OnePlus Nord review By GSMArena Official

Hey, what's up guys will here for GSM arena? OnePlus has always thrived through its online marketing, and the OnePlus word in particular, has been the focus of a ton of hype. This is a true mid-ranger. Unlike the more expensive devices we've seen lately from OnePlus, have they finally returned to their flagship, killing roots, let's find out in our OnePlus word review, the OnePlus word is an attractive mid-range phone with a premium glass back along with a plastic side frame. Ours is in the gray onyx finish and the looks are quite elegant and straightforward. There's also a more flashy blue marble finish a striking color, which you don't see, often on phones with its rounded edges. The OnePlus word is quite comfortable in the hand.

Although the frame is plastic, its shiny chrome finish makes it feel quite convincingly like metal, and you get a metal power button alert, slider and volume rocker. You do get some waterproofing too. It's the splash proofing, we've seen before from OnePlus. However, there is no IP rated water or dust resistance here on the front. Is a 6.44 inch, AMOLED display with a 1080p resolution and a fast 90hz refresh rate, unlike on OnePlus flagships, it's flat, not curved, and the dual selfie cameras are housed conspicuously in a pill shaped cutout at the top. If you don't mind the cutout taking up screen space, this display is really nice.

The 90 hertz, refresh rate, adapts based on your content and when supported results in a high frame rate that looks super smooth. You get those perfect blacks, typical of an AMOLED and colors, are vivid out of the box. You can choose to tweak them to be more color accurate though they tend to remain a bit bluish. As far as brightness goes, it's a bit tricky. Even with auto brightness turned off the phone still adjusts the brightness dynamically.

Based on your lighting and content on the screen. We were able to measure a maximum of about 320 nits with the slider and 750 nits in auto mode in bright sun. So no problems there. Under the display system, OnePlus noise, optical fingerprint reader- it isn't always on you- can make it appear by tapping or lifting the phone, though this may be changed in a future update. It's both accurate and lightning fast, plus, there's a cool feature based on the scanner called quick launch.

If you keep holding down your finger, a carousel will pop up with customizable shortcuts. You don't get a notification led on the OnePlus word, but the phone's ambient display will show you the time and notifications. Just like the fingerprint reader, though you'll need to tap or lift the phone to see it. OnePlus flagships have stereo speakers, but the word has just a single bottom firing one you do get a dedicated dark audio tuner, which offers some audio enhancement presets, but even with those we weren't impressed by this speaker, loudness is just average and besides some balanced highs, the audio quality is nothing special. There is no headphone jack on the OnePlus word, so, if you want to plug in traditional headphones, you will need to use an USB adapter which we didn't get in the box.

The word is also missing another feature that people might be looking for. Expandable storage. You do have options for 64, 128 or 256 gigs on board, though the user interface is OnePlus oxygen, OS 10.5, based on android 10. This is one of the cleanest and snappiest android UIs. You can find these days, and this is helped too by the fast screen refresh rate.

It's not quite stock android, though there are plenty of additional features here, as you might expect, you can choose between having an app drawer or having all of your apps on the home screen. A quick swipe can take you to the oxygen OS shelf, which gives quick access to a toolbox, weather and various shortcuts, and there are plenty of visual customization options too. You can change themes and settings and even mix and match visual elements to suit your taste plus. If you play a lot of mobile games, oxygen OS has its own game. Optimizer tool called game space.

If you want to go all in fanatic mode, will block notifications and restrict background activity to direct more resources toward your games powering. All of these features is a snapdragon 765g chipset. This is one of the most powerful chips you can get outside a flagship device, and it also grants you the option to connect to 5g networks. OnePlus did a great job here in optimizing. The hardware and the word sits near the top of the mid-range benchmark charts, even though it isn't flagship grade the OnePlus noise performance is snappy and responsive and games run great, particularly with the game mode turned on the OnePlus.

Word is rocking a 4100 William hour battery, nothing too huge by today's standards. Even so, it does a surprisingly great job with its battery life, with the screen refresh rate set to 90 hertz, the word was able to score an endurance rating of 100 hours in our proprietary tests and the support for 30 watt warp charging, which is speedy. With the bundled charger we were able to take the phone from zero to 60 percent charge in half an hour on to the cameras. The OnePlus word has a total of four on the back: a 48 megapixel quad, Bayer main cam, an 8 megapixel ultra-wide angle, cam, a 2 megapixel macro cam, and a depth sensor. We've seen this main camera before on previous OnePlus phones and these 12 megapixel shots look quite similar in quality as well in good light.

There's plenty of detail and saturated colors. We like the natural looking processing, even if the skies remain grainy dynamic range, is quite nice. Thanks to the always on HDR, like most quad bear smartphone cameras, you have the option to shoot in the full resolution. These 48 megapixel shots are actually softer and noisier than the regular photos. Though you don't get a telephoto camera like you did on some previous one pluses, like the 7t two times.

Digital zoom from the main camera lacks detail and is a bit fuzzy and noisy portrait. Shots are also taken with the main camera, along with a depth sensor. These have excellent subject: detection and separation, though we noticed that covering the depth sensor didn't change the outcome. Much you can take a regular portrait or a zoomed one though the digital zoom again introduces some softness. The ultrawide snapper on the word is a downgrade from the usual 16 megapixel ones.

OnePlus tends to use both in sharpness and dynamic range. The results are similar to other 8 megapixels, ultra wide we've seen in cheaper phones, the 2 megapixel macro camera takes usable, close-up photos. You need plenty of light, as the aperture is rather dim and since focus is fixed, you may need to take some extra shots to make sure you get a sharp one in low light. The word's main camera produces photos that are quite good. If not class leading the contrast, colors and dynamic range are already quite good in the main mode.

There is still plenty of noise, but that's fine. The nights cape mode takes things even further. You get a brighter exposure, more detail and well-balanced contrast. The mode is quite quick to shoot too shots from the ultra-wide angle. Cam at night are predictably low in quality.

They are soft with plenty of noise and blown out light sources. The ultrawide does support nights cape mode, and it does make a noticeable difference, often resulting in a usable photo. One of the OnePlus word's unique features is its dual selfie setup: there's a 32 megapixel main cam and an 8 megapixel cam with a wider field of view in good lighting, the selfie cams perform admirably, there's good detail and sharpness and vibrant colors. The ultra-wide angle, camera does have slightly more saturated, colors and more corner softness, but between the two. The overall look is similar you're able to take a selfie video from either shooter and up to 4k resolution.

The quality is pretty solid, but there's no stabilization dynamic range is a bit narrow as well. Let's look at 4k footage taken from the rear cameras, starting with the main one at 30fps you get saturated colors and detail is good for the class dynamic range is quite okay, too. Footage from the ultra-wide cam is a bit noisier and the dynamic range is more limited, but the color rendition matches the main cams quite nicely. The main cam has is and stabilization is decent. If you need an even smoother result, there is a super stable mode which uses a crop from the ultra-wide angle.

Cam footage straight from the ultrawide is actually relatively stable in itself, even though that camera lacks is. So that's the OnePlus word. You get a sleek looking midrange with a high refresh rate, AMOLED screen great mid-range performance, excellent battery life, pretty fast charging and one of the cleanest and snappiest android interfaces around. But at the same time there are things about the word that I'm not a fan of there's no headphone jack or expandable storage, which many people want in a mid-ranger. The speaker quality here is mediocre, and I wish that OnePlus had included a telephoto zoom.

It's not that the OnePlus word is a bad phone. A lot of people would be happy with it, but it doesn't live up to all the hype. It's not a flagship killer and even falls short of other mid-rangers. You can get right now, so, unless your dead set on an OnePlus and the oxygen OS experience, it may be better to shop around thanks for watching guys, stay safe and see you on the next one. You.

Source : GSMArena Official