The OnePlus 7 Pro is a handy gimmicky phone including a front-facing camera • Is this the company's big leap? We checked in depth
OnePlus 7. Big leap of the company? // Photo by Niv Lillian
When Mao Dze Tong wanted to bounce his country economically and culturally, he conceived a program called the "big leap," under which China's development accelerated in every sense. Similarly, large and small Chinese companies have also made a leap in recent years and are facing smartphone companies from Korea (Samsung, LG) and the United States (Apple) in their products.
The latest to make this leap is the OnePlus, with its latest model, the OnePlus 7. We tested it for a while, and we have clear conclusions.
Dazzling screen (in good section)
OnePlus 7 is a great device, but very elegant in blue and with a fine reflective finish. On the right you can find a rugged power button, which makes it easy to locate in the touch, and what has become almost the hallmark of these phones - the shift knob for vibration and mute modes. On the left side of the device is the volume button, while at the bottom is the speaker socket, a C-USB jack and in a less typical location - also the SIM card drawer. There's no room for a micro SD card, and it's a shame.
On the back of the device is the triangular array of photos that we will discuss in more detail later, and if we are jumping, then the gimmick and perhaps the most interesting thing about it is engineering - the front camera jumping out of the body. It is unclear whether this is a passing fashion by Chinese manufacturers who have found an elegant solution to the flaw, or something that will remain with us, but the result certainly creates on the front a smooth, borderless screen, flaws or hardware buttons. A front that is really "all screen," except for a very thin cry for the earpiece. The overall end result is beautiful, very comfortable to hold, though a little slippery.
The OnePlus screen is excellent, and has nothing to be ashamed of in more well-known firms. The screen is sharp, its colors are excellent, red and very deep orange that we noticed when we screened the opening of Star Trek: The Next Generation from Netflix, alongside a deep blue. Its brightness is very strong - at the high levels we really dazzled a bit from the screen, which means it also functions nicely under direct sunlight. We loved plus, literally. Combined with support for Dolby Atmos, this is a successful Netflix partner on the go.
Performance Evaluation Department
We won't say words: The OnePlus 7 is a performance monster, and why not? With no less than 12 gigabytes of memory added to a 2.84 GHz Snapdragon 855 chipset with a maximum speed of 2.84 GHz (already reminiscent of Intel and AMD "mega-wars" record speeds somewhere in the previous decade on computers, and what seems to be burning up now ), The OnePlus 7 is a device that tops the list of synthetic performance tests and not for good reason.
With a score of 6935 points on the SlingShot Exreme test (a great result even against the model itself, we must show off), it wins 99 percent of the devices, which is the second highest-rated phone, second only to the Black Shark, and bypasses devices considered such as the Mate Pro, Pixel or Samsung Galaxy S10. Definitely impressive for a company that until recently was considered a "second row" type.
But not only in dedicated tests he stars, but also in daily use: his reactivity is very fast. Skipping apps, upload speeds, and the subjective use experience is a very fast and responsive phone. pleasure.
Three cameras, and one that jumps
The OnePlus 7 Pro has a fairly impressive triangular rear camera, which consists of a large 1 / 2.0-inch 48-megapixel sensor, and develops an f1 / 6 aperture as a main camera, an 8-megapixel Telephoto 8-megapixel camera and a particularly wide lens with a sensor 16 megapixels, and 13 mm lens.
All this technical data translates to excellent photographic quality, especially in night photography, if you look at the examples we took in a bright garden and in the street in the evening. Close-up quality is also excellent, especially when using a photo telephoto lens. Of course, we also got very good results with the day's photography.
But the real story here is the front camera, which pops out of the body. Even if it is a gimmick, the front-facing camera also delivers very, very handsome portraits, which itself has a 16-megapixel sensor and an electronic image stabilizer. In general, OnePlus does not appear to save on the hardware component list.
Overall, we were very pleased with the OnePlus Pro 7 camera and one of the things that justifies the jump is the results of photography.
Fast but proprietary charging
The battery on the back of the OnePlus 7 Pro is an over-sized lithium-polymer battery at a capacity of 4,000 millimeters / hour and it certainly proves itself. The OnePlus 7 Pro is quieter than a day of mixed use and can last for two days with Saving Mode enabled. The fast charger in WARP technology, indeed, does its job: we were able to charge the phone almost fully in half an hour of charging, and the full charge takes less than an hour. Wonderful. However, there were some who claimed that OnePlus proprietary technology was causing problems with standard PD chargers, so for their owners - consider it, or simply use the original charger (which, incidentally, is very fine in the company's red and white colors).
The bottom line
The OnePlus 7 is a huge leap for OnePlus. As mentioned, from a company that has hitherto been considered a second-line type, it suddenly presents a phone that has nothing to be ashamed of, expensive monsters, and even eats them at performance and with a simple camera. We were very impressed with the OnePlus 7 Pro as an everyday phone and its camera performance, which is also just a good looking phone and some gimmicks that are as useful as the physical mute button and pop-up camera. At a street price starting at around NIS 2,600 for the 128 Gigabyte model, this is a viable option even for those who are considering buying more expensive and branded devices from it.
OnePlus 7 Pro
Score: 9
// Photos: Niv Lillian
