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00:00Hey what's up guys, MKBHD here, we're back, and yeah, you got me, I've been using the
00:09OnePlus 8 Pro daily for about 2 weeks now, and I gotta say, they did it, they finally
00:17did it, they just went ahead and made a flagship, like a bonafide, complete feeling flagship
00:23phone, finally.
00:25Now there are still a few snags, and I will nitpick about those because that's what you
00:29do in a phone that starts now at $900, but still, nevertheless, really happy to see them
00:35finally commit to something like this, and it's been a long time coming.
00:38So today, as you may have seen, OnePlus launched their newest, highest-end phone, it's the
00:42OnePlus 8 Pro, taking yet another step up in the ladder of their phones getting slightly
00:47more expensive every year, but alongside it, they also dropped the OnePlus 8, which is
00:53sort of more like a premium mid-range phone that starts at $699.
00:58So that, that will be its own separate video that'll come out later once I fully daily
01:02drive this phone, switch to it, give it that treatment, that's gonna be a tough video to
01:07make without all kinds of reflections, but definitely subscribe to see that video first
01:11when it comes out, hit the red button below if you haven't already, that's coming up,
01:15but until then, we're talking about this guy, the 8 Pro, the flagship.
01:19So the bleeding-edge high-end specs shouldn't be a surprise when we see a new OnePlus phone,
01:24I mean, beside the fact that they slowly tease out all the specs the weeks leading up to
01:28the phone's launch, it's kind of what they're known for, you know, placing what feels like
01:32the highest-end, best-available specs for the highest-end performance all in one phone.
01:37And we still have a very familiar OnePlus design and experience here too, they still
01:41have their logo on the back and still things like the alert slider that I'm surprised more
01:45phones haven't copied yet, still OxygenOS, one of my favorite clean Android skins with
01:50all of its features.
01:51But wait, stop, pause, what have the nitpicks always been with OnePlus phones?
01:56One, is that their cameras are always just not quite measuring up to the flagships,
02:01and two, that they always tend to leave out these sort of fringe features that don't
02:05feel essential but still feel like you should have them if you're going to claim that you're
02:09a flagship, things like wireless charging and IP68 certification.
02:14Well guess what they finally went and added this year, an improved camera, wireless charging,
02:20and an official IP68 water and dust resistance rating, finally.
02:24But you know what, let me start from the top with the new design for the OnePlus 8 Pro.
02:28You can see it here, I really like a lot of it, the new matte finish and this blue color
02:33are pretty sick.
02:34I don't have a lot of matte blue phones, but this one is nice, it's punchy and clean,
02:38so it's easily my favorite blue phone, and this finish is nice, it doesn't really show
02:42too many fingerprints.
02:43Of course, you can also grab this ultramatte teardown skin from our channel sponsor dbrand
02:47which also feels great, and you can see the wireless charging coil in the back, plus
02:52it's also got a few easter eggs hidden in the design which are pretty dope.
02:55But anyway, yeah, the shape of the phone is boxy, which I've always really liked, plus
03:00there's this new little design accent ridge into the top of the phone.
03:04So generally, I think it's one of the absolute better looking phones out there.
03:08But I still get to nitpick because, like I said, $900 phone, that's what's gonna happen.
03:12This camera bump, while it's not as ugly as some of the others out there, it still is
03:16pretty big.
03:17Like it's annoyingly rocks on a table big for sticking out of the phone that much,
03:21so I gotta point that out.
03:23But again, you can put a case on it and get rid of that.
03:26Then you get around to the front, and you're looking at the new display, which is an upgrade
03:30to pretty much all of the ways that count, but also technically, technically a slight
03:35downgrade too.
03:37So this is a 6.78 inch, 1440p, 120hz, AMOLED display, and it's really, really good.
03:46OnePlus and DisplayMate say it's their most color accurate display ever, you know, the
03:51best A-plus they've ever given, et cetera, et cetera.
03:53They're kind of starting to sound a lot like DxOMark at this point.
03:56Look, I believe you, the color's great, the calibration's great, but what I notice more
04:00often is, number one, it's definitely a lot brighter than last year, which is sweet.
04:04And then of course, the flagship feature for 2020 for all these new flagships, which is
04:08the smooth 120hz refresh rate plus 240hz touch sampling rate, and it is awesome.
04:15I've been looking forward to this.
04:17Couple specifics on it.
04:18One, yes, it does let you run both high refresh rate and high resolution at the same time,
04:24and that's exactly what I've been doing, 1440p at 120hz at the expense of battery, but you
04:29know, live your life.
04:31Then yes, it is technically a variable refresh rate, so even when you have it set to 120hz,
04:37just like last year, it will step down to 60hz occasionally when you're just sitting
04:41around not doing anything, or if you're on a home screen, or if you're in some app that
04:45won't use that, like Waze or Google Maps or Snapchat or a game or something, then yes,
04:51there is still an optical fingerprint reader underneath that screen.
04:54It doesn't appear to be any bigger or faster, but still fairly reliable for me.
04:59And yes, the edges are still curved over both sides, and this is my least favorite feature
05:05of this display.
05:06I still get accidental touches, like really.
05:09I realize the idea is it looks cool, and it's edgeless and futuristic, but I think it's
05:14time to slow that down, and I think Samsung's perfected that balance this year between
05:18curving the glass a little bit and still having a flat working surface with no accidental
05:23touches.
05:24So, just saying.
05:25And also by now, from all these beauty angles of the screen, certainly you've noticed that
05:27hole punch camera in the top left corner for the selfie shooter for the OnePlus 8 Pro.
05:32Hot take, the pop-up camera was, the pop-up camera was better than the hole punch, and
05:40this is a downgrade.
05:41Like, I get that the pop-up camera was a moving part.
05:43I was the first to point that out.
05:44A moving part in a phone is always a part to pay attention to, but we haven't had any
05:48durability problems with them for the past two years we've seen them in phones.
05:53And of course, having that part hidden inside allows you a fully uninterrupted screen with
05:58no hole punch, and when it closes down into the phone and you're not using it, it's blocked
06:03by the rest of the phone.
06:04So that's an added security benefit.
06:06So it seems like the pop-up camera was the way to go.
06:09So why did they remove the pop-up camera and change back to a hole punch?
06:14I don't know.
06:15Maybe to look a little bit more like the other flagships, maybe to save a little bit
06:18of money, maybe to guarantee the IP68 water certification, maybe just a little bit of
06:24all these things.
06:25Also, side note, I would like to see some of these phones offering 120 hertz screens
06:31also offer a 90 hertz mode in between 60 and 120.
06:35So we already know we can step down to 1080p to save battery life.
06:39I think it would be nice to be able to step down to 90 hertz to save battery life too.
06:44Just an idea.
06:45Some of the gaming phones have done this already, but I want to see more flagships doing it
06:48too.
06:49So there's a free idea.
06:50So all of the OnePlus 8's internal specs are high-end, top-end, you know, Snapdragon
06:55865, 8 or 12 gigs of fast LPDDR5 RAM.
07:00It's that super fast UFS 3.0 storage.
07:03And the battery also gets an upgrade because on top of all that, it's a 5G capable phone
07:08with 120 hertz big display.
07:10So you get a 4,510 milliamp hour battery.
07:13It's not the biggest battery in the world, but for me, it did just fine.
07:17Like I said, I've been using the phone with my high brightness, high GPS use at 1440p,
07:22120 hertz, and I've been getting to the end of the day pretty comfortably.
07:26I could kill this phone in a day and I've noticed that, but if I didn't want to, I
07:30would step down to 1080p and I would save a lot of pixel pushing and a lot of battery.
07:34And that's a nice backup to have.
07:35Generally for me, I'm talking about like a six hour screen on time for this phone, six
07:39and a half hours.
07:40If you want to reference back to other videos, that's really good.
07:43But also something to note is for me, the charging habits of your phone can change
07:49what you think of the battery.
07:50And OnePlus phones are known for having fast charging.
07:54This one's no exception.
07:55They still have their high speed warp charge 30T, comes in the box, and that can get you
08:01from zero to half battery in like 25 minutes.
08:03But what's new to this phone is wireless charging.
08:07Finally, OnePlus is putting the little charging coil behind the glass back and enabling wireless
08:11charging.
08:12And on top of all that, even better, it's fast wireless charging.
08:15So 30 watt wireless charging is what they're claiming and sharing with everyone, which
08:21is really nice.
08:23That's fast.
08:24You can go up from zero to half battery in half an hour, but there's a catch.
08:30You only get fast 30 watt wireless charging with this phone, with this exact brand new
08:38$70 OnePlus wireless charging stand.
08:42You need this accessory to get 30 watts wireless charging on this phone.
08:46And that's because it is not 30 watts of purely Qi wireless charging.
08:52So OnePlus has worked on this special high-end wireless charging tech.
08:55And to be fair, it works exactly as advertised.
08:57The stand is nice.
08:59It has some little quiet fans in there and it does some special voltage and thermal management
09:04to get the peak 30 watts wireless charging out of it.
09:07But if you put another Qi enabled phone on that wireless charger, it charges slower.
09:12And if you put the OnePlus 8 Pro on any other Qi wireless charger, it charges slower because
09:18that tech was proprietary.
09:20So the OnePlus 8 Pro still supports regular Qi wireless charging, but only universally
09:24at five watts, which is pretty slow.
09:28It's not, it's, I mean, it works, but it's like, it's pretty slow.
09:32So for me, I'm not going to replace the, you can't see it, but I'm not going to replace
09:36the wireless charger at my desk with the OnePlus One because I have other Qi accessories like
09:42my AirPods Pro or my iPhone, or literally any other Qi phone that I want to charge
09:47faster wirelessly.
09:50So I'm just going to stick to wired warp charging in the car and pretty much everywhere
09:54I need it.
09:55But at home, I have a pixel stand at my desk and I can just leave it there to slowly top
09:59up overnight and wake up with a hundred percent.
10:02So I'm glad to have wireless charging, but there is that little snag.
10:05So then there are the cameras, quad cameras on the back of this phone.
10:10And here are the numbers, which maybe mean less than ever these days, but it's a new
10:1448 megapixel main camera with OIS.
10:17Then there's a 48 megapixel ultra wide with macro mode, which fun fact, is the same sensor
10:22as the primary camera from the OnePlus 7 Pro.
10:26Then there's a 3X telephoto camera.
10:28And believe it or not, the fourth one is a five megapixel color filter camera.
10:32So that's your array.
10:33And I'll just go ahead and say it, the OnePlus 8 Pro is a flagship quality camera, right
10:37in line with Galaxy S20 and Huawei P40 and just short of the Pixel and the iPhone.
10:46There I said it.
10:47It's spitting out sharp 12 megapixel images with nice dynamic range and colors.
10:51A bit overexposed sometimes, that's where it misses, but generally these are nice photos.
10:56Also sorry in advance for slightly less outdoor photos.
11:00The whole shelter in place quarantine thing clearly means I also have less people subjects,
11:05but yeah, you can tell.
11:06This is a confident, nice camera.
11:09No autofocus issues at all, especially when you give it some light and even sometimes
11:13when you don't.
11:14It's nice.
11:15I like it.
11:16You are still going to get more fringing with closeup subjects.
11:19I take a lot of closeup subject photos and that's the downside of a big one over 1.4
11:23inch sensor.
11:24But again, that just seems like par for the course for flagship cameras right now.
11:28Big sensor, usually sharp photos, but get some fringing when your photos are closeup
11:33subjects.
11:34The zoom mode is pretty good, which is nice.
11:36Max zoom is 30X from that telephoto camera.
11:40I don't think it's very usable at 30X.
11:42It's barely passable.
11:43Galaxy S20 Ultra is still going to be the zoom champ for that sort of range, but hey,
11:4710X is fine and 3X is definitely usable.
11:51And I have pretty much no use for that color filter camera.
11:55The selfie camera, you guys have asked for it.
11:57I usually don't get too into the selfie camera in smartphones, but I'll do it.
12:01I'll start taking selfies now.
12:02It's part of the job.
12:03And I got to say, this one still seems to struggle with proper exposure.
12:08And maybe that's going to happen more for people with darker skin like myself.
12:11But other than that, it's still looking pretty good with detail.
12:15And video from this camera is also good, especially with color and stabilization at 4K.
12:21You can see no 8K video here, but you know, you're not touching the iPhone when it comes
12:25to the absolute best video quality in a phone right now.
12:28But this is still good flagship quality.
12:30Color me impressed.
12:32I think some people took me saying that the camera was the worst part of the phone last
12:37year as like some sort of horrific flaw in it, when really it was like the rest of the
12:41phone was so incredibly good that the okay camera was the downside.
12:46But again, now we're looking at a flagship quality camera and they've also been notoriously
12:51pretty good with updating them over time and getting better with camera quality.
12:56That's been nice.
12:57Plus there'll probably be a GCam mod in the next couple of weeks, hopefully, if you want
13:00those sweet pixel contrasty photos.
13:04So yeah, thumbs up on the camera.
13:06And then OnePlus phones have long been some of my favorites specifically because of the
13:10software and optimized experience.
13:13This is OxygenOS on top of Android 10 and that's no exception here for this phone.
13:17There's tons of little tweaks and optimizations and improvements and little tightened up animations
13:23all over the place, but it never feels overloaded like some other overlays.
13:27They actually removed the OxygenOS shelf to the left of the home screen and it's just
13:31Google's discover page now, like a pixel.
13:34And there's really high quality haptics in this phone.
13:37Again, I love that.
13:38And then in software, there's just a couple of new software features here and there that
13:41are nicely executed.
13:43There's a new dark mode 2.0 theme, some new dynamic wallpapers tucked in there, and just
13:48a lot of aesthetic tweaks generally, but they do a good job of not feeling overly cartoony.
13:54And then there's a new motion graphics smoothing toggle that works with certain apps.
14:00You can see the whole compatibility list here for my phone and it worked pretty well when
14:04I tried it for like two minutes, but I feel like I'm against motion smoothing on principle
14:10at my core.
14:11So I turned that off pretty quick, but you might remember that what's on my phone video
14:14with the Galaxy S20, where I go through all the things that I do, the little subtle software
14:19tweaks to really make it my daily driver and make it behave the way I want.
14:23That list of things is so much shorter on a phone like the OnePlus 8 Pro or a Pixel.
14:30And yeah, this is going to be my new daily driver.
14:32So long story short, they finally made a flagship.
14:34They finally did it.
14:35They're charging flagship money and they're offering pretty much everything a flagship
14:39would in a bonafide, complete, kind of predictable feeling way, but still, it's what we're looking
14:46forward to.
14:47Matter of fact, let me put my predictions down for the OnePlus 8T Pro that'll probably come
14:52out in like six to eight months.
14:54You're probably looking at Snapdragon 865 Plus, maybe a little extra RAM, probably faster
15:01charging, faster Qi wireless charging.
15:03I also think maybe they could use a little bit of a darker coating on the selfie camera
15:07up in the corner and maybe a special McLaren edition phone and that's it.
15:12But in the meantime, this becomes one of the easiest phones to recommend, period.
15:17Even though it's the most expensive OnePlus phone ever, which is a nice headline to write,
15:22it still undercuts a lot of the other flagships that it's now at feature parity with.
15:25And I think this is definitely the one you should pick of those.
15:28Either way, that's been it.
15:30Thanks for watching.
15:31Catch you guys in the next one.
15:33Peace.