The Oneplus 8T Review: A Solid Smartphone with a Few Quirks

For me, screen time has been a lot lately, but I've still managed to get around 20% battery life out of my phone at the end of the day. This is thanks in part to my mid-to-high brightness usage, as well as frequent camera usage and watching YouTube videos on the go. Additionally, I've been using a mix of LTE and Wi-Fi connectivity throughout the day, which has helped to extend my battery life even further.

One of the standout features of the Oneplus 8T is its included USB-C cable with a braided design, which provides a sturdy and reliable connection. This cable can also charge the phone in just 39 minutes, making it quick and convenient to top up on the go. I've found that this cable makes charging my phone feel like a breeze, especially when I'm in a rush or don't have time to wait for it to fully charge overnight.

The Oneplus 8T also comes equipped with two new cameras, which have improved the overall camera experience of the device. However, it's worth noting that these cameras are not as powerful as those found on some other flagship devices, and may not offer the same level of image quality or features. For example, there is no dedicated telephoto camera, and the beefed-up macro camera and monochrome cameras may not be as effective in certain situations.

One area where the Oneplus 8T excels is in its color profile, which has been tweaked to provide a more vibrant and saturated appearance. This is particularly noticeable in photos taken with the device's camera, although it's worth noting that this can also result in slightly over-saturated images that may not be entirely accurate. Additionally, switching between the ultra-wide-angle lens and regular lens can sometimes result in softer images and more pronounced lens flare.

In terms of performance, the Oneplus 8T is a solid device that should provide smooth and responsive performance for most users. However, it's worth noting that this phone may not be the best option for those who need the very latest and greatest hardware or software features. The device's layout and design are also somewhat similar to the Oneplus Nord, which may make it less appealing to some users.

Overall, the Oneplus 8T is a solid smartphone that offers great performance, battery life, and a excellent display. While it may not stand out from the crowd in terms of its features or image quality, it's certainly a device that should appeal to fans of the brand and those looking for a reliable and feature-packed Android device.

One thing to consider when choosing between the Oneplus 8T and other smartphones is whether you prefer a more rounded design and feel. While the Oneplus 8T has a sleek and modern look, it's somewhat similar to the Oneplus Nord in terms of its layout and handling. If this isn't an issue for you, then the 8T may be a great option.

In conclusion, the Oneplus 8T is a solid smartphone that offers many of the features and qualities that fans of the brand have come to expect. While it may not be the most powerful or innovative device on the market, it's certainly a reliable and feature-packed Android device that should appeal to a wide range of users.

If you're in the market for a new smartphone and are considering the Oneplus 8T, I'd recommend checking out some of the articles we've published on the subject. We have a full review of the phone available, as well as more information on its features and specifications. We also have links to where you can buy the device, so be sure to check those out as well.

As always, if you have any questions or comments about the Oneplus 8T or any other smartphone, feel free to let us know in the comments section below. And don't forget to like and subscribe to our channel for more content like this one.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit's that time of year again it seems like every smartphone maker is making new smartphones and oneplus has just announced its t line of devices for this year this time around it's just the 80 no ht pro because oneplus said it wants to keep its ultra flagship devices to a yearly thing i've spent the last week with the oneplus 8t and this is android authority's review before we get into the details i just want to compare it first to its predecessor the oneplus 8. now as you can see here there are some standout physical differences it's a tad bigger in all dimensions but the two main changes are that the camera has moved up to the corner and the front glass has been flattened if i had to sum it up it just looks and feels a lot more like the oneplus nord than it does the 8 and 8 pro it feels exceptionally well made the haptics are very crisp and as always the alert slider is a joy to use on paper the two differ a little less than the 7 and 7 t so it's the same chipset ram and storage but with a slightly bigger battery an added monochrome camera a beefed up macro camera a 120 hertz display instead of a 90 hertz and warp charge 65 versus warp charge 30 charging so fundamentally at least it's very very similar to the oneplus 8 and i would actually say if you've got a oneplus 8 don't even consider upgrading because they're just so similar using the oneplus 8t i noticed immediately how quick snappy and responsive it felt kind of like a lot of smartphones from oneplus really even though oneplus decided to leave out the plus variant of the processor and just sticking with the 865 there were basically zero hiccups during my usage and barely any during games i don't really play many games but i like to try out real racing 3 and riptide renegade and they were buttery smooth experiences if you're a gamer you're not going to be disappointed another reason you might buy a oneplus phone in the past is for its software and oxygen os has been revered for balancing features and clean aesthetic and smoothness and speed but with oxygen os 11 based on android 11 oneplus is taking a slightly different approach to things sure it's still focused on speed but there is a different approach to the aesthetic vision and the layout a few notable changes are the quick settings tray which now has the brightness slider on the first layer instead of having to swipe further down the big clock on the second layer of the quick settings has been changed as well and a redesigned settings menu which has been optimized for one-handed use and of course the new ambient displays with new options coming with later software updates one change that i'm not so sure about is the smooth brightness slider so what oneplus has done here is taking a perfectly working standard across the board everyone knows how to use it brightness slider and try to make the transition from bright to dim and dim to right smoother but in doing that they've introduced a lag and a delay and what that means is it's oftentimes very finicky and awkward to get the right brightness if you're in a specific environment where you don't want it to be too bright or too dim and if anything they've just tried to reinvent the wheel a bit here it's really odd because the rest of the new interface is fantastic and i think anyone who picks up a device with oxygen os 11 is really going to enjoy it but this one feature just stands out as a bit of a kind of they're trying a bit too hard oneplus 120 hertz amoled display here is no bigger than that of the eight but because it's now flat you don't get that awkward curved screen glare that you got with the eight also there is a tiny bit of a taper right at the edge to aid in gesture ergonomics for example when sliding to go back which i appreciated when using the phone the panel gets very bright very dim has great viewing angles and a fairly quick optical in display fingerprint scanner as well the oneplus 8t's 4500mah battery has been bumped up by 200 milliamp hours over its predecessor and it's actually given fantastic battery life even though i kept this thing on 120 hertz mode the entire time i managed to get around six hours of screen on time on average which is a lot of screen on time for me but it still left the phone with around 20 at the end of the day so you could squeeze even more out of it my usage is kind of mid to high brightness a lot of camera usage watching a couple of youtube videos here and there and a mix between lte and wi-fi connectivity with the new included walk charge 65 brake which is now usbc thanks oneplus the 8t can charge in just 39 minutes that means that one the included cable in the box is a red cable that's usb c to see which i don't know but i just i find that really satisfying and two that this thing just charges really quickly and what i've been doing with it is not actually charging it overnight but just letting it run throughout the night and then wake up in the morning i'll put it on to charge go make a coffee and by the time i've done all my morning routine the thing's charged at 100 again which is fantastic it's definitely not the fastest charging we've ever seen but it's certainly very quick oneplus has stuck a couple of new cameras in the 8t and if anything it kind of just fluffs up the spec sheet a little bit there's still no dedicated telephoto camera and the beefed up macro camera and monochrome cameras are pretty useless compared to one of those the results oddly oneplus has decided to go with a color profile that's very heavy in contrast actually rather similarly to the oneplus nord that we checked out not so long ago you notice this immediately when looking at the 80s photo samples colors have taken a nice boost in saturation though and they're a little bit over saturated but really only just a tad not because they look ugly but because they're just a little bit more saturated than in real life switching to the ultra wide samples are slightly softer and there's a little bit more of a lens flare problem but the dynamic range looks very similar and the sharpness especially when zoomed out on a social media profile is really very similar and that's impressive that said overall the cameras are still not flagship level there's way too much contrast not enough dynamic range and it looks like someone's taking the structure slider in instagram and just whacked it all the way up it's really odd the oneplus 8t can take some pretty decent night shots it can see in the dark pretty well but what i found that focus became more of the issue in really challenging scenarios of course these are some of the toughest scenarios to put a tiny phone camera sensor in but it did a decent job regardless selfies and portrait mode shots do look decent out v80 as with the main samples there's a lot of contrast and so it can make photos look a little bit moody but if that's your thing then this is the phone for you the ultra hd 60fps videos again have a lot of contrast they're relatively smooth and stabilization is pretty good but the 8t just won't be taking home any awards for the best in class video at 750 for the 12 gigabyte by 256 gigabyte model it's competing with the likes of the samsung s20 fan edition the zenfone 7 pro the me 10 t pro there's a lot going on there and really out of all of them it doesn't really stand out like i said right at the start of the video it feels a lot like the oneplus nord in layout and in holding in the hand and if you're not a smartphone connoisseur then you would be forgiven for thinking they're way too similar but you know this one cost double the price of the nord so why would you buy it in a similar vein the equivalent samsung is probably going to give you better cameras better display it might not beat it on speed which is of course all oneplus is known for but if you're really not about that life you can get something that's more rounded out than the oneplus 8t overall the oneplus 8t is a solid smartphone it's got great performance great battery life a great screen and a decent camera its biggest weakness though looking and feeling so much like the nord the untrained eyes might pick that instead and that about covers it for today's oneplus 8t review please do check the links in the video description to where you can buy this phone and also to the full article which will have even more detail than what i was able to put into this video once you're down there please do hit like and subscribe to never miss a video like this one and let us know in the comments what you think of the 80 is it a little bit close to the nord is it not that much of an upgrade over the oneplus 8 let us know anyway guys i've been ryan thomas with android authority and i'll catch you laterit's that time of year again it seems like every smartphone maker is making new smartphones and oneplus has just announced its t line of devices for this year this time around it's just the 80 no ht pro because oneplus said it wants to keep its ultra flagship devices to a yearly thing i've spent the last week with the oneplus 8t and this is android authority's review before we get into the details i just want to compare it first to its predecessor the oneplus 8. now as you can see here there are some standout physical differences it's a tad bigger in all dimensions but the two main changes are that the camera has moved up to the corner and the front glass has been flattened if i had to sum it up it just looks and feels a lot more like the oneplus nord than it does the 8 and 8 pro it feels exceptionally well made the haptics are very crisp and as always the alert slider is a joy to use on paper the two differ a little less than the 7 and 7 t so it's the same chipset ram and storage but with a slightly bigger battery an added monochrome camera a beefed up macro camera a 120 hertz display instead of a 90 hertz and warp charge 65 versus warp charge 30 charging so fundamentally at least it's very very similar to the oneplus 8 and i would actually say if you've got a oneplus 8 don't even consider upgrading because they're just so similar using the oneplus 8t i noticed immediately how quick snappy and responsive it felt kind of like a lot of smartphones from oneplus really even though oneplus decided to leave out the plus variant of the processor and just sticking with the 865 there were basically zero hiccups during my usage and barely any during games i don't really play many games but i like to try out real racing 3 and riptide renegade and they were buttery smooth experiences if you're a gamer you're not going to be disappointed another reason you might buy a oneplus phone in the past is for its software and oxygen os has been revered for balancing features and clean aesthetic and smoothness and speed but with oxygen os 11 based on android 11 oneplus is taking a slightly different approach to things sure it's still focused on speed but there is a different approach to the aesthetic vision and the layout a few notable changes are the quick settings tray which now has the brightness slider on the first layer instead of having to swipe further down the big clock on the second layer of the quick settings has been changed as well and a redesigned settings menu which has been optimized for one-handed use and of course the new ambient displays with new options coming with later software updates one change that i'm not so sure about is the smooth brightness slider so what oneplus has done here is taking a perfectly working standard across the board everyone knows how to use it brightness slider and try to make the transition from bright to dim and dim to right smoother but in doing that they've introduced a lag and a delay and what that means is it's oftentimes very finicky and awkward to get the right brightness if you're in a specific environment where you don't want it to be too bright or too dim and if anything they've just tried to reinvent the wheel a bit here it's really odd because the rest of the new interface is fantastic and i think anyone who picks up a device with oxygen os 11 is really going to enjoy it but this one feature just stands out as a bit of a kind of they're trying a bit too hard oneplus 120 hertz amoled display here is no bigger than that of the eight but because it's now flat you don't get that awkward curved screen glare that you got with the eight also there is a tiny bit of a taper right at the edge to aid in gesture ergonomics for example when sliding to go back which i appreciated when using the phone the panel gets very bright very dim has great viewing angles and a fairly quick optical in display fingerprint scanner as well the oneplus 8t's 4500mah battery has been bumped up by 200 milliamp hours over its predecessor and it's actually given fantastic battery life even though i kept this thing on 120 hertz mode the entire time i managed to get around six hours of screen on time on average which is a lot of screen on time for me but it still left the phone with around 20 at the end of the day so you could squeeze even more out of it my usage is kind of mid to high brightness a lot of camera usage watching a couple of youtube videos here and there and a mix between lte and wi-fi connectivity with the new included walk charge 65 brake which is now usbc thanks oneplus the 8t can charge in just 39 minutes that means that one the included cable in the box is a red cable that's usb c to see which i don't know but i just i find that really satisfying and two that this thing just charges really quickly and what i've been doing with it is not actually charging it overnight but just letting it run throughout the night and then wake up in the morning i'll put it on to charge go make a coffee and by the time i've done all my morning routine the thing's charged at 100 again which is fantastic it's definitely not the fastest charging we've ever seen but it's certainly very quick oneplus has stuck a couple of new cameras in the 8t and if anything it kind of just fluffs up the spec sheet a little bit there's still no dedicated telephoto camera and the beefed up macro camera and monochrome cameras are pretty useless compared to one of those the results oddly oneplus has decided to go with a color profile that's very heavy in contrast actually rather similarly to the oneplus nord that we checked out not so long ago you notice this immediately when looking at the 80s photo samples colors have taken a nice boost in saturation though and they're a little bit over saturated but really only just a tad not because they look ugly but because they're just a little bit more saturated than in real life switching to the ultra wide samples are slightly softer and there's a little bit more of a lens flare problem but the dynamic range looks very similar and the sharpness especially when zoomed out on a social media profile is really very similar and that's impressive that said overall the cameras are still not flagship level there's way too much contrast not enough dynamic range and it looks like someone's taking the structure slider in instagram and just whacked it all the way up it's really odd the oneplus 8t can take some pretty decent night shots it can see in the dark pretty well but what i found that focus became more of the issue in really challenging scenarios of course these are some of the toughest scenarios to put a tiny phone camera sensor in but it did a decent job regardless selfies and portrait mode shots do look decent out v80 as with the main samples there's a lot of contrast and so it can make photos look a little bit moody but if that's your thing then this is the phone for you the ultra hd 60fps videos again have a lot of contrast they're relatively smooth and stabilization is pretty good but the 8t just won't be taking home any awards for the best in class video at 750 for the 12 gigabyte by 256 gigabyte model it's competing with the likes of the samsung s20 fan edition the zenfone 7 pro the me 10 t pro there's a lot going on there and really out of all of them it doesn't really stand out like i said right at the start of the video it feels a lot like the oneplus nord in layout and in holding in the hand and if you're not a smartphone connoisseur then you would be forgiven for thinking they're way too similar but you know this one cost double the price of the nord so why would you buy it in a similar vein the equivalent samsung is probably going to give you better cameras better display it might not beat it on speed which is of course all oneplus is known for but if you're really not about that life you can get something that's more rounded out than the oneplus 8t overall the oneplus 8t is a solid smartphone it's got great performance great battery life a great screen and a decent camera its biggest weakness though looking and feeling so much like the nord the untrained eyes might pick that instead and that about covers it for today's oneplus 8t review please do check the links in the video description to where you can buy this phone and also to the full article which will have even more detail than what i was able to put into this video once you're down there please do hit like and subscribe to never miss a video like this one and let us know in the comments what you think of the 80 is it a little bit close to the nord is it not that much of an upgrade over the oneplus 8 let us know anyway guys i've been ryan thomas with android authority and i'll catch you later\n"