The Smartphone Lover

 I have the new OnePlus 8 Pro here. I've also got the new regular OnePlus 8, but I've been reviewing the OnePlus 8 Pro for a little while now, and it is a great, I was about to say it's a great little phone, but this is not a little phone. This is a great, big phone. Anyway, as I've been reviewing the 8 Pro, I keep thinking about what we expect with OnePlus phones now, because the list is getting pretty long. We expect great screens, decent battery life, fast charging. So a lot of what I'm gonna end up talking about are the things you might not have expected from OnePlus, which on this phone is wireless charging and IP68 water resistance. Also, you never know what to expect with OnePlus when it comes to the cameras, so we're gonna talk about that a lot too. One thing you usually expect from OnePlus is a relatively low price, and OnePlus is still undercutting Samsung with this phone, but it has a starting price of 899$, which means that the 8 Pro is kind of an ex...

    The OnePlus Nord is an important moment for OnePlus. For years OnePlus has basically stuck to flagships. Nowadays it likes to do them two at a time but they're both designed to sit more or less at the top of the market. Now it's expanding with the Nord, its first serious attempt at a mid-range phone in years. Launching a mid-range phone means making some tough decisions about what the OnePlus name means to people. It still needs to have those features that people buy OnePlus phones for in the first place but it also needs to make some compromises. Not just because it needs to make it cheap but also so that once it is cheaper it doesn't end up so good that people choose it over your flagship phones. It needs to draw a line between OnePlus features and flagship OnePlus features. It's a balancing act where if you get the balance slightly wrong you could end up with the same kind of flagship killer that OnePlus liked to call its phones back in the day. Only now OnePlus ...