OnePlus 8 Pro

Not only the best phone that OnePlus has ever made, but also one of the best Android phones period

FAST ONE

With a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor, 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and an Adreno 650 GPU, the 8 Pro moves seriously quickly – and with a touch sensitivity of 240Hz, it has lightningfast reactions to your input

SUPER CHARGE

Not only does it have a whopping 4,510 mAh battery but OnePlus’s new WarpCharge 30 Wireless charger can charge it 50% in just 23

minutes

etc is largely responsible for that. For regular guys and girls who just want to point and capture the world around them, we think it is well pitched.

In terms of zoom, though, things are very much par for the course here, and the OnePlus 8 Pro is beaten quite comfortably by rival flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra and Huawei P30 Pro.

At 0.6x, 1x and 3x, image quality remains high. However, as soon as you stray into the digital zoom levels, culminating in the max-zoom 30x, image quality nose-dives. What you are shooting is discernible but there’s no way anyone is printing out those images to stick on their wall.

However, every other aspect you might want from a smartphone camera system is delivered, such as a wide-variety of shooting modes (time-lapse, panorama, portrait, nightscape and pro), a suite of strong lenses, and a fast and easily navigable camera system UI.

Lastly, in terms of camera system, the OnePlus 8 Pro supplies the ability to capture video at 4K resolution and with optical image stabilisation. It also has a tri-mic setup for audio zoom, meaning that you can now better capture audio at distance when shooting. Other video functions of note include the phone’s Slow Motion shooting modes, which allow footage to be captured at 720p 480fps or 1080p 240FPS.

In terms of features, this OnePlus phone now delivers wireless charging and reverse wireless charging, which were things not offered by the maker’s past devices. Once again, these are welcome additions and help the Pro really stand out as a proper flagship phone.

Where the OnePlus 8 Pro also joins the true flagship top table is in its battery, which makes a jump up from the OnePlus 7’s 4,000 mAh battery to a stacked 4,510 mAh unit. This stack of cells grants the phone proper use-all-day functionality with all its bells and whistles turned on. The phone can also be charged from 1% to 50% charge in just 23 minutes if you buy OnePlus’s new WarpCharge 30 Wireless charger.

OnePlus has said many times over the years that the thing that separates it from other brands is that it actually listens to the fan base and evolves their phones in line with their input.

Well, the OnePlus 8 Pro feels like the best example of this process to date, and one where things that had