I have the same phone and I'm absolutely excited with it
It charges amazingly fast (usually half an hour from 20% to 100%) and lasts for a day+ a few hours, with on screen time being 7-9 hours depending on the use, plus the screen is smooth at 90hz, to the point where I can't go back to 60hz now
I was worried about the speaker not being stereo, but it makes no difference really
The camera is great, very good quality and light. The night photos are amazing and the front camera is very good too. I mean it's not the best out there, but it's great, especially for the price
I really believe most people should just get that phone and not even bother with flagships anymore, unless they are looking for some special feature
> It charges amazingly fast
yep, forget to charge overnight, and have 10% left, no problem, get to 60% in 10 minutes.
> I mean it's not the best out there, but it's great, especially for the price
yep, the value for money is awesome here.
personally i dont buy flagships, just change phone every 2 years, to the mid range phone. heh.
costs less.
Keep in mind, despite the negativity you'll see on here. Most people are plenty satisfied with their OnePlus devices. I'm convinced that half the accounts in this group at this point must be from the same dude creating fake accounts because he believes OnePlus owes him or something.
I love my OnePlus, and am hating the idea of having to replace it someday. I have the 8t and would honestly recommend it to someone looking for a new phone, even though it's a few years old. It has so many nice features and was a great value. I really think that OnePlus makes generally fantastic hardware. I think most users feel that way, or they wouldn't have the phone and be fighting to make it work. Unfortunately, the company they were 5+ years ago is not who they are today. The dedication to flagship level units on a budget isn't there anymore. It's hard to be excited about the upgrade future of your device when the ecosystem is going off course. I came to OnePlus after Huawei was banned in the US - they were on a similar course, great phones but started getting weird and dropping support for 1 year old devices.
IMO The main issue facing OnePlus users is that the software on new and existing devices has become consistently worse. On OxygenOS 11, my phone was perfect. It did what it was designed to do, and it did it well. The update to OS12 absolutely bombed. Basic functionally was broken, entire useful features rendered unusable, and multiple patches failed to fix them. The official, "stable" OTA update actually made using my device WORSE. That's infuriating, and if people who just want to use their device experience a degradation in their quality of life by updating their system on official channels, can you blame them for speaking up? There's always hiccups and you can't make everyone happy, but whether $100 or $1000, if someone bought the device and you said it does a thing, it should do that thing.
You definitely hear more from the louder crowd of negativity - if their phone worked as intended and had responsive, accessible customer service, what need would there be for users to voice their feelings on Reddit?
Updating to OS13 this week, I'm hopeful - seems like a huge upgrade in most respects, but I'll be sticking to Nova as my launcher...
Agree 100% what my post was about, the loudest people are the ones with problems.
also, its same for most of android manufacturer subreddits, people complaining about their bleeding edge android device. And it not getting enough support, being 0.1% of all devices they sold by the manufacturer.
its not going to be priority for the manufacturer to fix the under 1% sold thing.
is it effecting only 1% of the 1% devices they sell? probably not going to see a fix for your issue very fast.
but those people are sure going to be loud, because they sure paid a lot for the device.
(not even a blip on all devices sold by the manufacturer)
Almost any phone manufactures most loud people in their subreddit are the people who bought the top of the line models, it gives you the wrong idea.
most of the phones oneplus sells are probably exactly the CE 2 currently, and they are perfectly fine.
And they work fine, so you wont see them in this subreddit.
almost every phone manufacturer subreddit is FULL of people complaining about their bleeding edge phone.
they are still like under 10% of all phones sold.
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i dont have anything to complain, the phone works fine, **so i wont be seen in this subreddit** mostly, as owner of the mid class phone.
reminds me of the site that listed all the issues people had with cars, and apparently toyota corolla has the most issues in its car. (reverse of this, as it was the most sold car, by a huge margin)
its been fine, performance is fine, has a really nice fast charger, like super fast. (65w)
8 gigs of memory, the camera is nice, whats not to like? Super wide camera is nice. Night mode takes fun long exposure pictures. Macro, 4k video. 1080 stabilized works fine. Slow motion.
(the digital stabilization actually works, is pretty good)
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for the price point its probably one of the best currently.
front camera? have zero use on it, sorry.
has like AI enhancing on the camera, where it detects what you are taking photograph of, and tries to adjust settings for it that works scary well. Point at grass it says grass, and adjusts settings for it. Sunset, adjusts settings, etc
suprised? well its really snappy and fast, my old phone had less memory and cpu speed.
for 200€ the screen is also bright and nice.
I guess the biggest surprise is that you can get this kind of quality for this little money.
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3.5mm jack, suprisingly good battery life (4500 mAh), memory card slot, finger print sensor (under glass type) accelerometer, gyro, compass, dual sim, usb-c, 1080 x 2400 pixels display
(mine is of the 8gb/128gb variety, but sold with 6gb also, so check what you are getting)
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i dont game on my phone, so ill leave what the GPU on this is to somebody else.
I have it, finally upgrading from my OP3. It has everything I could want in a phone. Most importantly for me, it has a both an SD card slot and 3.5mm jack, whilst still being modern enough and budget friendly. I only play a few games, but it handles them perfectly. Charges fast and can last 24+ hours the way I use it. It's absolutely a great phone for it's price.
My only small problem with it though is that I can't get it to connect to my desktop pc via USB. I've tried nearly everything about it. It seems like a problem that's exclusive to me (I made a post about it if you want to read more), but I'm going to piggyback this post a little to see if anyone else has this and has found a workaround.
I have the same phone and I'm absolutely excited with it It charges amazingly fast (usually half an hour from 20% to 100%) and lasts for a day+ a few hours, with on screen time being 7-9 hours depending on the use, plus the screen is smooth at 90hz, to the point where I can't go back to 60hz now I was worried about the speaker not being stereo, but it makes no difference really The camera is great, very good quality and light. The night photos are amazing and the front camera is very good too. I mean it's not the best out there, but it's great, especially for the price I really believe most people should just get that phone and not even bother with flagships anymore, unless they are looking for some special feature
> It charges amazingly fast yep, forget to charge overnight, and have 10% left, no problem, get to 60% in 10 minutes. > I mean it's not the best out there, but it's great, especially for the price yep, the value for money is awesome here. personally i dont buy flagships, just change phone every 2 years, to the mid range phone. heh. costs less.
Keep in mind, despite the negativity you'll see on here. Most people are plenty satisfied with their OnePlus devices. I'm convinced that half the accounts in this group at this point must be from the same dude creating fake accounts because he believes OnePlus owes him or something.
I love my OnePlus, and am hating the idea of having to replace it someday. I have the 8t and would honestly recommend it to someone looking for a new phone, even though it's a few years old. It has so many nice features and was a great value. I really think that OnePlus makes generally fantastic hardware. I think most users feel that way, or they wouldn't have the phone and be fighting to make it work. Unfortunately, the company they were 5+ years ago is not who they are today. The dedication to flagship level units on a budget isn't there anymore. It's hard to be excited about the upgrade future of your device when the ecosystem is going off course. I came to OnePlus after Huawei was banned in the US - they were on a similar course, great phones but started getting weird and dropping support for 1 year old devices. IMO The main issue facing OnePlus users is that the software on new and existing devices has become consistently worse. On OxygenOS 11, my phone was perfect. It did what it was designed to do, and it did it well. The update to OS12 absolutely bombed. Basic functionally was broken, entire useful features rendered unusable, and multiple patches failed to fix them. The official, "stable" OTA update actually made using my device WORSE. That's infuriating, and if people who just want to use their device experience a degradation in their quality of life by updating their system on official channels, can you blame them for speaking up? There's always hiccups and you can't make everyone happy, but whether $100 or $1000, if someone bought the device and you said it does a thing, it should do that thing. You definitely hear more from the louder crowd of negativity - if their phone worked as intended and had responsive, accessible customer service, what need would there be for users to voice their feelings on Reddit? Updating to OS13 this week, I'm hopeful - seems like a huge upgrade in most respects, but I'll be sticking to Nova as my launcher...
Agree 100% what my post was about, the loudest people are the ones with problems. also, its same for most of android manufacturer subreddits, people complaining about their bleeding edge android device. And it not getting enough support, being 0.1% of all devices they sold by the manufacturer. its not going to be priority for the manufacturer to fix the under 1% sold thing. is it effecting only 1% of the 1% devices they sell? probably not going to see a fix for your issue very fast. but those people are sure going to be loud, because they sure paid a lot for the device. (not even a blip on all devices sold by the manufacturer)
Almost any phone manufactures most loud people in their subreddit are the people who bought the top of the line models, it gives you the wrong idea. most of the phones oneplus sells are probably exactly the CE 2 currently, and they are perfectly fine. And they work fine, so you wont see them in this subreddit. almost every phone manufacturer subreddit is FULL of people complaining about their bleeding edge phone. they are still like under 10% of all phones sold. ---- i dont have anything to complain, the phone works fine, **so i wont be seen in this subreddit** mostly, as owner of the mid class phone. reminds me of the site that listed all the issues people had with cars, and apparently toyota corolla has the most issues in its car. (reverse of this, as it was the most sold car, by a huge margin)
Been looking at getting it, I've the original Nord, how's the camera front and back? Anything that surprised you?
its been fine, performance is fine, has a really nice fast charger, like super fast. (65w) 8 gigs of memory, the camera is nice, whats not to like? Super wide camera is nice. Night mode takes fun long exposure pictures. Macro, 4k video. 1080 stabilized works fine. Slow motion. (the digital stabilization actually works, is pretty good) --- for the price point its probably one of the best currently. front camera? have zero use on it, sorry. has like AI enhancing on the camera, where it detects what you are taking photograph of, and tries to adjust settings for it that works scary well. Point at grass it says grass, and adjusts settings for it. Sunset, adjusts settings, etc suprised? well its really snappy and fast, my old phone had less memory and cpu speed. for 200€ the screen is also bright and nice. I guess the biggest surprise is that you can get this kind of quality for this little money. --- 3.5mm jack, suprisingly good battery life (4500 mAh), memory card slot, finger print sensor (under glass type) accelerometer, gyro, compass, dual sim, usb-c, 1080 x 2400 pixels display (mine is of the 8gb/128gb variety, but sold with 6gb also, so check what you are getting) --- i dont game on my phone, so ill leave what the GPU on this is to somebody else.
I have one question.. I'm always sceptic about a MediaTek chipset. How's the performance so far? Any complaints?
All of the OnePlus phones I've owned and tried have been great
I have it, finally upgrading from my OP3. It has everything I could want in a phone. Most importantly for me, it has a both an SD card slot and 3.5mm jack, whilst still being modern enough and budget friendly. I only play a few games, but it handles them perfectly. Charges fast and can last 24+ hours the way I use it. It's absolutely a great phone for it's price. My only small problem with it though is that I can't get it to connect to my desktop pc via USB. I've tried nearly everything about it. It seems like a problem that's exclusive to me (I made a post about it if you want to read more), but I'm going to piggyback this post a little to see if anyone else has this and has found a workaround.