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- Hey guys, this is Austin!
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The OnePlus 7T is my favorite OnePlus phone yet.
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At 600 dollars, you have a terrific screen,
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great performance, and cameras
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which are actually decent this year.
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Now if that's all you care about,
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feel free to stop watching the video,
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but there's a lot more to this OnePlus 7T
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than meets the eye.
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We've got to start with the screen, it's terrific.
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Not only is it plenty bright even in daylight,
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but importantly, it is a super smooth 90 hertz.
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Now this is certainly not the first
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high refresh rate display on a phone,
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the Razer Phone a couple years ago pulled that off,
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however it was a phone with lots of compromises.
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Sure you had that smooth performance, then things
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like brightness and color accuracy really weren't there.
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However with the 7T, I really feel like they nailed it.
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Now sure, it's only 1080P as opposed to 1440P like the pro,
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and that was plenty sharp,
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but I will take this screen any day.
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It gets significantly brighter, and importantly
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you pay less of the battery life penalty.
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Not only resolution hurts, but also the higher frame rate
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means that your GPU is not being taxed more.
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I think that this is a really nice sweet-spot.
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So the last week I've been using a pair of phones,
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the OnePlus 7T, as well as the iPhone 11 Pro.
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Well obviously this is the more expensive phone,
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there's a lot going for it, you know what?
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I keep going back to the 7T, and almost entirely
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because of just how smooth the screen is.
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The 90 hertz isn't a huge deal for some people.
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I know some people can't tell a major difference.
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But as far as I'm concerned, it is so, so much smoother.
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Obviously iOS 13 and the more powerful A13
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on the iPhone are quick, but the actual response
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on this in the way this looks and feels to me,
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is sort of ruining every other
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60 hertz display out there, which is like literally
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all phones besides the Razer Phone and the ROG.
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I think we're going to see a lot more of this
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super smooth display action in
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a lot of other phones coming up.
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I mean the Pixel 4 is very heavily rumored to include it.
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Because Samsung is making the OLED panels
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that go well out of these phones,
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wouldn't be surprised to see it
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on the next generation Galaxy as well.
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I mean really at this point, it just makes such a difference
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to smooth this that why wouldn't you do it?
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Especially considering that it's now
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on a 600 dollar OnePlus phone.
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This is a smaller point, but something
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I really like with the 7T, is the physical size.
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As much as I like that 7 Pro, it is a big, hefty phone.
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And I like the 7T because it's
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pretty much smaller in all aspects.
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So it's significantly thinner,
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it's also a little bit smaller,
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and pretty much all other dimensions,
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but the thing that really makes the big difference
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is the fact that it is a little bit narrower
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thanks to that 20:9 display.
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Now with that, it means that yes the phone is very tall,
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but in the hand, especially paired with the tapered back,
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and how like narrow it is,
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it actually is a very usable size.
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A lot of times when I get a really wide phone,
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a really heavy phone, it's hard for me
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to use on a regular basis.
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But this 7T hits a really nice sweet spot.
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It's a lot better than I thought,
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considering that on paper, it's only like a millimeter here,
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a few grams there, but it does add up.
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Now the next question is the camera
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which is traditionally been a weak point on OnePlus phones.
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Now this time around the OnePlus 7T
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has a very familiar triple camera set up,
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a 17 millimeter ultra-wide camera,
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a 28 millimeter wide camera,
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as well as 51 meter telephoto camera.
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In fact, if that sounds familiar,
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that's because that is nearly the exact same setup
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as which you'll find on the iPhone 11 Pro.
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So why don't we do a little blind camera test
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to see if you guys can tell the difference
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because there are some pretty major ones,
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but also some of these shots look pretty close as well.
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Not bad for a phone that costs 400 dollars less.
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First off we have a shot taken on the ultra-wide cameras.
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So camera A, I immediately liked the color more,
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Camera B looks a little bit more washed out.
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If I zoom in here, I think,
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there's definitely a little bit more detail
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in camera A, compared to camera B which is, I don't know.
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It looks like every thing is a little bit more washed out
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there's actual skin tones here,
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where it's kind of almost black and white here.
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Next up we have a shot taken on the standard
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white angle cameras on both phones.
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Now this one, I think is a very very clear win for camera 2.
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You can see it, there's so much more dynamic range,
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whereas in camera A it's almost kind of like silhouette-y.
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Now this next shot was taken on the telephoto lenses.
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So I think camera B is probably a little more life like,
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but honestly, I think that it's a
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clear win for camera A here.
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You can see that there's a little bit more detail
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on the actual basket here, and especially the flowers
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kind of all fall a little bit flat on camera B
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whereas they're actually kind of nice and punchy.
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I can easily kind of distinguish between them.
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This next photo is a macro-shot.
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So here they're actually pretty close.
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Detail-wise, it looks like camera B
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did a little bit of a better job.
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Yeah that leaf is definitely sharper on camera A.
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I think camera B is a little bit warmer, but I'd give a
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slight lend to camera B, but not by a huge amount here.
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Now the last comparison is with the night modes.
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So camera A is a clear loser here.
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So this was shot in a very dark environment
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and both actually did a really good job
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of pulling the level up, in fact I think camera A
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did a little bit better job sort of getting the white balnce
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just right, however if you look at my face,
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it's just not focused correctly,
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whereas camera B did a much better job.
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Now at this point I think it's very clear
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that there are some pretty major
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differences between these cameras.
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Shall we reveal which one's which?
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So I'm very curious, which phone do you like better?
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Is it camera A or camera B?
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Let me know in the comments below
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of which phone you think is which.
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Don't worry, don't cheat, I'm just gonna sit here,
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go down to the comments, pause the video,
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let me know what you think, and the answer is,
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Camera A is the OnePlus 7T,
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whereas camera B is the iPhone 11 Pro Max.
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Bet you didn't see that one coming, did ya?
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Or maybe you did.
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There are some real surprises here,
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and I think the main thing that really jumps out to me
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is that these camera actually traded blows.
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A lot of times where I'd prefer the much more
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less expensive OnePlus 7, now specifically
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with the night mode, this is actually
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where the 7T stumbled the most, focus,
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it just didn't like to focus at night.
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So I've taken some really nice night-scape shots
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and some of them look fantastic,
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but as far as actually having people in the frame,
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it generally just doesn't like that focus,
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and I wanna think that we took probably six or seven
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of these before we finally got
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the OnePlus to actually lock on.
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So if we take a look at the OnePlus side by side
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with the iPhone as far as portrait mode,
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I've gotta say I actually kind of prefer
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the OnePlus in this shot.
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So especially when you look at Ken's fingers here,
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you can actually see that it's really nicely cut out,
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whereas on the iPhone, it kind of misses a little bit.
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Now the iPhone does do a little bit of a better job,
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I think it warms the image up,
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it looks a little bit more natural.
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But, that being said, I think the OnePlus
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actually does a much better job
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of cutting Ken outta the frame.
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There's really no misses at all,
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when the iPhone's a little bit soft.
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The OnePlus does have a couple of extra features,
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so it has a super steady video mode
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which it does bring it down to 1080P,
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it looks good although the video
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generally speaking does not match up to the iPhone,
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and you lack the ability to easily change
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between the lenses while recording that the iPhone can.
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But one thing the OnePlus does have going for it
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is a dedicated macro-mode.
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So this takes advantage of the ultra wide camera
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so there's actually a physical motor there to help it focus.
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You can get super super close.
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Some of the shots I've gotten on the OnePlus,
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I could not have gotten them pretty much any other phone.
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Generally speaking, The OnePlus 7T
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actually has a pretty impressive camera set up.
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So while yes, the main camera can't touch very high end
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such as the iPhone 11 and the 11 Pro.
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Both the ultra wide and especially the telephoto
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do a really good job of trading blows.
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And between the portrait mode
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which seems to be really solid,
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and especially that ultra wide with the macro mode?
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There's a lot going for this phone,
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especially getting considering it is 400 dollars cheaper.
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Well I guess it's only 100 dollars cheaper
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that the iPhone 11, but then you're lacking
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the telephoto, that's not quite a fair fight.
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Regardless though, OnePlus 7T is
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really stepped up in the camera games this year.
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Like most other 2019 flagships,
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the 7T is taking advantage of a
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very matte finish on the glass panel.
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Personally, I like the way it looks and it feels.
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Especially with this nebula blue color,
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I think it looks really nice,
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it's actually called glacier this year isn't it?
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Glacier, not nebula that's the pro.
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This one's better anyway though,
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I like the blue, it's much bluer than the pro ever was.
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The rest of the design should feel very familiar
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if you've used any recent OnePlus phones.
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So not only does it have a very high quality vibrate motor
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but it's also paired with the little
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alert slider which I just love playing with.
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And on top of that, this is the third iteration
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of their in display fingerprint sensor.
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Now the harder I think, is that big of a difference
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this year so, it's still not quite as fast or as accurate
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as I'd like, however OnePlus says that they've done
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a lot of software tuning, just beat up the animations,
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and generally speaking it is better
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that what has been in the past.
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It's not my favorite, I definitely prefer a physical sensor,
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but it is certainly usable and it getting better.
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I can imagine with a few more updates
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it actually might be good and not just okay.
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Now there are certainly things missing from the 7T.
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So there's still no official IP rating,
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although they do have a fair
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but of water assistance already.
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It's just not officially certified,
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but things like the SIM card tray
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actually have a little rubber gasket
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so, I wouldn't be that concerned about getting it wet.
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And there's also still no wireless charging.
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This is a little bit more of a sticking point for me,
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I really do enjoy the convince of just throwing my phone
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on a wireless charger from time to time,
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but OnePLus's answer to that is, Warp Charge 30T.
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So this is basically the same technology
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they've been using since the seven pro,
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as well as the McLaren edition of the 6T.
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However the 30T means that there's actually additional
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optimization going on on the phone,
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which will allow it to charge even faster.
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They claim that this will go from
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zero to 100% in just 60 minutes.
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Now, I didn't try a full 0-100 run, but doing stuff like