OnePlus 8 Pro Review - The Shenzen company's quantity portfolio has enlarged to the maximal it's e'er been, one of its co-founders left for pastures new, and straight its dearest Oxygen OS software conventional a melodramatic upkeep. But all this alteration kicked off with the OnePlus 8 Pro the brand's rank actual non-compromise flagship sound.
The OnePlus 8 Pro is a proper flagship phone. No more cutting corners. No more 'flagship killer' underdog mantra. OnePlus is now officially mixing it with the biggest names in mobile. It means the 8 Pro is also its most expensive handset to date, but there's plenty of bang for your buck to justify the cost.
While there are now phones out there with fractionally more powerful chips, larger batteries, and faster charging speeds, the OnePlus 8 Pro easily hangs with the best.
Display
It numbers game with the display as the color accuracy is also on point. Watching movies or playing games on the whopping 6.78-inch OnePlus 8 Pro is a joy in all its vibrant, Quad HD+ glory.
It's a bold claim, and one which may prove unfounded as the year goes on, but take nothing away from this handset: the 6.78-inch 'Fluid Display' with a 120Hz refresh rate, HDR10+ support and QHD resolution is fantastic.
Camera
There's a quad camera setup on the rear providing a wealth of photography options through features such as an ultra-wide-angle lens, 30x zoom, powerful night mode, and the firm's new 'color filter' camera that’s designed to give your shots a unique look.
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While the cameras are a marked improvement over the snappers on the 7 Pro and 7T Pro. They are still very good, though.
Price
Right now in the US, the phone is selling for $799 (down $100 from launch) for the 8GB/128GB variant and $899 (also down $100) for the 12GB/256GB model. Meanwhile, in the UK, the 12GB version has dropped to as little as £749 in sales. It’s also aggressively priced in India, starting at just Rs. 49,999.
Performance
The phone's Snapdragon 865 processor has been surpassed by Qualcomm's gaming-optimized Snapdragon 865 Plus chipset. Where previously the OnePlus 8 Pro broken benchmarks including our own Deepen Experimentation G, the recent curve of 865 Plus-powered play phones equal the omnipotent Asus ROG Phone 3 get gained a teeny advantage in GPU tests.
The OnePlus 8 Pro is comfort one of the finest out there not retributory for spot execution, but also for sustained action. Steady as the sound heats up it hardly misses a pace. This is manifest in our own in-depth investigation, but it's also recognisable in day-to-day use. There's nothing that slows the OnePlus 8 Pro behind - plane much so if you have the 12GB RAM writing with 256GB of UFS 3.0 storage.
Conclusion
It's instrument to the OnePlus 8 Pro's gross property that the triplet negatives above are instances of the phone inadequate a soft down. That's because six months after get, the OnePlus 8 Pro is a heyday representative of iteration done mitt. If the OnePlus 7 Pro was the company's solid position initiate at a legitimate premium flagship, the OnePlus 8 Pro is the gallant advance of that initial draft.
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