it's really dangerous to build your brand on being really fast for one thing
speed is quantifiable so you can't just say
it's magic or it turns you into a professional photographer and then
expect everyone to buy your products based on their feelings for another
thing it puts such an obvious target on your back i mean it's not like any of
your competitors are trying to make their devices slower and that
is what makes oneplus accomplishment here so impressive the oneplus 7 pro is
hands down the fastest Android device
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
a headphone jack though in fairness neither do most flagship phones these
days so harping on that feels like background noise especially when it also
falls short in some other key areas one it lacks any wireless charging when
leaders like huawei and samsung have moved on to high-speed wireless charging
and even wireless power sharing two it carries no independently
validated water or dust resistance rating when even apple has been doing
this for years now three it issues other add-ons and
features beloved by Android enthusiasts like expandable storage ir blasters or
removable batteries and for finally
it's just plain not cheap anymore parent
company bbk electronics has obviously set very clear expectations that the
oneplus brand needs to move up market in order to survive preferring to use
divisions like realme and vivo to attack
budget competitors like huawei's honor and xiaomi's pocophone brands
so with all of that out of the way why do i love this thing so much
well it starts with the feel in the hand oneplus has taken a huge leap forward
with this generation the 7 pro features curved gorilla glass 5 for both the back
and the screen that's a first for them it's got ideally positioned lock volume
rocker and do not disturb buttons along
with corners that are shaped perfectly to fit comfortably in a cupped palm in
both portrait and landscape orientations
now it's heavy about the same weight as a note 9 but with that heft comes a heck
of a lot of phone the display is simply put
outstanding this is oneplus first 1440p
class display so folks with sharper eyes than me will probably appreciate that
but the thing that stood out to me was the configurability
oneplus holds nothing back here for
example you can switch to dc control to
reduce flicker which is sick and instead
of hiding color profiles behind ambiguous terms like photo or vivid they
allow the user to quickly and easily select their color space of choice and
adjust the white point that's a huge one
for me over the already excellent OLED panel on the galaxy s10 plus which is
locked into a warmer white point than i would prefer in its color accurate
profile and it gets even better HDR 10
plus certification no notch
no hole punch no distractions
now purists might still criticize the heavily rounded corners but i'd say
after about 30 seconds of wide aspect ratio content on this phone i suspect
most people will completely forget about it this is the most immersive phone
movie watching experience that i've had yet
and yes some of us watch movies on our phones
deal with it the only thing on my wish list here
would be always-on functionality i've got to praise the onboard speakers
as well lg and huawei took big gambles
transitioning to vibrating screen technology for their earpiece speakers
and while it paid off in terms of in-call audio quality in my opinion they
both delivered inferior video watching experiences oneplus opted for a
right-side bottom firing speaker and a
super slim amplified earpiece speaker that between the two of them deliver a
very satisfactory stereo effect even if they're not the loudest i've ever heard
and they gotta get kudos for that now let's get into my claims about the
oneplus 7 pros incredible speed because like it sounds kind of hard to believe
right since flagship phones all have
basically the same hardware in them at this point
the thing is though that tuning matters
it starts with the in-screen fingerprint sensor now i had pretty much accepted
that the convenience of being able to unlock my phone without flipping it over
came at the cost of slower authentication
not anymore every device that you're looking at here
has the latest updates the 7 pro is just
that much faster and you can complain that part of
samsung's poor showing here is that their animation is slow
but the thing is that's part of the perception of speed like i don't like
everything about oneplus oxygen os the task switcher only shows one task which
i think is dumb and the fingerprint sensor actually happens to show up
exactly where the clear all notifications button is
uh oops but overall oneplus has worked for years
to purge their os of unnecessary fluff
in the form of things like lock animations
it doesn't have one the screen just turns off and
folder pop-ups so snappy so everything just feels
fast and more importantly not just when
it's brand new when i was trying to quantify my snappy experience with the 7
pro i grabbed a freshly formatted pixel 3xl and i was surprised that given the
pixel 3's reputation they were neck and neck in basically everything i did
but then i logged into my google account
and installed all the same apps and immediately the difference became what
you're looking at now and the cherry on top of all of that is
the perceived increase in responsiveness from the 90 hertz screen i am a huge
proponent of high refresh rate and the oneplus 7 pro is exactly why not only
does every animation look more fluid but
everything on the screen that's in motion looks higher definition like you
can read text as you're scrolling back and forth like this
actually that brings us pretty nicely to the camera now oneplus started out as the phone
that was great except for the camera thank goodness it's cheap
but over the last couple of generations they've really broken away from the pack
not because they get the best dxo mark score or because they have amazing video
recording quality that's still a weak point from my experience compared to my
note 9 daily driver what oneplus does well though and the 7pro's 48 megapixel
main and wide-angle shooters are no exception is take whatever's in front of
you and put it on your screen for better
or for worse their app is super responsive yes that
again and it's simple to use and on the image processing side they tend not to
overdo anything like edge enhancement noise reduction or color saturation and
i really like and respect their approach
at least in normal mode their night mode was actually a bit of a mess for me the
one night that i took it out as for the selfie camera out of the box
it's sharp accurate and mostly free of
weird beauty processing so pretty good in my book already
but of course that's far from the coolest thing about it
now a motorized pop-up camera
is in my mind the riskiest way to
achieve a notchless display and that's because of the moving parts
but oneplus claims that between the gasket that they've installed to keep
out debris and their automatic retraction mechanism
check this out it's good they validated it to be used
150 times per day every day for five years
and the thing is i have seen their r indian testing
center so all right guys innocent until proven
guilty on this one now as for some of the new camera
selling points i'm a little tepid on those the three times optical zoom lens
definitely delivers more detail in far away objects
but at the cost of inferior processing
now it's possible that this is something they can improve but it is only an 8 megapixel sensor so
i probably wouldn't hold my breath i do have more good stuff to say though
30 watt warp charging is some pretty next level stuff
half of your charge this is a 4 000 milliamp hour battery in 30 minutes
dang impressive i'm assuming i don't know i didn't use it but for
good reason thing is battery life on the 6t was
already great so adding nearly another 10 to its capacity could only serve to
improve it and it did now the seven pro is still no two-day
monster like the p30 pro but i regularly
made it to the end of the day with 40 in the tank and i actually got all of my
notifications so that's pretty good
which brings us then to price for the first time
second time actually but who's counting oneplus is pursuing a two-tiered
strategy focusing on the oneplus 7 pro
in some markets and pushing the oneplus 7 a lower cost beefed up 6t in others
with this strategy then comes oneplus's biggest generational price hike yet if
you're in a seven pro market around a hundred dollars
so then at over twice as much as the
original one plus one does this still make sense
the answer is yeah now bargain hunters out there might find
that they prefer flagship killers like the f1 or
unlocked no warranty international s10s on marketplaces like amazon
but for my part if a friend said to me look i've got a good job i want
something decent which Android phone should i get for a
no bull experience i'd say if you don't absolutely need a
headphone jack get a oneplus 7 pro because the thing is guys
it's all about the software these days and as we discovered during our
five-year Android versus iphone test
there's a reason that oneplus phones hold their value so darn well
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