OnePlus 12 review
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- Anonymous
- BQ1
- 23 Jan 2024
The photos are all blurry on the right side of the image. Truly a big failure on OnePlus' part. Why didn't GSMArena even mention this?
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- Anonymous
- 3PE
- 23 Jan 2024
Extremely overpriced. Worst photos take by LYT-808!
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- Anonymous
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- 23 Jan 2024
Gsmarena reader
😡, why is samsung using same design? Only chinese phones can do it .
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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- Lister
- pLh
- 23 Jan 2024
ua82, 23 Jan 2024its my next phone loving the battery life with general usag... moreThat's very cheap. I've not flashed a ROM since the Galaxy S2 lol
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- Anonymous
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- 23 Jan 2024
David 040882, 23 Jan 2024The brightness is 4500 nits peak, the Nord is nowhere close.Except nobody has able to even reach 3000.
Display Mate that awards A+ to.all phones tested, could not.
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- Anton-el-papi
- 8xr
- 23 Jan 2024
David 040882, 23 Jan 2024The 4500nits is for HDR use cases, of course not the normal... moreMaybe he's mowing the grass or they want to burn their eyes!! There are all the trolls on this website!! I think a panel with 1600 nits of brightness is more than enough, the rest is pure marketing! nor do they work 24 hours under the sun
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- Anonymous
- Fvc
- 23 Jan 2024
Another rebranded Oppo....Could be excellent, if only it had another android skin than Color OS....
Similar Realme will do the same for less
- David 040882
- JEF
- 23 Jan 2024
LoneOwl, 23 Jan 2024From gsmarenas reviews Oneplus 12 '''In ... moreThe 4500nits is for HDR use cases, of course not the normal brightness you would use usually.
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- ua82
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- 23 Jan 2024
Lister, 23 Jan 2024The battery life on this is nice, and it's £900 in the... moreyou can get the CN version and flash oxygen , 16gb/512gb £590 inc delivery loving the battery life and at that price I'll be buying it I wouldnt pay £900 for it
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- ua82
- m7a
- 23 Jan 2024
jiyen235, 23 Jan 2024The display's abysmally low brightness (for being a fl... moreits my next phone loving the battery life with general usage, I'll buy the CN version which is big saving and just flash oxygen . if it wasnt for that I wouldnt be buying it
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- LoneOwl
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- 23 Jan 2024
Aierlan, 23 Jan 2024The pricing is not much different than the previous generat... moreIn my country from the official Oneplus store, its 80euro more expensive for Oneplus 12.
And Oneplus 11 also had more ram for the money, 16/256 compared to Oneplus 12 version of 12/256.
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- LoneOwl
- 3Aq
- 23 Jan 2024
David 040882, 23 Jan 2024The brightness is 4500 nits peak, the Nord is nowhere close.From gsmarenas reviews
Oneplus 12
'''In the default Natural color setting, the OnePlus 12 was good for 1155nits when placed under bright light - not half bad and perfectly enough, but far from the best in the business. The fact that the OnePlus Open's result is in the same ballpark hints that OnePlus is deliberately targeting a number in that vicinity. Switching to Vivid mode yielded an extra hundred nits, for a 1,253nits result.'''
Oneplus Nord 3
''We've completed our display test, and the OnePlus Nord 3 did great. We recorded 516 nits of maximum brightness when manually controlling it, and the impressive 1114 nits of max automatic brightness when we faced the screen with a bright light.'''
Dont fall for companies marketing people....
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- Anonymous
- LiQ
- 23 Jan 2024
I meant to say op12 is 12/512, no 16gb option
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- Anonymous
- LiQ
- 23 Jan 2024
Aierlan, 23 Jan 2024It's a €30 difference if you compare the same storage.... moreYou cant really compare them like that. When op11 16/256 came out it was 899eur, it was the "top"version. There was no 512gb variant. Op12 12/256 is 1049 right now and it is the "top" version. There is no 16gb version. Different ram/storage options. Compare the 2 "top" models, that is 149eur difference and not 30.
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- jiyen235
- XQQ
- 23 Jan 2024
The display's abysmally low brightness (for being a flagship category phone) is a huge con. Arguably a far greater sin than the IP65 rating, most people splash water on their phones or spill water on it more than they drown that thing. Besides, the IP rating is for clean water, not salt water, swimming pools or even contaminated drainage water, so it won't help much in those situations. What would've helped tho is a brighter display, seriously Oneplus? Dolby Vision and LTPO4 are THAT important to you? Who cares about that when the phone can't reach at least 1300 nits in 2024. I'm not saying it's dim but it should've been much better for what they promised and additionally, Realme and Vivo have so much better displays, those make this phone look cheap in comparison, especially the Iqoo 12 which is a tier below the Oneplus in pricing but reaches 1400 nits. The jump from 1200 to 1400 nits is more noticeable than the jump from FHD+ to QHD+ on this tiny ahh screen.
The speakers are worse than the Vivo X100 Pro and quite boomy overall. Worse than even Realme's GT5 Pro, it seems only Vivo has been able to craft really good speakers in the BBK, I think bass is cool and I love it but proper dynamics/less pumping and a good midrange/treble are more important since those are more audible.
The battery is a hit and a miss sort of, the gaming performance is subpar but the web browsing and video playback are close to class leading, I wonder what Oneplus and Oppo do that Vivo, Samsung, etc. don't that makes the gaming battery life so much worse? If the gaming time went up to 8 hours this'd be an extremely well rounded battery phone, charging superbly fast and still having loads of SOT.
The performance is my final ick, even if I were to believe that the performance is going to be better for the CPU (which im pretty sure will be true), the thermals aren't promising. The main culprit seems to be the SD 8 Gen 3 which is just as bad as the 8 Gen 1 for gpu at least, it's horrible for thermals. As days go by, I have more and more respect for Vivo's optmisation and cooling, I thought it was the case for the X90 series (after seeing golden reviewers reviews) and the phones this year just confirmed it, Vivo is BBK's king of cooling and squeezing out performance for the same heat. The IQOO 12 and the X100 Pro are better than the ROG Phone 8 in terms of passive cooling. Now either that's a great achievement or it shows Asus's downfall in quality. For how much flak the Dimensity 9300 got (admittedly I too was skeptical) the chip just seems more and more awesome as days go by. Apart from the ISP, I don't think at all that the chipset is a "cheaper" one than Qualcomm's one. Sustained performance matters more than peak and both are quite close between the SD 8 Gen 3 and the D 9300. I think there should be more tiers for the performance mode, as it stands the phones are good at dissipating heat in the current performance modes and a higher tier mode would be appreciated to squeeze out more performance at the cost of thermals. Of course, the current tier should be kept as well for people who don't want the best performance but also not the worst. So basically, I think the performance is more of a current gen Qualcomm problem than Oneplus's so I can let this slide.
The saving grace for this phone are the cameras, but only for photography and even then it's all due to Oppo lmao, the processing is superb. The S24 doesn't stand a chance against this now, better sensors across the board with supremely good processing now. The fact that GSM has to compare this phone's cameras to the X100 Pro and the Find X7 Ultra to show its weaknesses is a huge compliment actually, the X100 Pro's huge sensor is just too good, if OP 12's aperture were f/1.4 maybe it could've been closer. Additionally the Find X7 Ultra is just too good for a phone, huge-ish sensor (for a telephoto at least) and 6x native zoom combined with the banger processing is a recipe for success. The 6x photos are good at night and day, nothing crazy but good photos that are usable. UW cam is good now as well. Good job Oneplus and Oppo.
Basically, think this phone's main shortcomings are the display, videography and the speakers for now. Videography ain't bad but it's not amazing, it's good tho at least and I'm content with that. The display is NOT as good as the competitors even from BBK themselves, QHD+ sounds cool on paper but 1400 nits look better irl, especially in very sunny conditions. The speakers should've been more clearer, better treble was necessary instead of more bass and for the loudness it provides, the dynamics are poor, everything sounds pump-ey or compressed and that's made worse by the fact that only Oneplus has this quality, Realme and Vivo provide far better sound quality, Vivo provides clarity and Realme provides the similar bass-ey sound but with better dynamics. A shame but it isn't THAT bad. The cameras are great, the battery is only adequate for gamers and great for everyone else, charging is superb, design is cool due to awesome colors. The pricing should've been a bit cheaper though, 50-100 euros cheaper would've made this far more compelling, considering the huge display shortcomings, the Xiaomi 13T pro had a similar brightness to the display too and that's a compelling argument but Vivo's IQOO 12 and the Realme GT5 Pro having so much higher brightness just makes this phone feel less desirable. I hope this is a software thing and it gets better later with an update fix or something but as it stands I think this phone is 7.5/10, a good phone that's close to being very good but not quite. The better display from IQOO or even Realme would've comfortably made this an 9/10 and better speakers would've made this an absolutely perfect 10/10 phone, even for it's relatively high price. Unfortunately life sucks and this phone isn't that great, would've upgraded from my S22U to this phone if it had a better display but as it stands I'm gonna be downgrading from 1280 nits to 1160 nits. Not a great deal due to that, cameras are better though in photography, videography may be better on the S22 U not sure, its grain makes me stay away from taking videos anyways lmao
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- Lister
- pLh
- 23 Jan 2024
The battery life on this is nice, and it's £900 in the UK, I want to know where the catch it, ha.
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- yat
- 23 Jan 2024
I don't think this device is priced competitively at all tbh.
You can buy Chinese models of other manufacturers on AliExpress for half the price. Xiaomi K70 Pro comes to mind.
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- Pekaes
- d@6
- 23 Jan 2024
Wait a minute. My 8T can record up to 4K@60fps (max 5 minutes) and this thing can only do 4K@30fps?? Is that a joke?
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- Anonymous
- 6kY
- 23 Jan 2024
Pass and will so long when OPPO starts paying patents to Nokia
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- Aierlan
- 2KY
- 23 Jan 2024
Anonymous, 23 Jan 2024LOL, what a joke. It costs 150€ more than than op11 when it... moreIt's a €30 difference if you compare the same storage. The 256gb model of the Oneplus 11 was €30 cheaper at €919