OnePlus 7 Pro Review – The Fastest, Best Designed and Most Affordable Android Phone

sensational. OnePlus warns the rest of the smartphone world with the launch of its latest smartphone, the OnePlus 7 Pro. The company is renowned for delivering great value on the Android market, and while this remains true for the OnePlus 7 Pro, everything is moving even more towards the premium side of the spectrum with this device. With a larger material budget, OnePlus has created the best Android phone on the market.

OnePlus does not just offer features and performance that give the generation a head start on most current devices on the market. inferior price as the super premium, $ 1000 flagship there. Although you can buy a OnePlus 7 Pro today, I think a lot of manufacturers will spend next year scrambling to catch up with OnePlus.

Get ready for an incredibly positive review of the OnePlus 7 Pro.

Wait, how much?

Since OnePlus announces both the phone today and lifts the ban on revisions (it's been two weeks since we called on the phone!), Let's take a quick look at what OnePlus is offering.

First of all, a stunning 6.67-inch, 3,120 × 1440 OLED display runs at a super fast 90 Hz refresh rate. The entire UI runs at 90 ips, all the time, and we feel of butter smooth. You will not find any camera notches here, thanks to a front camera installed in a motorized contextual section! When the selfie time arrives, a small square emerges from the top of the phone and displays the 16MP front camera.

With OnePlus 7 Pro you also get one of the best packages on the market. A Snapdragon 855 SoC, 6 GB of RAM (with options for 8 GB and 12 GB) and a 4000 mAh battery. There are only 128 GB and 256 GB storage options (Samsung offers 512 GB and 1 TB), but the OnePlus 7 Pro is the first phone on the market to use the ultra-fast UFS 3.0 standard ( Universal Flash Storage). Thus, low density storage has the fastest read / write speeds of all phones.

So how much would you pay for it? A phone with 90Hz screen, a motorized contextual camera, a high-speed storage and high-end specifications? If you put a Samsung sticker on the back of the OnePlus 7 Pro, the price is easily $ 1,000. Of course, it's OnePlus, so it's cheaper than that. $ 900? $ 800 ?? $ 700 ??? Try six hundred and seventy dollars. $ 670 for the fastest and best-designed phone on the market. Heck, even the high-end version of 256GB with a ridiculous 12GB of RAM costs only $ 750. One or the other is an incredible affair.

90Hz OLED is a revolution of sweetness

The first thing you'll notice about the OnePlus 7 Pro is the absolutely huge OLED screen of 6.67 inches 3120 × 1440. This is one of the largest screens ever equipped on a smartphone, the screen 6.4-inch Samsung Galaxy S10 + and the 6.5-inch screen of the iPhone XS Max. Thin contours help to insert a screen as big in the device. However, with its 162.6mm × 75.9mm, the OnePlus 7 Pro is larger than the Galaxy S10 + (157.6mm x 74.1mm). thinner than the iPhone XS Max (157.5mm x 77.4mm).

SPECIFICATIONS AT A GLANCE: ONEPLUS 7 PRO
SCREEN	AMOLED 6.67 inches, 3120 × 1440, 90Hz (516ppi, 19.5: 9 aspect ratio)
BONE	Android 9.0 Pie with OnePlus Oxygen OS Skin
CPU	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 eight-core Four cores based on Cortex A76 (a 2.84GHz, three 2.41Ghz) and four cores based on Cortex A55 at 1.78GHz
RAM	6 GB, 8 GB or 12 GB
GPU	Adreno 640
STORAGE ROOM	128 GB or 256 GB
NETWORKING	802.11b / g / n / ac, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, NFC
PORTS	USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-C
CAMERA	Rear: 48MP main camera, 8MP 3x telephoto lens, 16MP wide-angle lens Front: 16MP pop-up camera
CUT	162.6 x 75.9 x 8.8 mm
WEIGHT	206g
DRUMS	4000 mAh
STARTING PRICE	$ 669
OTHER ADVANTAGES	NFC, fast charging, built-in fingerprint sensor, water resistance, dual SIM

Through the contextual camera, OnePlus 7 Pro display fill the front of the phone, without notches, holes, glasses or other imperfections. With its fully screen design, the OnePlus 7 is absolutely gorgeous, and I would say it's the most aesthetically pleasing smartphone on the market. Sure, we have foldable smartphones on the horizon, but the OnePlus 7 Pro (and all those other camera phones popping up) looks like the end of a smartphone-shaped slab design. When the facade of the device is entirely composed of pixels, there is not much progress to be made. That's it: the ultimate in traditional smartphone design. I'll remind you a few times in this article, but OnePlus does not just beat the competition, it does it for about $ 330 less.

OnePlus director Pete Lau told The Verge that the 7 Pro screen costs three times more than the screens used on the previous OnePlus models, and you can really imagine that. The 1440p resolution is the highest ever achieved by the company. With a refresh rate of 90 Hz, it is one of the fastest smartphones screens on the market.

If you've never tried a touch screen higher than 60Hz, it's a revolution in performance and fluidity. Instead of the usual 60 fps, all users of the OnePlus 7 Pro operate at 90 frames per second, which means that the animations play smoother, the scrolling takes place without a hitch, and the entire phone is a real pleasure. Thanks to the new SoC and OnePlus optimizations, there is no perceptible loss of image during normal scrolling, and even if you activate the GPU profiler to be able to scientifically identify drops in the image. image at a significant load, a fall to 90 fps is a lot less noticeable than 60fps.

There is also no shenanigans on the 90 Hz display. A single parameter allows you to change the 90Hz mode always enabled by default into a 60Hz mode always enabled, and that's it. Of course, a refresh rate higher than 50% means that you have to draw 50% more frames, which results in a battery cost.

Thanks to the easy settings, we were able to test the cost of the 90Hz battery. We saw a 14% increase in execution time when we went to 60Hz in our web browsing tests and WebGL batteries. The web browsing test lasted 642 minutes at 90Hz and 725 minutes at 60Hz, while our WebGL battery test (which returned 90 ips 3D objects) lasted 439 minutes at 90Hz, compared to 504 minutes at 60Hz. . Do not forget that these tests are run with the display turned on constantly, so that a running cost of 14% is the worst case scenario for the 90Hz mode. 90Hz costs nothing when the screen is off and most phones spend most of their lives without the screen.

It's not just the refresh rate that makes the phone catchy, either. OnePlus indicates that the 7 Pro samples 135Hz touch inputs for even faster response times. All of these touchscreen and display enhancements, combined with fast SoC, storage and tons of RAM, make the OnePlus 7 Pro the fastest Android phone I've ever used.

The OnePlus 7 Pro screen is not flat. The display is curved on the long edges, like a Galaxy S10. The back is also curved. The front and the back of the phone wind up on the sides to meet a group of colored metal that goes around the perimeter. The 7 Pro has a glass back, which is a strange choice for a phone that does not have a wireless charge.

With all these curved sides, the body exudes a very Samsungy vibe. I will say the same thing to OnePlus 7 Pro as for all Samsung phones recently released: curved screens are useless. They do not constitute an improvement over flat screens, they simply distort the sides of the user interface. OnePlus says it's "easier to hold", but uh, you definitely hold it badly if your fingers come into contact with the front of the screen. A curved screen can actually worsen the phone's hold because, with its thinner sides, there is not as much surface to grab for your fingers. A straight 90-degree transition from the display would probably also help to move fingers away from the display and to prevent touch-sensitive inputs.

The curve is not the end of the world on the OnePlus 7 Pro, but there is no benefit in bending the display, only the minor negative of a distorted image. This makes reading Web pages particularly strange, as many patterns place the first letter of each line in the curved area, making them quite melting.

I was given the version "Blue Nebula" of the phone, which has a extremely blue back panel. Under the glass is a colored layer in which microscopic diagonal lines are engraved, giving it a glossy, frosted appearance that diffuses incoming light. In the photos, the color ranges from dark blue to bright blue, depending on the intensity of the light. It seems very good! A phone with color is always nice to see. The back collects fingerprints just like any other glass phone, but the frosted appearance conceals a little stains.

Despite the fully screen design, OnePlus managed to put a headset in the top edge of the phone. It is also part of half the configuration of the stereo speakers, associated with a second speaker on the bottom edge.