Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “OnePlus 12: A Pro phone without the Pro name.”.
Oneplus just can’t seem to make up its mind. It’S gone through every iteration of a flagship. You can possibly imagine while almost never repeating the same one twice. Oneplus just announced the OnePlus 12 and the OnePlus 12r, which is coming to the US for the first time. So, let’s get into which version of OnePlus we might be able to expect in 2024, With The Changes taking place in the OnePlus 12 for all of the changes that OnePlus goes through year in and year out, it has one thing locked down and that’s a design Language, OnePlus 12 picks up almost exactly where the previous OnePlus 11 and OnePlus open left off with a large circular camera bump on the back, which is em blazing with Hasselblad branding. There’S a couple upgrades in store for the camera bump itself. Each lens now shows a focal length and maximum aperture.
So you know exactly what you’re dealing with the glossy camera bump shines against: oneplus’s signature, black or green colorways too this year. The Green version goes by the name, flowy emerald, and it has a soft touch to the back with a marbled pattern that picks up absolutely no fingerprints. The Black Version, on the other hand, is a little more of what OnePlus fans will be familiar with.
It’S called flowy black and it looks and feels a little closer to the classic Sandstone cases that you used to be able to pick up for just about every OnePlus launch. Oh and don’t worry, the alert slider is right where it belongs. On the left, side of the device, sticking with the familiar oneplus’s massive 6.82 in waterfall display, looks and feels a lot like what you saw on the OnePlus 11 as well.
This version is slightly bigger, but the real change is that it’s so so much brighter where the OnePlus 11 topped out at 1300, nits of peak brightness and the OnePlus open bumped it to 2,800 nits. The new OnePlus 12 goes up to a blinding 4500 nits of peak brightness when needed. You probably won’t achieve that very often unless you’re looking at HDR content in bright sunlight. But when you do, you might have to ask Killian Murphy for his Oppenheimer goggles, because it’s blinding OnePlus is using a new Quad HD Plus panel with 120 HZ, fully adaptive refresh rate it’ll drop all the way down to 1 Herz as needed, but probably spend most Of its time somewhere in the 60 HZ range, it’s also made of Gorilla Glass, vicus 2 and comes with a screen protector pre-installed powering that premium display you’ll find qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 gen 3 processor, along with a healthy dose of both RAM and storage back in Qualcomm’S, powerful chipset OnePlus has its own proprietary Trinity engine, which helps to work in the background to optimize both CPU usage and RAM.
It uses different vitalization programs to stretch the battery further and help you eek out that last bit of power when you’re trying to win the Trinity engine also keeps the OnePlus 12 running larger apps in the background, so that you can pull up games or multitask between Games at any moment, as you can tell the OnePlus 12, is all about gaming. It takes to intense titles like asphalt, Nitro or casual gamers, like rail, bound like a fish to water. Another very important part of the one plus 12 setup is its cooling approach. It uses a dual cryo velocity setup, which essentially means that there are two Vapor Chambers in play: a larger one and a smaller one, sandwiched around the chipset to keep cool air coming in from both directions.
Oneplus is onto the fourth generation of of its partnership with Hasselblad, and the results are as good as they’ve ever been. The OnePlus 12 pulls some of its best features from the previous OnePlus open, including Sony’s, stacked lyt 808 sensor, which essentially allows more light to reach a smaller sensor. Boosting low light results without demanding a bigger camera bump or extra Hardware oneplus’s OV 64b sensor covers both 3 and 6X zoom using a crop for the ladder, but then it kicks into hybrid mode. If you want to punch in all the way up to 120 time, zoom I’ll admit, I rarely had much use for 12x Zoom because it’s simply an unreal number.
But the idea of being able to punch all the way across the Baltimore Harbor to get tiny little details is fun. You just have to have an incredibly Steady Hand and know exactly what you’re looking for perhaps one of the best indicators that OnePlus is still after killer flagships rather than Flagship Killers. Is the OnePlus 12’s revamped battery setup OnePlus packed the phone with a 5400 Mah cell, which is significantly larger than anything from Apple, Google or Samsung? On top of that, the OnePlus 12 supports 80 W wied charging in the US 100 wat wied charging globally and get this wireless charging is back on the table after several years of being told that wireless charging wasn’t nearly that important. When you have high-end wired speeds.
Oneplus finally brought back 50 W wired airo charging to the OnePlus 12 granted you’ll need a proprietary charger to reach those top end speeds, but it’s better to have the option. A bigger battery does come as somewhat of a double-edged sword in that you can stretch it longer going a day and a half, maybe two days between charges like I was doing with a healthy mix of gaming photography and some benchmarking tests, because it’s 5,400 milliamp hours, The OnePlus 12 takes a little bit longer to charge whether you’re going wired or Wireless, either way. When I did drain the cell, I typically found that 10 or 12 minutes on the charger was enough to get back to a 50 % charge and push through another day. If I had a little more time, it was taking around half an hour or so at the full 80 W speeds to get back to 100 % charge if you’re abroad you’ll talk pop out at 100 Watts, which means you’ll save another minute or two along the Way with a price tag of $ 7.99, it’s easy to call the OnePlus 12, both a killer, Flagship and a Flagship killer. It has a spec sheet that outp punches, both the base Galaxy s24 and the iPhone 15 offering the largest battery the most flexible cameras.
The most RAM and storage, and by far the biggest display of the trio honestly, it might not bear the pro name, but it’s hard to think of the OnePlus 12 as anything less than a pro Lev device. .