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- Hey, what's up? MKBHD here.
And you might not know this,
but the OnePlus 10 Pro is out...
kinda.
OnePlus has been on kind of a weird trajectory lately
and I've kind of already talked about it,
but this is the latest, weirdest step.
So, I say it's kind of out
because, well, you're watching this video on YouTube,
which is not in China,
but this phone is officially landed and launched
only in China.
So, it's not out where you're watching this,
but we'll likely see an international launch
at some point this year for this phone.
So, I was able to get my hands on this one,
thanks to our friends at dbrand.
But if you wanted to get one,
you have to import it
from a site like 28Mobile or something like that.
But even so, the software that this phone is running
is not the OxygenOS
that OnePlus fans have come to know and love
in many regions.
So basically, this phone might have a OnePlus box,
and the OnePlus logo,
and a OnePlus red cable,
but this OnePlus 10 Pro is more like an OPPO phone
than ever before.
Now, you might've seen all the specs,
and teasers, and stuff about this phone
as they were coming up to their launch.
And I'll get to all that in a second.
But the biggest thing to note, really,
is that this phone, this one right here,
is literally running OPPO software.
So, it has ColorOS,
the same ColorOS that an OPPO phone would have.
This is ColorOS 12.1.
So, the OxygenOS that's been so important
to OnePlus for years that I really liked in the past
is not here.
So, we've got some OPPO-built stock apps,
and it's got a bunch of incomplete menus
that don't have English translations.
There's a bunch of pre-installed Chinese apps
that can't be disabled.
This is clearly not meant to be exported to other regions.
The default browser is pretty rough.
I mean, it's mostly fine
and it does have a lot of customization features.
I think the wallpaper color picker is super cool
and I've gotten Google apps to work
other than the Assistant.
So I can make my way around, but it's not ideal.
So sort of overhanging all of this is,
okay, will this phone have OxygenOS or not
when it eventually probably launches internationally?
I don't know, it's unconfirmed.
We don't have an answer yet.
And even though it's not perfect,
and honestly, OxygenOS is more like ColorOS
than ever before in its latest version,
I still am kind of hoping for it 'cause it's more complete.
Anyway, the one thing that will be the same,
no matter where you get this phone in any region,
is this new design, this slightly controversial new design.
It's kind of a mixed bag for me.
I liked parts of it,
I don't like some other parts of it.
So there's always a difference
between seeing it in the renders and the teasers
versus actually holding it and feeling it in-person.
And I got to say, in-person,
it's a pretty solid design.
It's a nice size,
roughly the same size as the last year's OnePlus 9 Pro.
Big, but not too big.
It's got the same smooth satin black finish
in this Volcanic Black color.
And the other version
is this sort of Emerald Green-type of satin finish.
And it's still got all the classic OnePlus shapes and cues:
the centered logo on the middle of the back,
the speaker and SIM card tray at the bottom,
the alert slider,
which has just moved up a little bit higher on the phone.
Really, the biggest change with this new design
is the camera layout.
So clearly, there's a bit of inspiration
from what Samsung did with the S21 Series,
a little bit of a, "Copy of my homework,
but don't make it too obvious," going on here.
But I do still like Samsung's version more
because it still feels more intentional.
One, because it goes all the way up to the corner
and it feels like a more integrated part of the design,
and two, because of this seam here.
So, OnePlus has this awesome satin black in the whole back
and all of the rails around the phone are satin,
but then it cuts at this seam to do a glossy camera array.
And I know we've done the stovetop joke
about other phones before,
but I mean, this one...
This one looks more like a stovetop
than any I've ever seen.
It's actually only three cameras, though.
The fourth in the corner is a bicolor LED flash
with some texts in the middle that says P2D 50T.
Now, if you're wondering what P2D 50T actually stands for,
I asked OnePlus because, I mean,
there's not a whole lot of other texts on the phone.
Why did they put this here?
Apparently, P stands for phone,
2D stands for second-generation
Hasselblad mobile camera system,
50T stands for 50-megapixel triple camera setup.
So, P2D 50T
just printed...
- Okay. - Okay.
I don't see a specific IP rating anywhere for this phone,
but it does have the rubber seals
around things like the SIM card tray,
which the IP68-certified OnePlus 9 Pro also had.
So, I'm thinking it'll also survive
normal splashes and stuff,
but the only other update on the outside is a small one.
It's the new display, same size at 6.7 inches
with the top-left corner selfie camera cutout
and an optical fingerprint sensor
that's nicely higher up on the phone.
I was wondering why last year's is so low
and I never really got an answer,
but this one is in a nicer spot, for sure.
Anyway, it's the same resolution, 1440p,
same max frame rate, 120 Hertz,
but this is an LTPO2 panel.
Meaning, it can modulate all the way down to one Hertz
instead of 10 Hertz.
So, it can save even more power than earlier LTPO displays.
Definitely looking forward
to seeing pretty much every high-end phone
make this same upgrade this year.
Then, inside, this phone does have
pretty much all of the high-end specs that you'd expect
from a OnePlus flagship phone.
Now, this isn't the full review.
I'm not daily driving this phone
because half the software is in Chinese
and it's kind of hard for me to do that,
but this does give us a pretty good idea
of how it'll perform.
And I mean, with high-end specs,
there aren't really any surprises here.
It's got the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset,
new naming scheme for the new generation
of four-nanometer chips.
First phone I've tested with it,
it's very similar in performance
of the Snapdragon 888, with a bump in the GPU department
and most significantly, better AI and ML performance.
So, you can imagine as the highest end,
non-custom silicon chip you can get in a phone,
combined with the high refresh rate display,
UFS 3.1 storage,
LPDDR5 RAM, it's gonna perform very well.
There's even a RAM Extender feature that you can use,
so you can sort of carve out some of that fast storage
to act like extra RAM if you want to.
Basically, I have thought for a few years, actually,
that OPPO's ColorOS has some of the better animations
of any Android skin,
and that's still true.
So, things are very smooth
and responsive here across the board.
And then the bonus
is some slightly better gaming performance
and a new image signal processor,
which should improve the cameras.
Which, speaking of the cameras,
how are they, right?
This is a new...
I mean, the design very much highlights these new cameras
and the Hasselblad logo is right there.
So, does it deliver?
Well, basically, the camera housing
might've gotten a redesign,
but the actual camera system
is almost the same as last year.
So, it's the same 48-megapixel main camera,
the same eight-megapixel 3.3x telephoto camera as last year,
and a new 150-degree ultra wide.
So, the new second-generation Hasselblad
mobile camera system is...
as far as we can tell, the same mobile camera system,
plus a new ultra wide.
Unclear if there's any new lenses
or anything going into the hardware,
but that's what we get.
Okay, got it.
So, my initial impression shooting with it
are the actual quality of the images is still pretty good.
I mean, we know what this main camera is capable of,
which is some pretty nice shots and daytime lighting
plus the larger sensor,
giving real shallow depth of field,
plus a little fringing with some close-up subjects,
but that's not a surprise here.
But whatever's in focus in the middle of the frame
or near the middle of the frame
gets pretty good detail and sharpness and it looks fine.
I was looking for some new color science, maybe.
Maybe the second-generation Hasselblad stuff
has more to do with image processing.
And colors and dynamic range, I think, are still good.
Not too overprocessed,
but nothing dramatically better than expected here.
The colors from the ultra wide
are definitely a bit different from the primary camera
and it's definitely not as sharp,
but that can improve a bit with software updates.
I just found the shutter speed not very fast.
So, you gotta really hold still
and take photos of still subjects,
but, hey, not all subjects stay still.
So, in my initial testing,
like object photos and still scenes are no problem,
but people and pets get a little more blurred sometimes,
especially in lower light.
The selfie camera, though, is actually new.
32 megapixels,
not super wide and not really noteworthy
in the quality department in my opinion,
but, hey, y'all wanna know about the selfie camera.
So, there you go.
This Hasselblad partnership
is more than just image quality, though.
It's also about features.
And so, the new ultra wide is a new feature.
And if you just open the Camera
and just switch to the Ultra Wide,
it'll look exactly the same as any other,
but it varied in the settings.
There is a 150-degree Ultra Wide mode
that lets you get really, really wide
and take advantage of that new sensor and lenses.
It does a pretty good job
not distorting things too much considering how wide it is,
which is very impressive at this angle.
So, even if the photos aren't super sharp,
they're still unique and pretty impressive.
And then, you can hit this button
and get in that full on all the way
Fisheye Circle Image mode to capture everything.
No video capture in this mode.
I think that would have been cool,
like sort of reminiscent of old skate videos.
But yeah, this is pretty sweet.
There's also the Hasselblad XPan Mode
to shoot in that 65:24 aspect ratio,
reminiscent of a classic Hasselblad camera.
And there's a new Pro mode with some raw formats,
which is great,
and a new Long Exposure mode, cool.
But overall, as you can tell,
not a huge difference in the camera department.
Basically, if you weren't sold on last year's phone,
then this one's not gonna change your mind.
But I think I can wrap this up
with one thing that did improve dramatically,
and that is the battery.
So, without getting much thicker or bigger,
this phone is now packing a 5000-milliamp power battery
and upgrades to 80-watt wired charging
plus 50-watt wireless charging, which is sick.
So, usually, you get a huge battery,
but not-so-fast charging
or a medium-sized battery, but with ultra-fast charging.
It's sort of like pick and choose.
This is really impressive.
This is basically combining the best of both worlds.
So, from a low battery,
you can add about 60% charge in 15 minutes,
which, on such a big battery,
can last you an entire new day.
And even if you don't have a heavy day of use,
I haven't really used this phone for very long,
but you can already tell.
This bigger battery, combined with the LTPO2 display,
is gonna reward lighter usage days
with a much longer screen on time.
I feel like there's something different
about this charger, though. I mean, this is the old one.
This, it's a little more squared off.
It's still got the red cable.
It's still the same size.
Oh, right.
It's an OPPO charger.
So, as part of the melting of the OPPO and OnePlus brands,
the OPPO-effication of OnePlus, as we've talked about,
yeah, they switched literally to a SuperVOOC charger.
It says it on their site.
That's the name of OPPO's fast-charging tech.
It's no longer a warped charger
that OnePlus used to ship with everything.
Now, honestly, the name of the charging tech
doesn't really bother me that much,
but the most annoying part is
it switched back to USB-A.
This is a USB-A charger now.
All of these warped chargers were USB-C.
And so, now, we've gone back,
so I can't use USB-C to USB-C cables anymore.
I have to use this cable.
So, this is annoyingly backwards.
I mean, the fact that the phone
does come with the charger and the box
is, sadly, bonus points for this phone.
That's what you have to do
when 80-watt charging is one of your features
is nobody has an 80-watt charger.
So, you have to throw it in.
But yeah, here you go, it's a USB-A charger.
Also, if you wanna do
that 50-watt AirVOOC Wireless Charging,
that is a separate extra OPPO Wireless Charger.
It's still a super impressive battery, though.
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So, almost exactly one year ago today,
it was January last year,
I did a, "What Happened to OnePlus?" video
and I was basically talking...
I'll link it below.
It's just talking about how they went
from a very enthusiast, focused company
to a very normal company making normal phones.
It didn't really stand out in quite the same way.
And this is their most normal phone yet.
Now, that doesn't mean it's a bad phone at all.
It's actually quite good
and lots of the stuff that I've always liked
about OnePlus phones are still here.
It's got the fast and smooth stuff.
It's got the high refresh rate display,
great performance, and high-end specs.
Really, really fast charging on a massive new battery,
and of course, decent cameras.
Still got the alert slider, great haptics.
So, it's got a lot of good stuff,
but we don't have an international launch.
So therefore, we don't have a real price for this phone yet.
So, I gotta withhold
any of my official review-type judgment until then.
Like, if it ends up being seven, eight, $900,
which is probably about where it'll land,
I could see it being pretty reasonable,
but anything higher than that,
it's competing with the big dogs
and I think anything lower than that would be a surprise.
So, let me know, would you want a phone like this,
the OnePlus 10 Pro?
Thanks for watching.
Catch you guys in the next one.
Peace.
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