Umm, is the $ 499 OnePlus 7T a better choice than the OnePlus 8 series?

Stop if you’ve heard this before: OnePlus raising its prices to the $ 1,000 barrier isn’t exactly popular. We all knew this endgame would come a long time ago, and yet, like the proverbial frog who doesn’t realize it’s being boiled, we’re still somehow surprised that it happened. So what are we going to do about it? With the OnePlus 8 Pro starting price at $ 899 and OnePlus 8 at $ 699, is the OnePlus 7T freshly reduced to $ 499 the best choice in the OnePlus lineup?

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What brings you an extra $ 200?

With a $ 200 price difference between each device now, let’s take a look at what you’ll have to give up to get a OnePlus at half the price (the 12 / 256GB OnePlus 8 Pro costs $ 999). Because the non-McLaren OnePlus 7T Pro edition was never released in the US. We will focus on the 7T here, but if you live in a market that got the OnePlus 7T Pro, then you have even more options.

$ 499 OnePlus 7T

• OLED Full HD + 90Hz screen
• Snapdragon 855 Plus, 8 + 128GB
• 3,800 mAh, Warp Charge 30T
• 48MP Sony IMX586, f / 1.6
• 16MP wide angle, f / 2.2
• 12MP 2x optical telephoto lens, f / 2.2

OK, this is a tasty baseline. 90Hz OLED, Snapdragon 855 Plus and 8 + 128GB with a solid triple camera setup and Warp Charge 30T wired charging. So far so good.

Let’s add $ 200 to this and see what improvements we get.

$ 699 OnePlus 8

• OLED Full HD + 90Hz screen
• Snapdragon 865, 8 + 128GB (option 12 + 256GB for $ 799)
• 4,300 mAh, Warp 30T charge
• 48MP Sony IMX586, f / 1.75
• 16MP wide angle, f / 2.2
• 2MP macro, f / 2.4

Very well, $ 200 more give us the Snapdragon 865 mobile platform with 5G capacity, so far so good. What else? Same screen, OK. Bigger battery, that’s fine. With no wireless charging or IP rating yet, that’s fine. The same main camera sensor as last year but with a narrower aperture? Hmm The same wide-angle camera and what is that? Has the 2x optical telephoto lens been changed to a 2MP macro lens? Umm, heh.

Maybe adding an additional $ 200 on top again will solve things?

$ 899 OnePlus 8 Pro

• 120Hz QHD + OLED display
• Snapdragon 865, 8 + 128GB (option 12 + 256GB for $ 999)
• 4,510mAh, Warp Charge 30T, 30W wireless
• 48MP Sony IMX689, f / 1.78
• 48MP wide angle, f / 2.2
• 8MP 3x hybrid telephoto lens, f / 2.44
• 5MP color filter, f / 2.4
• IP68 rating

Now we are talking, 120Hz and IP68 for victory. What else? The same 5G chipset and memory configuration as the OnePlus 8 but with faster LPDDR5X variety RAM. 5% bigger battery with 30W wireless charging, very nice. The telephoto camera is back, but this time with 3x hybrid (“lossless” according to OnePlus). The wide-angle camera sensor has a strong megapickle protrusion so you can reduce size with more light data, this is good. And the macro lens has been abandoned in favor of a color filter camera. A color filter chamber. UH Huh. What does that do again?

What brings you an extra $ 400?

Let’s ignore the OnePlus 8 for a minute and look at the differences worth $ 400 between the OnePlus 7T from six months ago and Spankin’s new OnePlus 8 Pro.

• This year’s flagship chipset
• Bigger and higher refresh rate display
• Bigger battery
• Fast wireless charging
• Newest main camera sensor
• Higher resolution wide-angle sensor
• Low-resolution hybrid telephoto lens
• A dedicated color filter camera (!)
• IP68 rating
• Faster ram

This is actually a pretty solid list of updates, but is it worth $ 400? (Of course, there are a couple of other extras, but these are the main ones. You can compare everything specified in the table below.)

We want to hear from you: Are these OnePlus 8 Pro updates worth an additional $ 400 or $ 500 over the OnePlus 7T for you? Or is the $ 699 OnePlus 8 where your money is best spent? Click the poll at the top of the post to cast your vote and click the comments to defend your choice. This is likely to become messy.