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Introduction
Friends, what is OnePlus doing in 2023? We’ve got the OnePlus Open big box & I’m slowly going into the fan mode. I was a big fan of OnePlus in 2017, 2018, 2019 & then afterwards they went downhill. But 2023 is the year of redemption! You’ll know what I’m talking about when I open the OnePlus
OnePlus Open Unboxing
It’s a right up front phone & as soon as you take the foldable phone in your hand. It doesn’t feel like a foldable phone. It’s like a normal candy bar as it’s light. You expect a foldable phone to be heavy in your hand, but not this one. There’s an 80W charger & then we’ll take it out.
There are a lot of stickers, a sim card tool, documentation & a red club card. And then find more benefits, like notes. So there’s a lot of documentation, so do read it when you buy it. And then there’s a USB Type A to Type C charging cable. That’s about it. Let’s keep it aside. This was a media box, but when you open the box, it’ll look like this.
OnePlus Open Design
It’s a little wide & if you compare it with the other most popular foldable phones, then this is more usable as it’s very narrow, not this one. As soon as you hold it, you can feel the lightness. It’s generally around 250-260g. I think this is lighter, around 230g. Let’s check its weight. Oh, it’s 242g! I’m actually surprised. If you compare it with the iPhone 14 Pro Max, it’s around 240-241g.
It feels light in the hand, even though the camera module is very big. There should be some heaviness at the front, but the weight distribution is good. If you look at the back, there’s a vegan leather finish. And the finish of the case is also exactly the same..So even after putting the case, the looks won’t change.
OnePlus Open Ports & Buttons
There’s a speaker grill, microphone, sim card tray, USB Type C, another speaker grill. On the right hand side, there’s a power on off button & volume rocker.
Power on and off is also a side-mounted fingerprint sensor. On the top, there’s a noise cancelling microphone. Then you have 2 speaker grills. And on the left hand side, there’s an alert slider. Look at that!
The alert slider is back! I love it! There’s an IR blaster here. And the 3rd mic is here on the camera body. By the way, there’s only 1 variant with 16GB RAM & 512GB RAM.
So there’s no dedicated SD card. You have dual nano sim cards. Before we move ahead, let me tell you that after 2.5 years. My OnePlus phone is going to be my daily driver for the 1st time. And it’s going to be the OnePlus Open.
OnePlus Open Display
The display on the outside is a 6.31” 120Hz AMOLED display. And I’ll tell you what, the cover display goes from 10Hz to 120Hz. The display on the inside goes upto 1Hz. So there’s an adaptive refresh rate of 1Hz-120Hz. There’s Dolby Vision support. And there’s a 2K display on the inside as well. So there’s a great resolution! And I said that the cover display is more useful..Because it has an aspect ratio of 20-9 which is normal for tall phones. So you can do 100% things on it.
And think about it, it’s a 2K AMOLED display with 120Hz. And if you look at the display on the inside, it’s a 7.82” 2K display & it’s square with 1.07-1 aspect ratio. It’s a square display. But wow! Is this a display or a joke? I’ve seen an issue with foldable phones, there’s a lot of glare.
But this has an anti-glare coating & both these displays are extremely bright in terms of brightness. Peak brightness is 2800 nits on the front & back. This is the highest brightness on any phone. And I’m going to show you the Pro XDR feature on the camera. The display looks so bright!
It’s a 10bit display & you get 1440Hz PWM dimming. So your eyes won’t have a problem if you’re looking at it in low light. It has Dolby Vision & HDR10+. So everything is packed in this display. That’s why I said it’s one of the best displays, not only on foldable, but on any phone.
And I’ll tell you what, it’s very satisfying. It has the right amount of resistance. This is a no gap hinge display. It’s not that much, but it’s a no gap display. Dust particles won’t go inside. It’s IPX4 certified, not IPX8, but IPX4. So it’s a little water resistant.
OnePlus Open Specifications
It comes on Qualcomm SD 8th Gen 2. It has 16GB LPDDR5X RAM. It has UFS 4.0 Storage Type. It’s 16512GB. It has a 4805mAh battery. It has an 80W brick battery with 67W charging. It charges from 0-100% in 43 minutes only on a foldable phone. And Ershad & Sajid have been using it continuously for the past 5-6 days.
They were jumping that the battery lasts for 6-7 hours screen on time. So it’s an excellent battery. Remember, it’s a big display & when you use a big display, it consumes more battery.nBut this one will last you through the day.
They got a 6-6.5 hour screen on time.Not with this one. It’s the fastest charging foldable phone with 67W. It charges from 0-100% in 43 minutes. But there’s 1 thing & I think it should have been there. Wireless charging.
OnePlus Open Performance
The gaming performance is next level. If I talk about the Genshin Impact, we got 57-58FPS continuously. If I talk about COD Mobile, we got 120FPS. And in BGMI, we got 90FPS. And that too on the highest settings. Medium & Ultra settings. And in New State, we got 90FPS in Ultra graphics. I mean, it’s absolutely great.
It’s not just the performance. On paper, it’s the highest scoring fold. Antutu scored above 1.5M in version 10. Which is excellent! And there’s a reason for that. Along with the processor, there’s 16GB RAM & 512GB storage.
OnePlus Open OS UI
But more than the performance, the tuning that OnePlus has done. I mean, it has all the tablet features. For multitasking, you can literally open 3 windows & work.
And they work flawlessly. Many brands try to optimize, but there’s always a bug. We didn’t find a single bug in this one. You get a taskbar at the bottom & you can access recent apps from here. The app drawer is here & you can see the recent documents.
The optimization that OnePlus has done, I mean kudos to OnePlus for that. The interaction & haptic feedback! It’s just fun using this phone! And there are 5 years security updates. I’m not sure if there’s a stylus support at this point. And the OnePlus apps are natively made for tablets. Meaning if you open the calculator app or the photos app, it’s well tuned for the big screen. It has 16GB physical RAM & 12GB virtual RAM. So it’s a 28GB phone.
OnePlus Open Connectivity
It has Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.3, NFC, IR Blaster & 19 5G bands. So it’s going to run globally. Everything is top notch in connectivity. It has all the sensors like side mounted fingerprint sensor, face unlock etc. Now let’s talk about the camera.
OnePlus Open Camera
Display, performance, specifications, OS & updates are all amazing! Is the camera amazing? Let’s find out! There are 5 cameras in total. There’s a rear triple camera setup, then there’s one in the front & then there’s another sensor inside. So there are 5 cameras in total. Specs, you get 48MP x 64 MP x 48 MP rear camera, 64MP telephoto camera, 48MP ultra wide camera.
And the 48MP primary sensor is the Lydia T808. Basically, they’re made for foldables. It takes up less space & gives better performance. And the selfie sensor on the cover display is 32MP.
And the selfie sensor on the main display is 20MP. And the primary sensor has OIS. The periscope has 3x optical zoom & the hybrid zoom is 6x. Alright, there are a lot of features & I’m going to talk at length.
If you go extreme in zoom, it goes upto 120X. But you won’t get a good output at 120X, but you can go upto 120X. And it has the expand mode of Hasselblad. And there are 2 selfies & you can use the rear camera as a selfie. That’s excellent! You can take a lot of photos in the wild.
In fact, there are a lot of photos taken in different conditions with different cameras. In videography, you can shoot 4K 60FPS with the rear camera. And the front cover display is 4K 30FPS. And you can shoot videos in Dolby Vision, which is capped at 4K 30FPS. But you can shoot Dolby Vision videos, so you get a high dynamic range. I’ll show you. I mean, when you click a photo on this display & click on the Pro XDR. Wow! I mean, that’s a different experience altogether. For example, I’ll take a photo of the bulb.
Look at the Pro XDR mode, it’s written here. This is with the Pro XDR & this is the original photo. Now I’ll zoom in. This is the normal photo in the Pro XDR. So where there are white colours, it just brightens up. And because of its brightness, you can use the Pro XDR mode. These photos look really good! There’s the Pro mode & you can shoot videos in LOG. You can shoot professional videos. But overall, I’d say the camera can have a little bit of improvement. Like when you shoot in HDR, you get a halo effect. But this is the 1st fold from OnePlus & for that. The camera is definitely above average.
And I’m hoping that with the updates, because the setup & specs are really good, the camera with updates will improve. That’s all for this post, until the next one, Keep hamaridunia.com& Stay Safe!