OnePlus NORD N10 5G Unboxing and Impressions: The $299 5G Phone! By TechOdyssey

Hey everybody welcome back to tech odyssey, so today, I'm here with another unboxing and first impressions and this time it's the fancy OnePlus word n10, so you're, probably familiar with the OnePlus 7, the OnePlus 8, the OnePlus 8t, the eight pro. Those are some fantastic phones that came out this year. Also, that came out was the original OnePlus word that came out earlier in the year and was not available here in the states. Well, this guy right here is, and you'll be able to pick it up at the T-Mobile or metro by T-Mobile or Best Buy or Amazon near you pretty soon at a price of 300. You get kind of a lot of phone for that you get a snapdragon 690, which has 5g connectivity, six gigabytes of ram, 128 gigabytes of storage. It's got a 64 megapixel camera and a 90 hertz refresh rate.

So there's a lot of stuff to talk about here, and it seems like some pretty decent features at face value, and we're going to look at that. But before we do, I do want to say if this is your first time stopping by the channel. I appreciate you being here if you enjoyed the video, please hit the like and the subscribe button and little notification bell if you want updates when new videos come out now, let's talk about the word n10 5g. Here we are with the OnePlus word 10. , so the original word did not come in the United States.

Now we have this one. So OnePlus has decided to come out with their budget, offering bring it over here to you to the good old U. S. of a, so you can go. That's probably scratching my table.

Now there we go, so that should be good enough to get the plastic off. It's got the snapdragon 690 in it, which has 5g, which is pretty sweet, six gigabytes of ram 128, gigabytes of storage and a six point. Four nine-inch LCD screen, which has 90 hertz refresh rate. So here we go, got the sim removal tool there, sim ejector tool, quick, quick, start guide, information, safety, highest SAR value and here's the phone itself. If I can grab this little pull tab, so it feels pretty premium so far definitely doesn't feel like a cheap phone.

So that's nice, I'm going to take that sticker off, so you can see the back voil?. I actually kind of like the way this looks. I like the OnePlus logo back there, the OnePlus branding down here. It's got a nice balanced weight to it. I'm really looking forward to testing up 90 hertz refresh rate, got the cameras back here on the back.

It's got a 64 megapixel primary shooter, which hopefully takes pretty good pictures. I'm interested in testing this out also has 8 megapixel ultra-wide and then a 2 megapixel depth and a 2 megapixel macro. I wish it were a 5, but it's only a 2. , so the sim tray is over here looks like we've got the volume rocker on the left-hand side the power button over here. One thing missing, which is a staple one plus feature, is the little mute switch.

There's not one on this one. I do really like the physical fingerprint sensor on the back, and I'm hoping that it's super zippy, and you can see here already. I just took it out of the box, and it's already getting fingerprints and residue all over it. So it seems like this is just going to be a glossy mess, and inside here we have the charging cable, which looks just like the regular one plus charging cables. I like how they're very easy to identify red with the white caps on them, and then we've got a fast charger here.

Let's see power supply unit warp charge 30. So I guess we got 30 watt power charger that should get this recharged quick, fastener hurry. Let's go ahead and press the power button. You can see the selfie camera up here.16 megapixels, capable of shooting in HDR it'll shoot video at 1080p at 60 frames per second and on the back. You can do 1080 at 60 or 120, and you can do 4k at 30 frames per second and yeah.

Well, I was going to say we could check what else is in the box, but that's pretty much it. It's not a lot to this unboxing process. So let me go ahead and go get this set up, and we'll come back and talk about it some more, but I do think there's a pretty nice looking phone there. It's got rounded edges on it's pretty ergonomic whenever it comes to holding it, not overly bulky yeah. So let me set this up I'll, be right back so here we have the OnePlus word n10 5g, so it only comes in one color, which is this midnight ice, and I have to say I actually really like the way that it looks.

What I don't like is it picks up a ton of fuzz and fingerprints. I mean I've only been playing with this for the afternoon, and I've wiped it off a couple of times. It is just a fingerprint magnet. I don't want that to be your first impression of like oh he's, showing us the phone it gets dirty. I just gotta throw that out there you're gonna, see that because I can't keep cleaning it off, but the camera array pretty decent setup on the back.

There 64 megapixel primary camera, eight megapixel ultra-wide. Then you get two extra sensors on it. You get a two megapixel macro lens camera and a 2 megapixel depth sensor. So you can take portrait shots. You get the both effect.

You can do the up close and personal shots, it's not the 5 megapixel macro, which is what I prefer, and I think is a much better deal. This seems to be the anchoring camera for all the low tier quad, camera arrays and phones for 2020 and now in 2021, and this is a 2020 phone. This actually came out a couple of months ago. It's just really relevant now, because it's coming out in the United States wide audience getting access to the word market from OnePlus. For the first time.

I believe it's coming out on the 15th of January at like T-Mobile metro by T-Mobile and other places, so this is going to be a competing phone, for, I think, a lot of people's eyes when it comes to looking at the Pixel 4a, which is arguably one of the best phones of 2020 and even 2021. So far, it's very good phone. So this right here, snapdragon 690 you got 5g you've got a pretty decent power to efficiency. Processor, 4300 ml battery should get you through the day. No problem.

Then we have this LCD panel that has a 90 hertz, refresh rate on it, which is nice. It's got facial recognition. You see there to unlock sign. It worked also the physical fingerprint sensor on the back. I can't say that it's the fastest in the world- and it's not the slowest in the world- I've definitely seen slower before, but it's there and I kind of like that.

I'm glad that they didn't try and dumb down different areas of the device by trying to slide it in under the screen. Just put the old-fashioned stuff on there. That works, I'm okay. With that it seems we built pretty well, it's very well-balanced. It has stereo speakers which are pretty darn impressive and here I'll go ahead.

I like to do this in some videos, I'm going to press this and fire up boom beach you'll be able to hear it yeah. So I mean that's just the game starting up. It has pretty decent power whenever it comes to the volume on here. The speakers are, I think, extraordinarily nice. At this price point, I've been impressed with them so far, 16 megapixel selfie camera on the front.

So you can take all your great selfie photos for Instagram and social media. It's got the whole punch out camera up there in the top left corner. You can see looking at the screen pretty much bezel-less. They did a good job. With that all the way around the edge, it does have a little larger chin than it does a forehead.

If you want to talk about that, so thinner up there a little wider down there now one thing: that's interesting with this: the power button doesn't actually turn the phone off. It brings up the Google Assistant. So if you press and hold it, you get the Google Assistant to turn this off. It's like the iPhone you press, the power button and the up button. At the same time, it brings up the menu.

So you get access to all that it's running android 10 based off of the oxygen OS that one plus has very zippy. If you're going to have a lower performing phone, that has a snapdragon 6 series, phone less is more so if you've got this lightly skinned or very, very optimized and quick operating system. I think that that's ideal for the skill set that this phone brings to the table. Also, I figured it would have android 11 by now, but it doesn't, so we'll see if it gets that uh later on down the road, I'm sure probably will OnePlus is good at that stuff. But it feels weird to me that the OnePlus 8 and 7 roadmap basically has android 11 already my at has android 11.

, so it does have a January 5th security update, though, which I was really impressed by I fired it up, ran through set some things up, went into the software update and then lo and behold there was a patch there for January, the 5th they're pretty far ahead along the line and the phone is just now fixing to hit the U. S. shores and be available at, like, I said, T-Mobile and some different retailers. So I think that that's perfect. That inspires a lot of confidence, especially in this security, conscious age that we're in and a lot of manufacturers kind of, let us down in that department.

So there's that it only comes in one configuration which is a 128 gigabyte storage model, but it does have expandable storage for a SD card, six gigabytes of ram, which I think is perfectly ample for what you get here, and you can play the usual. You can play Call of Duty. You can play pub g, they're, very playable at lower settings. Furthermore, you can play a lot of other games as well. Fortnite wouldn't really recommend it on here.

That's not what this phone is for. It does have a headphone jack on the bottom, which is nice, there's no wireless charging. It doesn't come with any protective stuff in the box. So there's no case, there's no screen protector. I wish it had a factory installed screen protector, but it doesn't.

But the screen is surprisingly nice. I have been impressed with it and I think it looks good. It's very complementary for the stuff that you do on the phone, and then it's zippy, and it has that 90 hertz refresh rate. This is something I've been seeing a lot in the lower tier, like phones coming in from the international market like Xiaomi, I recently reviewed the x3 NFC very good phone. I liked it a lot it had the higher refresh rate on it was about three hundred dollars: you're, not going to see a lot of 300 phones in the US that are going to be running 90 hertz refresh rates- maybe some more as this kind of comes online and gets cheaper than far as the technology goes moving into, you know further into 2021, but it's not all about the refresh rate.

You kind of need to have power to do stuff and who wants a really fast refresh rate for twitter all the time I mean it's nice, but you need some power to do some things on your phone to take advantage of the lack of motion blur and the smoothness. I do think that it's nice, so I am a big fan of oxygen OS. I've really enjoyed it on other phones and I think that this is a pretty solid device for the money. So far like I said, I've been using it for a couple of hours. The haptic feedback on here is pretty decent, it's better than I expected it to be.

It's not like some cheaper phones where it's hollow, and you can feel it all the way throughout the phone. It's its much more targeted! Furthermore, it's not it's not as weak or spread out. Furthermore, it feels pretty good whenever you're typing on it. So I like that, I, like the sound so far. I do like the screen I'll turn the brightness up some more here.

This is it max brightness, so I mean it's kind of washed out because on the camera can't pick it up, but I think that the screen works well, I think that it's going to be tolerated well by the battery and the processor combination. So looking forward to doing this, I'm going to do my full review here later on. So I'm going to go in I'm going to show gaming footage, I'm going to talk about the cameras, I'm going to go, take some pictures with it and do some video shots. You do get 4k at 30 frames per second video on the primary camera, and you get 1080p at up to 120 frames per second or 60. On the back on the front you just get 1080p at 60 frames per second, which I think is so pretty exceptional now.

One thing I want to do real quick is go and take a selfie photo, so you can get an idea for what that looks like. Let's see how good the selfie camera is all right. So I'm surprised with this. It actually looks pretty darn good. I mean I'm really good-looking, and it did a good job capturing me.

So the tones look good. The skin tones look good. It doesn't make me look more bald than I am, and it's not it's not yellowed or washed out like either too warm or too cool so yeah. I think that's kind of decent there. As far as just taking a cold selfie picture and testing it out over here on the video, so there we go.

Selfie camera looks like a winner, I think so far I've enjoyed it. It seems to be zippy enough. I really am kind of enjoying the snapdragon 690. I've tested out a lot of six series snapdragons over the years, especially like with the blackberry phones, the 625 and the 660, and then looking at some other phones. This last year, like the TCL 10 pro with the snapdragon 675.

, this seems to be improved over that the day-to-day performance stuff does seem very good and fast and zippy. So I don't have any complaints there. It's very complimentary with the refresh rate, and then you can do some gaming on it, and it has the 5g. Like I said earlier, it's not the millimeter wave, it's the lower sub 6 5g and also the extended range 5g extended network stuff. So it's going to be a good option for people where you have emerging antenna markets so formally before, where you had like 4g and 4g LTE.

It should work fine, but there have been some areas where they've just been starting to deploy the band 71 and the 5g and people are getting 5g before they're, getting more reliable 4g. So this is a great phone that takes advantage of both of those. So it may not necessarily be you need a gigabit speed internet on your phone, but it will give you a reliable, fast connection in areas where it hasn't traditionally been where T-Mobile and metro by T-Mobile are expanding. So I think that that's a win-win there, I think at 300. It seems like it's definitely worth that so far again, I'm gonna.

Do my full review go more in depth. Talk about these things show off more of the performance and the experience. I really just wanted to go ahead and show you what's inside the box. Do the unboxing do the first impression stuff? I had an opportunity to get some hands on time, just kind of tell you what I think and so far I kind of like it now. That's all I've got in this video.

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