OnePlus 7 128GB

Overview

The OnePlus 7 is one of the much-awaited flagship devices of the year. The phone has a powerful camera, a beautiful display and a bigger battery that can easily last a day. The OnePlus 7 is affordably priced and offers excellent features available in flagship devices from Apple and Samsung. OnePlus 7 128 GB ships in two variants one with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of built-in storage, and a second one with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage. It has a 6.41-inch OLED display with 402 pixels-per-inch resolution and a dewdrop notch.

Design

The OnePlus 7 features a 6.4-inch Optic AMOLED screen with 1080x2280 pixels resolution. It has an 85.5% screen to body ratio and a pixel density of 402 ppi. OnePlus has adopted the notched design which houses the selfie camera. The phone has got the teardrop notch on top of the screen. It comes with Corning Gorilla Glass protection against bumps and scratches. The phone is available in Mirror Grey and Red colours. The phone has one of the best designs available in the market. The device has a rear glass back and is easy to hold. It has sleek dimensions of 157.7 x 74.8 x 8.2 mm and weighs 182 grams.

Camera

The OnePlus 7 sports a 48 MP + 5MP rear camera setup, assisted by dual-LED flash. It comes with image enhancing features such as UltraShot, Pro Mode, HDR, Nightscape, Studio Lighting, Portrait and more. It has a 16 MP selfie snapper and supports Face Unlock feature. The phone is capable of recording 1080p videos at 30fps as well as time-lapse videos. It comes with Dual-LED flash, HDR, and panorama features. The phone has three levels of Beauty mode which help in clicking picture-perfect selfies.

Performance

Under the hood, the phone is powered by Qualcomm's powerful Snapdragon 855 processor with Adreno 640 GPU. It comes with Qualcomm integrated advanced technologies that back AI-assisted features, to offer an enhanced gaming and camera performance. The device offers excellent power management which makes the phone smarter and faster. It is paired with 6GB of RAM and 8GB of RAM. The phone runs on Android 9.0 out of the box with the company’s proprietary OxygenOS 9.0 on top.

Connectivity options included in the device are dual-SIM, 4G VoLTE, 2×2 MIMO, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v5.0, USB Type-C, NFC, and GPS/ A-GPS. It has an optical In-display fingerprint sensor for added security. The phone has a Fingerprint (under display) sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity, and compass sensors.

The phone runs on the company’s proprietary Oxygen OS 9.5 which offers excellent features. There are a number of customisation options available to users. It comes with a ZEN Mode, a gaming mode, and RAM boost. The phone has one of the fastest fingerprint scanners.  

Battery and Storage

The OnePlus 7 is available in 2 variants, one is 6GB of RAM with 128GB of internal storage and a second variant with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. It has a non-removable 3,700mAh battery with Fast Charging (5V 4A) support. The device can easily last for a whole day with moderate usage. The phone's fast charging technology can boost the device to 80% charge in just 50 minutes.  

The OnePlus 7 is priced at Rs 32,999 for the 128GB variant in India, and the Rs 256GB variant is priced at Rs 39990.

Connectivity

Connectivity options included in the device are dual-SIM, 4G VoLTE, 2×2 MIMO, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v5.0, USB Type-C, NFC, and GPS/ A-GPS. It has Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by).

Configuration

It has an Octa-core (1x2.84 GHz Kryo 485 & 3x2.42 GHz Kryo 485 & 4x1.80 GHz Kryo 485) processor with Qualcomm SDM855 Snapdragon 855 (7 nm) chipset. The device runs on Android 9.0 (Pie) based OxygenOS 9.5.6 which gives an excellent user experience,

Mention 3 Pros of your review device:

Three Pros-

Smoother Experience- As We all Know, OnePlus devices hardware are amazingly optimized with their software. It has a top-of-the-line Snap Dragon 855 Soc, and is available with either 6 or 8 GB of RAM,(I am having 6 GB of RAM) , Apps load in a flash, and there’s no noticeable slowdown while multitasking.

Future Proof-Software Updates-

As well known, OnePlus mainly focuses on making the smoothest Android experience and keeps the users interested in constant updates, always adding features, surveying the user base for enhancements and improvements.

Unlocking options - As we know OnePlus 7 has an in-display fingerprint scanner, one of the fastest fingerprint scanners I have personally used. Face recognition is also supported, it's also quick to unlock the smartphone just by looking in its direction. Personally I am not a fan of Face recognition as the fingerprint scanner works absolutely well.

Mention 3 Cons of your review device:

Three Cons- Personally I really loved the overall package of OnePlus 7, but there are some things which I really don’t like.

No 3.5 mm Jack- The most irritating part is OnePlus 7 does not have a 3.5 mm Jack, personally I am using wireless headset along with my Mobile but some times when the battery drains out of the headset , we really need a spare wired earphone for that purpose. I have to spend Extra Rs. 350 for the USB C converter as we don’t get a converter in the box itself.

It Takes Smudges easily- One of the issue, I have faced with OnePlus 7, it takes smudges very easily at the Rear panmel, so I have to spend extra Rs. 200 for the Fiber back protection.

Water Resistance- I wish OnePlus could offer an IP 67 and IP 68 water-resistant phone which could be a deal-breaking feature in this price segment.

Write about the performance of your review device:

As We all Know, OnePlus 7 is a seriously fast phone. It has a top-of-the-line Snap Dragon 855 Soc, and is available with either 6 or 8 GB of RAM,(I am having 6 GB of RAM) , Apps load in a flash, and there’s no noticeable slowdown while multitasking. Having higher RAM makes the device future proof. It also has Qualcomm Adreno 640, which also contributes to the fluid experience while gaming. OnePlus 7 was the only smartphone at the time of release, which was having Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 3.0 under Rs. 35,000. As we all know, UFS 3.0 phones are noticeably faster when it comes to reading or writing large chunks of data from or to the storage. Such cases include installing games or when you are moving a large file or folder from or to your phone.

If we talk about the Gaming performance, OnePlus 7 can easily handle PUBG Mobile as well as COD: Mobile at its highest settings. As always OnePlus team has done an amazing optimization of its hardware with its own software OxygenOS which gives an fluid experience to its users, which can be clearly seen by using the smartphone in day to day usage as well as the benchmark results also proves it.

Some of the benchmark results-

AnTuTu: 367721

GeekBench: 11201

GFXBench: 36-40 fps

Write about the software of your review device:

OxygenOS- To be very honest, OxygenOS is one the most beloved Android skins today out there. There’s no denying that many prefer OnePlus’ skin thanks to constant support and updates that have made it the most reliable, stable and fastest way to experience Android today. I would like to 3 features of OxygenOS based on Android 10, Some of my favorite features such as Smart Reply, Zen Mode, App Locker, new navigation gestures and even the Dark Mode looks and works perfectly on OxygenOS.

The Gaming Mode: It even has a dedicated gaming mode, which optimizes the overall hardware to achieve improved performance. It blocks all calls and notifications, stops the secondary SIM card (if you have one) to improve network speeds, and restricts background processes.

Write about the battery life of your review device:

The OnePlus 7 has a 3,700 mAh battery. That’s not huge in the grand scheme of things, but it is certainly large enough to consistently give well over a day’s battery life to a normal user. But what I really likes about OnePlus 7 it comes with a 20W fast charger bundled in the box. The charging speed is blazing fast, where it takes the battery to 50 percent in about 30 minutes. I am very much satisfied with the battery performance of this device.

Write about the design and display of your device:

The one thing I love about the design of OnePlus 7 is it does not feel uncomfortable or slippery in the hands and the weight of the smartphone is only 182 grams. Anyone can use it without constantly worrying about dropping it.

OnePlus 7 comes with a 6.41 inch AMOLED displays with a drop notch (containing the selfie camera) and a full HD+ 1080 x 2340 pixels resolution along with HDR 10 support.

It has Corning Gorilla Glass 6 in the front and Corning Gorilla Glass 5 at the rear panel which provides some good package of protection. On the back of the OnePlus 7 is the OnePlus logo, looking bold and contemporary. The name OnePlus is printed in silver towards the bottom edge.

If we talk about the display, Its colors are bright and sharp, and it's great for watching videos, but it struggles in the direct sunlight situation.

Your Smartphone's Camera Review

So, OnePlus 7 is packed up with dual rear cameras at the rear, one 48 MP Wide Lens (f/1.6) and one 5 MP ( f/2.4) depth-sensing lens and a 16 MP (f/2.0) Selfie camera.

To be very honest, I am not very impressed with the rear cameras as with the Selfie camera.

The Rear camera uses an f/1.6 aperture and has OIS. The depth sensing is still good and detects edges nicely to leave the rest of the background blurred. The front camera is good too though under some conditions softens the face up rather a lot whether you opt for beautification or not. As a final verdict, the cameras segment is very much acceptable in the its price segment and overall OnePlus done a good job.

Final Verdict..!!

OnePlus 7 is a more practical flagship smartphone. You can get the its base model with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage for just Rs 32,999, which makes an amazing Value for money deal, OxygenOS is probably the best Android skin on the market, and the phone is significantly cheaper than many of its rivals.. Of course, the cameras could have been better, one would also expect water resistance but all those features will bump its cost.

Reviewed By:

Rohit Budhiraja