OnePlus 9 Pro review
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- beep bop boop
- GYi
- 23 Mar 2021
the ultrawide is the only good thing about this camera system, if anything its actually better than the main camera. dont think the phone is worth $1069, hope the 9R is good...
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- Anonymous
- Yet
- 23 Mar 2021
The best thing about this review is that you are in Fort Lauderdale. OP9Pro is not even worth your time while you are there, so many more better things to do and enjoy.
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- Anonymous
- 8mp
- 23 Mar 2021
I knew the cameras would be overhyped
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- AnonD-762416
- JGw
- 23 Mar 2021
r33fd, 23 Mar 2021They just changed the making technology. Next year it'... moreI've seen people with S21U's getting well over ten hours screen on time and 2-3 days battery life. With 120Hz enabled. There's nothing wrong with either the SD888 or Exynos 2100. This seems to be a poor launch by one+. Seems like all the Chinese brands just rushed their stuff out this year.
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- r33fd
- ScY
- 23 Mar 2021
They just changed the making technology.
Next year it's gonna be much better!
But I agree, totally not worth buying any sd888 phone.
It's not efficient enough, which is more important than raw power these days.
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- Anonymous
- 0p}
- 23 Mar 2021
And all have bashing Dxo when 1+ didn't send the 9 series to tests. Now you have found out why. It's not in top 5
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- Anonymous
- pQr
- 23 Mar 2021
The f number is just 1.88 according to the exif data, so rather f/1.9 lens instead of f/1.8
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- T the Tinkerer
- 4P8
- 23 Mar 2021
Spot on, guys. I said it before, and I'll say it again: tried and true tech will trump the latest and greatest. I'm just waiting for either a holiday sale or the S21 FE to come out so I can get an S20 FE5G at a reduced price. I'll skip this generation of SD chips, the battery draw stinks and these phones' cameras aren't all that great.
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- Anonymous
- pQr
- 23 Mar 2021
"and 23mm equivalent f1.8 7P lens"
According to the exif data, the f -number is 1.88
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- Anonymous
- 8Kf
- 23 Mar 2021
IpsDisplay, 23 Mar 2021The snap 888 is a horrible chipset in my opinion
The pow... morePeople want phones with 4,5MP screens to have same battery endurance as phones with 2,4MP screens. LOL !!!!
Chinese brands are doing overclock of memory RAM. Samsung isn't.
S21U scored 114h with exynos. It has been reported again the better endurance from SD variant.
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- Anonymous
- U@6
- 23 Mar 2021
Panino Manino, 23 Mar 2021Another dud. Why it seems like everything except Huawei ... moreSo until and unless Google uses a large sensor and blows everyone way, we may have plateaued in smartphone photography forever
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- SgRepeat
- KS2
- 23 Mar 2021
IpsDisplay, 23 Mar 2021The snap 888 is a horrible chipset in my opinion The pow... moreLol, SD 888 even made the Exynos 2100 look almost good in comparison.
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- wongwatt
- pJG
- 23 Mar 2021
That green tint on the angled photo in this review tells you all you need to know, saw the same in my 8 Pro - OnePlus uses poor quality displays dressed up with software.
Add to that another set of poor cameras, the usual awful battery life and a bad recent record for updates and you have an overpriced waste of silicon - hard pass.
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- James
- atq
- 23 Mar 2021
Anonymous, 23 Mar 2021that phones have gotten extremely expensive over the years.... moreThey're concentrating on budget phone killers now. This is the worst time to buy a phone during the pandemic so they've played it safe with the flagships although gorilla glass 5 is way too old for this year. I wasn't happy with it on OP8
- prasad-gsma
- g3$
- 23 Mar 2021
STREET PUPPY, 23 Mar 2021Very interesting ... Samsung UWA = 13mm lenses, EXIF sh... more9 Pro ultra-wide lens is 3.5mm. Also, in case you're confused, the larger figure is the 35mm equivalent while the smaller figure is the actual focal length of the lens.
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- IpsDisplay
- kiN
- 23 Mar 2021
The snap 888 is a horrible chipset in my opinion
The power draw on this chipset is so horrible look at the find X3 pro, and mi 11 and the regular OnePlus 9
And again EVEN with an E4 AMOLED with up to 50% better efficiency it means nothing
And these phones are brand new imagine how bad this hungry chipset will age this battery
SNAP 888 is for the trash can, better buy an 860,865, 870 phone
The dimensity 1200 is unproven but I'll bet it's better(efficiency wise)
the 888 is a joke this thing pulls almost 7W of power my god
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- James
- atq
- 23 Mar 2021
Rocky420, 23 Mar 2021Looklike oneplus going down every year...because of change ... moreIt still destroys the galaxies in graphics even with the same chip so apart from a proper gaming phone this has to be the best non gaming phone on android
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- flagshipper
- pxi
- 23 Mar 2021
My buying appetite is cooled down a bit by the review, having 8 Pro, but let's not forget the practicality of superfast charging, superfast wireless charging, best rootability on the market. It does solve my problems with 8Pro such as 15W-only PD charging (I do not have Warp chargers, and respect only QC and PD), or 8 model such as no wireless charging. Despite unusal battery ranking, I doubt battery will last less than twice of Samsungs in real world, day to day, as 1+ was way ahead in models 6-7-8. Look at the massive market-topping 35hr for 3G, that's what defines the standby. My 8Pro can make it to 3rd day, and I expect 9 to go even further.
Performance tops the markets ex gaming phones/modes easily. No Exynos tax here. 8Pro was even excellent in not-so-popular rankings like market-topping networking performance, best UFS @3.0, fast USB etc and this got improved further.
Let's see how display, previously the top1-2 on the market, behaves now at night, what is the backbleeding. Will need more reviews e.g. notebookcheck.
Finally, I do care about weight, and it's disappointing to see no progression here (tho it's hardly any better in other flagships nowadays). 199g->197g for 6.78"->6.7" isn't any progress, 192g for the base model isn't delightful as it doesn't solve the problem of "i want flagship but light" but it's nice they purposedly didn't cripple it much (as Samsung love to do e.g. Note20).
I'd defly upgrade from 7 models as they were not good (display very bad, network performance, UFS, USB, cameras were all semi-flagship), but it's bit harder move from 8Pro.
Now for the next model, as we're slightly running out of innovations, it's time for:
- camera under display (if 1+ was first in 90Hz and fp under screen, why not this)
- antics back.. they will have to come back: the sd card, the notif.light and the +pen (1+version of s-pen)
-> sd card could be a smart counter-move against S21 this year -- missed opportunity!
-> notif.light in any form must come back and it can be even a display on the back like Xiaomi/ZFlip or a glowing logo. AOD is cluttered and shows too much, there has to be a way to know 2 simple facts: charging is ON, and you got important message (SMS, Signal) worth of picking the phone.
-> the pen or folding.. you decide!
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- Rocky420
- rJJ
- 23 Mar 2021
Looklike oneplus going down every year...because of change in leadership it losing its identity..