As a student, I have a unique perspective.
There's different things that students need to rely on, on a day to day basis, that perhaps
other people don't have to worry about.
Of course, the OnePlus 7 Pro is a great phone for just about everyone, but keeping it in
the context of a student, I think, will give you some awesome insight as to what this phone
is all about
This is also the first phone that has gotten me to take the sim card out of my iPhone XS
Max to actually switch my daily driver.
Hi guys, it's KJ the MiTechGuy here.
I know a lot of YouTubers have posted their OnePlus 7 Pro reviews, but I think you're
going to really find my different take on it pretty interesting.
This is a beast of a phone, but I will only briefly mention specs here and there.
For the most part, I will be focusing on what it is actually like using the phone as my
daily driver as a student.
Let's get right into it.
Most students I know, have two devices that they pretty much consume 90% of their media
on: their laptops and their phones.
Laptops are cool to consume content when you're at a desk, but for most other times, you're
going to be picking up your phone.
Especially if you don't also have some sort of tablet, having a quality smartphone screen
is very important.
And with the OnePlus 7 Pro, you are getting the hands-down best smartphone display on
the market.
It's 90 Hz so you really will never notice any sort of lag.
This is something that a video really can't do justice because its screen refreshes faster
than my camera does.
Aside from it being 90 Hz, the other aspects of the display are also incredible.
This thing gets plenty bright during the day, and also an important note is that at night,
it gets plenty dim as well, as to not strain your eyes during those before-bed social media
scrolls.
And then the fact that there is no notch, makes video watching so pleasant.
Watching native widescreen content is nice, and if you pinch in on standard 16:9 content,
it still looks great, and makes you notice the notch again on other phones.
All in all, whether you're editing photos, scrolling through social media, catching up
on the news, or just watching videos, The 7 Pro will make all of those experiences very
pleasant because of how great its screen is.
Students take a lot of pictures, whether its for Instagram, taking pictures of the board
during lectures, or just casual photography.
And since most students do not have dedicated cameras, they must rely on what is on their
phones.
The reason why the screen is able to stay notch-less is because its 16 megapixel front
camera actuates from the top of the phone.
Because it pops up, OnePlus was able to implement a slightly larger selfie camera than usual,
and the results speak for themselves.
The 7 Pro takes some very high quality selfie photos, and has even shown noticeable improvements
with edge detection in selfie portrait mode shots.
The front video quality is also really great if that is something you look for in a phone.
OnePlus has actually pushed out some software updates that drastically improved its image
processing on all of its cameras.
The triple camera setup of the 7 Pro gives you maximum versatility when shooting.
I've actually grown to really like the ultrawide because of that different perspective.
And with the improved image processing, all photos come out great.
Whether the lighting is ideal or even when the lighting is not-so-good.
And with its improved Nightscape Mode, the 7 Pro can almost get to that Pixel level of
basically allowing the phone to see in the dark.
It takes a couple of seconds to take these pictures, but I think they are very worth
the slight wait.
Check out my updated camera comparison between the OnePlus 7 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S10+
to see more camera samples and to see how it stacks up against one of the industry leaders.
This phone has up to 12 GB of RAM.
Yup you heard that correctly, 12 Gigabytes.
That is more than most laptops out there right now.
Is it overkill?
Yeah pretty much, but what does this mean for you the user.
It basically means that, coupled with the 90 Hz screen, the OnePlus 7 Pro will always
run extremely fast.
There won't ever be too many apps in the background bogging down your phone and making it jitter,
because it will simply be able to handle them all.
Its easily the fastest Android phone I've ever used, and it does beat the iPhone XS
Max in certain aspects even when the iPhone is completely optimized for its operating
system.
This phone will fly through anything you throw at it.
Whether you like playing a lot of games, do photo editing on your phone, or just use a
ton of apps.
Having that safety net of 12 gigs of RAM is just a nice thing to have so you can stay
confident that it can handle whatever you throw at it.
I've now mentioned the phone's great screen, camera and speed, so for most people, they
might already be sold.
But something that I haven't mentioned so far is price.
How much does this thing cost?
Because especially for students, we have to stay to our budgets in order to sustain ourselves.
The OnePlus 7 Pro is OnePlus's most expensive phone yet, but it is still hundreds of dollars
less than the flagships it is actually outperforming.
The 7 Pro starts off at $669, which is more than $400 less than my iPhone XS Max, and
$300 less than the Samsung Galaxy S10+, yet it competes very well with both of those.
For the price of my $1100 iPhone XS Max, for instance, you'd be able to purchase the OnePlus
7 Pro, some Galaxy Buds, and some great noise cancelling headphones.
It's just something to keep in mind.
There are also a couple of cool features that I didn't talk about that I think all people
will really appreciate.
First off, the phone has warp charging, so you can get up to 50% charge in just 20 minutes
if you used its included charger.
The phone has a three-position physical switch.
For students, or anybody that has meetings, this is very convenient because if you ever
forget to put your phone on silent, you can easily reach for your phone, and without looking,
switch between ring, silent, and vibrate.
Why don't all manufacturers include this on their phones?
Beats me.
There's also a slew of cool software features that just make the overall user experience
better in my opinion.
You can use those iPhone like gestures without any extra launchers, which actually work really
well and really take advantage of all of that screen.
Other features that I actually find myself using a lot are the gestures you can do while
the phone is locked.
You can do things like draw a circle with your finger and open the camera app.
You can set drawing an M to open the music app of your choice.
OnePlus has made it really easy to customize these settings, and overall the gestures are
a nice feature to have that I actually find myself using often.
This review wouldn't be complete without touching on the things I don't like so much about the
phone.
No phone is perfect, but also keep in mind that out of all of the flagships out right
now, this is the least expensive 2019 phone that you can buy.
The in display fingerprint sensor is decent, but only works flawlessly probably around
three fourths of the time.
The other times, I find myself having to reorient my finger or use a different level of pressure.
I would still prefer a rear fingerprint sensor at this point over this optical one.
Also, this phone doesn't have wireless charging.
It does have warp charging, but all of the other flagships I have use wireless charging,
so I have charging docks everywhere that I just cannot use with my OnePlus 7 Pro.
But as I've said, I'm nitpicking at this point and neither one of these downfalls has caused
me to not choose this phone as my daily driver.
The OnePlus 7 Pro is a phone that genuinely surprised me.
For someone that never even fully committed to my Samsung Galaxy S10+ or Pixel 3 XL, I
never would've predicted that a OnePlus device would swing me back to Android.
But that's exactly what happened.
Its speed, its fluidity, and its updated image processing in its camera, were just just things
that I really valued in a smartphone.
And to top this all off with the new hands-down best display on any smartphone, the 7 Pro
was just too good to pass up.
It has no notch, no hole-punch, and no bezels.
Just one, large, very high quality screen.
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