Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is the oneplus nord this is a phone
that's not available here in the united states where i live for some reason
but oneplus was nice enough to help me take a look at it
and so the prices that i'll list will be for the uk and
india and so i don't really have an equivalent here in the united states but
it seems to be under 500 here at least if you were able
to buy one now it's 379 pounds to 469 pounds and as
you can see here's the price in india as well
there are two separate variants eight gigabytes of ram with 128 gigabytes of
storage and 12 gigabytes of ram with 256 gigabytes of storage
so you've got those two options and two colors as well gray onyx and blue marble
now unfortunately when i took the wrapper off for the first time
the camera was not recording for some reason but everything else is still in
the package wrapped so let's go ahead and open it up
and as you can see it says this way nord we'll set that aside
take a look at it in a moment and then inside the box
we've got our normal paperwork let's take a look at it here
so it says here's a welcome letter and if you want to read it i'll just
zoom in here a little bit if you want to pause it and take a look at that and
then also let's see what we've got so we have a case so they included a tpu
case which is always nice the note 20 ultra here in the united
states at least doesn't get a case so it's nice to see that included
and then we've got some other things here as well so we have a sim card
removal tool and then we have some oneplus nord stickers
a quick start guide safety information and highest
sar value ratings so here are the ratings if you're curious about those
and let's set these aside we grab the sim card tool so we can take a look at
the sim card tray and then inside the box we
have a typical oneplus usba to usbc adapter
for charging and it includes a warp charger now this will be interesting to
use since i've never used a warp charger it's a 30 watt charger
that should charge the oneplus nord to 70 percent from
zero in 30 minutes or so so here you can see
the ratings on the charger so it'll be interesting to try that out
and let's take a closer look at the oneplus nord
so let's take the wrapper off here
and this is that really nice blue color and hopefully you can see this well
through the camera and youtube hasn't tweaked it too much with their
compression but it's a really nice color and let's
go around the outside edge and then we'll talk about specs
so of course we have the display i'll talk about that in a moment on the right
hand side of the phone you've got your power sleep wake button
and then you've got your silent switch which is always nice to see on an
android phone on the bottom you have a speaker usb c
port another microphone here and then we have our sim card tray so let's go ahead
and pop the sim card out or the tray out
rather and this should be a dual sim card tray
so we've got one for each side and then
you've got a little rubber gasket on the outside edge
so that you can have a little bit of water sealing protection although this
is not ip rated on the left hand side we've got a volume
rocker on the top we've got a microphone and then of course we've got cameras on
the front and back so let's talk about the internal specs and then talk about
the specs of the camera now the display is a 6.44 inch 90 hertz
amoled display so it's not quite up to the spec
of say a note 20 ultra or a oneplus 8 pro but it should be plenty fast for
most it's 2400 by 1080 with 408 pixels per
inch and supports p3 wide color it has
gorilla glass 5 on the front and probably on the back it is glass i'm not
sure if that's what's on the back though internally it has a snapdragon 765
g cpu from qualcomm and it also has an adreno 620 gpu
again 8 gigabytes or 12 gigabytes of ram this is the 12 gigabyte variant with
gigabytes of storage the storage is not upgradable now as far as the battery
inside it's 4115 milliamp hours again it has warp charge 30t so it
should charge very quickly and let's take a
look at the cameras now the forward-facing cameras are pretty
interesting on this phone it's a 32 megapixel sony sensor with an
f 2.45 aperture and supports 4k 60 video next to it we have
an ultra wide 108 degree field of view 8 megapixel camera with an f 2.45
aperture now on the back this is where some
people say they're underwhelmed with the cameras of course i'll take a look at it
in a little bit but the first camera is a 48 megapixel f
1.75 aperture sony sensor they took out of the oneplus 8 pro and
it has optical image stabilization next there's an 8
megapixel wide angle lens with an f 2.25 aperture and 119 degree field of view
then we have a 5 megapixel depth sensor with an f 2.4 aperture and a 2 megapixel
macro with an f 2.4 aperture now supposedly
the back is good for 4k 30. so i'll check that out
in the settings again just to verify but let's go ahead and turn it on
now while this boots up i'll talk about the wi-fi and this has 802.11 a b
g n in ac so no wi-fi 6 but it also supports bluetooth 5.1
has nfc gps and all the other sensors you would expect
so we'll wait for it to boot up here
and this has oxygen os 10.5 so android 10 with all of the oxygen os stuff on
top of it so i'll go ahead and set it up i'll take
a closer look at it take some photos and again do a little bit of a
comparison and i'll come back in a bit when it's all set up to take a closer
look now i have the oneplus nord completely
set up and i've been using it for well since
yesterday i got it all set up used it through the night and now it's the next
day and so the overall experience is really
great i haven't used oxygen os for a while and what they've done with this is
sort of give you a simple stock android or really more of
the google pixel experience but with a few things on top so of
course it's fully customizable and then you have this silent switch
which i think all android phones should include you've got three different
levels here silent vibrate and ring and i just
really enjoy using this phone it's super fast thanks to the 90 hertz
display and in general because of the 90 hertz
display and what they've done with this display
it's really quite nice so you have the refresh rate set to 90. of course you
can change this if you'd like but usually pwm which controls the
display bothers my eyes but it's at such a high
rate that it doesn't bother my eyes at all
and i noticed this right away with the display now normally i can tell within
probably 15 minutes whether or not a display will bother my eyes but the pwm
rate or the way it controls brightness is so high
that it really won't bother most people and so i thought i'd show you a
comparison side by side here with the pixel 4a
so it's a little bit bigger with the oneplus nord i like the larger size and
the oneplus nord definitely feels built a lot better it has better
ergonomics the way it fits in your hands it feels like a premium device even
though not at premium prices such as the oneplus 8 pro
the pixel 4a is cheaper may have a better camera we'll check that out in a
moment but the pixel 4a is plastic where the
oneplus nord is metal and glass so it just has a more premium feel to it
the warp charging on the oneplus nord is super fast which is great i tried it out
and just using this phone has really been great i really like this interface
i think it's one of the best implementations of android in fact it
may be better than the pixel experience and of course you have google now off to
the side and then your camera app having a 90 hertz display on this phone
really makes a big difference it's just super smooth when you turn it down you
can notice the difference immediately and next to say the pixel 4a for example
if we go into the the app switcher they're both fairly
fast but you can just see the smoothness of the oneplus nord compared to the
pixel 4a there's just a difference that you
have to sort of experience in person to understand it's just nice and smooth
all of the time of course that does eat into battery a little bit but i think
the cost is worth it especially when you're using it now as
far as the speakers go this is the one area i was really disappointed in this
phone you've got one speaker you've got one on
the bottom the top is not a speaker so if we go
into a video of mine now let's go into my note 20 ultra 5g
unboxing pause it here i'll turn it and then i'll
move the microphone so you can hear the speaker
hot spot or whatever you'd like it's got bluetooth 5.0
a2dp for audio and aptx and all sorts of other things like gps nfc
and everything you could really want in a phone so the speaker
sounds okay but it's not incredible it does get
pretty loud but it gets a little muffled at high volumes so it's not
anything great it will do the job but i definitely recommend
using headphones so maybe the oneplus wireless headphones
or oneplus buds and try those out with this you'll get a better experience now
the camera is where it may struggle a little bit compared to the
pixel 4a so i took a bunch of sample images to compare
so let's go ahead and take a look at some of the images and the video as well
so here's the forward-facing video from the oneplus nord and the pixel 4a
and the oneplus nord actually has two lenses so you could
make it an ultra wide if you want and i'll show you that in a moment and then
the pixel 4a just has the singular lens so let me know which one
you think looks best and sounds best in the comments below
so here's the ultra wide on the oneplus nord so it does look
quite a bit wider so you have much more of the scene behind you
compared to what you have on the pixel 4a so this may be helpful for quite a
few people especially if you're trying to take selfies with a group of people
or just video with a group of people
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while oneplus nord technically doesn't have the fastest cpu out there
it's actually plenty fast so if we go over to call of duty
it'll switch to game mode as you can see there gaming mode is on
and if we pull down from the top we can go see our gaming mode settings
and you have game space and answer calls via speaker you can turn all of these
off graphic optimization it's actually off
and it's working fine but i'll just turn it on and let's go
back to the game and we'll hit start so i'll just show you what it's like as far
as frame rate and then we'll talk about heat on the
back of the phone after i've played this for a bit just to see if it gets really
warm so let's wait for it to load and as you
can see this is the pre-match so a hiccup there
for a second just when it restarted i'll just hit select
and everything seems to be nice and fluid and fast so
of course this is shipment so i probably won't last too long but i'm not going to
play a full round i just want to show you what the frame rates are like so
everything's nice and smooth and fast no issues here seems to be working well
so i think it will handle gaming no problem
everything's super fast as you can see it doesn't seem to slow down at all so
we'll go out of the game it seems to be nice and fast
the phone does get a little bit warm right around the camera module but it's
handling it nicely and of course you have that gaming mode
and it's not too hot to hold on to i don't think it's a problem you could
probably leave it plugged in while you're playing and i don't think you'd
have too much of an issue it's not very warm at all
so it did a nice job of that the screen looked great even though it's a 60 frame
per second game usually it's locked around that
the screen looked great it was smooth at all times and
i really think it'll be a great phone despite one issue with the speaker since
there's only one you're not hearing both so play this with headphones and it
would be much better i think now overall battery life i think will be
pretty good although i've only used it i've taken it off the charger
late last night set it aside and actually shut it off so i could boot it
up this morning with a fairly full charge
and see what we get so if we go to our battery here
you'll see it says it should last until about 2 am
battery saver is off and view usage details
and so i've been using it this morning mostly with the camera to take sample
images and so it's pretty good overall and i think it
will get most people through a day of course
warp charging it it only takes 15 minutes or so and you're good to go or
30 minutes and you have 70 charge now for this price i think this
is one of the best deals out there there's only a couple things i don't
like about it it doesn't have wireless charging which is something i really
have come to use a lot and i'm accustomed to so
that part i really wish it had i also wish they maybe would have reduced the
cameras maybe to just two cameras would have been fine
two or three depending on what you want maybe a normal telephoto in wide angle
similar to an iphone for example but one or two would have been fine and the
macro camera is okay but i don't know that it's necessary per
se i do like that it has the wide angle cameras on the front
and i think that's a nice little touch but in general this is a great phone
and this one plus phone i think is something that they should offer in the
united states i think a lot more people would buy it than they realize
being 500 or so the pixel 4a is great but the overall software support of
oxygen os being about the same as the pixel 4a shouldn't really be an issue
for most people i think it's great that people are
supporting their phones longer so we should get about three years of
guaranteed updates with either phone but let me know which one you like most
in the comments below i really like this oneplus nord
in fact i'll continue to use it for a little while and maybe the only downside
compared to the pixel 4a is the camera so
i think it's a really nice premium device great display
and i really enjoy using it so let me know what you think about it in the
comments below if you'd like to get your hands on this oneplus wallpaper i'll
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