OnePlus 10 Pro Impressions

Not know this but the oneplus 10 pros

oneplus has been on a kind of a weird

trajectory lately and i've kind of

already talked about it but this is the

weirdest step so i say it's kinda 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 28 mobile or

something like that but even so the

software that this phone is running is

not the oxygen os 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

is more like an oppo phone than ever

before now you might have 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 color os the same color os

that an oppo phone would have this is

color os 12.1 so the oxygen os that's

been so important to oneplus for years

that i've 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

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 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 oxygen os or not when it

i don't know it's unconfirmed we don't

have an answer yet and even though it's

not perfect and honestly oxygen os is

more like color os than ever before in

its latest version i still am kind of

hoping for it because 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 like

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 filling it in person and

i gotta say in person it's a pretty

solid design it's a nice size roughly

the same size as 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 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

and two because of this seam here so

oneplus has this awesome satin black and

the whole back and all 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

stove top than any i've ever seen it's

actually only three cameras though the

is a bi-color led flash with some text

in the middle that says p2d 50t now if

actually stands for i asked oneplus

because i mean there's not a whole lot

of other text on the phone why did they

put this here apparently p stands for

hasselblad mobile camera system

stands for 50 megapixel triple camera

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 cut out

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 isn't 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 1 hertz

instead of 10 hertz so it can save even

more power than earlier ldpo 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 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

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 uh it's it's very similar

in performance to the snapdragon 8 with

a bump in the gpu department and most

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 going to 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 color os 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

how are they right this is uh 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 have 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 8

megapixel 3.3 x telephoto camera as last

year and a new 150 degree ultra wide so

the new second generation hasselblad

as far as we can tell the same mobile

camera system plus a new ultrawide

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 impressions 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 is 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 like color science

maybe maybe the second generation

hasselblad stuff has more to do with

and colors in dynamic range i think are

still good not too over processed but

nothing dramatically better than

expected here the colors from the

ultrawide 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 got to 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

not super wide and not really noteworthy

in the quality department in my opinion

but hey y'all want to 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 ultrawide is a

new feature and you know if you just

open the camera and just switch to the

ultrawide it'll look exactly the same as

any other but buried in the settings

there is a 150 degree ultra wide mode

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

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

x-pan mode to shoot in that 65 by 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 you know not

a huge difference in the camera

department basically if you weren't sold

on last year's phone then this one's not

going to 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 5

000 milliamp hour battery and upgrades

to 80 watt wired charging plus 50 watt

wireless charging which is sick so

usually you get you know a huge battery

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 you know 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

it's still got the red cable it's still

uh it's an oppo charger so as part of

the the melting of the oppo and oneplus

brands the oppo vacation 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 uh it's no

longer a warp 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's switched back to

this is a usb-a charger now all of these

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 in the box is

sadly like 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

here you go it's a usba charger also if

you want to do that 50 watt airvooq

wireless charging that is a separate

extra oppo wireless charger still a

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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 phones it didn't really stand out

normal phone yet now that doesn't mean

it's a bad phone at all it's actually

quite good and you know 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

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 got to withhold any

of my official review type judgment

until then like if it ends up being

seven eight nine hundred dollars 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

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