OnePlus Nord 2 vs Nord CE 5G | Camera, Gaming etc Compared By Tech Spurt

So OnePlus has just launched the fresh new word, two smartphones, it's a flagship killer in one plus his own words, Boston, everything you need for just 399 quids, but only a couple of months ago. It also launched the word core edition 5g, which comes in at just 299 quid, and while the core edition does strip away some of the more premium elements found in the word 2, it will suit most people down to the ground and 100 quid will buy you an awful lot of booze and pork scratching so which affordable, mid-range mobile will be best for you, the fresh new words 2 or the word CE 5g. Well, let's do a full side-by-side comparison with them: testing out the camera tech, the gaming chops, the battery life, all that good stuff and for more on it's, the greatest tech. Please do poke subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers now. First up, stick the one plus word two and next to its sibling. The quarter should 5g you'll really struggle to tell witches which they're basically twins right down to the selfie cam orifice wedged away in the corner.

They're both 6.43 inch, smartphones or reasonably compact for 2021, especially thanks to the skinny bezels surrounding those displays, but they're still a bit of a handful. However, there is one hidden difference here at the front, and that is the fact you've got gorilla, glass, 5, covering and protecting the screen here on the OnePlus word's tours and the core edition. You do not get any glass protection, but you do get a pre-installed screen protector on both smartphones, so that definitely gets a thumbs up. So when you flip them around to the arsenal, you'll definitely see a clear difference between the words 2 and the word core edition. So the back end of the OnePlus word 2.

Once again, a gorilla glass rose. It's just a bit of plastic action here on the OnePlus word CE 5g. The difference is quite obvious when you actually give them a bit of a fondled, and I have found that plastic back on the core edition does get a little scratched up if you leave it raw and unprotected. But thankfully you do get a condom case, bundled in the box with both of these blowers, and you've got a selection of official cases. You can slap on there if you want something a bit more jazzy, certainly very jazzy in the case of the OnePlus words ii got a couple of color options for these phones as well.

The word 2 is available in gray or this rather stunning, vibrant blue, the hardcore edition 5g, not much more thrilling, black, blue or silver are your choices and yeah. Neither of these OnePlus blues offers up an IP rating for water and dust resistance, but both of them are splash resistant. You can get them a little. Moist no worries. There are a couple other design, differences between the word 2 and the word c5g as well, well worth pointing out the most obvious one being the lack of an alert slider on the node core edition.

You'll only get that on the nodes too, and this has been a staple of OnePlus smartphones for quite some time- allows you to quickly flick between a full-on, loud mode, vibrate and silence. Definitely very handy indeed, and another biggie is the fact that you've got a headphone jack on the core edition, but sadly that is stripped out for the more expensive word two model, which is a bit of a bum and that's pretty much it for the design. The note 2 does come with a single volume rocker, whereas it is two separate buttons on the core edition. Somehow doubt, that's going to be a dealbreaker though so now, let's move on to the software, and understandably not much difference between these two OnePlus handsets they're, both running the latest freshest android 11, and on top of that you've got OnePlus on oxygen OS launcher, though it is a slightly more up-to-date version at the moment on the OnePlus word two, you got version 11.3 versus version 11.0.3 here on the core edition, but hopefully the CE 5g should catch up to the node 2, soon good, bit, parity action. Of course, the general UI experience is basically the same on both these smartphones.

Anyway, they both support. Android gestures, dark board, all the usual stuff. You got, the Google discover feed. You can drag down that notifications bar from anywhere on the screen and what the best things about uh oxygen OS is the fact that it's fairly sort of stock, uh you'll know your way around it. If you are used to android, uh you've also got more customization here, so, for instance, you can bring in the OnePlus she'll feature if you'd like a bit of that, just to track.

How many steps you haven't done in a given day can even remind you where you parked your car. If you've added your brain with far too much whiskey like I have now, if you actually jump into the settings menu on both these smartphones you'll see, you've got a personalization section on the OnePlus note, 2 customization here on the OnePlus word ce5g, with its slightly older oxygen OS, but basically does a very similar thing. You can quickly and easily change up uh your wallpapers, the icon, packs they use the fonts. All of that good stuff, you can even change up the fingerprint animation here on the OnePlus word 2. There's very psychedelic options.

Indeed, you've also got an ambient display option on both of these as well, which you can play around with lots of different features on there. So, basically oxygen OS is great and no matter your choice, node 2 or node core edition, 5g, you'll, love it and even better news. No matter your choice of word smartphone you'll guarantee two years of OS updates and three years of security updates or set for the future. It's also worth pointing out as well. You've got a choice for either 128 or 256 gigs of storage space on both the OnePlus note 2 and the core edition 5g.

Depending on how much money you spunk at one plus, basically, no micro SD support for you. These smartphones, though so you are stuck with whatever you choose, you can't expand it in the future. Let's check out the display tech and the OnePlus note 2 and the OnePlus word ce5g, both sport, a 6.43 inch AMOLED panel. So that means nice punchy in your face colors. It's actually completely customizable via the display settings as well.

You can have more vivid hues if you like that as the default setting. Otherwise, you can scale it back down to the natural mode. More of an s RGB feel it's full HD plus resolution on both of these blowers as well, so nice crisp of visuals, despite the fact you've got a fairly spacious panel. If you do go full screen, then you will of course have that as like selfie orifice intrusion on the action, but only a tiny little at least it's wedged away in the corner. Now you do have HDR 10 support on both the word 2 and the word c5 g as well.

So when you've got HDR content on the likes of Netflix or YouTube nice sharp contrast and natural looking colors you've got support for 90 hertz, refresh rate on both of them as well. It can actually dynamically scale from 60 to 90, based on what you're up to nice, wide viewing angles and reasonably searing on the top brightness levels as well, so fine for outdoor use. So, basically, no matter your choice of node smartphone. That display is going to make you all tingly in your trousers department, both OnePlus node 2 and the core edition 5g, of course support the usual eye comfort modes, all of that good stuff as well. But you do actually get a couple of bonus mods here on the node 2, which aren't farmed at least yet on the core edition they may come in a future update.

These are the video image sharpener and the video color boost, which you can just make crappy low res SD video. Look a bit sharper! Look a bit punchier! Now, on the audio front, you've got a stereo speaker set up here on the OnePlus words 2. The bottom edge speaker is obviously a bit more punchy bit louder than the earpiece speaker, but it still produces a fairly decent, respectable stereo output. Here on the OnePlus word core edition 5g, it is just that bottom mounted. Speakers is just a mono setup, let's test them side by side, curious plastic slab, it's 80 quid cheaper than the standard OnePlus node mid-range smartphone from last year, and, as you would expect, that does mean some spec sacrifices, such as a less refined camera and a less and now the OnePlus.

No core edition. Poor edition is a bit of a curious plastic slab. It's 80 quid cheaper than the standard OnePlus note mid-range smartphone from last year and, as you would expect, that does mean some spec sacrifice, so side by side in terms of the volume. Definitely both are pretty much evenly matched, but the core edition 5g. On that top volume.

You can hear definitely some distortions, some tinniness creeping in there uh, definitely not as clear and as crisp as the OnePlus word 2. , but of course, the OnePlus word core edition 5g more than makes up for that with the fact that it's got a dedicated, headphone jack. Something that's missing on the word too, so you'll have to rely on dongles or, of course, good old Bluetooth. I've had no bother whatsoever with the wireless audio streaming on both these OnePlus word smartphones. You've got support for all the usual codex you'd expect the likes of apex HD and a good bit of DAC action on both of them as well.

If you've got a pair of DAC uh supported headphones like the Sony WH's all right, so that's chat performance. One of the major upgrades on the OnePlus note 2, compared with the core edition 5g, is the fact that you've got the MediaTek dimensionally 1200 AI chipset, packed into this bad boy, a fresh new custom chip from MediaTek just for the OnePlus words 2. , the north core edition 5g is powered instead by Qualcomm's snapdragon 750 g platform, still a very capable platform. As you can see there from a quick squint at the geek bench 5 scores, there is a difference in performance, both the single coil and the multi-core. I'm not going to do any of that side-by-side speed test bollocks, but I will tell you the word CE 5g.

I used it as my full-time smartphone for a week, absolutely no issues with the performance, apps load up nice and quick and clean they're not instantly shutting down. In the background, I'm currently in the process of reviewing the OnePlus notes, 2 and again, as you would expect very similar performance, nice and smooth and slick, the real difference. You're going to notice is when you're uh gaming. If you are a gamer, then gives a call of duty mobile pub g things like that. They'll run absolutely fine on the sort of top deal settings on both of these smartphones, not an issue whatsoever.

If you are into more hardcore stuff, like gentian impact, the real resource drain and memory hogging, demanding titles that you can download from the Google Play Store. Well, the OnePlus note 2 is definitely what you're going to want to go for on the normal default settings. You'll get a perfectly smooth experience. You can even bump up to the highest detail, setting 60 frames per second, and you'll get a reasonably smooth. It's certainly perfectly playable still, although that's when the sort of stammers and judders start to creep in the phone does get a little toasty after sort of 20 or 30 minutes, but not to a troublesome degree, and it doesn't seem to throttle the performance either.

I was here on the word core edition 5g. You can't get away with playing gentian impact, but you want to bump down the detail settings a bit just to make it a more playable, enjoyable experience and once again those tend to heat up a bit, and yet you do have a dedicated gaming mode on both of these smartphones as well courtesy of that oxygen, OS launcher, it's basically just drag it out from either corner you've got access to notifications. Blockers got the pro gaming mode, which can basically completely wipe out any kind of distraction. Keep you fully focused on the game. So, let's move our way on to the battery tech and the OnePlus notes 2 and the OnePlus word core edition 5g both support a 4 500, William capacity cell there's actually a dual design battery here on the OnePlus word 2, though that means it supports warp charge 65, which means that it will charge up from completely drained to 100 full ready for action in just 30 minutes.

Of course, the core edition isn't a slouch. It still supports OnePlus warp charge, 30t plus tech, but it will take closer to an hour to charge up rather than half an hour, but I've had no real issues with the battery life either plenty of screens on time. You should still make it through a full day, no matter which phone you decide to go with, and both phones also support adaptive charging as well. So you can leave them plugged in all night long, and it shouldn't overcharge the battery. It will trickle charge up to 100 just before you spring out of bed ready for action in the morning, but if you are expecting a bit of wireless charging on either of these handsets well you're going to be a bit disappointed.

That's still quite a rare feature at this sort of asking price. Now you get a triple lens rear camera setup on both of these word smartphones, but it is different. Hardware. You've got a 50, megapixel iMac 766 primary sensors on the nodes too, with a bit of built-in optical image stabilization in the case of the node c5g, it's more basic, 64 megapixel primary sensor without is may boast more megapixels, but, as we all know, bigger numbers doesn't equal, better photos. Now, one thing: you'll, possibly notice, pretty much immediately upon loading up the camera apps is.

They are different here. On the OnePlus note, 2 versus the Croatian 5g, the core edition uses the more traditional oxygen OS camera UI rust here on the OnePlus words 2, it's more akin to likes the Oppo camera app, presumably because OnePlus and Oppo are now collaborating much more closely than they used to. You may find you personally prefer one over the other. For instance, in the case, the uh traditional OnePlus oxygen, OS app, you do have fast access to all the different camera features by flicking your finger up, whereas here in the case of the OnePlus words ii, you do have to flick across to more to get access to the likes of the pro modes. That's not real biggie.

They basically do still have the same feature set now. The node 2 is definitely capable of capturing live like natural images, although with more vibrant subjects like plant life, I did find it occasionally went a bit nuts with those colors, even with the AI mods switched off, while the word CE 5g very dependent on the lighting conditions, speaking of which the node 2 actually seems to struggle just a little more than the CE in brighter light, with more obvious over saturation creeping into photos. However, this does always seem to be the case with OnePlus smartphones when they're all first launched the cameras do seem to over saturate a bit more than expected and then a couple of updates down the line. Generally, the results are a bit better, so hopefully give it a couple of months and some of that to over saturation some blowers in the brighter conditions will just not be a problem any more indoors and in softer light. The word 2 is definitely the winner, capturing stronger details and more realistic hues and when things get seriously dark or the contrast is very high, the word 2 is again the best here, even on auto mods, while the core edition 5g, sometimes struggles to focus and both phones spot a nightmare to help brighten up a shot.

But again this often produces blurrier results on the core edition 5g and both the word 2 and the core edition 5g rocking 8, megapixel ultra-wide angle shooter. This produces better results on the node 2. , it's closer to what you'll see with the naked eye, but you do get distortion on both and that triple n setup on both the core edition and the words 2 is rounded off with a simple 2 megapixel model: uh shooter, just for your black and white shots. If that's your bag. As for video, well, you can shoot full HD at 30 or 60 frames per second or bump up to 4k resolution at 30 frames per second or either word handset you'll get very respectable results.

You've got good image, stabilization thrown in there and strong audio pickup too, and last up. There's a 32 megapixel selfie cam on the OnePlus word 2 versus a 16 meg effort on the word core edition and selfies can look quite flat on that ce5g, while the node 2 captures accurate skin tones, but the node 2 also struggles in strong light again, while the core edition usually produces the best portrait results, and that right there in a nutshell, is the fresh new one plus words 2 versus the OnePlus word core edition 5g. Now I've fully unboxed the OnePlus note 2, my full in-depth review will be coming hopefully shortly after this video lands as well. Once I've spent a bit more time with my sims slapped inside it just testing it out. It's my full-time everyday personal handset.

Now the OnePlus word core edition, 5g, unboxing and full review are live right now, so go check that out for more, you need to know on this 299 quid blog. Definitely solid value for money so be great to hear your own thoughts down in the comments below which one you're more tempted by certainly the word two is uh one for the more demanding users, probably with that beefier performance, the faster charging battery, all that good stuff, but the core edition, 5g solid value for money, will suit most users down to the ground and, of course, you've got the bonus of the likes, the headphone, jack and stuff, which you don't actually get on. The OnePlus word 2. , so yeah solid value for money for 299 quid. But, as I say, that's what I think.

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