OnePlus 8 Pro

The OnePlus 8 Pro ticks all the boxes for a premium flagship this time, and if not for an inconsistent camera performance, it would have been at par with the Samsung and Apple flagships. If you can compromise on that and some niggling display issues, the OnePlus 8 Pro gives the slickest experience on Android.

Overview

The OnePlus 8 Pro looks similar to the OnePlus 8. It has a curved glass design, a 6.78-inch QHD+ AMOLED display with 1440 x 3168 pixels resolution. The phone has a 120Hz refresh rate, and comes with features like reverse wireless charging and video playback enhancement. It has a Dolby Atmos audio, a 48 MP camera, and a wide-angle camera. On the front you have a 16 MP front camera for clicking selfies. It runs on Android 10 based company’s proprietary OxygenOS. The OnePlus 8 Pro is priced at Rs 54,999 in India.

OnePlus 8 Pro and OnePlus 8 sales in India have been postponed in India, as the production has been temporarily halted. The smartphones were supposed to go on sale from May 29, on Amazon India as well as OnePlus sites. The new sale dates have not been announced yet. Customers who have pre-booked the OnePlus 8 series will get the smartphones once the stocks become available.

The company has announced a special limited sale across online and offline channels for the OnePlus 8 only. It will be held on May 29, and only limited stocks will be made available.

The OnePlus 8 Pro will be available from June 15 in India through both Amazon and OnePlus.in. The company has announced that the smartphone will also be available on OnePlus Experience Stores, partner stores, and other offline retailers soon. The smartphone has a 6.78-inch touchscreen display, with 1440 x 3168 pixels resolution. It is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor with 8 GB of RAM. It runs on Android 10 OS and is powered by a 4510mAh non-removable battery with proprietary fast charging.

The OnePlus 8 Pro price in India starts at Rs. 54,999 for the 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage, while the 12 GB RAM + 256 GB storage variant is priced at Rs. 59,999.

Design

The OnePlus 8 Pro offers a new design approach than its predecessor the OnePlus 7T Pro. It uses 3D curved glass on both sides and sports a punch-hole camera drilled into the top left corner of the screen.There's a quad-camera setup at the back with the fourth camera placed on the side of the main module. The OnePlus 8 Pro is also IP68 water and dust resistant.

The OnePlus 8 Pro sports a 6.67-inch display with 120Hz refresh rate and QHD+ resolution and 20:9 aspect ratio. It's also HDR10+ certified and boasts of high colour accuracy. This is a significant increase over the 90Hz display refresh rates present on the OnePlus 7 series.

The OnePlus 8 Pro is available in Glacial Green, Ultramarine Blue, Onyx Black colours.

Camera

The OnePlus 8 Pro comes with a quad-camera setup at the back and single punch-hole camera on the front for selfies. The primary camera is the new Sony IMX689 sensor with 48MP resolution and f/1.8 aperture. The camera takes 12MP photos by defualt using the pixel-binning technique. The OnePlus 8 Pro also has another 48MP ultrawide camera that lets you take detailed landscape shots, along with an 8MP telephoto lens with 3x hybrid zoom and a colour filter lens for the Instagram-friendly photos.

Powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset can capture up to 10-bit colour depth video capture, and slow-motion video capture up to 720p at 960fps, and HEVC Video Capture.

Performance

The phone comes with a dedicated MEMC chip, which stands for Motion Estimation and Motion Compensation that is available on televisions. The technology inserts new frames between existing ones in a video to decrease motion blur. If the technology is incorporated in the upcoming phones, then they could have much better gaming experience.

The OnePlus 8 Pro features the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset which makes the device 5G-ready. The smartphone has a minimum of 8GB of RAM and a maximum of 12GB RAM. The RAM module is the latest LPDDR5.  It runs on Android 10.0 based OxygenOS 10.0 OS.

Storage and Battery

The OnePlus 8 Pro comes with up to 256GB storage on board with no option to expand it using a microSD card. The storage module is 2-LANE UFS 3.0 and can be for all your movies, pictures, games, etc. The smartphone comes with a non-removable Li-Po 4500 mAh battery with a Fast battery charging support of 30W. This is also the first OnePlus smartphone to support wireless charging. OnePlus has managed to deliver 30W of wireless charge via a Warp Charge 30 Wireless charger sold separately.

Connectivity

Connectivity options included on the OnePlus 8 Pro are Wi-Fi-6, GPS, Bluetooth v5.1, and USB Type-C. The phone also supports 4G and 5G networks. The dual sim with dual standby phone supports the 4G network on both SIM’s. It has NFC connectivity to transfer files with compatible devices.

Configuration

The smartphone is powered by Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 processor which is made with 7 nm+ technology. It has an octa-core (1x2.84 GHz Kryo 585 & 3x2.42 GHz Kryo 585 & 4x1.8 GHz Kryo 585) processor and Adreno 650 GPU. The phone comes with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage and 12GB RAM and 256GB internal storage, and could be launched in multiple memory variants.

Platform

Powered by a Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 (7 nm+) processor the device has an on octa-core (1x2.84 GHz Kryo 585 & 3x2.42 GHz Kryo 585 & 4x1.8 GHz Kryo 585) chipset. Snapdragon 865 is a high-performance 64-bit ARM system on a chip designed by Qualcomm and was launched in 2019.

Made on TSMC's advanced 7nm (N7P) process, the chip has four Kryo 585 Silver high-efficiency cores, three high-performance Kryo 585 Gold, and a prime Kryo 585 Gold core. The Snapdragon 865 chip integrates the Adreno 650 GPU operation at 600 MHz and offers support up to 16 GiB of quad-channel LPDDR5-5500 memory.

Technology

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chip is designed to be paired with Qualcomm's 2nd generation 5G modem. The processor houses the Snapdragon X55 5G modem which is an external 7nm baseband chip produced by TSMC. The chip has an RF front-end interface chip (RFFE) to bring 5G NR, sub-6 GHz and mm-Wave, support.

Multimedia

The chip supports Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, and HEVC. It has 4K video capture with simultaneous 64 MP photo capture. The processor can capture up to 10-bit colour depth video capture, and slow-motion video capture up to 720p at 960fps, and HEVC Video Capture. It has a loudspeaker.

Sensors

Sensors on the phone include an accelerometer, an ambient light sensor, a compass/ magnetometer, an in-display fingerprint sensor, a proximity sensor, and an in-display fingerprint sensor. The OnePlus 8 Pro comes with face unlock for added security.