This is the closest you guys are ever going to get to the real unboxing
experience for me because I know
basically nothing about the device
that's inside here other than that it is the one plus eight pro and I'm actually
pretty jazzed this time around. I was a little upset with one plus last time
when they only launched the one plus seven and not the one plus seven pro in
my region. Here I've got a couple of options for bumper cases. This guy right
here is equipped with a Snapdragon 865
SOC with eight to 12 gigs of LPDDR5
memory. So I'm expecting this to be snappier than any one plus device that
we have ever seen before and more
importantly it's got a 120
hertz display along with a 4510 milliamp
hour battery. Now when I say I don't know anything about it, I don't mean that I don't know
what the specs are supposed to be. I know that it's got quad cameras, AMOLED
display, but what I didn't know was what it was going to look like. I hadn't paid
attention to any of the leaks for this thing and man
every time these guys just do such a
great job of the looks of their phones, don't they ladies and gentlemen? I also
didn't know that it was not going to have their pop-up selfie camera. I have
to confess I am a little bit disappointed to see the whole punch
display up there. So we've got our volume rocker over on the left hand side
here. SIM tray on the bottom along with a type C port that supports their warp
30T charging which gives you I think it's about 26 minutes half of your
battery life. Got a speaker grill down there. The four cameras I mentioned before with
quite a pronounced camera bump. On the top you got nothing so there's no
headphone jack. We've got their three-way switch right here. Ring,
vibrate, and silent super nice to have. My son actually rocks a one plus phone
as his daily driver. He uses this all the time because he takes it to school
and this is a lot easier than trying to fumble around with the buttons. And then
finally you got your lock button over here. Let's go ahead and get this puppy set up and have a look at what else is
included in the box.
Got a nice little clear bumper case. That'll take care of your camera bump
for you I guess. One of one plus's classic white and red charging cables.
And another one plus staple is an included warp charger. One of the most
exciting things about the one plus eight pro though is not the phone itself. So
this is an accessory that's not included in the box but that you can get and this
is the one plus warp charge 30 wireless charger. Their
high-speed charging is coming to wireless for the first time. This puppy
can handle up to 30 watts giving you I
think it's half of your battery life in about 30 minutes.
Is that a cooling vent back there?
I would say that I don't know that may actually be possible. Yeah, it does
appear that they have got a vent back here cuz that would kind of solve the
problem, wouldn't it? If you just put a cooling fan in your wireless charger.
That takes away a lot of my concerns about wireless charging. Feels great in the
hand. Reminds me a lot of the Galaxy S8 series. I think some people are going to
be disappointed to see such a significant curve to the front glass
here. It's the kind of thing that I could easily switch back to and it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.
Making a return is one plus's super fast in-screen fingerprint sensor. At least
I'm expecting it to be fast cuz that's kind of their jam. So dynamic wallpapers
are included with the Android 10 that ships with the one plus eight pro. They
went straight to 120 hertz. In fact, they've completely skipped 90. It's
going to be 60 or 120. I will say there's a sort of point of
diminishing returns once you start to increase refresh rate but what is really
cool about this one is that they're allowing you to run 120 hertz with QHD
plus resolution. That's something Samsung does not allow on the S20 Ultra.
The best guess I have for that would be because they're not confident in the battery life of the device running at
the full 120 hertz at full res. Full res
120 hertz.
And that is butter smooth. It's the kind of thing you get Unfortunately I can't
easily show you guys on camera but it really is something else. Aside from the
high refresh rate of the display, it's supposed to be their most color accurate
display yet with HDR10 plus support. So
I'm expecting the movie watching experience on this phone to be out of
this world. Comes preloaded with Netflix so they expect people to go ahead and
get right on that apparently. HDR is working immediately which is really nice
to see. All right, expectations met and they've
got the correct behavior for the display notch here so they're not just kind of
sticking it through the image that I'm trying to look at. One of the other big
technologies they're pushing on this phone is like a frame interpolation
technology that's supposed to make sports better to watch. So pretty
similar to what you see on full size TVs. This is a pretty good experience if
you're trying to be outside watching HDR content on a phone. I'm going to play
around with the camera a little bit. Wow, it is it is
pumping those reds. Okay, it looks like
after processing the image it toned things down a little bit. Video is
somewhere where Android phones tend to struggle in general. Interesting there's
support for up to 4K 60 FPS but it actually chooses 4K 30 as the default
video recording resolution. My initial camera impressions are pretty good.
They're not oversaturating things so in sort of one plus fashion what you see is
pretty much what you get. Stabilization on that 3X optical zoom actually looks
pretty good. Ultra wide is definitely
noticeably not as nice of a sensor as the others. General phone snappiness as
you would expect from a one plus device is awesome.
This 100
of their They're a little harsh sounding at full volume but they're really loud.
Wow. sound system that you guys have ever
seen. These things have got everything. louder than me talking loud at the
camera trying to project.
And this has been fun but I think that's about it for the first impressions guys.
It's looking pretty promising. The only thing holding me back at this point and
I know I sound like a broken record is the headphone jack. Other than that I mean compared to Samsung's flagships
which will have like whole punch displays now too. I had really hoped
that there wouldn't be a whole punch but it's not like they have a disadvantage
compared to anything else that I would consider to be usable and unlike a lot
of the other brands out there, I know people say Huawei's cameras are great.
That has not been my experience. I do like one plus's approach to their
processing so it's a contender. It's a contender.
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