OnePlus Nord Unboxing & Full Tour | Mid-Range Marvel? By Tech Spurt

Now OnePlus flagship phones are still among the most affordable here in 2020, costing a huge chunk of change less than one of those top-end Samsung or one of those iPhone hobbies. On the other hand, the latest OnePlus 8 flagship phones does cost from 600 pounds which is going to seriously deplete the beer fund of most consumers out there and, of course, in 2020. We need that booze more than ever before, and perhaps that's why OnePlus has launched its first mid-range smartphone in quite some time, the OnePlus word. Now at the time I shot this unboxing. Unfortunately, I still don't know the final UK retail price, I'm hoping it'll be no more than 400 pounds, though it'll definitely still have strong competition from the likes of the Oppo f5x2 light, the motor, g5g plus and, of course, the excellent realm x55g, which I just reviewed, an absolute better of a budget phone, but ahead of my full in-depth OnePlus word review, I'm going to yank it out the box and take you on a full-on tour of all the hardware and the software. So you know exactly what to expect from this 5g handset and from all the latest greatest tech.

Please do plug subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers now. First, I'm definitely digging that super dark box. It's a huge departure from the traditional white and red efforts that OnePlus usually packs its flagships inside and already the random slogans have begun. This way, nord, of course, meaning north in various European languages. What else do you get packed inside the word box? Well, of course, you get the obligatory uh one plus stickers.

You have the Justin's obligatory welcome letter as well from the chief boards at OnePlus and there they are there, the crew that actually worked on the smartphone and from the looks of all the pre-launched teaser stuff that OnePlus put out on the internet. It definitely looks like there were a lot of sleepless nights poured into this thing, so I hope it is uh genuinely good got a quick start guide, porky pin device- and I was also hoping for one of these as well a pre-bundled condom case, which you can slap on the OnePlus note just to help. Keep it protected and then, lastly, of course, your warp charge, 30 adapters, and then you've got your standard, bright red, one plus type c, charging cable as well, it's kind of hoping they would go for a proper Gothic black effort for that one as well, and so here it is at long last, the OnePlus word in the flesh, and it's good to finally have a proper funnel other thing after seeing so much about it on the internet. Of course. This right here is the blue, marble version, but you could also pick it up in gray onyx if you're not really a fan of this sort of brighter, more vibrant colors.

You want to really embrace your inner emo I'll. Tell you what super quick first impressions, I definitely like it. It feels quite compact, uh, certainly coming from a lot of the sort of 6.5 6.6 inch beast that I've been playing with lately, as this is a 6.44 inch model instead, and I really like that shiny colorful back end as well, and the good news is its gorilla, glass 5 both on the back end and the front end as well to keep it protected, and you've also got a pre-installed screen protector as well so double hard-basted. And if you want to see what the OnePlus node looks like with the bundled prophylactic case slapped on it. Well, it looks an awful lot like this again, it's nice to see a bit of design and thought actually applied to bundled accessories like this bumper uh right here, as you can see, that's kind of a combination of gloss and matte on the back end and if you look down below they've, even included a wee flappy bit just to cover up that USB port and help prevent any crud and crap from getting into that hole.

So yeah, that's good, and if you're not really a fan of that rubber bumper. Well, don't worry. OnePlus is doing a selection of colorful cases as usual, which you can slap on there to change up the look and feel of the OnePlus node. As for the rest of the design here on the OnePlus, no no real surprises. You've got your power button on the right edge.

You've got your alert slider, of course, as standard you've got your volume keys over here on the other edge and down below. Furthermore, you've got your USB port and your sim tray and, of course, bug roll headphone jack. So hopefully there's some uh battery life on the go. Yes excellent right. It's going to get one plus node all set up, and then we'll take a full on tour of the rest of the hardware and the software.

I mean it's also worth pointing out that it's a dual sim device, the OnePlus 9. You can stick two sim cards in at once, but there's no room for micros memory cards, just like with a flagship, so you're, stuck with your 128 or 256 gigs of onboard storage, still plenty of space for lots of stuff okay. So the OnePlus note is ready for action and sat here on top of android 10 is the latest oxygen OS 10.5 overlay as well? So it's a very similar software setup to what you get on the actual flagship smartphones and if you've seen my OnePlus coverage in the past you'll know I'm definitely a fan of oxygen OS. I think it's just the right level of tinkering with stock android. Add some really useful features in there, without going absolutely crazy, as usual got plenty of personalization options on here dive into the home settings.

You've got lots of things there. You can change around the icon, packs the home screen, layouts all that kind of stuff, I'm just going to change the wallpaper quickly. I do quite like the OnePlus papers. I think they're quite funky, and you've got as you can see lots of different styles to choose from. But of course I am a massive fan of my geeky anime efforts.

I'm going to dive on here get a bit of Dr stone action on the go there. We go nice and nerdy just the way I like it. Uh and apparently the OnePlus minions have been slaving away, uh to make lots of little refinements, in the background, just to ensure that it's a super silky smooth experience here on the OnePlus note, just as it is on those flagship phones and suddenly so far, it's still busy sort of setting up in the background installing my apps and all the rest of it. But everything seems to be running nice and smooth and in further good news. OnePlus is guaranteeing two full years of software updates and three years of security updates with the OnePlus node as well.

So you definitely won't get shafted on that front. Hopefully should get android 11 fairly sharpish when that's fully released later in 2020, and then android 12 touch wood next year as well, and it's definitely fantastic to see that sort of level of commitment to updates from a smartphone manufacturer, because most of them are just like uh, we'll see what we can do, and they leave it at that. So now, let's move on to another highlight of the OnePlus word, and that is the 6.44 inch AMOLED display. So you don't tend to get many all ed screens on these more affordable, 5g phones, the fine 5x2 light had an OLED, but apart from that likes the model, g5g plus and the Realme x55g, they use IPS screens instead and the OnePlus word definitely serves up crisp visuals thanks to the full HD plus resolution you get those nice punchy, vibrant colors and those nice deep, blacks as well. So really strong contrast, definitely helped along by that OLED tech.

If you dive on into the display settings, you have a good old play around that maximum brightness is super, super powerful, so definitely no worries seeing this thing on a bright sun shiny day. That's what we get plenty of those this summer, the vibrant color effect is actually switched off by defaults. You'll have to knock that on. If you want this sort of more punchy hues well in the more natural finish, because you've got the usual night mode, reader model a nice easy on the eye stuff. If you dive on into the advanced display settings, that's where the really sexy stuff is, as you can see here, you've got a 90 hertz refresh rate to match the motor g5 g plus, although not quite the Realme x55g, of course, um.

As you can see there, it's stuck at 90 hertz by default, but it will dynamically switch between 90 and 60. Depending on what you're up to kind of shame, you don't have an option to just sort of leave it stuck at 90, but at least that'll help preserve your battery life. And yes, of course, there is, unfortunately, a massive dual selfie cut out thing: uh wedged away in the corner up at the top of the screen there and yes that does infiltrate on your viewing experience whenever you're watching something full screen in the likes of Disney, plus or YouTube. Thankfully Netflix, when you do go full screen, it is blocked out and if you look again in the advanced display settings, you've got front camera display area. So you can completely block that from view.

If it really does annoy you, and it's also possible to see exactly which apps will uh display full screen or uh, which ones will have that cut out, if you just want it for certain apps and not all of them, and before I forget as well, you do actually have an in-display fingerprint sensor here on the OnePlus node as well. I haven't actually seen too many of those recently. They seem to be swapping to the edge-mounted fingerprint sensors in a lot of smartphones, uh but yeah. It seems nice and responsive, as you can see, quick tap boom straight in so display it definitely good. But what about the audio? Well? As far as the internal speakers go, you just got a single bottom firing, mono effort here, no stereo, speaker setup or anything.

Let's just bump up the volume please do subscribe and take that notification spell cheers now. First up Realme really knows how to make even the most budget, so that is definitely uh. Super, super powerful on that top volume. You'll have no problem. Listening to that, even in a very noisy environment.

Clearly, not bad either got to see it on that top volume. You still clearly hear vocals and everything coming through and yeah, as I mentioned before. Unfortunately, there's no headphone jack action here on the OnePlus word, but you do get full Bluetooth, 5.1 support, and you've got plenty of good audio codec support on there as well. So obviously, the likes of ASC, apex HD you've got DAC on there as well. If you've got a pair of headphones that supports that so, overall, not perfect sure, but pretty decent.

As far as performance goes, the OnePlus note should absolutely kill it. What you got in here is the snapdragon 765g chipset the same as the realm x55g, which I just reviewed. So it's not the 865 of those flagship smartphones, but it'll still absolutely kill it for running all of your apps, but split screen action and a bit of gaming as well. No problem likes PUBG mobile and Call of Duty should play on those higher detail levels with a nice silky, smooth frame rate, especially as you've got a choice here of either 8 or 12 gigs of ddr4 ram as well. So yeah.

No problem with your multitasker, no matter how many apps are running in the background and, of course, you've got full 5g support built into that 765 as well. The modem is actually part of the chipset, so whenever 5g does happen to come to your neck of the woods, you are covered, and I'm also hoping that you'll get all the battery life for the OnePlus node as well, because it's got 415 William cells stuffed in there OnePlus phones, they tend to last a day with a battery size around that sort of area and the 765g is fairly energy efficient. And it's great to see that the optimized charging feature is back on board here. On the OnePlus note, as well great news, if you leave your smartphone charging all night long plugged in uh just help to prevent long-term battery damage there, but you do have warp charge 30t support here on the OnePlus word. So hopefully it shouldn't take much more than an hour to get fully powered back up again when you are drained.

As for the rest of the software. Well, it looks pretty standard here on the OnePlus note. Of course, you've got usual gesture controls and everything got full and dark mode, all the usual android 10, stuff alert, slider, of course, back in action. So you can instantly silence your smartphone if you're heading to a meeting or something like that, and you've also got a face, unlock feature as usual to back up the fingerprint sensor. So just get that on the go.

Stick my face in the hole now, let's give that a quick test out so just hit the power button and yep absolutely smashed it. Now, let's finish up with a look at the OnePlus word's camera tech, and what you have here is a 48 megapixel primary shooter using sorties popular and dependable mix 586 sensor as a similar sort of setup to the flagship, OnePlus 8, which is great to see. As you see there, the OnePlus camera app spots a very familiar layout. What you do is you actually shoot? 12 megapixel photos by default being quickly swapped to the full 48 megapixels up top like. So if you desire that extra bit of details mushed in there, you could also swap to the OnePlus words 8 megapixel ultra-wide angle, lens at any point, with a quick tap this little icon here, as you can see that just offers a nice widespread view.

Otherwise, if you tap here obviously two times zoom, but it's of course just digital zoom, because there's no telephoto lens here on the OnePlus word, if you want to get in super, super close to your subject, to take a crazy uh close-up, then uh. What you want to do is swap to the super macro feature which uses the two megapixel macro lens uh. I think it's mostly pointless. Other people would disagree uh, but they're, mostly wrong and finishing off that quad lens setup here on the OnePlus. Word is a five megapixel depth sensor, so that'll just help to add a nice depth effect, as you can see to your shots, uh, so it'll blow out the background and uh keep your subject.

Nice and crisp, and you've got a handful of other camera modes to play around with here on the note, including OnePlus, dependable nights cape mode, which just allows you to capture lots of different exposure shots this really brightens up your shot. You got full pro controls as well with, of course, a bit of level action, so you can make sure you get a nice flat shot. You can shoot in JPEG as well as raw as you can see there. Furthermore, you have a full JPEG 48 megapixel option too, when it comes to shooting some whole movies as well. Furthermore, you can go all the way up to 4k resolution, of course, as you can with most smartphones these days, but it does max out at 30fps.

Furthermore, you can't shoot 4k at full 60fps, like with some other OnePlus phones, although you do have the option of shooting a 21x9 aspect ratio here on the OnePlus store, which is quite funky at that 4k level, and as you can see there with the front facing camera, you can actually shoot 4k and up to 60fps still and speaking of that front-facing camera. Let's swap to that now. So the primary lens, because it is a dual lens setup- is a 32 megapixel effect using Sony's imx616 sensor, as you can see that capture, hopefully a nice crisp, detailed, uh, selfie and any point, if you're with a whole group of besties or whatever you can swap to the 8 megapixel ultra-wide angle, modes, uh, so yeah. So in my case, it'll just capture a lot of extra background and of course, you've got the usual portrait mode smarts as well. If you want to blur out everything behind you instead, so there you have it the OnePlus node on box and hope that has been helpful ahead of my in-depth OnePlus node review to see if it really is going to be a true competitor to the likes of the Oppo f5x2 light.

The Realme x55g and the Moto G 5g plus it'd, be absolutely fantastic to hear your early impressions down in the comments below I'll say on the impressions. This thing's been basically flown about on the internet for about a month or so, but it's nice to finally have a proper fondle of the thing and uh get to grips with it. So definitely please do smash your comments down in the box below poke that subscribe button. Digging the notifications bell all the YouTube, shenanigans and, most importantly, have yourselves a lovely dear people cheers everyone loves you.

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