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it's really dangerous to build your brand on being really fast for one thing

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speed is quantifiable so you can't just say

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it's magic or it turns you into a professional photographer and then

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expect everyone to buy your products based on their feelings for another

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thing it puts such an obvious target on your back i mean it's not like any of

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your competitors are trying to make their devices slower and that

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is what makes oneplus accomplishment here so impressive the oneplus 7 pro is

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hands down the fastest Android device

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that i have ever held in my hand and i'm going to show you guys

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let's get the bad stuff out of the way right now the oneplus 7 pro doesn't have

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a headphone jack though in fairness neither do most flagship phones these

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days so harping on that feels like background noise especially when it also

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falls short in some other key areas one it lacks any wireless charging when

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leaders like huawei and samsung have moved on to high-speed wireless charging

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and even wireless power sharing two it carries no independently

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validated water or dust resistance rating when even apple has been doing

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this for years now three it issues other add-ons and

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features beloved by Android enthusiasts like expandable storage ir blasters or

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removable batteries and for finally

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it's just plain not cheap anymore parent

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company bbk electronics has obviously set very clear expectations that the

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oneplus brand needs to move up market in order to survive preferring to use

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divisions like realme and vivo to attack

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budget competitors like huawei's honor and xiaomi's pocophone brands

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so with all of that out of the way why do i love this thing so much

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well it starts with the feel in the hand oneplus has taken a huge leap forward

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with this generation the 7 pro features curved gorilla glass 5 for both the back

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and the screen that's a first for them it's got ideally positioned lock volume

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rocker and do not disturb buttons along

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with corners that are shaped perfectly to fit comfortably in a cupped palm in

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both portrait and landscape orientations

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now it's heavy about the same weight as a note 9 but with that heft comes a heck

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of a lot of phone the display is simply put

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outstanding this is oneplus first 1440p

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class display so folks with sharper eyes than me will probably appreciate that

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but the thing that stood out to me was the configurability

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oneplus holds nothing back here for

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example you can switch to dc control to

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reduce flicker which is sick and instead

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of hiding color profiles behind ambiguous terms like photo or vivid they

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allow the user to quickly and easily select their color space of choice and

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adjust the white point that's a huge one

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for me over the already excellent OLED panel on the galaxy s10 plus which is

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locked into a warmer white point than i would prefer in its color accurate

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profile and it gets even better HDR 10

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plus certification no notch

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no hole punch no distractions

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now purists might still criticize the heavily rounded corners but i'd say

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after about 30 seconds of wide aspect ratio content on this phone i suspect

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most people will completely forget about it this is the most immersive phone

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movie watching experience that i've had yet

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and yes some of us watch movies on our phones

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deal with it the only thing on my wish list here

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would be always-on functionality i've got to praise the onboard speakers

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as well lg and huawei took big gambles

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transitioning to vibrating screen technology for their earpiece speakers

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and while it paid off in terms of in-call audio quality in my opinion they

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both delivered inferior video watching experiences oneplus opted for a

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right-side bottom firing speaker and a

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super slim amplified earpiece speaker that between the two of them deliver a

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very satisfactory stereo effect even if they're not the loudest i've ever heard

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and they gotta get kudos for that now let's get into my claims about the

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oneplus 7 pros incredible speed because like it sounds kind of hard to believe

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right since flagship phones all have

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basically the same hardware in them at this point

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the thing is though that tuning matters

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it starts with the in-screen fingerprint sensor now i had pretty much accepted

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that the convenience of being able to unlock my phone without flipping it over

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came at the cost of slower authentication

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not anymore every device that you're looking at here

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has the latest updates the 7 pro is just

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that much faster and you can complain that part of

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samsung's poor showing here is that their animation is slow

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but the thing is that's part of the perception of speed like i don't like

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everything about oneplus oxygen os the task switcher only shows one task which

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i think is dumb and the fingerprint sensor actually happens to show up

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exactly where the clear all notifications button is

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uh oops but overall oneplus has worked for years

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to purge their os of unnecessary fluff

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in the form of things like lock animations

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it doesn't have one the screen just turns off and

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folder pop-ups so snappy so everything just feels

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fast and more importantly not just when

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it's brand new when i was trying to quantify my snappy experience with the 7

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pro i grabbed a freshly formatted pixel 3xl and i was surprised that given the

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pixel 3's reputation they were neck and neck in basically everything i did

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but then i logged into my google account

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and installed all the same apps and immediately the difference became what

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you're looking at now and the cherry on top of all of that is

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the perceived increase in responsiveness from the 90 hertz screen i am a huge

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proponent of high refresh rate and the oneplus 7 pro is exactly why not only

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does every animation look more fluid but

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everything on the screen that's in motion looks higher definition like you

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can read text as you're scrolling back and forth like this

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actually that brings us pretty nicely to the camera now oneplus started out as the phone

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that was great except for the camera thank goodness it's cheap

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but over the last couple of generations they've really broken away from the pack

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not because they get the best dxo mark score or because they have amazing video

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recording quality that's still a weak point from my experience compared to my

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note 9 daily driver what oneplus does well though and the 7pro's 48 megapixel

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main and wide-angle shooters are no exception is take whatever's in front of

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you and put it on your screen for better

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or for worse their app is super responsive yes that

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again and it's simple to use and on the image processing side they tend not to

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overdo anything like edge enhancement noise reduction or color saturation and

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i really like and respect their approach

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at least in normal mode their night mode was actually a bit of a mess for me the

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one night that i took it out as for the selfie camera out of the box

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it's sharp accurate and mostly free of

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weird beauty processing so pretty good in my book already

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but of course that's far from the coolest thing about it

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now a motorized pop-up camera

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is in my mind the riskiest way to

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achieve a notchless display and that's because of the moving parts

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but oneplus claims that between the gasket that they've installed to keep

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out debris and their automatic retraction mechanism

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check this out it's good they validated it to be used

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150 times per day every day for five years

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and the thing is i have seen their r indian testing

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center so all right guys innocent until proven

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guilty on this one now as for some of the new camera

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selling points i'm a little tepid on those the three times optical zoom lens

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definitely delivers more detail in far away objects

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but at the cost of inferior processing

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now it's possible that this is something they can improve but it is only an 8 megapixel sensor so

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i probably wouldn't hold my breath i do have more good stuff to say though

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30 watt warp charging is some pretty next level stuff

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half of your charge this is a 4 000 milliamp hour battery in 30 minutes

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dang impressive i'm assuming i don't know i didn't use it but for

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good reason thing is battery life on the 6t was

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already great so adding nearly another 10 to its capacity could only serve to

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improve it and it did now the seven pro is still no two-day

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monster like the p30 pro but i regularly

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made it to the end of the day with 40 in the tank and i actually got all of my

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notifications so that's pretty good

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which brings us then to price for the first time

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second time actually but who's counting oneplus is pursuing a two-tiered

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strategy focusing on the oneplus 7 pro

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in some markets and pushing the oneplus 7 a lower cost beefed up 6t in others

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with this strategy then comes oneplus's biggest generational price hike yet if

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you're in a seven pro market around a hundred dollars

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so then at over twice as much as the

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original one plus one does this still make sense

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the answer is yeah now bargain hunters out there might find

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that they prefer flagship killers like the f1 or

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unlocked no warranty international s10s on marketplaces like amazon

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but for my part if a friend said to me look i've got a good job i want

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something decent which Android phone should i get for a

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no bull experience i'd say if you don't absolutely need a

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headphone jack get a oneplus 7 pro because the thing is guys

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it's all about the software these days and as we discovered during our

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