You may have seen a lot of reviews about Oneplus 6
So this one is not going to cover every aspect of it.
In this video we are only focusing on camera performance and the gaming test, hope you enjoy.
I want to start off by saying that the camera performance from this video is not a scientific analysis.
It's just a collection of my thoughts from using a phone camera in a wide variety of different scenarios.
No third party apps, HDR disabled, full auto mode with tap for metering and focus as my only manual controls.
Why not start from the portrait mode since this feature is a hype for dual camera phones nowadays?
Well I gotta say Oneplus 6 did a fair good job on blurring the background, but it seems a little bit too far.
Check the elbow part from Julia.
And this kind of unstable edge bokeh effect algorithm is everywhere
Oneplus 6 needs to release a firmware to get those fixed.
Zoom in on the edge, we can see iPhone X did a pretty decent job on keeping the hair details
While Oneplus 6 is somehow too soft
though sometimes both iPhone X and Oneplus 6 didn’t handle the edge well.
What annoys me most is the iPhone X's unstable blurry background algorithm
Sometimes it shoots this clear background even under the portrait mode!
For the selfie, I just absolutely love Oneplus 6. It’s just light years ahead of iPhone X.
I’m just amazed by how delicate Oneplus 6 can handle when comes to selfie
It knows the user's psychology pretty well.
Now let’s move to tackling color.
In the first shot with the flowers, both iPhone X and Oneplus 6 register great true to life color
However, when we zoom in, we can see clearly iPhone X keeps a bit more details,
but overall, Oneplus 6 generates what most people would describe “pleasing” pictures.
Check more samples we took in broad daylight.
Let’s look at low light!
Well, things get a little bit interesting.
Under this sort of backlight situation, Oneplus just really falls apart when comes to dynamic range
even after I tapping on the screen for several times.
It should be a software issue.
While in other situations both cameras perform pretty good and register accurate colors.
When under the extreme low light condition.
iPhone 8 Plus has more accurate colors of light but it got over exposed on the highlight part.
Overall iPhone 8 Plus delivers a cleaner and less noisy picture
but it struggles to maintain its consistent metering of exposure and sometimes can’t register the color right.
While for Oneplus I’m pretty impressed by its night performance
but it bumps up the saturation to deliver a more pleasing picture at the cost of accuracy.
Lastly if you are interested in video performance
I did a comparison with iPhone X as well.
Both shot in 4k/60fps.
Both cameras are fantastic!
The second part of this video is the gaming test.
Ever since Oneplus 5T I’m pretty satisfied with the power consumption control when playing games.
That means it will not get too warm even when you are playing it for a long time.
And the strong hardware aspects like Snapdragon 845,
the up to 8 gigs of ram ensure the super smooth gaming experience.
Now conclusion time.
As of now Oneplus 6 was released in less than 2 weeks
I do admit it has unstable bokeh algorithm issue when comes to portrait mode
but that can be fixed through firmware update, just give Oneplus some time.
Overall Oneplus 6 delivers a fairly good enough true-to-life color and awesome sharp images
both under broad and dim light condition
iPhone X and iPhone 8 Plus seems didn’t win that much, especially considering the price difference.
As for gaming it’s just smooth
and what's the most gorgeous part is
it won't generate too much warmth no matter how long you are playing the game with it!
And what do you guys think about it?
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I’m Sami, see you in next videos!