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The OnePlus 8 Pro has been an unquestionable critical success, but it’s not the perfect phone by any means. With a much higher price also comes increased scrutiny, especially from fans of the company and others who may have been planning to get one. We’ve already taken a look at five of the phone’s best features, so now is the time to go through some of our biggest complaints.
It’s huge
This was the case with OnePlus 7 Pro and 7T Pro before, and it’s even truer than the 8 Pro – it’s a gigantic phone. Sure, it’s great to have a huge screen for viewing content, but even someone with relatively large hands will have to do finger gymnastics to get to certain parts of the user interface, making accidental drops more likely. This will probably make you want to wear a case, which will further increase the weight. Enough is enough now; phones don’t need to be bigger. We would take the size of the cheaper OnePlus 8 with the features of the 8 Pro if we could.
The OnePlus 8 Pro (right) is even bigger than the already huge 7 Pro (left) and 7T (center).
The dreaded curved screen
You may have increased the lyrics about how good the screen above is, but it has a pretty nasty flaw. We are to blame for Samsung for the curved screen craze, despite the fact that the Korean company has reduced this in the Galaxy S20 series so much that it is no longer a problem, but other manufacturers have not yet received the memo. Instead, we’re left with off-angle fading and accidental touches galore in OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro. Some people may be able to ignore it, but I can’t see the very different look of the left and right edges of the screen, especially on white backgrounds. . This is something I can only hope for OnePlus to walk away with on their upcoming phones.
Cameras still
There is no doubt that OnePlus has vastly improved its image processing in recent years, probably to the point where these latest cameras rival those of the Galaxy S20 series, even though they cost much less. However, that has as much to do with Samsung’s missteps as OnePlus’ progress, and the images in the 8 Pro still can’t compete with Apple, Google, and Huawei. The OnePlus 8 Pro’s main and ultra-wide-angle cameras are pretty good in most, if not completely consistent, situations, but the telephoto lens really does sideline. Crop higher resolution images for a 3x “lossless” zoom, but the results are not great. Then there is the fourth rear camera, the virtually useless color filter camera that does nothing more than take up space and increase the cost of materials. To learn more about this, check out our camera comparison post to see how the OnePlus 8 Pro compares to the Pixel 4 and Galaxy S20 Ultra. From a design perspective, the camera bump is also huge, causing the phone to wobble annoyingly when placed on a table.
I’m sorry, how much?
This is tricky because if you compare the OnePlus 8 Pro’s $ 900 starting price to other phones on the market with similar specs (like the $ 1,200 Samsung Galaxy S20 +), it doesn’t seem too expensive. But $ 900 is still a lot to pay for any phone and considerably more than OnePlus’ previous Pro models (not including limited-edition McLaren models). It includes features that no other OnePlus phone has before, such as an official IP rating and wireless charging, but OnePlus fans have become accustomed to paying significantly less, making the price hike hard to accept. It is especially difficult for people who do not intend to use the 8 Pro on a 5G network despite having paid for a phone that supports it, leading to …
5G, a kind of
Even if you want to use 5G on OnePlus 8 Pro, your options are very limited in the US. USA The unlocked version only supports 5G on T-Mobile / Sprint, which means only low and mid band. There’s no mmWave though the cheapest OnePlus 8 is released on Verizon with support for only the high-band part of the spectrum. This is another OnePlus cost-cutting measure, and while it won’t matter to the vast majority of potential buyers, it means this expensive 5G phone doesn’t actually support the fastest possible 5G speeds.
We still like the OnePlus 8 Pro despite these things – check out our full review for a deeper look.
