Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “OnePlus 7 Pro Is The Best Smartphone Overall”.
Yes, oh that’s a one plus seven Pro box you’re, probably wondering why it’s there, because I’ve already unboxed the seven pro fact I’ve been using it now for a while. So this video is gon na serve as kind of like a combo video. I’M gon na tell you about my thoughts and whatnot about this device. Considering I’ve been using it now for a couple of weeks, but first things first, I got this other version. So if you recall from the original video I own bought this guy right here, the nebula blue. They came out with another color. This one is almond, I believe, is what they’re calling it yeah almond and I like almonds, so yeah see what is what an apple call.
This color see that you could call that almond if you want ooh got a pearl essence to it. Look at that Wow, depending on the angle with which you view it compared to the iPhone yeah I’d say it’s pretty similar. What is iPhone caught? What do they call it just go? They just call that gold same as the other one, obviously triple camera setup. A bit more predominant on this unit because it’s up against the lighter color you have to pop up camera. You already saw it, you already know, so I guess you can pick between the two now that it’s out there, nebula, blue and almond. Let me know in the comments which is the more popular: what about my feelings about the phone? What about my feelings about the device? Man, I’ve been using a lot of phones lately, so I’ve got a lot to reflect on compared to pretty much all this stuff.
You’D be considering, if you were in the price territory of this particular device, the oneplus 7 pro, but I think that’s kind of the comparison you’re making. Now this one has gone upmarket targeting those types of devices and rightfully so, to be honest, the most striking thing about this device – and you may have heard this already from others – it’s just the speed of it. This is one of the rare cases in which the software on the device – I don’t want to touch it like.
I don’t want to put a launcher. I don’t want to do anything to it. I just leave it, as is it’s very close to stock Android in the experience of it, but it feels even snappier because of their optimizations, and if you want to go a step further, you can actually turn off animations complete over on phone buffs channel.
He did a one-to-one comparison of this device in the s10 and he did his own speed testing, which is just like launching different applications. Closing windows multitasking to see which one is quicker, and it’s surprising because your first thought on quickness is just like. Okay, it’s got a snapdragon 855, so it’s gon na be the same. Well, no, there’s there’s little optimizations that affect your day-to-day usage and can actually speed up your behaviour and in the common things that you do frequently like relaunching apps now the snappiness.
It’S also in this display the fact that you have this 90 Hertz display – and this is the hardest thing to really put across to you in a video because you’re not you’re, not able to pick this up right in the recording. But it is just unbelievably snappy. Now it’s important to note that not all applications support the full refresh rate and also you can toggle it down to save battery life if you choose to back down to 60 Hertz. But when you have these animations toggled down in conjunction with a 90 Hertz display, you essentially end up with probably the speediest Senatus smartphone experience. That’S out there now. A lot of that is perception to, for example, like unlocking the screen, see how there’s no animation there. I turned that off myself because they had that little electrical function going on, but it makes it feel slower and I’ve compared this device. The fingerprint unlock to other devices that use an N display fingerprint this still feels faster.
To me, some of it is perception. Some of it is reality now the other thing about this display. I think the other story of this phone is, of course, the pop-up camera or for me, the lack of any camera and the lack of any cut out, because I don’t really use the front facing camera frequently.
So all this means for me is full display. All the time, so if I pop open a video for example, so this just means like zero distraction, all display, no notch, no hole punch, just the video that you’re trying to watch and the trade-off is what am motorized camera where I never even used the motor. I just don’t use the front-facing camera that much.
I understand the argument against it moving parts. I made that argument myself because I’m always trying to pitch both sides of the story. Now, of course, one plus they come out, they say: hey man, this, this camera unit can withstand all kinds of forces. You can lift up a cinder block and all the rest of it.
So their claim is that it’s completely fine, regardless battery life, has been really good on this device. It’S a four thousand milliamp hours. Of course it charges really quickly, though that does bring me to one of my criticisms. One thing I do miss is the lack of wireless charging.
I think one plus is at a price premium now, where it’s like you kind of, have to throw it in just because the other manufacturers have it. It would just be more convenient and it’s one thing that I’m missing. So it’s a criticism of mine for me to camera is it’s not it’s not like mind blowing, but it’s there’s been a consolidation of camera quality. Recently I would say a lot of these things.
Sharing sensors, in fact so I’ll be sitting here in this studio, snapping photos and analyzing pictures, but ultimately a lot of those end up on the same back end with the same sensor. So that’s a picture of the sensor right there, IMX 586 and it’s on a surprising number of devices. I still haven’t found a device that, for me, is as pleasing immediately out of the camera as frequently as the pixel series.
But this never left me. It never left me feeling like. I was really truly missing out on anything, especially outdoors, especially in well-lit environments.
I have mentioned in previous videos that you can sometimes enhance the camera performance simply by installing Google’s camera software, which there inevitably will be a port. For that said, one plus his own software updates have improved the performance of the camera in the stock camera app that comes via the device. So yet the camera, it’s fine, I would say it’s in the same territory. It’S in the same neighborhood as the Samsung stuff. There are small attributes and differences you may be able to notice, but for me for my money, it’s a wash so here’s the thing: okay, s10. You picked the s10.
I think there’s a couple things that you’re getting you’re, getting the brand name, you’re getting Samsung you’re. Getting a really vibrant, rich display, you’re, getting wireless charging, obviously you’re getting a front facing camera that doesn’t require a motor which could be advantageous to you. But what are you getting into one plus four, a little bit less money, at least based on the retail cost of the S time you’re? Getting this no notch experience in conjunction with 90 Hertz in conjunction with the software optimizations that make this the fastest smartphone experience.
Probably you can have right now for me, that’s a trade worth making. For me this is the device I want to have in my pocket right now. It’S probably gon na be there up until the point there’s another pixel to choose from, because I’m gon na want to experiment with that camera, particularly what Google is doing with their camera software right now. The absence of the knotch, the lack of distraction, the true full screen display the OLED, the 90 Hertz and the software is the reason why this will be my pick. It’S no longer in the value category, which I think a lot of people have a right to be upset with that was kind of in the DNA of oneplus was like what can we get for around 500 bucks? That was the idea and they’ve gone upmarket with each generation of phone.
I think that built those sort of marginal improvements on this one are more significant to me than whatever marginal improvements exist on the Samsung there. It is one plus seven Pro Nebula, blue almond, I’m gon na be on the smartphone for a little while .