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00:00Hey what's up, MKBHD here. This is the new OnePlus 10T, and it's the most generic OnePlus phone of all time.
00:13So, while I'm not reviewing this phone, this is my first impressions. I have had it for about a week and a half,
00:18but I also was busy winning Club Ultimate Frisbee World Championship for the past 8 days in the middle of Ohio with the New York club team, Pony.
00:26Anyway, typically, the T phone for OnePlus is just taking whatever their latest and greatest was and giving it a spec bump across the board to just make it a little bit faster in every way.
00:35Sort of like what the S used to be for the iPhone. But this isn't a direct sequel. We have the OnePlus 10 Pro in January.
00:42Looks pretty similar, but that was $899 when it launched. Now it's $799. So just keep this in the back of your head as you're watching this.
00:48This isn't a 10T Pro. It's just the 10T. And so it launches at $649. So on one hand, now we know, okay, this is a lower price.
00:58We know to expect some things to be cut, some shortcuts to be taken to get to this price here.
01:03But on the other hand, some of the shortcuts that they took are downright head scratchers to me.
01:09So the OnePlus 10 Pro from January had the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip and up to 12 gigs of RAM.
01:14So this 10T has the new Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 and up to 16 gigs of RAM. Great.
01:20So there's a spec bump, a reason to get this phone. Cool.
01:23And they're nearly the same size, but last year's phone had 120 Hertz display curved pretty dramatically over the edges.
01:29This 10T is flat. It also has a thousand Hertz touch sample rate and gets a little bit brighter.
01:35It is also adaptive instead of LTPO and it's 1080 instead of 1440.
01:40This all makes complete sense. I mean, LTPO and especially 1440p are sort of reserved for the highest end of phones.
01:46So at this price, 1080p, OLED, 120 Hertz adaptive refresh rate. It's good.
01:51It's got the fingerprint reader under the display. It's got the hole punch in the top middle. No surprises here.
01:56Design wise though, the 10 Pro was a satin soft touch black that I really liked with a dark satin metal rails.
02:04That was kind of sick actually.
02:06The 10T here has a new black textured back called Moonstone Black.
02:12It's got these little dashes or lines through it.
02:15And then instead of dark rails, it has sort of normal generic chrome ones for their new 360 antenna system.
02:22And instead of a camera shelf, it's more of a smoothed out camera slope up to the shelf, which I actually kind of do like.
02:30But I liked it first on an Oppo phone that came out a while ago.
02:33So now it feels even more like another Oppo phone.
02:36Again, adding to the list of reasons why it feels a bit more generic.
02:40Then you might also remember OnePlus signed this big three year deal,
02:44a hundred plus million dollar deal with Hasselblad for their cameras,
02:48which would let them borrow maybe some color science or some image processing.
02:52And the OnePlus 10 Pro was a part of that in January.
02:55It had the Hasselblad branding on the back and even a Hasselblad themed camera app.
03:00Well, less than two years later, this OnePlus 10T doesn't have any Hasselblad stuff anywhere.
03:06There's no Hasselblad camera app.
03:08There's no Hasselblad branding on the back of the phone.
03:11And as far as I can tell, it doesn't appear to use any of that new color science or image processing either.
03:16Now, is that because the cheaper phone isn't worthy of the new Hasselblad sauce?
03:21Like it's not expensive enough to get that?
03:24Or is it just because you stop caring about it?
03:28I don't really know.
03:29I guess I feel like if you've already paid for it, you should just put it in all your phones, but it's not here.
03:35And then you might have also noticed that this is the first OnePlus phone ever made that doesn't have the alert slider.
03:43Literally one of my favorite features of any OnePlus phone that they've had for years,
03:47the three-way volume slider that lets you quickly switch between sound on and vibration and silent.
03:53It is now gone from the OnePlus 10T.
03:56And they gave their reason for it.
03:58It takes up more space than you would think inside the phone.
04:01The board has to come across and we save that extra space and give you a little more battery, blah, blah, blah.
04:07You can still do that stuff with software.
04:09I actually believe you, but just think about identity for a second.
04:13Can you actually imagine the iPhone dropping the mute switch because Apple wants to save some space and prioritize something else inside the phone?
04:21I literally can't picture an iPhone not having a mute switch.
04:26Sure, you can always do it with software, yes.
04:28But I would bet anyone a million dollars right now that the next five years of iPhones will all have a mute switch because it's just such a part of the iPhone's design.
04:38So, you know, a new OnePlus phone coming out and not having an alert slider,
04:41it might be kind of minor to some people who have never bought a OnePlus phone before or never even followed or cared about the OnePlus stuff.
04:48But to people who have, this is kind of sad that it's not here.
04:53More generic points for this phone.
04:55The X Pro had a standard camera, an ultra-wide and a telephoto, plus an LED flash with some text in the middle.
05:02We talked about how that was kind of dumb text, but it was there.
05:05To no one's surprise, that text is all gone.
05:08And in true generic fashion, they've moved to a Sony IMX 766 sensor for the primary,
05:13which is the same one that was in the Nothing phone and the Zenfone 9 and the ROG Phone 6 and a bunch of others.
05:20It also has a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera and a 2-megapixel macro camera.
05:27More generic points.
05:29Now, probably the biggest feature headlining this phone, like the one that gets emphasized the most from OnePlus when they tell me about this phone, is the battery.
05:36So it's a 4800 mAh dual-cell battery, which is slightly smaller than the X Pro's 5000 mAh.
05:43But it now charges with Oppo's SuperVOOC technology at a crazy fast, a crazy fast 125 watts.
05:51It actually comes with this brick in the box, which says 160 watts on it, but the phone peaks at 125 watts here in the US.
05:58And that's good for 1 to 100% in literally 20 minutes.
06:03It's insane.
06:04Like, it really is truly incredibly convenient.
06:06I did a whole video all about fast charging pretty recently, but with this one, I got it down to 20% doing some demos.
06:12Plugged it in for 30 seconds, and it got up to 22%.
06:16And then I let it go for another 3 minutes, and it got to 32%.
06:20Just easy.
06:21So I guess that does feel like OnePlus, even though it's Oppo's SuperVOOC charging.
06:25They've always emphasized fast charging here, but they also didn't put wireless charging in this phone.
06:32So, you know, you get the peace of mind of having fast charging, but you lose the convenience of wireless charging.
06:39Even more generic points.
06:41The funny thing is, despite my disappointment, I bet this is a perfectly fine phone for a lot of people.
06:47Decent screen, high-end chip, lots of RAM, pretty smooth performance from my first impressions, decent cameras,
06:54and an Oxygen OS that's more like ColorOS than ever before.
06:58That's actually what a lot of people are looking for at $650.
07:02And hey, it's even getting 4 years of software updates.
07:05And I guess that's the point, which is this phone is more generic than ever before,
07:10which to me, or someone who's familiar with the OnePlus story and the history of the brand and all that, is pretty disappointing.
07:16But that also means, by definition, that this phone appeals to more people than ever before.
07:24So this goes right in line with what I talked about in my What Happened to OnePlus video.
07:29If you haven't already watched it, I'll make it the first link below the like button because you should definitely watch that video.
07:33But yeah, I remember I tweeted a couple days ago when we first got some of the specs of this phone
07:38that it seems like a new OnePlus phone, without an alert slider, feels like them just completely giving up on their identity.
07:45And it was funny, so many of the replies were like,
07:47actually, it feels like a couple years ago when Carl Pei left, that's when they gave up on their identity.
07:53And other people were like, actually no, the OnePlus 7 Pro was the last good phone they ever made, then it went downhill.
07:58Some people were like, the OnePlus 3 was the last time they ever made a good phone, and then every phone since then was just trash.
08:04But at the end of the day, this is just my first impression, and the moral of this story for me is,
08:08don't be a fan of the company, be a fan of the product.
08:12The individual product.
08:13And if you look at this on the market today, this phone is fine.
08:17I'm sure it's fine.
08:18Everything about this phone, it's alright.
08:20Nothing too crazy about it.
08:22And that's what they're intending to do with the sort of remnants of what OnePlus is.
08:27There's a lot of other good phones out there for the price, and I highly encourage checking them out.
08:31Again, this sort of sweet spot of $600, which is like a lot to spend on a phone, but also sort of right in the middle now,
08:38considering you have $1,000 flagships.
08:40There's a lot of competition there.
08:41I just reviewed the Zenfone 9.
08:43Incredible phone for the price.
08:45I really like it.
08:46And so, a lot of comparables, but hey, when you're familiar with OnePlus, this phone is just feeling more generic than ever before.
08:54Either way, that's been it.
08:56Thanks for watching.
08:58Catch you guys in the next one.
08:59Peace.
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