OnePlus NORD Unboxing, Comparison and Review (4K 60P) By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech- and this is the OnePlus word. This is a phone, that's not available here in the United States, where I live for some reason. But OnePlus was nice enough to help me take a look at it and so the prices that I'll list will be for the UK and India, and so I don't really have an equivalent here in the United States, but it seems to be under 500 here, at least if you were able to buy one now, it's 379 pounds to 469 pounds and, as you can see, here's the price in India as well. There are two separate variants: eight gigabytes of ram with 128, gigabytes of storage and 12 gigabytes of ram with 256 gigabytes of storage, so you've got those two options and two colors as well gray, onyx and blue marble. Now, unfortunately, when I took the wrapper off for the first time, the camera was not recording for some reason, but everything else is still in the package wrapped. So let's go ahead and open it up and, as you can see, it says this way.

Word we'll set. That aside, take a look at it in a moment and then inside the box we've got our normal paperwork. Let's take a look at it here, so it says: here's a welcome letter and if you want to read it I'll, just zoom in here a little, if you want to pause it and take a look at that and then also let's see what we've got, so we have a case, so they included a CPU case which is always nice. The note 20 ultra here in the United States at least doesn't get a case. So it's nice to see that included, and then we've got some other things here as well.

So we have a sim card removal tool, and then we have some OnePlus word stickers, a quick start guide safety information and highest SAR value ratings. So here are the ratings. If you're curious about those- and let's set these aside- we grab the sim card tool. So we can take a look at the sim card tray and then inside the box. We have a typical OnePlus USA to USB adapter for charging, and it includes a warp charger now.

This will be interesting to use since I've never used a warp charger. It's a 30 watt charger that should charge the OnePlus word to 70 percent from zero in 30 minutes or so here you can see the ratings on the charger, so it'll be interesting to try that out and let's take a closer look at the OnePlus word. So let's take the wrapper off here, and this is that really nice, blue color- and hopefully you can see this well through the camera and YouTube hasn't tweaked it too much with their compression. But it's a really nice color and let's go around the outside edge, and then we'll talk about specs. So of course we have the display I'll talk about that in a moment.

On the right hand, side of the phone you've got your power sleep, wake button, and then you've got your silent switch, which is always nice to see on an android phone on the bottom. You have a speaker USB c port, another microphone here, and then we have our sim card tray. So let's go ahead and pop the sim card out or the tray out. Rather- and this should be a dual sim card tray, so we've got one for each side, and then you've got a little rubber gasket on the outside edge, so that you can have a little of water sealing protection. Although this is no tip rated.

On the left hand, side, we've got a volume rocker on the top. We've got a microphone and then, of course, we've got cameras on the front and back so, let's talk about the internal specs and then talk about the specs of the camera. Now the display is a 6.44 inch, 90 hertz AMOLED display. So it's not quite up to the spec of say a note 20 ultra or an OnePlus 8 pro, but it should be plenty fast for most, it's 2400 by 1080, with 408 pixels per inch and supports p3 wide color. It has gorilla glass 5 on the front and probably on the back.

It is glass, I'm not sure. If that's what's on the back, though internally it has a snapdragon 765 g CPU from Qualcomm, and it also has an arena 620 GPU, again 8 gigabytes or 12 gigabytes of ram. This is the 12 gigabyte variant with gigabytes of storage. The storage is not upgradable. Now, as far as the battery inside it's 4115 William hours again, it has warp charge 30t, so it should charge very quickly and let's take a look at the cameras now, the forward-facing cameras are pretty interesting on this phone.

It's a 32 megapixel Sony sensor with an f 2.45 aperture and supports 4k 60 video. Next to it, we have an ultra-wide 108 degree fields of view, 8 megapixel camera, with an f 2.45 aperture. Now on the back, this is where some people say: they're underwhelmed, with the cameras of course I'll take a look at it in a little, but the first camera is a 48 megapixel, f, 1.75 aperture, Sony sensor. They took out of the OnePlus 8 pro, and it has optical image stabilization. Next, there's an 8 megapixel wide angle lens with an f 2.25, aperture and 119 degree fields of view. Then we have a 5 megapixel depth sensor with an f 2.4 aperture and a 2 megapixel macro with an f 2.4 aperture. Now, supposedly, the back is good for 4k 30.

So I'll check that out in the settings again just to verify, but let's go ahead and turn it on now, while this boots up I'll talk about the Wi-Fi- and this has 802.11 a b g n in ac, so no Wi-Fi 6, but it also supports Bluetooth.5.1 has NFC GPS and all the other sensors. You would expect, so we'll wait for it to boot up here, and this has oxygen OS 10.5, so android 10 with all the oxygen OS stuff on top of it, so I'll go ahead and set it up I'll, take a closer look at it. Take some photos and again do a little of a comparison, and I'll come back in a bit when it's all set up to take a closer look. Now I have the OnePlus word completely set up, and I've been using it for well. Since yesterday, I got it all set up used it through the night, and now it's the next day, and so the overall experience is really great.

I haven't used oxygen OS for a while and what they've done with this is sort of give you a simple stock. Android or really more of the Google Pixel experience, but with a few things on top. So of course it's fully customizable, and then you have this silent switch, which I think all android phones should include. You've got three different levels here, silent vibrate and ring, and I just really enjoy using this phone. It's superfast thanks to the 90 hertz display and in general because of the 90 hertz display, and what they've done with this display? It's really quite nice, so you have the refresh rate set to 90.

Of course, you can change this if you'd like, but usually PWM, which controls the display bothers my eyes, but it's at such a high rate that it doesn't bother my eyes at all, and I noticed this right away with the display now. Normally I can tell within probably 15 minutes whether a display will bother my eyes but the PWM rate or the way it controls. Brightness is so high that it really won't bother most people, and so I thought I'd show you a comparison side by side here with the Pixel 4a. So it's a little bigger with the OnePlus word. I like the larger size and the OnePlus word definitely feels built a lot better.

It has better ergonomics the way it fits in your hands. It feels like a premium device, even though not at premium prices such as the OnePlus 8 pro the Pixel 4a is cheaper, may have a better camera, we'll check that out in a moment, but the Pixel 4a is plastic, where the OnePlus word is metal and glass, so it just has a more premium feel to it. The warp charging on the OnePlus word is superfast, which is great. I tried it out and just using this phone has really been great. I really like this interface.

Furthermore, I think it's one of the best implementations of android. In fact, it may be better than the pixel experience and, of course you have Google now off to the side, and then your camera app having a 90 hertz display on this phone, really makes a big difference. It's just super smooth. When you turn it down, you can notice the difference immediately and next to say the Pixel 4a, for example. If we go into the app switcher they're, both fairly fast, but you can just see the smoothness of the OnePlus word compared to the Pixel 4a, there's just a difference that you have to sort of experience in person to understand it's just nice and smooth all the time.

Of course, that does eat into battery a little, but I think the cost is worth it, especially when you're using it. Now. As far as the speakers go, this is the one area. I was really disappointed in this phone. You've got one speaker: you've got one on the bottom.

The top is not a speaker. So if we go into a video of mine now, let's go into my note: 20 ultra 5g unboxing pause it here I'll turn it, and then I'll move the microphone. So you can hear the speaker hot spot or whatever you'd like it's got: Bluetooth, 5.0, a2dp for audio and apex and all sorts of other things like GPS, NFC and everything you could really want in a phone. So the speaker sounds okay, but it's not incredible. It does get pretty loud, but it gets a little muffled at high volumes.

So it's not anything great. It will do the job, but I definitely recommend using headphones. So maybe the OnePlus wireless headphones or OnePlus buds and try those out with this you'll get a better experience. Now the camera is where it may struggle a little compared to the Pixel 4a. So I took a bunch of sample images to compare so let's go ahead and take a look at some images and the video as well.

So here's, the forward-facing video from the OnePlus word and the Pixel 4a and the OnePlus word actually has two lenses, so you could make it an ultra-wide if you want, and I'll show you that in a moment and then the Pixel 4a just has the singular lens. So let me know which one you think looks best and sounds best in the comments below so here's the ultra-wide on the OnePlus word. So it does look quite a bit wider, so you have much more of the scene behind you compared to what you have on the Pixel 4a. So this may be helpful for quite a few people, especially if you're trying to take selfies with a group of people or just video with a group of people uh, while OnePlus word technically doesn't have the fastest CPU out there. It's actually plenty fast.

So if we go over to Call of Duty, it'll switch to game mode, as you can see there, gaming mode is on and if we pull down from the top, we can go see our gaming mode settings, and you have game space and answer calls via speaker. You can turn all of these off graphic, optimization, it's actually off, and it's working fine, but I'll just turn it on and let's go back to the game, and we'll hit start, so I'll just show you what it's like as far as frame rate, and then we'll talk about heat on the back of the phone after I've played this for a bit just to see if it gets really warm. So let's wait for it to load and, as you can see, this is the pre-match. So a hiccup there for a second just when it restarted I'll, just hit, select and everything seems to be nice and fluid and fast. So, of course this is shipment, so I probably won't last too long, but I'm not going to play a full round.

I just want to show you what the frame rates are like so everything's, nice and smooth and fast no issues here seems to be working well, so I think it will handle gaming, no problem, everything's superfast. As you can see, it doesn't seem to slow down at all, so we'll go out of the game, it seems to be nice and fast. The phone does get a little warm right around the camera module, but it's handling it nicely and, of course you have that gaming mode, and it's not too hot to hold on to. I don't think it's a problem. You could probably leave it plugged in while you're playing- and I don't think you'd have too much of an issue.

It's not very warm at all, so it did a nice job of that the screen looked great, even though it's a 60 frame per second game. Usually it's locked around that the screen looked great. It was smooth at all times and I really think it'll be a great phone. Despite one issue with the speaker since there's only one you're not hearing both so play this with headphones, and it would be much better. I think now.

Overall battery life, I think, will be pretty good, although I've only used it. I've taken it off the charger late last night set it aside and actually shut it off. So I could boot it up this morning with a fairly full charge and see what we get. So if we go to our battery here, you'll see it says it should last until about 2. Am battery.

Saver is off and view usage details, and so I've been using it this morning, mostly with the camera, to take sample images, and so it's pretty good overall, and I think it will get most people through a day of course warp charging it. It only takes 15 minutes or so and you're good to go or 30 minutes, and you have 70 charge now for this price. I think this is one of the best deals out there. There's only a couple of things I don't like about it: it doesn't have wireless charging, which is something I really have come to use a lot, and I'm accustomed to so that part I really wish it had. I also wish they maybe would have reduced the cameras, maybe to just two cameras would have been fine, two or three, depending on what you want.

Maybe a normal telephoto in wide angle, similar to an iPhone, for example, but one or two would have been fine, and the macro camera is okay, but I don't know that it's necessary per se. I do like that. It has the wide angle cameras on the front and I think that's a nice little touch, but in general this is a great phone, and this one plus phone, I think, is something that they should offer in the United States. I think a lot more people would buy it than they realize being 500 or so the Pixel 4a is great, but the overall software support of oxygen OS being about the same as the Pixel 4a shouldn't really be an issue for most people. I think it's great that people are supporting their phones longer, so we should get about three years of guaranteed updates with either phone, but let me know which one you like most in the comments below.

Furthermore, I really like this OnePlus word. In fact, I'll continue to use it for a little while, and maybe the only downside, compared to the Pixel 4a is the camera. So I think it's a really nice premium device great display and I really enjoy using it. So let me know what you think about it in the comments below, if you'd like to get your hands on this OnePlus wallpaper I'll leave it in the description like I normally do and if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like, as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll, see you next time you.

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