OnePlus Nord: The cheapest
OnePlus smartphone available in the country right now.
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OnePlus Nord |
The OnePlus Nord is an important moment for OnePlus.For years OnePlus has basically stuck to flagships.Nowadays it likes to do them two at a timebut they're both designed to sit more or less at the top of the market.Now it's expanding with the Nord, its first serious attempt at a mid-range phone in years.Launching a mid-range phone means making some tough decisions about what the OnePlus name means to people.It still needs to have those features that people buy OnePlus phones for in the first place but it also needs to make some compromises.Not just because it needs to make it cheap but also so that once it is cheaper it doesn't end up so good that people choose it over your flagship phones.It needs to draw a line between OnePlus features and flagship OnePlus features.it's a balancing act where if you get the balance slightly wrong you could end up with the same kind of flagship killer that OnePlus liked to call its phones back in the day.Only now OnePlus has flagship phones of its own that risk getting caught in the crossfire.
So what does a mid-range OnePlus phone look like?
Screen, camera and Processor
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OnePlus Nord |
Battery and Network
Now I'll admit that it's still quite hard to gauge this given the amount of time I'm spending at home right now and I'll also caveat this by saying that I was connected to 4G rather than 5G networks.But I was getting between eight and 10 hours of screen time between charges from the Nord's 4,115 mh power battery.And that includes everything, from watching copious amounts of YouTube to keeping in contact with friends and colleagues over Slack and WhatsApp, taking photos and of course browsing plenty of Twitter.There's no wireless charging but there is support for OnePlus ; Warp Charge 30T standard which the company says should get you about 70% of your charge back in half an hour.So good battery life doesn't seem to be exclusive to OnePlus flagships, it's more of a universal OnePlus feature.
Display Comparision With OnePlus 8
Now we already know you're not getting exactly the same display on this as you did on the 8, it doesn't have that same curve for example.it's also a little bit smaller at 6.44 inches compared to 6.55 inches with the 8.But honestly if you hold them next to each otherwise you barely notice the difference.So it's a very similar screen which means it's pretty great.it's OLED so blacks are lovely and deep, colors are vibrant,it's still 1080p and hey, it's also got that 90 Hertz refresh rate display.Now I've said it before and I 'll say it again but high refresh rate displays deserve to become the new standard.But there is a caveat and that's that the slightly less powerful processor on the Nord means that it doesn't feel exactly as smooth as the 8. I mean it's fine if you're scrolling through something simple like the app drawer but scroll through Twitter with its numerous videos and images and it does start to stutter, if only a little.it's a little bit hard to show on video but trust me when I say it is there.it's still better than a 60 Hertz display but it just doesn't feel as smooth as what we've seen from flagship phones with 90 Hertz displays.it's an acceptable trade off for the price but it's also something that ;s worth bearing in mind.Oh, and by the by, I found it hard to fault the in-display fingerprint sensor.It works basically every time and I've barely had to think about it.So a high-end display seems to be a OnePlus staple and not something that's exclusive to its flagships,even if you ;re not getting exactly the same performance.Audio isn't a strong suit of the Nord.
Let Us Test The Speaker
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OnePlus Nord |
Now Let Us Test The Camera Too
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OnePlus Nord |
I think the Nord is a really solid mid-range phone but it's not perfect.it's well specce'd, yes.I mean, it's got lots of cameras, it's got that nice big high refresh rate display and of course it's got that big battery.But the reality of what it gets from that hardware sometimes leaves a little bit to be desired.I mean it's got lots of camera lenses but overall performance ends up only being okay.And it's got that high refresh rate display but sometimes its processor seems to let it down.they're compromises but I don't think they're unreasonable at this price point.Picking a mid-range phone is normally a matter of choosing the battles.You have to pick which features are most important to you because no mid-range phone is gonna be able to completely deliver on all of them.But you sort of can ;t do that with the Nord, it's too well-rounded,which means there are no serious pitfalls.There's also no one area that it completely delivers on.That's not a bad thing at all, it just kinda makes it hard to unreservedly recommend this phone to any one group of people.On the flip side though it does mean that I can sort of recommend this phone to almost anyone.
Let's Wrap-Up
OnePlus made a decent mid-range phone.But look, it's no flagship killer.
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