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what is it about the oneplus nord that makes me undeserving of it

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yes my friends this phone right here will not be released

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in the us or canada it is only

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for the european and indian regions but there is some consolation

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the oneplus buds will at least be available

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in canada and the us and you can check out our full ShortCircuit video that

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james hosted uh right over here but my focus today is

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of course the nord finally oneplus is

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supposedly returning to their roots and delivering

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a budget-oriented smartphone coming in at around

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400 euros what kind of compromises does

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it make well on the surface we already know that

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it's going to be using a snapdragon 765 g processor so that puts it

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in the performance tier of oof around a

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snapdragon 845 in single threaded tasks even lower in

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multi-threaded tasks and when it comes to gaming probably

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around half the performance of a modern flagship running a snapdragon 865

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but much like what lg's doing with the velvet

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oneplus is trying to deliver a very

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flagship-like experience with the rest of the aspects

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of the device even if the processor at its heart is

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more mid-tier or budget oriented so in terms

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of the physicality of it it feels really good

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like honestly if you told me even two three

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years ago that we were gonna get you know budget-oriented phones that

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would look and feel like this i'd have told you you know you're probably crazy because the

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tooling and the machine time to build something like this you got a glass back

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you got a really nice blue aluminum frame they do

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a fantastic job with their color choices and a lot of the time you see this

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especially in things like cars the manufacturers will intentionally

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have kind of crappy body styling and crappy colors on their more

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budget-oriented products i think this looks outstanding i would

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have told you you were crazy if you said we were going to see something like this

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we've got a type c charger a sim card slot on the bottom

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no expandable storage unfortunately so it's available

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in 64 gig in india only 128 gig

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in india and the eu and then 256 gig

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in india and the eu and then you get six gigs eight gigs and

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12 gigs of RAM if memory serves accordingly you've got

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a single bottom firing speaker we're gonna check it out in a minute to see if

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the earpiece one is amplified if we get a stereo effect

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on the right you've got your lock button as well as one pluses characteristic

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do not disturb slider i actually love

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this it's got three positions so one for everything one for vibration

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only and one for do not disturb freaking awesome got a microphone port on the top

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volume rocker over on the left side

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really like the offset here so lock is here so you can

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press it without accidentally matching your volume i did actually

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mash the volume button there but it it because i'm holding it at kind of an

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unnatural angle towards the camera it should be easy to adjust either of them

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without accidentally matching the other we can see already it's got an in-screen

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fingerprint sensor just from the detection boots seems like it's going to be pretty

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fast that's kind of oneplus's shtick nice fast facial unlock nice fast

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fingerprint sensor that kind of stuff what we can also see about the display

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is that oneplus has gone with as i call it the exit wound style of

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front-facing camera now that's interesting they have decided to

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not just on their wallpaper

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you can see they've kind of got a little sort of black cutout right there not

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just on their wallpaper but actually it seems like system theme

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wide make it less intrusive and i uh

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wow i i actually i like that it's kind

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of disconcerting when you drag something down and it's like there and then kind of drags past it but

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hiding it like that is pretty sensible to me because you would

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normally have your top bar full of all your uh you know your wi-fi or your sim card

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connectivity like all this downloads all that kind of crap anyway

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so yeah why not just black the whole thing out it doesn't make the phone

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look bad and actually the fact that it's got such a narrow chin bar is something

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that i didn't really expect makes it feel pretty modern okay no never mind once we

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actually get into google here you can see that we're still left kind of staring into

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the dual front-facing cameras but to its credit at least it has dual

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front-facing cameras that's one of the areas that oneplus

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has gone pretty far beyond what i would expect on a budget phone

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so they've got their main 48 megapixel shooter they've got an 8 megapixel

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secondary shooter a 2 megapixel macro and then a depth sensor on the back and

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then let's go ahead and uh fire up this selfie camera oh yeah there

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you go so that's pretty straightforward you got a wide angle and then a regular selfie

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camera wow that's uh that's that's pretty cool that is a lot

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of camera for 400 euro i think i mean i don't know

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what a euro is not available in the u.s or canada

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that's not to say it has absolutely everything that you might expect from

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either a budget or a flagship phone though notably missing even though it does have

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a nice big 4 000 plus milliamp hour battery

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is wireless charging not going to get any wireless charging

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and compared to other budget devices surprisingly

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well hey we went through all the sides of the device already it does not

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have a headphone jack now where did i put it

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i think part of oneplus justification for that is their affordably priced

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oneplus buds and they're kind of going well at this point

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why don't you just join the bluetooth revolution and i would love to say that

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you know angers me but the reality of it is

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is there's just there's just no escaping

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it at this point i was pretty hardcore into the wired

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earphones camp and now i just i give up i give up i

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think i think the ship has sailed the killer app for me here though has to

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be the high refresh rate display it's not particularly high res it's 2400

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by 1080 so it's like full hd plus or whatever the terminology is for

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that these days but to me at this screen size this is 6.44

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inches that is plenty and compared to something

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like an iphone se this screen is gonna look

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absolutely fantastic nice narrow chin bar actually narrow bezels all around

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yes there's an offensive notch in it but quite frankly

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there's an offensive notch in basically everything these days

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and that 90 hertz refresh rate really

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adds a level of fluidity that is impossible to replicate you know

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having a faster processor or a faster GPU like yeah it makes the phone do things

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faster but it doesn't necessarily feel faster what else do you guys want

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to know about this thing fast charging yeah it's got fast charging just not

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wirelessly actually we should probably have a look at what kind of charger they include in the

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box i mean apple is allegedly making the move to not

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including chargers at all with their phones so that's a

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great way to stand out as a budget phone including a nice well

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this thing looks chunky anyway a nice high speed charger

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so input 100 to 240 volt blah blah blah output

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5 volts 2 amps 10 watts maximum of

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30 watts for warp charge 30. yep fast charging

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is included in terms of what else is included in the box

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not a whole heck of a lot i love that oneplus does include a screen protector

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on the front of their phone and they're also including a nice little

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cover i don't know what this flappy doodle here is oh okay i guess

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it's just to keep gunk out of your type c port that's pretty nice touch just because

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you're really going to need it because you don't have wireless charging got a sim removal tool some stickers so

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you can you know advertise for the brand that

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you bought a phone from you know why uh why be subtle about it

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right i do like their usb cables though the red and white color

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scheme it does it for me oh yeah 5g one of the benefits of going

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with the snapdragon 765g is that even though it's like a mid-tier processor in

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terms of CPU performance and quite

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last last last gen in terms of GPU performance

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is that it's got its 5g modem built in so you're gonna have to double check

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oneplus specs in terms of whether the 5g bands in your area

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are supported my understanding is that it does not have support

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for millimeter wave but that probably comes down to the complexity of the

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antennas for 5g so supporting one type of 5g

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versus another type of 5g means more bulk and more antennas internally

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in the device quite frankly i think most people are going to benefit

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the most from the mid band 5g anyway as opposed

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to millimeter wave from my experience with it the reception is so limited even

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in areas that supposedly support it i honestly just don't see it as that

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big of a deal from a from a consumer standpoint so the upside then of 5g

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support is that if your carrier has it you might get slightly better speeds and

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there's really no downside because having the 5g modem built into the soc

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gives it a slight power efficiency advantage compared to having it

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built in separately like you'd see with a snapdragon 865 flagship chipset

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oh it's bottom firing only no amplified

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earpiece looks great though so as long as you're

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using your one plus buds then you should be fine there bud get it

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bud yeah i know i'm sorry you know overall i

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think oneplus has a really compelling package here i mean they've nailed

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the things that most people care about you know decent camera

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good display and yeah it's a little slower

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765g or whatever but i think i've made it pretty clear

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given that i'm still daily driving in note 9 that i

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and a lot of people don't care about the absolute fastest

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benchmarks as long as the experience of using the device

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is good and they've done a good job of that you know whether you're

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launching an article it's like yeah okay it takes a you know second or two to

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load up but that's fine it's it's pretty fluid first

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impressions pretty strong this is a this is a good

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looking little package that's what she said subscribe to short

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circuit she said that too you just weren't listening