The OnePlus 8T is a flagship device that boasts an impressive array of features and capabilities. One of the standout aspects of this phone is its camera system, which includes a wide-angle camera and a ultra-wide camera available in nightscape mode. However, despite the availability of the ultra wide camera, the overall effect is not consistent with the main wide-angle camera, resulting in less detail and more saturated colors in extreme shots.

The video capabilities of the OnePlus 8T are also noteworthy, with the ability to record 4K up to 60 frames per second. Additionally, there is a Cinemode feature that allows for color vibrancy and further enhances the overall visual experience. Stabilization is another impressive feature of this camera, providing handheld stabilization that almost looks like using a gimbal, making it easy to capture smooth shots even when walking or moving.

The OnePlus 8T also features a completely redesigned Oxygen OS 11 Android 11 interface, which is characterized by its sharp and responsive design. The lock screen is one area where the user can quickly unlock the phone with a fingerprint reader or face unlock, both of which are extremely responsive due to the high 120 Hertz refresh rate. Swiping gestures from the bottom or top of the screen provide quick access to various features such as Google search, home apps, and settings.

The interface is also incredibly smooth, thanks to the use of gestures. Users can swipe left or right to go back to previous screens, swipe up to get to all recent apps, and swipe down to get to the shelf. The app bar at the bottom provides additional options such as split-screen mode, while tap-and-hold provides access to further features such as customizing the home screen.

One of the notable features of this interface is the inclusion of a vision comfort mode that reduces blue light, as well as dark mode that can be enabled manually or with automation based on sunset and sunrise times. The dark mode works seamlessly across the entire interface, including within apps and UI components. Users also have control over various settings such as wallpapers, launcher layout, and swipe gestures.

Underneath the surface, the OnePlus 8T features a range of additional settings that allow users to customize their experience. For instance, buttons and gestures can be adjusted, and display settings include the ability to turn off the high refresh rate in favor of a lower one. Furthermore, screen calibration can be adjusted, allowing users to personalize their visual experience.

In terms of value for money, the OnePlus 8T is priced at $749, which may not seem like a bargain compared to flagship devices that cost over $1,000. However, it offers an impressive range of high-end features and capabilities at a relatively affordable price point. While some premium features such as wireless charging are missing, this device remains a solid choice for those seeking a top-notch smartphone experience.

One thing worth noting is the availability of features that many people may consider to be premium but which are not included in the OnePlus 8T. For example, wireless charging has become increasingly common, and some users may find it surprising that this feature is not included in the device. Nevertheless, the OnePlus 8T remains a compelling choice for those seeking a high-end smartphone experience without breaking the bank.

Overall, the OnePlus 8T offers an impressive array of features and capabilities at a relatively affordable price point. Its camera system, video capabilities, and interface are all standout aspects of this device, making it a solid choice for those seeking a top-notch smartphone experience.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys mike here the detroitborg with a look at the brand new oneplus 8t so this is the direct successor to the oneplus 8 which is oneplus mid-range phone at 749. this sits below the larger eight pro which is carried over from last year but does bring some of the pro features to the mid-range phone but first let's get to the unboxing and as always oneplus was kind enough to send this along in the reviewer kit so this isn't what you'll get when you buy your oneplus 8t but it's always fun to unbox these so the first thing we'll see here when we open up the butterfly box is the reviewer guide so the reviewer guide gives us some geeky details and some nice illustrations to highlight the major new features of this phone but below that we'll find the retail box on the left side along with two optional case accessories getting to the retail box this is pretty familiar territory for one plus we have a pull tab to pull off the plastic wrapping the box and once we lift open the lid the first thing we'll see here is lots of paperwork so it includes a quick start guide the tsar value a letter from the ceo as well as this really cool set of stickers now if you want to read that later just go ahead and pause the screen moving on from there we have the phone itself but first let's get to the new charging accessories this phone debuts with oneplus new warp 65 charger this is a 65 watt usbc charger the first from oneplus and can recharge the 4500 milliamp hour battery in this phone from zero to 100 in only 39 minutes so that basically eliminates the need to charge your phone overnight because this is a usbc charger this can also be used with other devices up to 45 watts of charging and the 8t itself supports up to 27 watts of charging on standard usb-c chargers so this charger is less proprietary than before so it's a little less wasteful so unwrapping the 8t you can see i have the aquamarine color i really like this color but it's also available in lunar silver so like the previous design this has an aluminum frame with glass on the back and front although we don't have wireless charging the glass on the back is treated with a color that sort of scatters light so although it's a glossy back panel it doesn't show fingerprints as easily so the layout of the phone is pretty familiar for one plus on the right side we have our power button just below the three position alert slider these buttons are a little lower this time which makes them a bit easier to use that also goes for the volume rocker on the left side on the bottom edge we have the same layout we have a usbc connector with a speaker on one side and the nano sim tray on the other side and if you pull that nano sim tray you can see the gasket surrounding the tray which reduces water intrusion although this phone does not have an ip rating and doesn't claim to be water resistant one of the bigger design changes from the 8 besides the new camera system is a flat screen design so we no longer have that curved edge personally i'm a fan of moving away from the wrapped screens just because it often led to unintentional presses of the screen but we still have virtually the same thin bezels all around the phone which are fairly uniform although the chin is slightly thicker than the forehead so one of the big new features of this phone is the upgraded display so although we have similar specs a 6.55 inch screen with a resolution of 1080 by 2400 that's good for 402 ppi but this new display has a max refresh rate of 120 hertz up from 90 on the oneplus 8 and that brings it in line with the oneplus 8 pro so that means we get an exceptionally smooth interface it's definitely very noticeable especially with an to edge screen like this so combine that with the new oxygen os 11 the low latency of the os and the extreme refresh rate makes for a very smooth operating phone this is also an e3 panel which means it's much more energy efficient but also reduces the amount of blue light it emits while still preserving full dc ip3 color gamut support so basically this means the display is extremely bright vivid and color accurate in fact oneplus says this has a jncd rating of 0.55 or just noticeable color difference which is one way to express the technical capability of the display also returning is the in-screen optical fingerprint reader which is also joined by face unlock we get a pretty decent set of stereo speakers with the earpiece and the bottom speaker working together that earpiece does sound excellent for call quality internally speaking although they're a little thin sounding they have a nice wide soundscape so they're pretty immersive specs are mostly carried over from the oneplus 8 let's start with the storage configuration we get 12 gigs of ram and 256 gigs of storage which is pretty generous now this is fast ufs 3.1 storage which is an upgrade from the 3.0 storage of the oneplus 8. also carried over is the snapdragon 865 7 nanometer chip along with the adreno 650 gpu this also has the x55 modem for 5g support in terms of synthetic benchmarking it's very similar to the oneplus 8 although it seemed to be scoring lower in my initial test to keep all of this cool they've upgraded the cooling system with a large vapor chamber with graphite and thermally conductive silicone grease so this ensures optimal performance during gaming and other high demand tasks one spec that was upgraded is the battery it's up to 4 500 milliamp hours from 4 300. moving on to the camera they have repositioned the module to the corner to allow for better antenna designs so although most of the hardware is carried over we do get a new quad camera design so that includes an ultra wide angle lens at the top left followed below that by the main camera and below that is the macro lens on the right side at the bottom is the monochrome lens and above that is the led flash and above that is the flicker sensor so the main camera has the same sensor the sony imx 586 which is 48 megapixels with an aperture of f 1.7 that also includes optical and electronic image stabilization the ultrawide is also carried over with the imx 481 this is 16 megapixels with an f 2.2 aperture but it gains an even wider angle lens up to 123 degrees from 116. the new macro camera is 5 megapixels up from 2 and they've added a new monochrome lens which is only 2 megapixels so unfortunately we're still missing the total photo camera that's available on the 8 pro camera performance is predictably excellent in daylight conditions with sharp detail vibrant colors and the right mix of contrast and highlights but even in extreme conditions with the sun right in the camera the computational magic of this camera can generate some beautiful images that can bring up some of the shadows that would otherwise be blown out performance of the ultra wide camera is fairly consistent with the main camera at least in daylight conditions although it's not quite as sharp like a lot of ultra wides there is some barrel distortion at the edges of the photo and there is some processing there to help sharpen it up but you can see it doesn't look quite as sharp as the rest of the image in terms of low light performance of course we have a nightscape mode which solves a lot of the problems of low light photography and these small cameras so it's able to bring up the contrast bring down the highlights and even out the color so it's not over saturated the overall effect looks very good with very little noise although it does tend to look over sharpened unfortunately even though the ultra wide camera is available in nightscape mode the overall effect is not consistent with the main wide-angle camera so in many more extreme shots there's a lot less detail and the color is way more saturated video also looks great on this phone you can record 4k up to 60 frames per second and you do have a cinemode if you want color vibrancy is definitely a highlight of this camera but one of the other impressive features of this camera is stabilization so handheld stabilization on this phone almost looks like you're using a gimbal so it's really easy to get smooth shots out of this phone even if you're walking around all right so let's go and take a walkthrough of this new oxygen os 11 android 11 bass interface which is completely redesigned and i think looks really sharp so first let's take a look at the lock screen here so of course we have a fingerprint reader to quickly unlock or we can use face unlock and see just how responsive that is the first thing that's noticeable right away is that high 120 hertz refresh rate it's extremely smooth it's a big difference between 90 hertz and this 90 hertz isn't as noticeable but this bit makes a bigger impact so we can swipe right to get to our google search swipe down to get to our shelf this is where your widgets live we can also swipe up to get to all of our apps and search the apps as well swipe from the top to get to our quick setting toggles and our notifications of course we have gestures here but you can go back to the standard navigation bar if you prefer but with gestures of course we can go back by swiping left or right from the edge swipe up to go back home we all swipe up and hold to get to all of our recent apps and we have this little app bar down here you can see just how incredibly smooth this interface is tap and hold to get to additional options such as split screen mode in terms of the quick setting toggles up top of course we do have a vision comfort mode which reduces the blue light but more importantly we have our dark mode so enable dark mode manually or tap and hold to adjust the automated mode so you can turn this on automatically with the sunset and sunrise so the dark mode works across the interface within apps and within the ui of course there's always lots of options here so tap and hold to get to your wallpapers and there's lots of colorful options to pick from we also have our home settings so we can change the launcher layout so we do have an app drawer here so you can see the app drawer and you can disable search history if you want but you can turn this off and just merge all of the apps onto your home screen so again tap and hold to get to your home settings launcher layout and home screen only click save and it moves everything over to your home screen you can also change the swipe down gesture so right now swiping down brings up the shelf but if you're like me and prefer to just bring up your notifications you can also enable that here so you can select notifications and quick settings and that turns off the shelf or you can just disable that gesture if you prefer under settings there's a few key things to point out here so if we go to buttons and gestures this is where you can turn on or turn off the navigation bar or if you're like me and prefer the gestures you can also hide the bottom bar if you find that redundant under display settings this is where you can turn off the 120hz refresh rate so you can dial it back to 60 hertz not 90 hertz so that will give you a conventional refresh rate which should save some battery life one of the first things i did change was the screen calibration it was set to vivid by default but i prefer advanced amoled wide gamut to me this looks quite a bit more vibrant we also have some nice customization options for the status bar including the icon manager so if you want to turn off some of these icons you can do so right here so in the end at 7 49 this is really the sweet spot for one plus although it's not a bargain by any means it still has a lot of high-end flagship features for this price a lot of phones that have this technology cost a thousand dollars or more especially with that 120 hertz display but it's also missing some features that i don't think most people consider to be premium such as wireless charging that's pretty ubiquitous now a lot of people have wireless chargers even built into their cars so i'm not sure why they're reluctant to add that feature but it would be nice to check that off the list alrighty guys hope you enjoyed this look at the oneplus 8t if you did please give this video a like and i'll see you again in my next videohey guys mike here the detroitborg with a look at the brand new oneplus 8t so this is the direct successor to the oneplus 8 which is oneplus mid-range phone at 749. this sits below the larger eight pro which is carried over from last year but does bring some of the pro features to the mid-range phone but first let's get to the unboxing and as always oneplus was kind enough to send this along in the reviewer kit so this isn't what you'll get when you buy your oneplus 8t but it's always fun to unbox these so the first thing we'll see here when we open up the butterfly box is the reviewer guide so the reviewer guide gives us some geeky details and some nice illustrations to highlight the major new features of this phone but below that we'll find the retail box on the left side along with two optional case accessories getting to the retail box this is pretty familiar territory for one plus we have a pull tab to pull off the plastic wrapping the box and once we lift open the lid the first thing we'll see here is lots of paperwork so it includes a quick start guide the tsar value a letter from the ceo as well as this really cool set of stickers now if you want to read that later just go ahead and pause the screen moving on from there we have the phone itself but first let's get to the new charging accessories this phone debuts with oneplus new warp 65 charger this is a 65 watt usbc charger the first from oneplus and can recharge the 4500 milliamp hour battery in this phone from zero to 100 in only 39 minutes so that basically eliminates the need to charge your phone overnight because this is a usbc charger this can also be used with other devices up to 45 watts of charging and the 8t itself supports up to 27 watts of charging on standard usb-c chargers so this charger is less proprietary than before so it's a little less wasteful so unwrapping the 8t you can see i have the aquamarine color i really like this color but it's also available in lunar silver so like the previous design this has an aluminum frame with glass on the back and front although we don't have wireless charging the glass on the back is treated with a color that sort of scatters light so although it's a glossy back panel it doesn't show fingerprints as easily so the layout of the phone is pretty familiar for one plus on the right side we have our power button just below the three position alert slider these buttons are a little lower this time which makes them a bit easier to use that also goes for the volume rocker on the left side on the bottom edge we have the same layout we have a usbc connector with a speaker on one side and the nano sim tray on the other side and if you pull that nano sim tray you can see the gasket surrounding the tray which reduces water intrusion although this phone does not have an ip rating and doesn't claim to be water resistant one of the bigger design changes from the 8 besides the new camera system is a flat screen design so we no longer have that curved edge personally i'm a fan of moving away from the wrapped screens just because it often led to unintentional presses of the screen but we still have virtually the same thin bezels all around the phone which are fairly uniform although the chin is slightly thicker than the forehead so one of the big new features of this phone is the upgraded display so although we have similar specs a 6.55 inch screen with a resolution of 1080 by 2400 that's good for 402 ppi but this new display has a max refresh rate of 120 hertz up from 90 on the oneplus 8 and that brings it in line with the oneplus 8 pro so that means we get an exceptionally smooth interface it's definitely very noticeable especially with an to edge screen like this so combine that with the new oxygen os 11 the low latency of the os and the extreme refresh rate makes for a very smooth operating phone this is also an e3 panel which means it's much more energy efficient but also reduces the amount of blue light it emits while still preserving full dc ip3 color gamut support so basically this means the display is extremely bright vivid and color accurate in fact oneplus says this has a jncd rating of 0.55 or just noticeable color difference which is one way to express the technical capability of the display also returning is the in-screen optical fingerprint reader which is also joined by face unlock we get a pretty decent set of stereo speakers with the earpiece and the bottom speaker working together that earpiece does sound excellent for call quality internally speaking although they're a little thin sounding they have a nice wide soundscape so they're pretty immersive specs are mostly carried over from the oneplus 8 let's start with the storage configuration we get 12 gigs of ram and 256 gigs of storage which is pretty generous now this is fast ufs 3.1 storage which is an upgrade from the 3.0 storage of the oneplus 8. also carried over is the snapdragon 865 7 nanometer chip along with the adreno 650 gpu this also has the x55 modem for 5g support in terms of synthetic benchmarking it's very similar to the oneplus 8 although it seemed to be scoring lower in my initial test to keep all of this cool they've upgraded the cooling system with a large vapor chamber with graphite and thermally conductive silicone grease so this ensures optimal performance during gaming and other high demand tasks one spec that was upgraded is the battery it's up to 4 500 milliamp hours from 4 300. moving on to the camera they have repositioned the module to the corner to allow for better antenna designs so although most of the hardware is carried over we do get a new quad camera design so that includes an ultra wide angle lens at the top left followed below that by the main camera and below that is the macro lens on the right side at the bottom is the monochrome lens and above that is the led flash and above that is the flicker sensor so the main camera has the same sensor the sony imx 586 which is 48 megapixels with an aperture of f 1.7 that also includes optical and electronic image stabilization the ultrawide is also carried over with the imx 481 this is 16 megapixels with an f 2.2 aperture but it gains an even wider angle lens up to 123 degrees from 116. the new macro camera is 5 megapixels up from 2 and they've added a new monochrome lens which is only 2 megapixels so unfortunately we're still missing the total photo camera that's available on the 8 pro camera performance is predictably excellent in daylight conditions with sharp detail vibrant colors and the right mix of contrast and highlights but even in extreme conditions with the sun right in the camera the computational magic of this camera can generate some beautiful images that can bring up some of the shadows that would otherwise be blown out performance of the ultra wide camera is fairly consistent with the main camera at least in daylight conditions although it's not quite as sharp like a lot of ultra wides there is some barrel distortion at the edges of the photo and there is some processing there to help sharpen it up but you can see it doesn't look quite as sharp as the rest of the image in terms of low light performance of course we have a nightscape mode which solves a lot of the problems of low light photography and these small cameras so it's able to bring up the contrast bring down the highlights and even out the color so it's not over saturated the overall effect looks very good with very little noise although it does tend to look over sharpened unfortunately even though the ultra wide camera is available in nightscape mode the overall effect is not consistent with the main wide-angle camera so in many more extreme shots there's a lot less detail and the color is way more saturated video also looks great on this phone you can record 4k up to 60 frames per second and you do have a cinemode if you want color vibrancy is definitely a highlight of this camera but one of the other impressive features of this camera is stabilization so handheld stabilization on this phone almost looks like you're using a gimbal so it's really easy to get smooth shots out of this phone even if you're walking around all right so let's go and take a walkthrough of this new oxygen os 11 android 11 bass interface which is completely redesigned and i think looks really sharp so first let's take a look at the lock screen here so of course we have a fingerprint reader to quickly unlock or we can use face unlock and see just how responsive that is the first thing that's noticeable right away is that high 120 hertz refresh rate it's extremely smooth it's a big difference between 90 hertz and this 90 hertz isn't as noticeable but this bit makes a bigger impact so we can swipe right to get to our google search swipe down to get to our shelf this is where your widgets live we can also swipe up to get to all of our apps and search the apps as well swipe from the top to get to our quick setting toggles and our notifications of course we have gestures here but you can go back to the standard navigation bar if you prefer but with gestures of course we can go back by swiping left or right from the edge swipe up to go back home we all swipe up and hold to get to all of our recent apps and we have this little app bar down here you can see just how incredibly smooth this interface is tap and hold to get to additional options such as split screen mode in terms of the quick setting toggles up top of course we do have a vision comfort mode which reduces the blue light but more importantly we have our dark mode so enable dark mode manually or tap and hold to adjust the automated mode so you can turn this on automatically with the sunset and sunrise so the dark mode works across the interface within apps and within the ui of course there's always lots of options here so tap and hold to get to your wallpapers and there's lots of colorful options to pick from we also have our home settings so we can change the launcher layout so we do have an app drawer here so you can see the app drawer and you can disable search history if you want but you can turn this off and just merge all of the apps onto your home screen so again tap and hold to get to your home settings launcher layout and home screen only click save and it moves everything over to your home screen you can also change the swipe down gesture so right now swiping down brings up the shelf but if you're like me and prefer to just bring up your notifications you can also enable that here so you can select notifications and quick settings and that turns off the shelf or you can just disable that gesture if you prefer under settings there's a few key things to point out here so if we go to buttons and gestures this is where you can turn on or turn off the navigation bar or if you're like me and prefer the gestures you can also hide the bottom bar if you find that redundant under display settings this is where you can turn off the 120hz refresh rate so you can dial it back to 60 hertz not 90 hertz so that will give you a conventional refresh rate which should save some battery life one of the first things i did change was the screen calibration it was set to vivid by default but i prefer advanced amoled wide gamut to me this looks quite a bit more vibrant we also have some nice customization options for the status bar including the icon manager so if you want to turn off some of these icons you can do so right here so in the end at 7 49 this is really the sweet spot for one plus although it's not a bargain by any means it still has a lot of high-end flagship features for this price a lot of phones that have this technology cost a thousand dollars or more especially with that 120 hertz display but it's also missing some features that i don't think most people consider to be premium such as wireless charging that's pretty ubiquitous now a lot of people have wireless chargers even built into their cars so i'm not sure why they're reluctant to add that feature but it would be nice to check that off the list alrighty guys hope you enjoyed this look at the oneplus 8t if you did please give this video a like and i'll see you again in my next video\n"