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00:00Hey what's up guys, MKBHD here, back with the OnePlus 7 Pro, arguably the phone of the year so far,
00:14and I'm not the only one who thinks that. So usually when a phone first comes out,
00:17I get to do an impressions video of what I first think about it when it gets released,
00:21and then we talk about it in the comments for a little bit, and we figure out what people are
00:25mostly curious about for the full review, and then I do a review. But of course with the OnePlus 7,
00:29that wasn't the case, I had just a couple weeks to use it, and then went straight into the full review.
00:34So now after that, there's been a couple things that have bubbled up, and there's some interesting
00:38tidbits that were left out that weren't in the full review, or updates to it, that I still think
00:43are pretty interesting. So this video is all the little things you might still not know about the
00:47OnePlus 7 Pro, even after the review, and some clarification on things that were in it. So first,
00:52about being waterproof. So the OnePlus 7 Pro isn't technically IP certified, but they have also
00:58made this point to pretty much tell everyone their phones are safe being splashed on. Dave2D
01:02did his entire review video with the phone totally underwater in a bowl next to him,
01:06and took it out at the end, and it was fine. Basically, getting a phone officially IP certified
01:11means adding all the rubber and the seals internally, and then going through independent
01:15testing that costs extra money. So OnePlus has made it a point to still go through the same
01:21diligence to add all the rubber and the seals, but not pay for the independent testing,
01:26and just pass along those savings to us. I can only assume that they've done some sort
01:30of internal testing on their own, which gives them this confidence that they can tell people
01:34you can splash water on it, or go out in the rain. I don't know how much per unit this actually
01:40saved us buyers. I've heard numbers ranging from 10 bucks to 30 bucks per unit, which sounds like
01:45a lot to me, but bottom line is, I'm okay with it, as long as the third party testing we're now
01:50seeing by people like Dave, seems to show this will hold up fine. And then for those wondering
01:54about RAM, since there are a couple different specs you can get of the 7 Pro, with either 6,
01:598, or 12 gigs of RAM. So you can check out this page in OxygenOS where it shows my average RAM
02:05usage. With my medium to heavy use, I'm averaging around 5 gigs of memory used. So technically,
02:11I'd be fine with 6 gigs of RAM, but I think I'd go ahead and upgrade to 8 just to be safe.
02:16OnePlus only charges 30 extra dollars to do that, so 6.99, and you give yourself a little headroom.
02:21The 12 gigs of RAM is a bit more about future-proofing and taking advantage of OnePlus's
02:26RAM boost feature, where it pre-loads some parts of apps into the RAM so it can open them even
02:31faster. But that's, you know, bordering on overkill. I love it, but you'll only really
02:35notice it at the crazy high end of using the phone. And then there's still no GCam app or
02:39Google camera port for the OnePlus 7 Pro yet. Still crossing my fingers for it. Side note,
02:44I don't know how exactly it's going to work with multiple cameras, since all of Google's phones
02:49only have one camera. Could be interesting to see what that ends up looking like.
02:52Anyway, the stock camera app also has some things to note. Number one, in the settings,
02:56you can turn on or off ultra-wide angle correction. By default, it's on, and I think
03:01most people will like it this way. It minimizes distortion around the edges. But if you turn it
03:05off, this nets you a bit of a more distorted GoPro-like look that you might be into. So
03:11if you want to turn that off, the choice is yours. Then two, you can actually choose which
03:15photo modes show up in the slider along the bottom and in what order. So if you take a lot
03:20of nightscape shots or if you use pro mode a lot, you can just move those up to be a slide away all
03:25the time or remove the ones you don't use. So that's a nice customization that I actually
03:29wish stock Android had or iPhones had. And then you cannot record video from the ultra-wide camera.
03:36You can from the regular camera or even the telephoto, but not from the ultra-wide like LG
03:40and Huawei let you. That is disappointing to me. I asked OnePlus about it. They told me
03:44officially they do not have plans to support video from the wide angle camera. That's what
03:49they said. Okay. Another note, people were asking a lot about the speed of the retracting
03:54selfie camera. So what's cool is if this little pop-up selfie camera is out and the phone detects
03:59some sort of free fall, it automatically retracts into the phone. So in case it lands somewhere
04:04around there, it'll prevent damage. That's smart. So I roughly timed how long it takes the motor to
04:08open and close since it's not instant. And it seems to take somewhere around half a second
04:13to actually go from fully out to retracted. A free fall in that time is somewhere around 1.2
04:20meters or four feet for any object, including this phone. So that means if you're at like
04:24selfie normal height and you drop it from five feet, it will be fully retracted by the time
04:28it hits the ground. But if you're just dropping it on a counter or just like from pocket height,
04:32and it's not quite four feet, there's a chance it'll still actually not be done retracting by
04:37the time it hits the ground. But honestly, I still think halfway retracted is still better than
04:41fully exposed if it happens to land on it. So I still think this feature is useful and a lot of
04:46cool videos came out of it too. All right, so there's some other features in Oxygen OS that
04:49I'd want to see in some other skins. So this applies to more than just the OnePlus 7 Pro,
04:53but a bunch of OnePlus phones. That includes the ability to change the accent color of the
04:58entire OS to literally any color you want. That's pretty dope. Being able to hide any of the icons
05:04up in the top and the status bar if you don't want them to be there. I mentioned that in the
05:07full review. I still love that I can do that. And then also this little animation for stuff in
05:12the quick settings like turning on and off airplane mode. It's a really nice subtle touch.
05:16A couple other ROMs also do this. And then since it's such a big phone, the ability to swipe down
05:22anywhere and get notifications or swipe up anywhere in the launcher to get the app drawer.
05:27You can do this with third party launchers, but of course being in the stock launcher,
05:30that's convenient too. I've seen this before and I'm happy to have it here on such a big phone.
05:34And then I've got some clarifications from the full review. So first on refresh rate,
05:39I think I mentioned in the full review that it was locked at 90 Hertz. Technically,
05:44technically this is actually already variable refresh rate. So the OnePlus 7 Pro display
05:49is always locked at 90 Hertz, unless you are watching a video in the camera app or on a phone
05:56call, in which case it'll go down to 60 Hertz. So that's what I heard from OnePlus officially.
06:02Those are the times it goes down. So that makes sense. You don't need 90 Hertz on a phone call
06:05or even when you're watching a 30 FPS video or in the camera app where you're not doing 90 FPS.
06:11Those are the good times for it to throttle down. But even still, if you're just on the home screen
06:14or if you're just sitting reading an article and not moving the screen too much, it's still
06:19refresh rate locked at 90 Hertz. So that's still going to be eating through some battery life. So
06:23it's a sort of a middle level compromise. And there's still a possibility of a software update
06:28coming to improve those times where it can be refreshed variably more often. And then speaking
06:33of battery, a lot of people didn't like my assessment of the four to four and a half
06:38hours of screen on time I was getting on the OnePlus 7 Pro. You know, some other reviewers
06:42are getting six, seven hours, but that screen on time metric that I used, it's extremely relative
06:49and specific to your usage style. You can't really just directly compare one person's screen on time
06:55to another person's screen on time because these people don't use the same apps or the same
06:59accessories or the same brightness even. I've notoriously had a very taxing way of using my
07:04phones, you know, high brightness all the time, Bluetooth always on, NFC always on, a lot of GPS,
07:09navigation, multitasking often. So you can compare my four and a half hours of screen on time on this
07:15phone with my screen on time across other devices I've used the same way, which will range between
07:21three hours on the worst ones to the six to seven hours of the champ, the P30 Pro. So that being said,
07:26the battery life on my OnePlus 7 Pro, it's actually slowly, slowly gotten more consistent
07:32and slightly better over the weeks I've used it, but it's still not amazing since I leave 90 hertz
07:37on and it's a 1440p display, max brightness, but I haven't gotten past five hours of screen on time
07:43on a day just quite yet. It's not terrible by any means, but fast charging usually saves the day
07:48for me most of the time. And then lastly, there is a OnePlus 7 coming, it's just not coming to the
07:54US. So there's a OnePlus 7 Pro, we all know this starts at $669. The OnePlus 7 will be, you know,
08:01essentially a revised version of the OnePlus 6T, the teardrop notch, a 1080p, AMOLED, 60 hertz,
08:08but just with internal specs bumped up, Snapdragon 855, that type of thing. I kind of still wish that
08:13was coming to the US at a lower price, that would have been pretty exciting, but I also fully
08:17understand OnePlus's pricing strategy here. Maybe I'll try to get my hands on the standard OnePlus 7
08:22anyway, maybe let me know in the comments if that's something you'd be into. Honestly though,
08:25the price of the OnePlus 7 Pro is still kind of amazing though. Like if you imagine this from any
08:30other company, imagine for a second, Samsung comes out with a special edition Galaxy S10 Plus right
08:36now, some new colorway or something, and they give it a no hole punch, a 90 hertz display,
08:43and 12 gigs of RAM. Like you could easily see that phone being a thousand plus dollars, right?
08:48But because it's OnePlus, we had a certain set of expectations for it, and I still would say it
08:53delivered. Anyway, I hope this video clears up any questions people had about the OnePlus 7 Pro
08:57or give you some extra information. I'll leave the link to the full review below again if you're
09:01interested in watching that, but this has been distracting me so much from Pixel 3a and this
09:06new Zen phone that came out with the swiveling screen and everything, so videos on those are now
09:11upcoming thanks to this one being done. Alright, thanks for watching. Catch you guys in the next one.
09:17Peace!