Realme XT smartphone review

Realme XT smartphone review

Now the real me XT is a true successor to the real me X with an upgraded glass back and a new and beautiful pattern. The back has that almost est in glass p30 pro-like reflections and a unique subtle pattern that almost gives a feeling that. The back is thinner than it is now that is not completely an illusion because the phone is definitely not as wide as the real me X and looks more like other realms phones with the slightly taller and less wide frame now one thing. I absolutely love apart from the use of glass is that the frame although plastic has a frosted aluminium look which I prefer much more than the glossy chrome finish on the real me X. Another major change in design compared to the DX is the lack of a pop-up camera because the XT decided to go with a humble water-drop notch instead the camera bamboo is significantly bigger than the one on the real knee X.  Which is understandable because of the 64megapixel camera but it does make the phone wobble on a table the buttons. All the plastic are nice and clicky the bottom hosts a loud single speaker and the headphone jack is pretty standard. it is not better or worse than the competition the headphone jack though is backed by Dolby audio. So you will get some of that sound quality now while the centred camera on the real me X did look slightly more premium and minimal. 

I do prefer the ergonomics on this which makes the design of the really XD really stand out to me. Now the display of the real me XT is similar and different than the real me X. Similar because this is also an AMOLED display equally crisp and equally beautiful. But this is not a full-screen display this is a water drop not while the real mean X had a full-screen display with a pop-up selfie camera. Now the reason for this is manifold but some of the major reasons were first of all the mechanical part of it the fact that everyone did not feel comfortable with the part moving in and out of their phone and secondly since realme along with a few other companies are actively working towards implementing. Phi Z this is an initial attempt to slowly phase out pop-ups in order to make space for Phi Z modems. Apart from that though the display is absolutely stunning and two years ago it would have been unimaginable to see phones like the real me X and the c1 X and now the XT bringing AMOLED displays in such affordable price brackets. 

The colour shift on the phone is not too bad and the white point stays pretty much in check that is why do I nail one and while I cannot confirm. If this is a true HDR display YouTube does give you the option to play HD our videos for whatever that's worth. The display is even more beautiful with black wallpapers.  I think has become one of my favourite parts of the phone moving to performance the real me X. Duses the same processor as the realme fibre Ovitz puts it in a tough spot it makes a real mean XT an upgrade over the real me X. But also makes it the same performer as another skew at a lower price that's at DSD seven one-two at this point is the most powerful new processor available under 20,000.  Which makes the realme XT one of the most capable devices in this price range playing pub G or PES mobile is very fun on this device especially with the good touch response and of course that AMOLED display. 

The benchmark scores also show exactly that and the performance is second to none now the closest processor to the seven one-two which is more powerful than it is the Snapdragon 730 which is inside the red meat cake 20 but is also significantly more in price the sole is used is ufs 2.1 with speeds of about 460 megabytes per second. And write speeds of about 186 megabytes per second and storage matters that said other phones in this price range today do offer similar functionality. That's why it's not really a stand out feature but it's very very good to have and will make your phone perform much faster Honestly it's more power than most of us would need on a daily basis and if you are really someone who wants much more power then you can look at phones over 20,000 rupees.  The really XT  runs colour OS6 specially tuned by real me built on top of android 9 pi the OS has certainly become slightly better with a more uniform looking design. This makes using it more fun than before now while it’s no stock android for geeks it does come with a ton of useful features colourful visuals and customization options.

 For people who love that there is a theme store ton of wallpapers inside and I think the only big thing missing is the dock mode. This would certainly look awesome on this AMOLED display the XT supports project treble but there is not support for seamless updates forgive me as a brand has also been pretty. Active with providing updates and bug fixes and even providing boot loader unlocking which makes a pretty geek-friendly - in my opinion. There is cam 2 API support out of the box so G cam lovers out there can celebrate the bloatware on the phone is still plenty.  But I'm guessing the lower price comes at a cost and while it is clearly not winning any awards for its software performance.  I think the realme XT has a lot to offer here moving to the camera. The realme XT is the world's first smartphone with a 64-megapixel camera the 64-megapixel sensor is a Samsung sensor with of course more megapixels than. you would ever need apart from that the other cameras are the exact same as the real fibro.  So you have an 8-megapixel ultra-wide lens a 2-megapixel depth sensor and a 2megapixel macro lens the 64-megapixel camera though is significantly more resolution than the realme an X. 

 The pictures that come out are – the pictures are oozing with natural details especially human subjects. The skin textures are beautifully captured the wide shots- look very very crisp and there is, of course, that characteristic saturation in most pictures.  But that's just how realme chooses to do that you can, of course, turned it down in the post in photo editing apps if you want for videos 2 X 3 takes 4k at 30fps max and has stabilization up to 1080 at 60 fps the front camera also has electronic image stabilization. Which makes the video stand out among others in this price during the night shots also look equally impressive now realme a nightscape mode has done very well in previous phones as well and with the new or 64-megapixel sensor, the pictures look even better.  The front camera also takes some stunning pictures compared to the realme five throw there is still some optimization needed on the front camera.  There is some over-sharpening that the real me 500 doesn't do which is why the real me fibro at least at this point takes slightly better sulfites.  But I think that's because this is, of course, a pre-production unit so this is pre-launch I'm guessing all after-sales unit will have an improved front camera. 

Now coming to battery life I have actually reviewed every single real me phone ever and the one thing that they never compromise on is the battery life with the real me X3. Also, you get a sizable amount which might be an upgrade for a lot of people over the realme  X of course but you also get the 20 what book 3.0 now that battery size inside with the AMOLED display upfront and I actually use a lot of tough wallpapers.  I got immensely good battery life so I averaged around seven to seven and a half hours of screen on time which is very very nice for a phone that is not very thick. 

Then we come to the charging time so the 20-watt charger charges of that battery in the realme XT  in about one or thirty minutes that was the average that I got at times. it was one or twenty-five minutes one time it was one at 30 minutes so one or thirty minutes is the average time that it takes to go from zero to 100%. Which is actually very very impressive now coming to call quality is the realme XT gives me a standard your PS with good call quality. They were called drops once or twice but nothing that can be tagged as an issue the 4G data speeds and cell reception was also pretty good and the speed at which the phone brought back connectivity after being in a tunnel or the lift was very very good. 

So finally we come to an end of this review and the realme XT is a great smartphone. it's a successor to the realme X and almost every way.  You have a better processor a better-looking design you have a more ergonomic design you have clearly better and more at the back of the phone and you have a very good battery performance as well. Now the one thing that a lot of people do find is a downgrade on the real me XT is the display not because it's a different technology.  It still comes lid but the fact that there is a not sure and it's not a full-screen display like the real mean X.  Now, of course, there is that section of people who prefer having a full-screen display even if there is a pop-up camera mechanism that's it another big chunk of people do not like having mechanical parts and this also makes the phone thinner and more comfortable in the hand.  So I think the choice that was made with the real me XT was, of course, made on user data and I do think that I support that option and as much as I hate notches I think it's a smart decision now for the people who do want that full-screen experience you can, of course, get the real me X.  But I think the real me XT is an upgrade over the real me X in almost every other way and especially with that price I think.  It is a good buy that's it the real competitor to the real me XT is the Vivo s e 1x which is very similar to this phone in a lot of senses it's an AMOLED display with a similar do drop of waterdrop notch that said the battery life that I got was pretty similar again the wattage in charges is also very similar the Vivo Z1 X comes in at 22.5-watt charging.  

Whereas the realme XD comes with the 20-watt charger you get the same star dragon 7 1 2 chipsets inside. You get high-resolution cameras at the back that said the z1 X comes with the Sony I'm x58 to 48-megapixel sensor while this one has a 64 megapixel Samsung sensor now with almost everything being the same I think the camera is the bigger differentiator between the two the real me X seems to have slightly better cameras. In the camera comparison that you can also see on the channel the real me, XT did come out to be a better camera now most of the rounds.  Where the real makes T1 was because the details that the 64megapixel camera produces is phenomenal that's what I think Vivo does need to work slightly on the camera algorithm because even the real me fibre which is almost the same sensor as the V was even X it did produce likely crispier shots this is also why I think the real me XT is a slightly better package for people who like cameras and want to take a lot of pictures with their phones and with that. We come to an end of this review let me know what you thought of this review in the comment section below let me know if you liked the real me XT in the comment section below any feedback that you want to give me.  Thank You 😊😊😊😊

iPhone 11 Pro Vs iPhone 11 - Which Should You choose?

iPhone 11 pro in the iPhone 11 have been out for a little while and if you are trying to decide which one to get I'm hoping this will help you to make a decision which one is best for you.

Now the first thing is the colours the iPhone 11 Pro comes in this new midnight green colour it also comes in Space Gray which I have here in the pro max which they are identical in every way except their size and you also have a silver and gold as well on top of those two colours with the iPhone 11 you have an all-new green colour also have a new purple along with white, black, yellow and red so those are all the colours that are available for these devices.

Now the actual price of them is a little bit different in fact the iPhone 11 pro comes in at $300 above what we have with the iPhone 11 so the prices start at $9.99 and go all the way to 1349 at those prices you have got the option for 64 256 or 512 gigabytes of storage it is not expandable storage in either of the devices on the iPhone 11 this one comes in at $6.99 which is $50 cheaper than last year's iPhone 10 our model and goes all the way to eight hundred and forty-nine dollars. It comes in 64 128 or 256 gigabytes of storage the sweet spot is 128 gigabytes for the iPhone 11. Since it's only $50 more so I would go for that if you need a little bit more storage it's seven hundred and forty-nine dollars now the actual construction of both of these devices is a little bit different the iPhone 11 Pro is made out of stainless steel so it's got a stainless steel band all the way around it's both glass back and front and it's supposed to be stronger glass this year on both devices but the pro and the pro max also have a matte finish on the back.

Whereas the camera bump is really a glossy finish Apple has changed this on the iPhone 11 models and swapped that around. So you will see that the back is glossy on the iPhone 11 where the camera bump is actually a little bit of a matte texture so it's all one piece of glass now the construction of the iPhone 11 is aluminium and you have this aluminium ring around the outside edge similar to the iPhone 10 are of last year but that is the main difference.

As far as to build when it involves the particular weight of them the load is extremely similar the iPhone 11 pro is six point six three ounces or 188 grams the iPhone 11 is six point eight four ounces or 194 grams so they're very close and weight and you are doing have that size difference though because this is often aluminium it will be a little bit lighter than the pro max model.

if you're going for that now the big factor that is different between both of these is the display on the iPhone 11 pro you have an OLED display which has more vibrant colours along with a higher pixel density. So you've got 2436 by 1125 with 458 pixels per inch this year Apple calls it an excellent Retina XDR display it allows for HDR video if you're using the Apple TV app. But you can still only watch 1080p on YouTube and that's due to a dispute with Apple and Google and not supporting different versions of codes that allow you to watch those videos as far because the iPhone 11 goes this is often a lower resolution display but it is a liquid Retina display it's probably the simplest retina LCD on the market at this point it's 1792 by 828 pixels with a density of 326 pixels per inch. You still cannot see the pixels and the display does support HDR 10 and you can watch 1080p videos on YouTube. When you're watching a YouTube video you can't see the pixels when you look at them side-by-side they look great overall and I think most people that are not really into specs and things like that will notice no difference whatsoever other than vibrance of an OLED display you will have brighter colours and deeper blacks because on an OLED display. Where there is the colour black it actually turns off those pixels. It also goes a lot brighter on the pro you have 800 nits when it's turned all the way up and it can peak up to 1200nits on the iPhone 11. It's hard to show you on this camera but the iPhone 11 goes to about 600 nits as far as its maximum brightness right around those areas. So they're fairly bright they're both viewable in sunlight but they are a little bit different.

Now this year all devices that are new have haptic touch 3d touch is gone so that means it's replaced with a long press you still get all of the same features you would before for the most part but it's more of a long press it's not as intuitive and you actually don't feel like you're pushing into the screen to activate those shortcuts. So if you push on it it's not exactly the same but it's the same between all of the new devices so you're not compromising when switching from device to device.

The speakers on both of them are equally loud they both support Dolby Atmos. They both have a nice stereo wide stereo sound you have a top speaker up here at the top where you listen to your phone calls but it's also projecting sound towards you and then at the bottom you also have speakers but they're a little bit different as far as the size or as or at least the way they look now as you can see together due to the antenna lines it's a little bit asymmetric on the iPhone 11 Pro this isn't really an issue the sound is all the same and these are the microphone and speaker array so overall it's very good now.

The batteries are also differentiating factors when it comes to both of these the iPhone 11 Pro has a 3046 million power battery whereas the iPhone 11 has a slightly larger 3110 million power battery however the iPhone 11 Pro tends to get about one to two hours more in battery life overall with the screen-on time that's due to the efficiency of the OLED display new efficiencies. The Apple has made this year also because the new a 13Bionic chipset so you'll get good battery life in both but the 11pro may get you an additional hour or two and speak of that chipset the 13 Bionicis in both of these devices you have the same chipset.

You have an equivalent amount of RAM everything is that the same as far as performance between both of them so if you're opening an application maybe you're opening settings you'll notice that they open at the exact same rate if you're doing any tasks that are more intense you're really not going to see a difference when it comes to any of those. It's equally fast on both devices there is zero compromises picking one over the other when it comes to speed performance and all-day usage. There is also no compromise when it comes to face ID they are equally fast they unlock at the same rate because they are the same version of face ID. They work really well and that also leads me to the cameras which are the exact same cameras on the front this year.

So, if I go into the cameras flip the screen around they are both 12-megapixel sensors they're true depth cameras you can do emoji and emoji me emoji whatever you'd like you can do that with the forward-facing cameras and then you can record 4k 60p videos. So if you would like to record video I actually recorded the iPhone 11 Pro video that I did as far because the review completely with the camera on the 11pro. So they're all 12megapixel sensors but the iPhone 11 is lacking a zoom lens but it still can zoom digitally. The two Apple does a really good job at two times zoom to give you the best result possible. So I wouldn't say you're missing a whole lot unless you need to zoom past 2x you really don't need anything as far as the telephoto lens instead you've got wide and ultra-wide. Which I think is much more useful for most people and their incredible cameras they both record in4k 60p if you'd like to do that high frame rates for slow-motion they both have portrait mode this year too and they both can do portraits of animals or objects.

So if we go into portrait mode last year because we only had one lesson the iPhone 10 R we could only take portraits of people instead now we can take portraits of flowers or anything else. We would like also now one among the opposite big factors between both of those is that the OLED display actually has PWM or flicker that you simply can't see with your eye but affect some people and give them headaches or make them feel nauseated and you can see that here in slow motion. Where the iPhone 11 Pro is really flickering all the time in the movie you only can't see it. But otherwise, it's flickering and that helps It control brightness and that really affects some people's eyes gives them headaches like I said so the iPhone 11 does not have that because it's an LCD. So that's something to consider although the flicker rate is better this year than it was in previous years. I don't seem to get headaches like I used to so it is better overall but it's still something to consider now the overall size of both phones is very similar.

However, the iPhone 11 Pro is slightly larger due to that larger display and does feel a little bit bulkier so if you're coming from an iPhone, for example, the iPhone 11 Pro may be an excellent compromise of a bigger display and an easier size. However, if you want a giant phone you'll want to step up to the iPhone 11 Pro max where it is much bigger and much more noticeable in the hand when you're holding. It so just keep that in mind the size is not a big deal for most people especially if you like the larger phone but, if you want a smaller phone the 11pro is the way to go now the good thing.

In this year both devices have ip68 certification the iPhone 11 Pro actually has a little bit better IP 68 and what that means is water resistance although you should still use a case if you're going to bring it underwater because Apple does not cover that water damage. If it does get damaged so for example the iPhone 11 pro has I ate up to four meters deep for 30 minutes the iPhone 11 has two meters deep for up to 30 minutes. So it's very similar just a little bit different both devices support fast charging where you can get 50 per cent battery life in 30 minutes but only the 11 Pro comes with the fast charger within the box the iPhone 11 comes with the 5-watt charger. If you want faster charging then you have to purchase that separately now between both of these they're almost the same with the exception of the size the display. The battery life and then the lack of the telephoto lens other than that they're almost identical in the way either one is a great choice if you're trying to figure that out and if you're on a budget get the 11 you won't disappoint. If you're really looking for the best in the top of the line then get the pro either one I think you'll be happy with but let me know which one you'll choose and why? In the comments section. Thank you 😊😊😊😊

iPhone 11 Detailed Review

"Music" If you are in the market for a new iPhone, this is the one you should be getting. Not the iPhone 11 Pro, not the 11 Pro Max, not the new iPhone SE, but the iPhone 11. And we tend to overlook some of the wrinkles that are clearly visible after a while. It also gives the phone some time to mature, both physically as in showing us its durability and how it withstands to daily wear and tear, and give the software some time to fix some of the minor bugs, that is always a part of any new device. In the US there is a $300 difference between the price of the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro. But in India, the difference between these phones is almost $525. Making the iPhone 11 the popular choice. And honestly, for the extra price, other than the higher resolution OLED displays, and 1 extra camera at the back, there is not a lot that the Pro’s offer over the regular iPhone 11. 2 things that disappointed most people more than anything, when this phone came out, were the lower resolution display, and the measly 5-watt charger in the box. And one of those things still annoys me. It is a 5-watt charger. This phone supports fast charging via the18 watt fast charger that comes with the iPhone 11 Pro models, but you will have to buy that charger, and the USB C to lightning cable separately. I have the iPad Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro, so I use that 18-watt charger to juice this phone up, and I don’t think I can ever go back to charging my phone with the 5-watt charger again. About the lower-resolution LCD screen that everyone was so angry about, truth is, you won’t even notice that it is not an OLED display. 

It was the same for the iPhone XR. Last year I switched from the iPhone XS Max to the iPhone XR, and this year I am using both the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro Max together. But unless I am holding the phone just a few inches from my face (which we never are in normal day to day usage), or I am using a camera to zoom way in on these displays, I can barely tell the difference in resolution. Apple calibrates their LCD panels better than anyone in the industry, and the colour accuracy and viewing angles on this display are simply the best amongst any LCD displays out there. You might hear about the specs and straightaway think that it is inferior to even many of the budget smartphones. But all displays are not created equal, and this one is much nicer than the LCD screens that the budget devices have. Something that I would say I miss when moving from iPhone 11 Pro to iPhone 11 is the support for HDR playback. Other than that, unless you compare these displays side by side, it is difficult to tell the difference between OLED and LCD, yes Apple’s LCD displays are that good. You don’t have to take my word for it, go to the nearest Apple store or one of their resellers, and check the display out for yourself. You just have to see one to believe it. I think the 6.1 inch is very comfortable display size. Actually, I think a 5.8 inch iPhone 11 at an even lower price point, would have been the ideal device for my needs. The notch is still there, and it is just as big as it was on the iPhone X. At first, I was not too bothered by this notch, because the tech that hides behind that notch works perfectly. But having a look at what Android manufacturers are doing with the notch, I’ve started to wish that the notch was a bit smaller. It is not too intrusive, or anything, and just like you forget about the display having a slightly lower resolution than other smartphones, you also get used to the notch and start looking past it in a day or 2. What I miss on this iPhone 11 and even on the iPhone 11 Pro Max, is that 3D touch is now replaced with Haptic Touch. While Haptic touch made way for a bigger battery and lets you use most functions of the 3D touch by long-pressing on a particular part, it misses out on some features, and it is not as fast. I was one of the few people who used 3D toucha lot, so much so, that I made a dedicated video showing what all it can do, and now that it is gone, I miss it. - Design of the iPhone 11 is identical to that of the iPhone XR, with just the addition of the extra camera in a raised square camera module at the back. 

While it’s not too different, I do not mind having this design, as it worked pretty well for me. There are now different colour options to choose from. I would have loved to see the matt glass back on the iPhone 11, just like the 11 Pro. But that process seems to be a bit costly, and including it on the iPhone 11 would have increased its price. - I talked about the durability at the start and I would like to elaborate a bit on that. Like on the iPhone XR, Apple has again used anodised aluminium for the frame of this iPhone 11, which has held up pretty great for me so far. Most of the time I do have a case on it, but every now and then I use it without a case. And I have accidentally banged it against a wall once, but it didn’t even gather a scratch. This year Apple is using the same best gorilla glass that corning has to offer, for the front and back glass of this phone, as they do on iPhone 11 Pros. Which means even the lower-priced iPhone 11, gets top of the line protection. Now my iPhone had held up pretty well against the scratches, but I have seen other peoples phone gathering some big scratches, from nothing but carrying them in their pockets. So although Apple says this is the toughest glass, it won’t hurt to use a well-tempered glass screen protector. This phone also has a better resistance against water. XR was able to withstand being submerged under 1m of water for 30 min, and the 11 can be submerged in 2m of water for up to 30 min. - Remember, I came to the iPhone 11 after using the iPhone XR for a long time. So the cameras while falling 1 lens short than the Pro’s is still an upgrade for me, both in quality and quantity. While the camera on the iPhone XR was a beast, the ones on the iPhone 11 are even better. 

Both the normal and wide cameras are the same as the ones on the iPhone 11 Pro. Features like a better smart HDR algorithm, Deep Fusion and Night mode, makes this the best camera at its price. The front camera also gets a bump in resolution from 7 to 12 megapixels, and now you can take normal or wide selfies with it. I have made a very detailed video about the cameras on the iPhone 11, with a lot of image and video samples from various lighting situations. Make sure to check that out for a detailed look into the cameras. Apple is not doing anything too crazy like adding a lot of megapixels, or an absurd amount of zoom to one of its lenses. But whatever they are doing, has been working out pretty well. I just hope they start using physically larger sensors like some of the recent Huawei and Samsung phones. I just want to see what Apple can achieve with that sort of data and their computational photography algorithms. All of that may be in store for the next iPhones, but on the iPhone 11, we are left with these cameras, and I think they are capable of taking on any of the competing smartphones. The video performance of iPhones has been the best for some time now. It is so good, that many times when I am taking outdoor shots, I take a few shots with this phone, and mix them up in the video. And even after watching, no one can differentiate between shots taken with the iPhone 11 and my DSLR. - If you have ever used an iPhone, you know that performance is not one of the things that you have to worry about. iPhone 11 gets the same Apple A13 Bionic Processor as the Pros. So just as you would expect, iPhone 11 can handle anything that you can throw at it. In fact, there are not many apps out there which can fully take advantage of the hardware that this phone packs in. 

All this headroom means this iPhone 11 is built to last. As and when developers will develop better apps in the future, this phone will be able to run them without any issue. Apple generally provides software updates and support for any phone for 5 years. So rest assured that the performance of this phone will last far longer than your willingness to use it. Chances are, you might get bored and want to upgrade to a newer iPhone just because it is available, and not because there is some issue with the performance of this one. Software and hardware work hand in hand on the iPhones like they do on no other phones. Apple tightly integrates the software and hardware and keeps most of it under walled gardens, and that’s the reason performance of these iPhones is so good. Everything, right from the processor is designed by Apple, so they know how to get the most out of their hardware via the software, at any given time. The simplicity of iOS is what attracts most people to iPhones. And if you have more than 1 Apple devices, all of them work together flawlessly. Like with many other devices, there were a few bugs on the iPhone 11 at the launch. But with each subsequent updates, Apple has been fixing them and adding more features to the phone. I think iOS 13 has been Apples buggiest version of iOS till date, and that i just hope, they straighten things out on the iOS 14, right from the beginning. I know any operating system has its share of bugs, and I am glad that Apple has been on top of fixing them bugs right from the early days on this phone. But I would expect that a huge company like Apple, with its huge program for developers and Beta testers, would iron this bugs out prior to releasing these versions to all the users.

Somethings I wish Apple gives us with the next version of iOS is relatively bug-free experience from the start, ability to put some sort of widgets on the home screen. I know I can put some widgets on the leftmost page, but that is not nearly as convent as having them on your main homepage. I would also wish to have the ability to use multiple apps at the same time. With the screen becoming bigger, I think we can easily use at least 2 apps at a time, if not more. I would also like for them to add night mode to the ultra-wide lens and more importantly, to the front-facing camera. And maybe a few more computational photography features to make the cameras even better. I love that with each new update Apple has kept on adding a couple of new features to the present phone. Features like the deep fusion mode, which helps camera take much better and detailed images in indoor light were added later on, and even the option to change the video resolution and frame rate right from the viewfinder was added to iOS 13 in a later update. There are a lot of more small features that they have kept on adding, so these updates have not just been about fixing bugs. If there is something on the hardware side that I don’t like, it has to be the storage option. I don’t like that these iPhones still start at 64GB, because for the price this high, 128GB should be standard. You can obviously pay Apple more and bump up the storage. For the iPhone 11 Pro, after 64GB, you get the 256GB storage option, and in India with the current pricing, you have to pay Rs.14,700 to go from 64 to 256GB. With the iPhone 11, after the 64GB variant, there is the 128GB storage option. While it costs Rs.5300 to go from 64 to 128GB, if you want to go with 256GB of internal storage, you will have to spend Rs.15,800, which is 1100Rs. more than what you would have to spend on the Pros. Which doesn’t make any sense? 64Gb sounds good enough for most people, but if you plan on using this phone for 3 to 4 years, choosing the 128GB storage option is a smarter thing to do. - Last year, I went with the XS Max because I wanted the battery on my iPhone to last me an entire day, but as it turns out, iPhone XR had an even better battery life so I switched to it. Having a battery that lasts for more thana day is important to me, so knowing that this iPhone 11 could last even longer than the XR, was an amazing thing.

My normal day to day usage compromises of an hour or so of making and receiving calls, about an hour or so of video calls, watching youtube videos for about half an hour, listening to music for about an hour, Constantly checking twitter and Instagram feeds throughout the day, chatting on iMessage and WhatsApp, and streaming some shows on Amazon Prime, Netflix or Apple TV, and taking a few images and videos here and there. And with this usage, I mostly end my day with more than 30% of the battery still remaining. Sometimes, I need more than a day’s battery on my phone, because I drive a lot, and during those days, navigation apps are used a lot, and sometimes I just forget to carry my charger. So having a battery that can go on for more than a day, is very important on those days. When it is time to charge the phone, I just hate that Apple still included a 5-watt charger with the 11. I have a few 18watt Power Delivery chargers, and after having used it, I never went back to the 5-watt charger. I also have a wireless charger on my desk and on my bedside table, so sometimes, like when I am scripting for a video or doing some other work at the desk, I just place it on these docs, and it is pretty much fully juiced up when I get off the desk. Now, this is definitely the least expensive of all the iPhone that Apple announced at their last major keynote, but it is in no way the lighter iPhone or the less powerful one in any way. So Apple was right to not call it the XR 2or something like that and just go with the iPhone 11 because this is every bit as powerful as the iPhone 11 Pros. With all that being said for me, this iPhone11 has held up pretty well for the past 6 odd months, and I am sure it is still an amazing phone to buy, even if the next phones are scheduled to launch later this year. It is an amazing value for money and offers you most of the features that the 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max do, at a much lower price point. 

In China Apple has reduced the price of this phone, considerably. So if they follow that by further reducing its price as they did with the iPhone XR last year, iPhone 11 will be even more popular in India, and I am sure people will choose it over the iPhone XR. Most people getting a new iPhone are bound to use it for 2 years or more, so it is only fair to get the one that offers you most of the latest features that you would use, for a reasonable price. So if money is a factor in your buying decision, going with the iPhone 11 over the 11 Pro is the smarter choice. I’ve mentioned a few times that I am using this with the 11 Pro max, and I think I might sell that one hold on to this iPhone 11 until the next iPhones arrive. If we believe some of the news that is floating around, that could be longer wait than normal this year, due to the outbreak and manufacturing and supply constraints. So if you are looking to buy a new iPhone, and unless you have a ton of money which you don’t need, iPhone 11 is the one to get. I also understand that the iPhone XR is much cheaper than the iPhone 11 in India, and some of you might want to know what do you missout on, by going that route. So if enough of you are interested iPhone 11 and iPhone XR. Same with the new iPhone SE. iPhone 11 is clearly a much better alternative than the newly released iPhone SE.  How many of you own an iPhone 11, and how has your experience been so far. I would like to know. I would also like to know if any of you are planning to it the iPhone 11 and what drove you to it. So let’s spark up a few conversations in the comments section. Take care.😊😊😊😊

OnePlus 8 Pro Android Smartphone review

OnePlus 8 Pro Android Smartphone review

After using it for almost two months now I know a lot of you guys are going to be saying, "How have you been using this for two months, "when it was just announced a month and a half ago?" Well, i used to be fortunate enough to urge this a touch bit early before the announcement date. And I have been using it quite heavily since. There are lots to like about this phone. There are few things not to like and there's definitely room for improvement. And I'm going to be trying to cover as much of that as possible. So this will be a long video, but as always I will try to leave some timestamps down below in the description or in a pinned comment so you can skip to a particular section. Right, with that out of the way, let's get straight to it. The first thing I want to talk about is the display. So you may have heard a lot of people already say that this has the best display in the market right now, and don't get me wrong, it's a really, really good display, but it's not perfect and we'll go into that. So firstly, let's talk about the good. Of course, it's a big display. It's bright, it's brighter than what we had last year. It's got a Quad HD plus resolution, supports HDR, 10 plus. But most importantly it has a 120 hertz refresh rate.

OnePlus were really one of the main manufacturers last year that popularized high refresh rate screens with OnePlus 7 Pro. This year, they've gone even more ahead from 90 hertz to 120 hertz and it really does make a difference. And unlike other competitive devices, you can have 120 hertz at Quad HD plus resolution. So you're getting the maximum sharpness as well as the maximum smoothness all in one. And that's something that I really like. But we do have this punch out. Now personally, I really don't mind this punch out, but according to a lot of other people, this is a step back from the OnePlus 7 Pro series which did have the pop out to camera, so you didn't have any interruptions on the display. And from a poll that I did recently, it seems like it is pretty much 50 : 50. Some people don't mind the punch out but some people do prefer the pop out, especially because of privacy. That pop camera when it's not being used, it is physically hidden. Now one of the reasons why OnePlus has gone with the punch out rather than the pop up is for IP 68 water and dust resistance and the OnePlus 8 Pro is the first OnePlus device to have that official rating. So I do think it's going to come down to your personal preference. As I said, I personally don't mind it and it's something that you kind of ignore after a bit because it is out of the way in the top corner.

Now let's talk about a few of the negatives. So you'll see that this is a very curved display from either side. And although this looks really cool in terms of usability, it can sometimes be a bit of a problem. Samsung, the company that actually popularized the cup display format, they themselves have now started to move away from that. So if you look at the S20 line, the displays are much flatter than they have been previously. The OnePlus 8 Pro has a very curved display and although it is going to come down to your personal preference whether you like it or not. There are some palm rejection issues that I've experienced, especially if it's reaching to the opposite bottom corner. The far of my hand will kind of cover the screen a little bit and then I'll have to reposition my hand to be able to press that button. So although this has improved with software updates, I still think there is more room for improvement. Another area for improvement is with an always-on display. The OnePlus 8 Pro still does not have an always-on display. OnePlus has been making OLED displays for some time on their devices and they still don't have an always-on display, whereas the competition out there on the Android side, whether it's Samsung, Google, LG, they will have always-on displays. Now, this may not be specific to you. You may not want an always-on display. I am somebody who really appreciates an always-on display. It's really useful to just to see things at a glance without having to pick my phone up each time and although I do think the OnePlus 8 Pro is going to be getting an update from what I've read on forums soon. It has been some time since this has been out and although we had lots of other updates, we've still not got that always-on display. 

OnePlus, there's really no excuse now, give us an always-on display. Right, so those are some of the issues that may or may not apply to you, but let's talk about some issues that I think will apply to most people. Recently, we did start hearing of display issues with the OnePlus 8 Pro. In particular around green tint as well as a black crush. Now on my personal unit, I did not experience any green tint, but I did experience some black crush. Now, this was only visible in very dark environments when the brightness was all the way down. And you could definitely notice some areas of the screen which were inconsistent compared to others. When you have something like a grey background. Now OnePlus did release some updates to improve this. But from what I found in my experience was that all these updates really did were to limit how dim the display could go. Which would make those issues less noticeable, but they were still there. Here you can see an image of the OnePlus 8 Pro right next to the OnePlus 7 Pro at the lowest brightness settings and you can see that the OnePlus 7 Pro goes much dimmer compared to the OnePlus 8 Pro after this updates. Now I'm somebody who really likes to use my phone in darker environments.

 I am usually on my phone say half an hour, an hour before bed. So I don't like the display to be too bright because I don't want it to affect my eyes. And I do eventually want to get to sleep. So this was something that I noticed quite a bit and I did tweet about it and a lot of you guys also noticed this. And having a more closer examination of my OnePlus 8 Pro compared to the OnePlus 7 Pro, I did see quite a bit of inconsistencies in the color when viewing grey backgrounds. So I did get in touch with OnePlus and they did send me a replacement unit. Now this replacement unit was much better than my previous OnePlus 8 Pro unit. However, it still was not perfect. I could still see these inconsistencies of color when viewing it in a darker environment compared to last year's device, the OnePlus 7 Pro, which was absolutely fine. So this is something that I have spoken to OnePlus about and apparently there's going to be more software updates coming to improve this. Whether or not these software updates are going to fix this issue completely, I don't know. Whether or not this is going to be something that's going to affect your specific device? I don't know. You may be somebody who doesn't really use your Smartphone at the darkest settings in dark environments, so you may not even notice some of these issues if your Smartphone has it. Nevertheless, it is something that I have experienced and it's something that I have to definitely talk about. Now another thing I want to talk about around the display is this optical in display fingerprint scanner, which is very fast. It's one of the fastest fingerprint scanners out there, but you do have to wake the device in order to be able to use it. And it's something that I have talked about before on other devices such as the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra which I did do a comparison of with the OnePlus 8 Pro. 

I'll link that video in the cause and in the description. The fingerprint scanner is always on so you can just press it at any time without having to wake the device. So the fact that you do have to wake the device before you press the fingerprint scanner actually makes this a little bit slower in my opinion. So that's something that I think with an always on display will hopefully be fixed. And another thing is that, once again this is in darker environments, something that may not be specific to everyone out there, but as soon as you tap the fingerprint scanner, the brightness of the display increases significantly. So I'll be there, I'm kind of in bed, I'm trying to find the fingerprint scanner, I press it and it's just like, "Whoa, why is it so bright?" But for me, that really does spoil the experience of using this device in the dark. It's not something that I experience on other devices. They have consistent brightness. So if you do set it to the lowest brightness, it's going to stay like that. It's not going to suddenly brighten up the screen to be able to read your fingerprint. I don't know if this can be improved with the software updates, but it is something that I have definitely noticed. Right, so that was a lot about the display but of course there was a lot to talk about. Now let's move on to the build on the design. So in terms of the design itself, this is not really anything new. The front as what is the back is something that we've seen previously. The front is practically identical to the OPPO Find X2 Pro which is a device by OPPO, a partner company to OnePlus. So it's kind of understandable

And the back of the device looks very much like last year's OnePlus 7 Pro. Now these are not necessarily bad things. I think it looks really good from the front and I also think it looks really good from the back. I actually really like the symmetrical central aligned cameras compared to some of the rectangular camera modules that we're seeing these days. And I also really liked this matte finish at the back. This looks really nice. It's got a bit of a two-tone finish. However, if you do get the black version then that is a glossy black, which I'm not a huge fan of, because it does attract lots of finger prints. I quite like the swarm skin. It gives you that black look but also gives you a bit more texture to the device and there's lots of other options available as well.

 

Now speaking of this camera module, the camera module does have quite a bit of a bump on. Because it's in the middle, the device will rock from side to side quite a bit. Now I generally don't use my phone when it's on the table, but just something to bear in mind. Let's talk about these cameras. So traditionally OnePlus devices have always been a step behind other competitive devices. So it's one area where I really think OnePlus has really struggled to kind of keep up with the competition. This year however, things are different and OnePlus has really improved the game when it comes to cameras. I actually did a mini comparison versus the S20 Ultra in my hands on video. And in a lot of situations the OnePlus 8 Pro actually beats out the S20 Ultra which is a much more expensive device, especially when it came to areas like dynamic range. So I'm very impressed with the cameras here. The Ultra-wide camera is actually using the same sense that we had on the primary camera last year and it does take some really good photos. The primary camera is quite a large sensor as well, so you do get some natural blurry background shots, a natural depth of field effect. However, as with other smart phones that do have a large sensor, the plane of focus is quite slim. So there might be certain situations where you try to take an image of something and some of it's going to be in focus and some of it is not going to be in focus. And then we also have a telephoto camera, which is going to give you a OnePlus say three times optical zoom. This is technically the same as say you had a 12 megapixel camera with two times optical zoom. As soon as you crop that image to 8 megapixels, then that's kind of the equivalent of three times optical zoom. So I would have liked to have had a standard two times optical zoom camera on here, which you could crop into yourself instead of this kind of cropping in for you. And the other area as well where I think this has an effect is when it comes to portrait mode. So generally, I've said this before, but portrait shots on a Smartphone tend to look best at around 50 mm So that's around at the 2X point. Also having a look at some portrait shots in comparison to say the iPhone 11 Pro max. I do prefer the colors much more on the iPhone compared to the OnePlus. Now one underrated feature on the OnePlus is the macro camera. Now I'm definitely not talking about the gimmicky two megapixel macro cameras, which manufacturers are now throwing into smartphones these days.

The OnePlus 8 does have one of those two mega pixel macro cameras, which doesn't really give you great results. The OnePlus 8 Pro actually gives you really nice macro shots. And it's something that I found myself using a lot to get some really nice close ups, which you can then use as some abstract backgrounds in things. And it's something that other Smartphone don't really offer. So it's definitely a feature that I think is quite underrated. Now let's talk about the color filter camera, which is interesting. Because initially when OnePlus talked about this color filter camera, I'll be completely honest with you, me as well as many of the tech reviews really did not get it. It's like, what is the point of this camera? Personally speaking, I used it a couple of times, and I did not really use it after that. This color photo camera could see through sets of materials. Some light plastics and things like that. And not everyone really picked up on that initially, but just a couple of weeks ago, this did get picked up on social media by many people. And I was kind of thinking that, why did OnePlus not really advertise this as a feature, right? Because then it would have made a lot more sense. Okay, we've got this color filter camera, which is going to be something that's going to be quite trippy and you might be able to see through certain objects and things like that. However, that quickly changed because I then realized that there was a lot of people that were not happy about this because of privacy and the fact that you could potentially see through some very thin materials such as a t-shirt or something. Now are people going to be pointing this at others to try to see through their clothes? I really doubt it. Is it going to be a problem for OnePlus? 

Well, yes, it is a problem for OnePlus and as far as I'm aware, right now they have updated software on at least the Chinese models to disable this temporarily. So generally speaking, I think this is a feature that is still a gimmick. I mean even if you could see through some items, I'd still only use it once or twice and I'd forget about it, right? It's not something that you're going to be using every single day. Instead, I think OnePlus should have spent their time on the front facing camera. Now don't get me wrong, the front facing camera is actually quite good. You get lots of detail. Dynamic range is actually really good too, but I have found that it can overexpose in certain situations. This is something that OnePlus devices previously have done a little bit too. It's not always, but in certain situations I just find that it's just  completely washed me out. So this is something that I am hoping can be improved. But one thing that the OnePlus 8 Pro is definitely missing, which other flagship devices, even half the price of this are offering, is a 4K front facing camera. Now when it comes to video, I've have said this many times before, but the iPhone does have my favorite video camera on any Smartphone. One of the reasons for that is consistency. You could be shooting from the front facing camera or any of the rear facing cameras for photos or videos and then you can match that footage up later on and then you have consistency. On the OnePlus 8 Pro, you've got a max of 10 ATP. 

So if I'm shooting some video from the front facing camera and then I switched to the rear facing camera, I'm not going to be able to put that footage together. It's not going to be the same resolution. I'll have to downscale my footage from the rear facing cameras. So this is an area that I am a little bit disappointed about for a flagship device in 2020. I really think that it should have had 4K from the front facing camera. Video from rear facing camera is actually quite good. And we also have an HDR option, which does definitely make a difference for dynamic range. So generally speaking, the cameras are really good. They are up to the competition in many ways, but there is definitely room for improvement. Now let's talk a little bit about the performance. So OnePlus has always been known for having some of the fastest Smartphone out there. A lot of that is thanks to the hardware, but a lot of that is also thanks to the software. So this is powered by the latest and greatest. So we've got the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chip set. We do have UFS 3.0 storage, LP, DDR five Ram. So personally speaking, I've had no problems whatsoever in terms of speed and performance. This is a very fast and smooth device like OnePlus say. And a lot of that is thanks to the software as well as the higher refresh rate screen. The software is one of my favorite skins on Android, OxygenOS. It's really clean. It's really simple. There's not too much on here that you don't really need and as a lot of you guys probably already know, OnePlus is really good with updates. I've already had multiple updates on my OnePlus 8 Pro and it's only been around a couple of months. So this is something that I'm very confident, OnePlus is going to carry on doing. Bringing updates to the device and bringing a lot of these improvements. One improvement that I would like to see however is better one handed usage. 

So let me give you an example here. So this is my home screen and you can see that I've got lots of icons in here, but they're all very spaced out vertically. So if I am holding the device in one hand, I can't necessarily reach the icon style all the way at the top. They are out of reach because of the layout. Now if I compare the same icons on something like the Galaxy S20 Ultra, you will see that the icons are much lower even though they are the same icons, everything is the same, but they are much lower. And that's something that I really like about (mumbles). That consideration of one handed usage. So hopefully OnePlus  can improve the software here. So it is generally better for one-handed usage. This is a large display device. For the speakers, we do have one in the earpiece and one bottom firing and they do sound really good. I've not really got any complaints with the speakers. Now let's talk about the battery life. So the battery life has actually been really good in my experience. And that is at maximum setting. So I am using Quad HD plus resolution with 120 hertz and this has managed to get me through the day and pretty much all occasions. We're talking around five to six hours of screen on time. So personally speaking, I've not got any real complaints of the battery life. And of course OnePlus very fast with charging, you do get a 30 watt charger out of the box, which tops this up very fast. But for the first time on OnePlus device, we finally have wireless charging. This is something that I used to miss massively on OnePlus devices and it is finally here. And it works really well. You can get a very fast 30 watt wireless charger, but that is something that you're going to have to buy separately. It is a propriety OnePlus charger. I don't really think you need to get it. I mean it's really nice to have, don't get me wrong, but it's quite big and it's got a fan and honestly speaking, I think wireless charging is more about convenience. 

This device lasts me through the day generally, so I can just drop this on a wireless charger before I'm about to go to bed and I can wake up to it charged. So I don't really have to worry about that. And I think that's how most modern flagships should be. They should last you the day. And the wireless charging thing is more of a convenience. So yes, if you really do want those super fast wireless charging speeds, you can go ahead and buy the 30T wireless charger. But any general cheat enabled wireless charger is going to work absolutely fine with the OnePlus 8 Pro. It's just not going to be as fast of course. Now we also do have a support for reverse wireless charging where you can charge another device on the back of the OnePlus 8 Pro. This is quite slow however. Slower than some of the competition, so it's not really something that I found myself using much. Now the OnePlus 8 Pro does have support for 5G. I've not really been able to test this much because 5G is still not fully in my area and of course I've not really been at traveling out and about as much. One good thing is that you do have the dual SIM support and you can have two 5G sims in here. Although you'll only be able to use 5G on one sim at one time. Still really good to have. And the fact that we do have 5G does have an impact on the price. So the price of the OnePlus 8 Pro is now starting at 800 pounds or $900. So it's definitely up there with the competitive flagships. So traditionally, OnePlus devices have been quite a bit cheaper and it's been very easy to recommend OnePlus devices over others purely because of the price. This year, that is much more difficult. Can I still recommend this at the price point? Yes, I really think that OnePlus 8 Pro overall despite some of the issues is a very good Smartphone and it's something that I think most people would really like.

 

But at the same time there is a lot of competition at this price bracket. If you look at the likes of the S20 for example, that will be retailing for around this price, now that it has been out for a couple of months. So it's really going to be a question of do you want to go with one of these other devices? Or do you want to go with this? However, if you're in India, then the decision is going to be a lot easier because the OnePlus 8 Pro is actually a lot cheaper in India compared to everywhere else. Now I think this is partly because OnePlus devices are hugely popular in India. We've already heard before, that OnePlus is the number one premium Smartphone brand in India. And it looks like OnePlus has really worked hard to get the price down in India particularly, which is kind of unfair on the rest of the world. Let's be real. But regardless if you are in India, then I think you're really going to like this deal in comparison to lots of other premium flagship devices out there. That's what I think about the OnePlus 8 Pro. What do you guys think? 

Definitely drop me a comment below. Let me know your thoughts. I hope you enjoyed this. I try to cover as much detail as possible.  Thank You 😊😊😊😊

OnePlus 8 Android smartphone review

OnePlus 8 Android smartphone review

The OnePlus device for people that want this year's model, but maybe aren't into a number of the wackier ideas that OnePlus is experimenting with its Pro models. It starts at $699, which is$200 less than the Pro device, but all of the OnePlus essentials are still here. It's still got a great screen. It's still got great battery life. It's fast charging, it's still fast, and it's taking on Android is still just as clean as ever. And you're getting a screen with a 90-hertz refresh rate, which is honestly, still so good that I wish it was a standard-issue feature for most modern flagships.

Now, if you think that sounds like a fairly traditional OnePlus device, then you're not wrong, but the difference this year is that with the 8 Pro, OnePlus has finally addressed some of those issues that OnePlus fans have been asking about for years. It's a device that really makes a serious attempt to break the OnePlus mould. The OnePlus 8 hasn't quite made that same attempt, but it's still a good phone at a good price, which really begs the question, is a good OnePlus device that doesn't break the mould worth it? Or do you need to spend the extra money on the Pro? (calming ambient music) But the OnePlus 8 is and a solidly-specced device. It's powered by a Snapdragon 865, starts with eight gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of storage, but I have been employing a model with 12 gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of storage. There's 5G onboard, Wi-Fi6, all that good stuff, and that's a lot of spec for $699. Especially compared to, oh, I don't know, the, pretty much identically priced entry-level iPhone 11.

So essentially, you're getting most of the internal specs of the OnePlus 8 Pro in the OnePlus 8. The exception that OnePlusis keen to emphasize is that the Pro is using LPDDR5 RAM, while the 8 is using LPDDR4X, but I struggled to notice the difference in real-world usage. I mean, the two phones even look damn near identical from the front because they both have that same hole-punch, selfie cutout at the top left of the screen. Yes, the OnePlus 8 screen is ever so slightly smaller at 6.55 inches, compared to the 6.78 inches on the Pro, but the two phones are basically the same width, so they don't really feel any different to hold. I mean, seriously, when I was taking comparison photographs, I occasionally forgot which one was which. I will say that the OnePlus 8 screen seems to curve ever so slightly less around the sides of the device, which is maybe why I didn't experience the accidental touch issues that Dieter had with the Pro, but honestly, it's really subtle, and you have to really be looking for it to actually notice it.

 All of which is to say, the OnePlus 8 is not a device to get if you're after a smaller phone. Personally, I'd love to see OnePlus experiment with a smaller device, but hey, maybe that's just me. Of course, the screens aren't actually identical. With the 8, you're getting a 1080p, 90-hertz display, with a peak brightness of 1100 nits. Meanwhile, the 8 Pro goes up to 1440p, 120 hertz, and 1300 nits peak brightness. But please, don't let this numbers-to-numbers spec comparison lead you to believe that the 8 has a bad screen. It doesn't, it's great, it's bright, it's vibrant, and it's yet more evidence that OnePlus really, really knows how to put the right display on a phone. Even compared to the 8 Pro, the 8's display still feels smooth. It took me sitting with both phones side-by-side to spot the difference, and even then, it wasn't a night and day comparison. The phone feels nice and snappy to use. Apps open quickly, games run well. You're getting a flagship android experience here. Oh, and Oxygen OS is just as out of the way as ever, which is exactly what I want out of a manufacturer's operating system. 

I'm looking at you, LG. (calming music) So I've been scurrying around the issue for a little while, but what are the differences between the 8 and the 8 Pro that actually matter? Well, to my mind, there are three main differences that you need to worry about. The OnePlus 8 doesn't wireless charging. It doesn't do the fancy 30 watt wireless charging, the OnePlus 8 Pro, and it doesn't do the more basic five-watt wireless charging that basically every other flagship device does at this point. You already know if it's a feature you want or not, so I'm not gonna labour the point too much other than to say that its still a bit of a bummer. It also doesn't have an official IP rating, which wouldn't be surprising coming from OnePlus, apart from the fact, the company has finally relented and actually added one to the 8 Pro. And yeah, the company claims that it'll still survive being used in the rain and whatever, but come on. And also, finally, the camera's different. So let's dig in. There's good news and there's bad news contained within this triple-camera array, which consists of a 48-megapixel main camera, a 16-megapixel ultra-wide camera, and a two-megapixel macro camera. The good news is there is no gimmick lens here. The bad news is you don't get a zoom lens. The macro lens is tricky, and you also don't get the main sensor that's quite as good as the 8 Pro. It's still 48 megapixels, which yeah, is the same, but long story short, it's an older sensor, and it's just, well, see for yourself. In bright conditions, I think it holds up well against both the OnePlus8 Pro and the Pixel 3 I happen to have for comparison's sake. 

If you check out these shots I took during my government-sanctioned walk around the block, I'll be well-pressed to tell a difference between the 8 and the 8 Pro, and the Pixel 3's images have a slightly softer look in comparison. Look at this picture of a car and you'll see the hedge behind it tints slightly yellower on the 8 compared to the Pro, but look, it's minor. It's after the sun goes down that things start to go badly for the 8. Things are just a lot brighter and clearer on the Pro. Faces can look a little smooth, weird and brighten, especially at night. Oh, and here are some selfie shots, and OnePlus uses the same 16 megapixel selfie sensor between the 8 and the Pro, so there aren't many differences there, but they definitely seem to be some kind of skin brightening going on compared to my Pixel 3, especially considering it's managed to correctly expose the sky behind me. Obviously, you don't get a zoom lens with the 8, but you do get a macro lens and, (groans) I don't really know how useful it is. Look, I'm not gonna deny that under the right circumstances, you can get a little bit more detail with the 8 than the Pro. I took these two shots from the same distance away with both phones with their macros modes turned on and let them do their thing, and sure enough, you can see a little bit more detail in the shot from the 8, but other times, I straight up got a better macro shot out of the 8 Pro, even though it doesn't have a macro lens, like with this horse head on a Venetian mask, which I just couldn't get the 8 to focus on no matter how hard I tried. Or if you're more of a video person, then you can see for yourself what it looks like. 

This is from the 16-megapixel front-facing camera. So the easy answer is that if you want the better camera setup, you gotta go Pro, especially if you want a zoom lens and better low-light performance. But the much harder question to answer is how well the modestly priced OnePlus 8 competes against similarly priced rivals. And let's not forget, these include the entry-level iPhone 11, and honestly, I just don't think the 8 quite nails it. I can't really complain about the battery life in OnePlus 8. It's got a 4300 milli amp-hour battery, and I haven't even been able to come close to running it down with a full day of use. Although you can't charge it wireless, it supports Warp Charge 30T, which can charge your phone in around an hour. So this is a nice phone, but you already knew that. It's an OnePlus phone, at this point, there are just certain things you can kinda take for granted. It's got a great screen, it's wicked fast, it's solidly built. The camera can stand to be a little better, and for reasons that seem to apply only to OnePlus, it doesn't support wireless charging or have an IP rating. So yeah, the OnePlus do not really break the mould, but I don't think that makes it a bad phone. It just makes it a little predictable at this point, but that makes for a hard choice. Do you go for the predictable OnePlus phone, or do you spend $200 more for a device that definitely overcomes some of these long-standing issues? You'll have to watch the OnePlus 8 Pro for a complete look at that device's strengths and weaknesses. But a lot of the choice comes down to this, is a $200 price premium worth it for wireless charging and IP rating and a slightly better camera? Because if it's not, then the OnePlus 8 is a great phone. 

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New OnePlus 7T Android Smartphone Review

OnePlus 7T Android Smartphone Review

It's a lot like one of our favourite phones of the year, the OnePlus 7 Pro, but it's a little bit smaller and it costs less. It's a follow-on from the OnePlus 7 that was available in other markets, It more as a successor to the OnePlus 6T from last year. Now don't let that lower price lead you into thinking that the 7T is a worse phone than 7 Pro, because in reality, between the two, it's the one that I actually prefer. (smooth synthesizer music) It still has the best parts of the 7 Pro. That super-smooth 90-hertz screen, fast and responsive performance, but it doesn't have the other things that make the 7 Pro challenging to use, like a giant size and curved edges. 

It also has a couple of new tricks that the 7 Pro doesn't even offer. So let's talk about specs because when you review an OnePlus phone, you have to talk about specs. The 7T is a 6.55 inch 10 eDP OLED display with that 90-hertz refresh rate. So scrolling on this looks a whole lot smoother than on most other phones. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ processor, which is technically faster than the standard 855 in the 7 Pro, but I doubt you'd really notice much difference between them. Either way, performance is still excellent. The 7T that will be available in the US has 8 gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage. Other markets like India and China are also going to get a 256 gig option. The screen has a 20 by nine aspect ratio which makes it a bit tall, but it's noticeably narrower than the 7 Pro and even last year's 6T. That, plus the flat surface, there's no waterfall curves here, make it more comfortable to hold. But you shouldn't go thinking that this is a suddenly new, small phone from OnePlus. 

This is still a big phone, it's just a little smaller than the 7 Pro. The display doesn't have a completely uninterrupted screen. There is a small water drop notch at the top for the front camera, because the 7T doesn't have the fancy pop-up motorized front camera that the 7 Pro has. Now OnePlus says this notches specifically 31.6% smaller than the notch on the 6T and the 7. And to be honest with you, I really haven't found it to be any problem in use over the past week or so. Now the screen supports both HDR10 and HDR10+ and it's 27% brighter in direct sunlight, thanks to a new boosted outdoor mode, which lets it get to up to a peak of 1,000 nits. There's really not a whole lot to complain about with this screen. It's bright, it's colourful, it has that fast refresh rate that's awesome. 

Now it's technically a lower resolution than the 1440p panel on the 7 Pro, but I really can't see a difference in sharpness between them. Now if we stop staring at the screen for a second, which, I admit, it's hard to do, we could flip the 7T over and check out its camera system. Now just like the 7 Pro and a lot of other phones out this year, the 7T has a three-camera system. It's got a standard one, an ultra-wide and a telephoto. And they're all housed in this kinda giant hump on the back of the phone. It kind of reminds me of the old Nokia Lumia 1020. The standard camera and the ultra-wide are basically exactly the same as the 7 Pro's camera. And the telephoto is just a 2x zoom instead of the 3x that you get on the 7 Pro. You can expect the same kind of images from the 7T as you can get from the 7 Pro and I think a lot of people are gonna be really happy with these results.

One new thing that the 7T has is a super macro mode that lets you get focused really close on an object. It can be challenging to use because it's hard to hold still and get a sharp shot at these close distances, but with a little practice, it can be a ton of fun and you won't be able to get this on the 7 Pro, even though a software update because OnePlus tells me that to get this to work, it requires some special hardware that the 7 Pro just doesn't have. Another thing that the 7 Pro doesn't have is Warp Charge 30 plus, which is the latest version of OnePlus's proprietary fast-charging system. The company says it's up to 23% faster than the Warp Charge 30 that's on the Pro, and it should charge the 7T's battery from zero to 100 in just 60 minutes. In my test, I was able to go from 22 to 87% in just 30 minutes, which is really impressive. 

But just know that, in order to get those speeds, you're going to have to use the included brick and cable that came in the box with the 7T. The 7T is launching with Android 10 and OnePlus's Oxygen OS 10, making it one of the first phones to launch with Google's latest software. Now you can choose between Android 10's new gesture interface or the standard three buttons. But if you were a fan of OnePlus's old gestures, I'm sorry to report, those are no longer available. One new thing in Oxygen OS that I particularly like is the chromatic reading mode, which desaturates the screen to make it easier to read, but it doesn't turn it fully monochrome like before. Now I like using this when I'm using Pocket or the Kindle app and doing a lot of reading, but if you prefer the older, full-style monochrome version, you can choose that if you want to. So, what's not to love with the 7T? Well, for starters, I'm only seeing average battery life with it, which is about four to five hours of screen time. 

Even though this thing has a big 3800 milli amp-hour battery. I don't think this is a huge problem and I think most people will be able to get through a full day with the 7T, but if you saw that stat and were hoping for a multi-day monster, this ain't it. It's clear that the 90-hertz screen does take a hit on battery life, but I think it's totally worth the trade. The 7T also has familiar OnePlus complaints. It doesn't support wireless charging, which might not matter to you, but matters to me. It doesn't have a rated official IP rating for water and dust resistance, and you can't expand the storage with a micro SD card. It also tends to aggressively shut down apps when I'm not using them, which is something the company says it'll be addressing in future software updates, but it just hasn't yet. I mostly notice this when I'm using Android messages on my computer and I can't send or receive new messages until I wake up the 7T on my desk. But I can forgive and forget a lot of those things when I consider the fact that I'm getting this screen and this performance for 600 bucks. We're expecting Google to puta similar 90-hertz display in the upcoming Pixel 4, but I guarantee that won't be available for anywhere near the price of the 7T. In fact, when I compare the 7T to any other phone right now, even the 7 Pro, I'm not sure anything else can touch this combination of display, performance and price.

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