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real talk time there's no reason to use a flagship killer phone that falls short

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in water resistance camera quality or features like wireless charging when you

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can just grab one of the other half a dozen or more than half a dozen actual

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flagships that are crammed into a drawer in your office

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and that is the biggest reason that i've

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never daily driven a oneplus device

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their slogan is never settle but their

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shtick has always been bang for the buck which made them devices that were easy

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to recommend but never one that i would actually keep in my pocket for the long

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term never i really hope that word is delicious

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because the oneplus 8 pro and its little brother the oneplus 8 are getting

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dangerously close to making me eat it

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the specs of both the oneplus 8 and oneplus 8 pro are cutting edge

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snapdragon 865 processors with 8 or 12

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gigs of RAM 128 or 256 gigs of

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high-speed ufs 3.0 storage lightning fast in-display fingerprint sensors

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oneplus legendarily optimized oxygen os Android variant and x55 5g modems for

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the latest in modern mobile connectivity that is assuming your neighbors haven't

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burned down all the nearby antennas and they are just as pretty on the

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outside both the 8 and 8 pro are aluminum and

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curved gorilla glass sandwich designs that remind me very much of a galaxy s9

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and s9 plus but with a notification slider instead of a bixby button and to

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be clear i intend that comparison in a good way the feel in the hand is

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absolutely wonderful with a subtly more rounded curve on the back and very

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smooth transitions from glass to metal to glass

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although that doesn't mean i don't have complaints it's kind of my job to complain about

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things oneplus camera bump is extremely

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aggressive this year with the eight pros in particular likely to cause some

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discomfort for those of us who go bareback with our devices now it

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wouldn't bother me quite so much if the ridge wasn't as sharp

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making it such a strong contrast against the smooth curvy feel of the rest of the

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device my other gripe is with the inclusion of

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a hole punch display last year's 7 pro and 7t pro used a

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motorized selfie camera that gave oneplus my humble opinion the best

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implementation of an all-screen phone now i understand that this was to save

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weight and internal space and unofficially probably to improve the

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water resistance that oneplus builds in but doesn't certify on their phones

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but now we're stuck on both models

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regular and pro with an asymmetrical

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dead zone that makes me honestly think longingly of the anxiety that i used to

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feel about my fear of getting a dead or stuck pixel on my new monitor and not

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being able to return it how far we've come

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at least the displays are a lot better than they used to be though both are

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high refresh rate OLED panels with a thin sexy aspect ratio and outstanding

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color accuracy and HDR performance delivering a wonderful on-the-go movie

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watching experience coupled with the strong clear stereo speakers

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enough of what's the same between the two devices though let's talk about what

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is different the a pro is a touch larger and about 10

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percent heavier now it's not a huge difference on paper but in practice it

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makes them feel kind of like his and hers devices it also comes with some

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extra features i'm going to start with the least important ones

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memc or motion estimation motion compensation technology is that high

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frame rate video conversion mode that sports fans leave enabled on their tvs

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that makes everything look like a cheap soap opera at best and an

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artifact-written pile of garbage at worst it's

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obviously thankfully it's turned off by default so good job oneplus there's

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adaptive color temperature i also turned this off i don't like it on iphones and

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i don't like it here but what it has got that i do like is a 200 nit brighter and

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higher resolution display now at this kind of a size the

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difference between 1080p and 1440p is

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something that i would have to be trying to read my google docs

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in their thumbnail preview in order to notice

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but it is there and on the oneplus 8 pro

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it's the only way i'm aware of to have both your high resolution cake and eat

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your 120 hertz refresh rate too yes my friends unlike samsung who locked

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out simultaneously maxing the refresh rate and resolution of their s20 lineup

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oneplus has allowed their users both silky smooth scrolling

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and ultra sharp picture quality now i didn't find myself noticing the

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120hz difference much after the initial whoa oh gee this is so smooth excitement

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because 90 hertz feels pretty good too but

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given our next differences here the upgrade to faster more power efficient

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lp ddr5 RAM and the 210 milliamp hour

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bigger battery well what the hey might as well keep it enabled

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bringing us finally to a really really big one

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warp charge 30t 30 watt charging that

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well okay actually strictly speaking they do they do both have that but the

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difference is that the 8 pro does it wirelessly

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i read that i was like what it's true my friends if you're willing

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to endure the whiny fan noise of oneplus warp charge 30 wireless charger and the

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fact that your phone will still be noticeably warm to the touch when you

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pick it up in spite of the chargers built-in cooling fan you can wirelessly

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charge your oneplus 8 pro faster than most of your friends are topping up with

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a cable and a standard wall wart

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and it's got reverse charging too which can be handy if you use wireless earbuds

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which you will because no headphone jack there i got that in there there's no

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headphone jack finally there's the camera hardware instead of a primary

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ultra wide and macro loadout the pro gets a primary ultra wide optically

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stabilized 3x hybrid zoom telephoto with a fourth color filter camera that's

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supposed to allow you to apply various lighting effects and filters i don't

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know i'll leave it to the instagramers to tell you how good that is because i'm not really into that stuff

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as for whether the other cameras held up to my expectations

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oh man this is the one part of this review where things get a little bit

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tough for me i already alluded to oneplus's abandonment of their flagship

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killer positioning and so i guess i might as well say it the 8 starts at 700

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us dollars and the fully loaded 8 pro

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costs 1 000. now i can forgive a solid if not

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industry-leading camera when you're not flirting with the one

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thousand dollar price barrier but when your night mode performance

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gets crushed by my two-year-old daily driver note 9 and then utterly

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embarrassed by an iphone 11 pro

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it starts to raise some uncomfortable questions now the hardware itself is top shelf i'm

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especially impressed by the inclusion of two 48 megapixel sensors in the eight

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pro one cutting edge model in the main shooter and a lower tier one in the wide

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and i generally like oneplus approach to software processing they take a what you

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see is what you get approach to colors that i respect a lot compared to some

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manufacturer's tendency to over compensate for poor lighting to the

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point where you end up capturing a completely different looking scene

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but there are definitely going to be edge cases if you buy this device and

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particularly its little brother where you're going to be acutely aware that it

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is no not in fact an iphone or a pixel in your hands and it's always going to

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be apparent when you're shooting video this footage of our cat dash shows the

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inconsistency of oneplus on the fly white balance and also what a blocky

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mess her fur turns into shows the relatively poor processing under poor

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indoor lighting conditions the aesup oneplus sleeve that might counterbalance

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the camera for a lot of people though is oxygen less it is such an apt name for

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it because the switch from anything else feels like such a breath of fresh air i

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mean it's almost fast to its own detriment sometimes double clicking the

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lock button to launch the camera while the display is on will lock the phone

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then it's like oh snap you want the camera and it wakes

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the phone back up then launches the camera all almost as quickly as an

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iphone 11 pro just launches the camera app to be clear i'm

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not hating on the iphone either it's a really fast phone i'm just saying that

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this is darn impressive

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and it's clear that oneplus has made the right investments over the last few

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years the writing's been on the wall for the hardware race for some time phone

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processors just aren't going to get faster the way that they used to look at

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the marginal improvements from the 2018 to 2020 ipad pros

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it's all going to be in software moving forward and oxygen os with its

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snappiness and all-day everyday battery management is one of the best if not the

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best Android experiences out there if you can afford it that's something

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i've never had to say before as for me i don't have to afford it so the only

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question left to answer is do i go for it do i put a notch in my

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pocket and give up my headphone jack for

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this snappy lightning fast experience

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i think i'm going to give it a try i use my airpods pros more often than anything

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else these days anyway and the galaxy fold

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rest in peace the youtube app doesn't support stories which i need for work

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so i haven't been able to use that already had a notch and so i guess i

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kind of kind of like moved on

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i might end up moving back though we'll see

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