what is it about the oneplus nord that makes me undeserving of it
yes my friends this phone right here will not be released
in the us or canada it is only
for the european and indian regions but there is some consolation
the oneplus buds will at least be available
in canada and the us and you can check out our full ShortCircuit video that
james hosted uh right over here but my focus today is
of course the nord finally oneplus is
supposedly returning to their roots and delivering
a budget-oriented smartphone coming in at around
400 euros what kind of compromises does
it make well on the surface we already know that
it's going to be using a snapdragon 765 g processor so that puts it
in the performance tier of oof around a
snapdragon 845 in single threaded tasks even lower in
multi-threaded tasks and when it comes to gaming probably
around half the performance of a modern flagship running a snapdragon 865
but much like what lg's doing with the velvet
oneplus is trying to deliver a very
flagship-like experience with the rest of the aspects
of the device even if the processor at its heart is
more mid-tier or budget oriented so in terms
of the physicality of it it feels really good
like honestly if you told me even two three
years ago that we were gonna get you know budget-oriented phones that
would look and feel like this i'd have told you you know you're probably crazy because the
tooling and the machine time to build something like this you got a glass back
you got a really nice blue aluminum frame they do
a fantastic job with their color choices and a lot of the time you see this
especially in things like cars the manufacturers will intentionally
have kind of crappy body styling and crappy colors on their more
budget-oriented products i think this looks outstanding i would
have told you you were crazy if you said we were going to see something like this
we've got a type c charger a sim card slot on the bottom
no expandable storage unfortunately so it's available
in 64 gig in india only 128 gig
in india and the eu and then 256 gig
in india and the eu and then you get six gigs eight gigs and
12 gigs of RAM if memory serves accordingly you've got
a single bottom firing speaker we're gonna check it out in a minute to see if
the earpiece one is amplified if we get a stereo effect
on the right you've got your lock button as well as one pluses characteristic
do not disturb slider i actually love
this it's got three positions so one for everything one for vibration
only and one for do not disturb freaking awesome got a microphone port on the top
volume rocker over on the left side
really like the offset here so lock is here so you can
press it without accidentally matching your volume i did actually
mash the volume button there but it it because i'm holding it at kind of an
unnatural angle towards the camera it should be easy to adjust either of them
without accidentally matching the other we can see already it's got an in-screen
fingerprint sensor just from the detection boots seems like it's going to be pretty
fast that's kind of oneplus's shtick nice fast facial unlock nice fast
fingerprint sensor that kind of stuff what we can also see about the display
is that oneplus has gone with as i call it the exit wound style of
front-facing camera now that's interesting they have decided to
not just on their wallpaper
you can see they've kind of got a little sort of black cutout right there not
just on their wallpaper but actually it seems like system theme
wide make it less intrusive and i uh
wow i i actually i like that it's kind
of disconcerting when you drag something down and it's like there and then kind of drags past it but
hiding it like that is pretty sensible to me because you would
normally have your top bar full of all your uh you know your wi-fi or your sim card
connectivity like all this downloads all that kind of crap anyway
so yeah why not just black the whole thing out it doesn't make the phone
look bad and actually the fact that it's got such a narrow chin bar is something
that i didn't really expect makes it feel pretty modern okay no never mind once we
actually get into google here you can see that we're still left kind of staring into
the dual front-facing cameras but to its credit at least it has dual
front-facing cameras that's one of the areas that oneplus
has gone pretty far beyond what i would expect on a budget phone
so they've got their main 48 megapixel shooter they've got an 8 megapixel
secondary shooter a 2 megapixel macro and then a depth sensor on the back and
then let's go ahead and uh fire up this selfie camera oh yeah there
you go so that's pretty straightforward you got a wide angle and then a regular selfie
camera wow that's uh that's that's pretty cool that is a lot
of camera for 400 euro i think i mean i don't know
what a euro is not available in the u.s or canada
that's not to say it has absolutely everything that you might expect from
either a budget or a flagship phone though notably missing even though it does have
a nice big 4 000 plus milliamp hour battery
is wireless charging not going to get any wireless charging
and compared to other budget devices surprisingly
well hey we went through all the sides of the device already it does not
have a headphone jack now where did i put it
i think part of oneplus justification for that is their affordably priced
oneplus buds and they're kind of going well at this point
why don't you just join the bluetooth revolution and i would love to say that
you know angers me but the reality of it is
is there's just there's just no escaping
it at this point i was pretty hardcore into the wired
earphones camp and now i just i give up i give up i
think i think the ship has sailed the killer app for me here though has to
be the high refresh rate display it's not particularly high res it's 2400
by 1080 so it's like full hd plus or whatever the terminology is for
that these days but to me at this screen size this is 6.44
inches that is plenty and compared to something
like an iphone se this screen is gonna look
absolutely fantastic nice narrow chin bar actually narrow bezels all around
yes there's an offensive notch in it but quite frankly
there's an offensive notch in basically everything these days
and that 90 hertz refresh rate really
adds a level of fluidity that is impossible to replicate you know
having a faster processor or a faster GPU like yeah it makes the phone do things
faster but it doesn't necessarily feel faster what else do you guys want
to know about this thing fast charging yeah it's got fast charging just not
wirelessly actually we should probably have a look at what kind of charger they include in the
box i mean apple is allegedly making the move to not
including chargers at all with their phones so that's a
great way to stand out as a budget phone including a nice well
this thing looks chunky anyway a nice high speed charger
so input 100 to 240 volt blah blah blah output
5 volts 2 amps 10 watts maximum of
30 watts for warp charge 30. yep fast charging
is included in terms of what else is included in the box
not a whole heck of a lot i love that oneplus does include a screen protector
on the front of their phone and they're also including a nice little
cover i don't know what this flappy doodle here is oh okay i guess
it's just to keep gunk out of your type c port that's pretty nice touch just because
you're really going to need it because you don't have wireless charging got a sim removal tool some stickers so
you can you know advertise for the brand that
you bought a phone from you know why uh why be subtle about it
right i do like their usb cables though the red and white color
scheme it does it for me oh yeah 5g one of the benefits of going
with the snapdragon 765g is that even though it's like a mid-tier processor in
terms of CPU performance and quite
last last last gen in terms of GPU performance
is that it's got its 5g modem built in so you're gonna have to double check
oneplus specs in terms of whether the 5g bands in your area
are supported my understanding is that it does not have support
for millimeter wave but that probably comes down to the complexity of the
antennas for 5g so supporting one type of 5g
versus another type of 5g means more bulk and more antennas internally
in the device quite frankly i think most people are going to benefit
the most from the mid band 5g anyway as opposed
to millimeter wave from my experience with it the reception is so limited even
in areas that supposedly support it i honestly just don't see it as that
big of a deal from a from a consumer standpoint so the upside then of 5g
support is that if your carrier has it you might get slightly better speeds and
there's really no downside because having the 5g modem built into the soc
gives it a slight power efficiency advantage compared to having it
built in separately like you'd see with a snapdragon 865 flagship chipset
oh it's bottom firing only no amplified
earpiece looks great though so as long as you're
using your one plus buds then you should be fine there bud get it
bud yeah i know i'm sorry you know overall i
think oneplus has a really compelling package here i mean they've nailed
the things that most people care about you know decent camera
good display and yeah it's a little slower
765g or whatever but i think i've made it pretty clear
given that i'm still daily driving in note 9 that i
and a lot of people don't care about the absolute fastest
benchmarks as long as the experience of using the device
is good and they've done a good job of that you know whether you're
launching an article it's like yeah okay it takes a you know second or two to
load up but that's fine it's it's pretty fluid first
impressions pretty strong this is a this is a good
looking little package that's what she said subscribe to short
circuit she said that too you just weren't listening