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OnePlus is also launching a standard OnePlus 7, albeit not in the U. This is a 30W brick. OnePlus says its charger keeps the phone from getting too hot by converting the voltage to 5V at 6A in the charger itself, instead of handling the conversion on the device. The phone also comes with a cheap clear TPU case.
Read: The best OnePlus 7 Pro screen protectors you can buy. OnePlus refines its design about twice a year and has done so for the last five years. The OnePlus 7 Pro has a 6. I feel OnePlus should have maintained the body size of the OnePlus 6T — or even gone smaller since there is no notch and very little bezel in the OnePlus 7 Pro. Instead, OnePlus went the other direction. OnePlus achieves this nearly-bezel-less design by hiding the selfie camera in a pop-up mechanism in the top of the device. The mechanism is quite silent and fast, and you can even use it for face unlock without skipping a beat.
OnePlus says it takes 0. The rear of the device is made of the same soft-touch glass as the OnePlus 6T. It feels more like metal than glass, so depending on your preference you might love it or hate it. The colors are very classy and subtle. A Mirror Blue colorway was announced exclusively for India on July 8, though we may see it show up in other countries in the future. Here are some good options.
The OnePlus 7 Pro has one speaker grille on the bottom of the device, and another embedded in the top bezel. This allows for a nearly edge-to-edge display, with only the slimmest chin on the bottom. The phone is fairly bare otherwise, save for the pop-out camera in the top. The bottom of the device also houses a USB-C port.
The huge 90Hz display is faster and smoother than any OnePlus phone before it — at the cost of battery life. OnePlus is using a 90Hz panel in the OnePlus 7 Pro, which means animations and movement look more fluid than they would on a 60Hz screen. Colors are bright and vivid but not overly saturated.
Even scrolling through the app drawer feels fluid. The combination of the capable hardware and wonderful software makes performance on the OnePlus 7 Pro great. In day-to-day use, OnePlus offers a number of features that help the device fly. It does things like keep key app data in the memory to make apps launch faster, and this makes a big difference.
The OnePlus 7 has the same main camera as the 7 Pro, but lacks the ultra-wide angle and telephoto cameras, instead having a 5MP depth assist camera for portrait mode shots. Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs. It keeps our batteries topped up through busy days. Pro mode will allow you to get technical with the camera, while Nightscape allows for better dynamic range at the cost of extra shooting and processing time. A straight, degree transition into the display would also probably help keep fingers away from the display and stop errant touch inputs.
The device is well optimized, and I never once felt a stutter or slowdown during my time with it. In benchmarks, the OnePlus 7 Pro scores well. It achieved a score of , in AnTuTu. In Geekbench, it nabbed 3, and 10, for the single-core and multi-core tests, respectively. This is counteracted by the larger, higher-resolution display and faster refresh rate. Disappointingly, this resulted in worse battery life during my time with the phone. OnePlus says the two phones should have similar battery life, but I got about 5.
I would have preferred to see OnePlus prioritize battery life over the display. The 7 Pro uses a special liquid cooling system to prevent heat build-up during intense usage. I only found it got warm during an extended time plugged into the Warp Charger. In daily use, it never got too hot, even while multitasking.
Unfortunately, OnePlus did not include any wireless charging in the 7 Pro. OnePlus told Android Authority it has confidence in the charging speed of its wired connection. OnePlus needs to step it up. The software patch is supposed to improve image quality across the board. Our impressions below still stand. OnePlus has never been known for making impressive cameras and, unfortunately, that remains the case with the 7 Pro. Notice how I said lenses? OnePlus has adopted the three-camera configuration on the back of this phone.
The standard lens is probably the best of the bunch, with the new 48MP sensor taking in more light thanks to pixel binning. This results in sharper, brighter photos. The wide lens feels a bit too wide for most circumstances, but it works wonderfully for landscapes. In general, I really liked the color profile of images produced from this device. The level of sharpness seemed pretty exceptional in good light.
Images are sharp but not too sharp, and they looked natural overall. In low-light circumstances, though, the camera really fell apart and images of simple things like people became muddy. If OnePlus wants to compete head-to-head with the other flagships on the market it really needs to make low-light performance better.
The OnePlus camera app is very simplistic and easy to use. Pro mode will allow you to get technical with the camera, while Nightscape allows for better dynamic range at the cost of extra shooting and processing time. Just like on the OnePlus 6T, Nightscape shots are really made for preserving highlights, but not for brightening shadows like other devices. The selfie camera is where the OnePlus 7 Pro gets both interesting and surprisingly good. The selfie cam physically slides out of the device. Images are sharp and have great color reproduction, and the lens is wide enough to fit a lot of people in the frame.
If you drop the device while the camera is open, it will retract back into the phone, keeping it from taking damage on impact. The display is curved on the long edges, just like a Galaxy S The back is curved, too, and both the front and back of the phone wrap around the sides to meet a colored metal band that goes around the perimeter. The 7 Pro has a glass back, which is a strange choice for a phone that does not have wireless charging.
You get to pick. Ron Amadeo With all these curved sides, the body gives off a very Samsungy vibe. I will say the same thing to the OnePlus 7 Pro that I say to every Samsung phone released in recent memory: curved displays are pointless. They aren't an improvement over flat screens, and they just distort the sides of the user interface.
OnePlus talks about it being "easier to hold," but uh, you are definitely holding it wrong if your fingers come in contact with the front of the display. A curved display might actually make the phone worse to hold since, with slimmer sides, there isn't as much surface area for your fingers to grip onto.
A straight, degree transition into the display would also probably help keep fingers away from the display and stop errant touch inputs. The curve is not the end of the world on the OnePlus 7 Pro, but there are no benefits to curving the display, only the minor negative of a distorted image. It makes reading Web pages particularly weird, as a lot of designs put the first letter of each line in the curved area, making them look all melty. Under the glass is a colored layer with microscopic diagonal lines carved into it, giving it a shimmery, frosted look that diffuses incoming light.
In photos, it will range from dark blue to bright blue, depending on how the light is hitting it. It looks great! A phone with some color is always nice to see. The back collects fingerprints like any other glass phone, but the frosted look does some work to hide the smudges.
Despite the all-screen design, OnePlus did manage to cram an earpiece into the top edge of the phone. It doubles as one half of the stereo speaker setup, paired with a second speaker on the bottom edge. That all-screen front looks fantastic, and a big enabler of that design is the pop-up camera. As displays take over more and more of the front of the device, the question of where to put the camera is a constant problem. The iPhone X and all the Android copycats have gone with a big notch, or display cutout, along the top of the phone.
Samsung lowered its cameras down into the phone and sliced out interfering pixels, creating a hole in the top-right corner of the display. Last year, OnePlus went with the most compact notch possible. For , OnePlus is moving beyond all of that notch nonsense with a motorized pop-up camera. We've seen rising cameras in other devices like the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 slider phone and the Oppo Find X , in which large hunks of the phone rise up. But the OnePlus 7 Pro has only a tiny square for the pop-up camera section. OnePlus shares myriad supply chain resources with Oppo and Vivo, and the solution here looks like the Vivo Nex.
A lot of people assume the camera assembly is fragile, but that really doesn't seem to be the case. There is very little wiggle in the pop-up camera, even if you grab it with your fingers and get rough. If you forcefully push the camera into the phone, it goes in, and other than a message that pops up and tells you not to do that, the phone works fine. If you try to raise the camera and forcefully block it with your finger, the camera will stop going up, and other than a message that pops up and tells you not to do that, the phone works fine. The OnePlus 7 Pro camera probably can't be damaged in a fall either, since it will actually detect if the phone is in free fall and retract the camera automatically.
I tested this myself by tossing the phone in the air gently. I wouldn't recommend trying this at home, but if it falls even a few inches the camera retracts. It works great! I've seen plenty of privacy-minded folks that put tape or some other kind of cover on the cameras on their smartphones and laptops.
If you're worried about someone or something viewing your camera without your permission, you should love pop-up camera designs. The camera being up is a massive, can't-miss indicator that it is active, and whenever the camera is not in use, instead of being trained on your face, it's hidden inside the phone.