OnePlus 12 review
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- Maria
- xhn
- 25 Jan 2024
Bob, 24 Jan 2024There is no competition at their price rangeYou are right if we consider the price range only. The fact is that people out there are comparing between OP12 and S24Ultra, based on the camera performance and the value for money aspec that make S24Ultra overpriced.
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- Azuz
- m@8
- 25 Jan 2024
Nezziak, 24 Jan 2024All in all, a really mediocre device for 1000€ in Europe. ... moreMediocre? Compared to what in the same price range?
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- Azuz
- m@8
- 25 Jan 2024
Anonymous, 24 Jan 2024Other reviews, such as CNETs, are far less excited about th... moreDon't rely to much on what different reviewers say about it.
One will praise it because they get money from someone and others will say its crap just because they get paid from another...
Wait and see what owners have to say and also wait for some updates which often make the cameras better.
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- dexton
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- 24 Jan 2024
The 3x zoom camera of their Oneplus 12 has a lens flaw, like decentering or something. It's on the right side of the frame, quite blurry. Can even be seen in 6x zoomed photos.
Haven't seen a similar flaw in their Oneplus Open or Oppo Find N3 samples, with the same lens.
If I received a phone with a flawed lens like that, I would return it.
OP12 is a nice looking phone and I like curved screen (like my S23 Ultra) but 2x photos are better on S23 Ultra. And its hard to live without the pen once you've started using it for some things.
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- Anonymous
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- 24 Jan 2024
Other reviews, such as CNETs, are far less excited about the camera quality.
I would not even consider this phone at the current asking price. But OnePlus generally loses its value much faster than the likes of Samsung and Google, and of course Apple, so at some point it can become a good buy.
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- Anonymous
- jIu
- 24 Jan 2024
Baldilocks73, 24 Jan 2024Why are your Geekbench scores so low compared to other site... moreThey aren't the only ones.
Android Central and Tom's also posted unusually low scores.
I think it's maybe some kind of setting that gets triggered causing it to drop into power saving mode? Either way GSMA is not the only ones that got weird scores. I bet the OS is buggy (as is typical for OnePlus...)
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- jiyen235
- XQQ
- 24 Jan 2024
GregLu, 24 Jan 2024Considering they don't drop the price, it's not c... moreafter the Oneplus 9 series, this is the best phone for the price, the price for getting into the Oneplus family might be higher but that's mostly due to a starting storage of 256 GB. That's quite the feat. I still remember being blown away by the Oneplus 8 and it was $699 for 128 GB storage, the Oneplus 12 is $799 for 256 GB storage, a sizeable but understandable uplift in price, especially taking inflation into account. This has upgraded speakers, cameras and display compared to the Oneplus 11, this is a killer phone right now. If you're really bothered about the price then why don't you take a look at the Oneplus 12R? Their R series is criminally underrated and overlooked. These phones give flagship performance for a good price, flagship killers basically. Would you really have a problem with having the SD 8 Gen 2 instead of SD 8 Gen 3? Most likely not, that's why the 12R is such a huge win imo. These phones aren't necessarily cheap but phones aren't cheap now and these are offering good value in this horribly priced market. The IQOO 12 is a better buy for me though, for as much flak IQOO phones get, they are the ones carrying Oneplus's past "flagship killer" spirit. Xiaomi phones are great and all but uh yk, they're Xiaomi, software is good now but others have great software so Poco phones aren't up to par.
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- PorkyCat
- xt2
- 24 Jan 2024
Curved screen. When will they stop this nonsense? More likely to break, more expensive replacements, and they make the phone harder to pick up and easier to drop.
Been thinking I might buy this. But that curved screen is a real turn off.
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- Baldilocks73
- hcZ
- 24 Jan 2024
Why are your Geekbench scores so low compared to other sites that have tested the phone?
Average of other sites is: 2250 Single Core and 6765 for Multi-Core.
Might need to rerun the tests.
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- Anonymous
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- 24 Jan 2024
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- GregLu
- p@r
- 24 Jan 2024
Aierlan, 23 Jan 2024The pricing is not much different than the previous generat... moreConsidering they don't drop the price, it's not cheap.
Never settle they said.
When I saw the comparison from X7 Pro, it's obvious that OP didn't want to make the 12 the best they could with the hardware/software. Perhaps it could be improved with update ... But again, they never drop the price (Like Apple) until the next is launched.
I was a OP fan in the past, until 5 but even then it was the start of the end. And it's no better now, don't get me wrong, it's not a bad device per se, but for the price asked, they have done more on the software side (ISP mainly, see Vivo and Oppo, it's very more clear/less blurry). In video capture too apparently.
I wonder too if this has something to do with the agreement with Nokia that happened a few days before the OnePlus international launch. Perhaps it could have been halted somehow.
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- David
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- 24 Jan 2024
The Green fake marble glitter colour is quite ugly, wish it was solid Green like 11. Maybe it looks better it person. White is the best colour and global markets don’t get it!
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- Haiphamzz
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- 24 Jan 2024
From vietnam, I have used oneplus 12 for 3 week. I buy with the price 650$. Camera is good, especially portrait. Oxygen os is quite so so. It's better than oneplus 11
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- Nezziak
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- 24 Jan 2024
All in all, a really mediocre device for 1000€ in Europe.
Skip it
Not worth it
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- Bob
- LK3
- 24 Jan 2024
IpsDisplay, 24 Jan 2024As other have said the review is a bit dry.. the software s... moreThey did their usual stress test... it was nothing special
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- Bob
- LK3
- 24 Jan 2024
Maria, 24 Jan 2024Excuse me, GSMArena, I like to remind you: I think you hav... moreThere is no competition at their price range
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- IpsDisplay
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- 24 Jan 2024
As other have said the review is a bit dry.. the software side of the review completely missed the X7 chipset inside the smartphone that helps with gaming/ GPU
Pixel works x7 had the adaptive frame booster and hyper resolution options in the game menu hub...
Sometimes gsmarena review format is too rigid/ formulaic to pay attention to some newer stuff
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- Aierlan
- XkN
- 24 Jan 2024
CamoGeko-XDA, 23 Jan 2024I don't think this device is priced competitively at a... moreThat's a Chinese phone though with a pretty useless 2x telephoto with poor quality sensor and no OIS that is not much better than a 2x crop from the main sensor. The ultrawide is also using a very old omnivision sensor that was used as far back as the k30 pro four years ago. Also, if importing to Europe the k70 pro doesn't support key European bands so it's not a great option for Europe. You could also make the same argument for importing the Oneplus 12 for much cheaper if you really want and the Chinese Oneplus 12 supports all European bands so the signal would be more stable. In fact if you want to import you have loads of options. The global price is not cheap but it is competitive and in line with other brands like Xiaomi and Samsung
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- Anonymous
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- 24 Jan 2024
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Looks like Oppo is paying Nokia to be able to sell in some parts of Europe again.
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- Maria
- xhn
- 24 Jan 2024
Excuse me, GSMArena, I like to remind you:
I think you have to get S24Ultra as alternative, competitor, whatever of OP12 because I knew more than one out there are supporter of OP12 and comparing this with S24Ultra.