adapter with a battery. That's split into two cells that charge simultaneously warp charge is incredibly fast. The phone is able to charge from 0 to 98 in half an hour now on to the word 2 5g, triple cameras, there's a 50 megapixel, quad bay, main camera with is, an 8 megapixel ultra-wide camera and a depth sensor.

Shots from the main cam come out in 12.5 megapixels by default, and they have nice detail with well-developed foliage, good sharpness, true-to-life, colors and wide dynamic range. However, we weren't fans of the HDR here when it kicks in the dynamic range is great, but images look over processed with very high contrast and the fine detail takes a hit portrait, look good, they're, detailed and sharp, with true-to-life colors and great contrast. Despite the depth sensor, the subject separation has issues from time to time, but it's fine for this price range. Most of the ultrawide shots. We took look a bit over processed because of the auto HDR they're detailed enough with good colors and wide dynamic range.

But the contrast is unnaturally high and foliage looks artificial. If you turn off HDR, the results aren't strictly better. They have a more natural look, but are a bit softer with more noise selfies taken with a 32 megapixel front-facing cam are excellent if there is plenty of LUT, they're, sharp and detailed, with good contrast, colors and dynamic range. If the light is a bit lower like in an indoor scene, the results are noisier and less sharp in low light photos from the main camera are gray. These look natural, despite having some multi-stacking going on, there's a good exposure, low noise and excellent colors, and thanks to the is we didn't end up with a single blurry photo turning on night mode results in some magnificent photos with well-balanced exposure and more detail.

Colors are more saturated, blown highlights are restored, and more detail is revealed in the shadows on the main cam. If the light is extremely low, the phone will automatically switch from night mode to ultra night mode. This has an extreme effect, basically turning night into day nighttime, photos from the ultra-wide cam are usable, the exposure is pretty dark, but the noise reduction is balanced, and it doesn't smear. The fine detail with night mode on ultra-wide photos have a much brighter exposure, improved sharpness, less noise and more detail. Videos can be captured with the main camera and up to 4k resolution at 30fps.

These are excellent. With plenty of resolve, detail and natural rendition sharpness is balanced, noise is low, colors are true to life, and dynamic range is praiseworthy. It's also worth noting. Electronic stabilization is always on regardless of camera or resolution. The ultra-wide can shoot footage in 1080p and the quality is decent with ok, detail, low noise and impressive dynamic range.

The colors are a bit washed out, though, so that's the OnePlus word 2 5g. You get a snazzy looking and solid, build a bright and colorful 90hz AMOLED great battery life with blazing fast charging, stereo speakers, a high-end chipset paired with a snappy interface and good camera quality, both in the day and at night, and on top of that, there's almost nothing to complain about here, sure you don't have an official IP rating or a headphone jack, and we weren't fans of the HDR processing here. But you can always toggle that off, so the OnePlus word 2 does deserve to be called a flagship killer. If you're looking at high value feature packed phones, this one should definitely be on the list. Thanks for watching guys, stay safe and see you on the next one.

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