it's a short-circuit kind of afternoon
here at home and self-isolation and this is it my reviewers package of
the 1+8 and all the associated
information about it so what are your focus is one plus this is the one plus
eight ninety Hertz display color accurate display qvi comfort
certification good stuff bunch of
different colors it's eight millimeters thick neat
triple camera optical stabilization for
video recording let's crack this puppy open so I've got a couple of there cases
there's a nylon bumper as well as they're sandstone bumper in cyan and the
phone itself so unlike last time around
here in the North America region one plus is launching both the 8 and the 8
pro rather than giving one phone to some regions and one phone to other regions
I'm really glad to see that just because hey it's nice to have choices yes I
understand they have the same hardware and most people don't upgrade on a
yearly cycle but depending on what your budget is you might just be someone who
prefers a pro and doesn't want to buy a last generation processor and no matter
which of these devices you go with this time around you will not be getting a
last generation processor just like the oneplus 8 pro the one plus 8 is running
the snapdragon 865 SOC so your Wow okay
I have no idea if the ancient Blackmagic
Cinema Camera that I'm using to record the close-up in this video is capturing
this very well but that has to be the
sexiest back of a phone that I have ever
seen I love the colors so first you get
kind of like a subtle purple then you get like a salmon then it's like kind of
a blue and then you get these really cool light blue kind of highlights that
wow that is really pretty and then the darker the thing that's reflecting off
of it the darker that blue goes but you still get that salmon color I mean if
you're just trying to get noticed this is a lot cheaper than a than a
galaxy fold you know you got your volume rocker over here you got nothing but
microphone cord up here you got your notification toggle so there's your
vibration and then you got your lock button here in finally your warp charge
port speaker and SIM tray well these updates run let's have a look
at what's included they've got a warp compatible charger so this is using
their warp 30 T technology so they say 22 minutes to get half of your I think
it's a forty three hundred million power battery charged up there's an included
charging cable and now that's about it
which is fine because I don't know about you guys but I buy electronics for the
electronics not for the extensive accessory packages except in cases where
you really need a lot of accessories in which case it's nice and listen this is
interesting so unlike last time these phones are not differentiated by this
pop up selfie camera on the pro model so
for the higher price and thicker sort of
meteor feeling phone you get a better camera you get bigger display and other
than that they're kind of shockingly similar I will say the eight feels
noticeably slimmer and more svelte in
the hand aside from at least the color variants that I have looking to my eye
quite a lot better I mean not everyone's gonna be into this kind of flash and
dash but they're they're gonna have other colors as well don't worry very curved display if you're into that sort
of thing and if you're not well then it's still got a very two and a half D
curved display like their previous devices oneplus has included their
lightning fast under screen fingerprint sensor here and they've got it in a
really organ onyx pot I like this it's really comfortable spot to reach up to
not too low not too high and there we are now honestly I don't find the
difference between 90 and 120 Hertz that noticeable in day to day use but that is
one of the other big differences between the eight and the eight pro is this
display when you go into the Advanced Settings runs at either sixty or ninety
Hertz whereas the pro runs at one
hundred and twenty refreshes per second something to note is that unlike
Samsung's s 20 series oneplus has opted to go with a dynamic refresh rate so
when you adjust it up to 90 there will be times when it might fall
back down to sixty Hertz in cases where there wouldn't be any benefit to that
before I go any farther I do want to do a quick fingerprint sensor speed test
though I did say it was gonna be fast so I want to make sure that it's actually
fast go ahead that is fast I tend to be
a bit picky about these things and I'm at the point in my life now where I feel
like I'd almost rather have a rear fingerprint sensor that's fast than an
under screen one that's not fast enough but if you could have the best of both
worlds I don't know just it's one of those little creature comfort things it
makes a big difference to how it feels when you when you first pick it up like
yes I'm using my phone now II immediately as opposed to waiting now
I'm using my phone just like on the pro one plus has included HDR ten plus
support so if you're watching HDR video it should automatically kick into HDR
mode you can see here Austin's review of the iPhone 10 is looking pretty
spectacular you can see especially on these reflections and highlights and as
for the camera it's a fairly optional looking sensor that's missing compared
to the probes it's gonna take a little bit more time with these cameras to determine just how important it seems
but initial impressions of this one are if you're just kind of like a casual
photo snapper you're gonna be pretty darn satisfied with it because they've
taken their usual approach to processing which is kind of what you see is what
you get these they seem to try not to guess too much with their you know AI
you know that green should be like way
more green right right is that what you want no no I actually just want it to
look like what it looks like that's looking pretty darn good to me oh I did
find another difference so instead of a 3x zoom you actually only get a 2x zoom
okay that is a noticeably different
image coming out of that 2x zoom lens yeah that is a lot closer to true to
life colors this is kind of washed out looking curiously I was getting some
really weird judder out of the video recording on the oneplus 8 Pro and I did
the same test and this seems a lot better so I have to assume that was just
some weird software behavior on that one yeah this is way better
I haven't felt something with this kind of sex appeal since the first time I
picked up the galaxy s 8 has that kind of slim thin look and feel
to it and without compromising on battery since you end up with a 4300
milliamp hour battery in this thing with oneplus is excellent oxygen OS now
running Android 10 let's make sure this has stereo speakers too before we're
quite wrapped up here that would be a crying shame that's something that I'd
go pro for oh yeah all good so guys
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