As the world is in quarantine, smartphone corporations aren’t standing nonetheless and are nonetheless transferring ahead with their new product launches. We’ve seen nearly each different firm in the marketplace launch their 2020 flagships – however one vital vendor has been lacking from the line-up: OnePlus. Today, the corporate is lastly revealing its latest OnePlus Eight and OnePlus 8 Pro telephones, providing enhancements and know-how developments on the highest ranges.
Particularly the brand new OnePlus 8 Pro appears to be the corporate’s most prestigious flagship gadget ever, together with a brand new QHD+ 120Hz show, a brand new era 1/1.7” digicam sensor from Sony together with fascinating ultra-wide angle and telephoto modules, the corporate’s first time adoption of wi-fi charging – all new options on high of the present ones that made the OnePlus 7 Pro an awesome cellphone in 2019.
| OnePlus 8 Series | ||
| OnePlus 8 | OnePlus 8 Pro | |
| SoC | Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 1x Cortex-A77 @ 2.84GHz 3x Cortex-A77 @ 2.42GHz 4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.80GHz Adreno 640 @ 587MHz |
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| Display | 6.55-inch FHD+ 2400 x 1080 (20:9) 90Hz Refresh Rate |
6.78-inch QHD+ 3160 x 1440 (19.8:9) 120Hz Refresh Rate |
| SAMOLED HDR10+ |
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| Dimensions | 160.2 x 72.9 x 8.Zero mm
180 grams |
165.Three x 74.Four x 8.Eight mm
199 grams |
| RAM | 8/12GB LPDDR4X | 8/12GB LPDDR5 |
| NAND Storage |
128/256 GB UFS 3.0 | |
| Battery | 4300mAh (16.55Wh) typ. | 4510mAh (17.36Wh) typ. |
| 30W Fast Charging | ||
| – | 30W Wireless Fast Charging | |
| Front Camera | 16MP f/2.0 |
16MP f/2.4 |
| Primary Rear Camera | 48MP 0.8µm half” IMX586 (12MP 1.6µm 2×2 binning) f/1.75 w/ OIS |
48MP 1.12µm 1/1.7″ IMX689 (12MP 2.24µm 2×2 binning) f/1.78 w/ OIS |
| Secondary Rear Camera |
16MP Ultra-Wide-Angle f/2.2 116° FoV |
48MP Ultra-Wide-Angle f/2.2 120° FoV |
| Tertiary Rear Camera |
2MP Macro Camera f/2.4 |
8MP Telephoto f/2.4 |
| Extra Camera |
– | 5MP Colour Sensor f/2.4 |
| 4G / 5G Modem |
Snapdragon 5G – Snapdragon Modem X55 (Discrete)
(LTE Category 24/22) (5G NR Sub-6) |
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| SIM Size | NanoSIM + eSIM | |
| Wireless | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax BT 5.1 LE, NFC, GPS/Glonass/Galileo/BDS |
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| Connectivity | USB Type-C no 3.5mm jack |
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| Special Features | On-screen fingerprint sensor, Stereo Speakers |
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| Launch OS | Android 10 w/ Oxygen OS | |
| Launch Prices | n/a | n/a |
Starting off with the inner {hardware}, it’s a shock to nobody to see the brand new OnePlus Eight collection being powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 chipset. Alongside the chipset’s wonderful efficiency and excessive power-efficiency is the important thing characteristic that it brings 5G mobile capabilities to each variants of the OP8, because of the X55 modem.
Although each variants sport the identical chipset, OnePlus is amongst the primary corporations truly making the most of the Snapdragon 865’s means to help each LPDDR4X and LPDDR5 DRAM requirements – the OnePlus Eight comes with LP4X whereas the higher-end OnePlus 8 Pro sports activities the brand new LP5 reminiscence. Qualcomm had divulged that they’re anticipating a couple of share factors efficiency variations between the 2 applied sciences, together with doable smaller effectivity variations. In phrases of capability, each variants are available both Eight or 12GB RAM configurations, relying on whether or not you selected 128 or 256GB primary storage choices, which by the best way stays at UFS 3.0.
The designs of the telephones are iterative on final 12 months’s OnePlus 7 Pro aesthetics – with the massive distinction being within the entrance digicam design selection and mechanism. The OP7Pro was notable because it was amongst one of many extra widespread telephones on the market sporting a mechanical pop-up digicam housing. It was an fascinating answer to get to a bezel-less in 2019, nevertheless it additionally got here with some bigger draw-backs, most notably by way of…
