Oneplus 7T Pro Review
Phones aren’t a regular item generally on this channel, and, quite unlike me, I actually paid my own hard cash for this phone which I personally find to be more of a bias than getting review samples, so take this review with that in mind. With that said, I’m very happy with my decision, let me explain why.
Lets start off with styling, since it’s the first thing you notice when you take it out the box, the back is gorgeous. It’s the thing my partner liked the most about the phone and I can see why. To add to that, the build quality, with it’s rounded display edges, feels incredibly premium in the hand. It has a nice weight to it without being heavy.
The next thing you’ll notice is the display – and it’s almost complete lack of bezels. It’s stunning to look at, being a 1440p panel, and, possibly more importantly, it’s 90Hz. As someone who uses a 165Hz display all day at my PC, this is a welcome change. It’s smooth, makes the device feel more responsive and fluid and is generally brilliant, with the only drawback being battery life, but we will talk about that in a second.
The display lends itself to content consumption, and while not being quite 21:9 for movie watching, it’s definitely nice. The speakers are now not only bottom firing but also an amplified earpiece speaker making a reasonable, if not perfect, stereo effect, and are reasonable enough quality and loudness, enough that I didn’t notice any real issues while listening.
Oxygen OS is now based on Android 10, and with the 90Hz display, it feels smooth and responsive, great for playing games, or just replying to messages. The underscreen fingerprint reader is fine, it’s still slower than even my old Oneplus 3T, but it’s not so slow that it’s annoying – plus you can make use of the pop up front facing camera to do face unlock which is definitely handy, but since it just uses the RGB camera, it’s not hard to fool it – for example it will occasionally unlock with a still frame from a video on a display.
Since we are talking about the cameras, the front facing one is pretty nice. It still retracts if it detects a fall, and image quality wise it certainly isn’t too bad with only low light performance being a little lackluster, but it’s hardly alone there.
The rear facing options are now 3 fold, a 0.6x ultrawide, 1x main, and 3x telephoto make this a pretty unique experience for me – as someone coming from a single camera phone at least. Quality across the three is pretty consistent, with the telephoto allowing you to see an impressive amount of detail from a distance, and the ultrawide letting you capture, well a lot.
Low light was actually really impressive, here’s a shot of a fire pit taken with the telephoto camera in auto – and here’s a similarly framed shot with my RX 100 Mark 5A – there isn’t all that much between them which is insane to me.
Video can be captured from the 1x camera only right now – although they said recording from the ultrawide may come in a software update soon, and is decent enough quality. You can also do slow mo video too, up to 960fps at 720p or 240fps at 1080p which actually looked brilliant with the fire, again here’s the Oneplus, then here’s the RX 100 Mark 5A at 240FPS.
Moving onto battery life, this one is a bit hit or miss and is almost exclusively dependant on how much you use the display. If you have a heavy screen usage day, it might not last the full day, but if you are lighter on screen usage – even if listening to music all day or something like that – it can be closer to lasting 2 days.
Now that could be a problem if it wasn’t for their Warp 30T Charging because my god its so fast. You can fill the battery so fast that it basically doesn’t matter what charge it’s at, it can be close to full by the time you’ve got your shoes and jacket on ready to leave. It’s insane, and I love it.
Which I suppose brings me to the main thing I don’t love, the price. It’s £700, making it one of the most expensive Oneplus phones ever, minus the “Mclaren edition” versions. For comparison, I paid around £400 for my old 3T, but for that you get a phone that feels like it’s just as good as all the £1000 flagships, and knowing that, it doesn’t hurt so bad anymore. And of course there is the non-pro variant if you’d rather save around £150 and gain a notch.
So, like I said at the beginning, I’m really happy with my purchase. It feels premium in the hand, smooth and responsive to use and still has the “flagship killer” edge too it.
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