Very quick delivery and packed very well.
Fantastic phone, light and fits in my back pocket! Big fan of OnePlus for a long time now so I'm probably a little biased.
Only downside is I believe the phone is from India so when I tried sign into my google pay account in the preloaded app, it only gave me the option of using a phone number from India and wouldn't let me change the country code...
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The wanderer
Review after using the mobile for one week
Reviewed in India on August 9, 2020
The wanderer
Reviewed in India on August 9, 2020
Pros
1) Fluid AMOLED Display and 90 Hz display rate gives the display exactly what your eyes need for a soothing experience (did not experience the tint issue yet).
2) After using Redmi Note 5 Pro for more than 2 years (the advertisements are hell), the Oxygen OS feels heavenly.
3) I bought the Gray Onyx version. It looks really premium.
4) The mobile is really fast and smooth.
5) You will be genuinely impressed with the face unlock speed with this mobile. The fingerprint scanner was also fairly fast (I really liked the various ways you could customize fingerprint unlock animations; the cosmos one is pure love).
6) My mom has Oppo A5 2020, and this mobile is smaller than that one. This set feels surprisingly handy (which really goes with the lightweight build of this mobile).
7) This is my first OnePlus, so the charging cable and the adapter really impressed me. (Charging speed results done by me when the mobile was switched off and was at 0% : 50% at 24 minutes, 61% at 30 minutes (9% short of their claim), 80% at 41 minutes, 100% at 58 minutes).
8) Again, my first OP, so the Alert slider impressed me as well.
9) Not a pro gamer, but this mobile has a FNATIC mode for games. Yet to test what it actually does, but my gaming experience was fairly good.
10) The zen mode. I liked this touch a lot. Reminds us that there is a life outside of your mobile too (go talk with your family and have a nice chat with them).
11) The reading mode. Again, another thing I liked (pardon me if these are common features in mobiles of this range). I read a lot, and I don't like ebooks much. But even when you are scrolling down Google learning about the life cycle or genetic composition of the Coronavirus, the black and white mode feels soothing to the eye.
Neutral
1) For camera, which I know is a prime requirement for many, please look into other reviews. I am not a voracious camera user, so my views on this would be unfair to you readers. The only review I can give is that, in low light, while taking a photo, if your hand shakes, the picture comes a little hazy.
Cons
1) Battery. Yes. Many people in the OnePlus community have raised this issue as well. I will just write down my issues. If you use the mobile normally, the mobile should go on for a day (that is, you will have to charge it once a day). Even if you play games, the battery tries to handle itself, and I would call that performance average.
However, if you switch on Hotspot, battery drains like a flowing river downhill a mountain. I have some tasks that I do in the laptop, and I do not have a ethernet connection, so this is an issue for me. Kindly keep this in mind.
2) You knew this was coming. The 3.5 mm jack that everyone loves.
3) Although the speaker is loud, stereo speakers would have been better.
4) Not an issue for me, but yes, you can get better processors at this price (Realme X2 pro, for example).
5) Again, not an issue for me, but no SD card support. (The lack of SD card support and 3.5 mm jack is becoming prevalent, it seems).
6) I wish the frame wasn't of plastic, but it is (Although the buttons are of metal).
Conclusion
I can not emphasize much how much I am liking this mobile. If you like watching anime, movies, or even youtube, the screen will feel like a bliss.
Among the 6 cons I have written, I can still live with 5 of them, but the battery draining issue is the only reason I gave it 4 stars. My Redmi Note 5 Pro handled being a Hotspot better than this mobile. I don't know if it is possible to fix this by an OTA update.
I sincerely request all users of OP Nord to check their battery backup. You can comment below if you want to.
Note: All of these are personal reviews. Thank you for reading quite a long review. You won't regret buying this, that is for sure.
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Harshad Salunke
Almost everything in good price
Reviewed in India on August 9, 2020
ARYA
'More than midrange but less than premium '. This phone has heating issues...😥
Reviewed in India on August 3, 2020
ARYA
Reviewed in India on August 3, 2020
Pros.
Device is pretty impressive and looks premium ...
1. screen looks great
2. Camera works descently but after some struggle
3. Warp charge
4.12 gb ram is great and is very helpful during multitasking
5.screen brightness
Cons.
1.even when Snapdragon is said to be best chip in this range ,it's the one with same performance as Snapdragon 845 wrapped up with new ai engine ,it still struggles to maintain smooth experience.
2. Screen refresh rate of 90hz but due to less processing power it struggles to maintain the refresh rate.
3. Mono speaker
It's not stereo speakers and you will miss this if you want more bass.
4.ufs 2.1
The storage speed and data transfer speed decrease is observed if you've used ufs 3.0
All over this budget pack gets everything right but the hands on experience says even after having better cooling system in it..
I have observed that my nord actually heats up very fast and it takes time to cool.
If you're the one who is pretty intrested to use the phone continuously for several hours ,I would recommend you to reconsider this once again.
This thing heats up pretty fast and it suffers to maintain the peak performance..
OnePlus tried to bring a top tier performance to its midranger device and their performance is good but not great , OnePlus Nord does not make upto it's marketing hype. There are several potholes in this smooth experience and I expect it to be corrected during software updates and future nord segment.
It's just a midranger phone in the end.
For the best you can have I would suggest that you should see 8pro from OnePlus
Hope this helps ...thanks
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