High-end phone at a price you’ll like

PHONE ❘ £799 from Amazon www.snipca.com/34707

Eighth wonder

As Oneplus shifted from offering highspec phones for under £500 to competing with the big brands at the top end, it didn’t get everything right. It would be fair to say it’s now got the hang of it. The Oneplus 8 Pro leaves little to be desired, yet at £799 it’s still relatively affordable.

The huge, bright AMOLED screen is curved at the edges, with a fingerprint reader under the glass and a selfie lens notched in at the top left, replacing the previous pop-up camera. Alternative modes give you accurate SRGB or P3 colour. We found brightness glitchy in

SPECIFICATIONS

6.78in 3168x1440-pixel screen • 48, 8 and 5-megapixel rear cameras • 16-megapixel front camera • 128GB flash storage • 802.11ax Wi-fi • Bluetooth 5.1 with aptx • 3G/4G/5G • Android 10 • 165x75x8.5mm (HXWXD) • 199g • One-year warranty www.snipca.com/34708

HDR video, though this is potentially fixable in upcoming updates. On the back are regular, ultra-wide and 3x telephoto cameras which, to cut a long story short, can’t match iphone 11 Pro quality in stills or video but are decent all round, plus an unusual infra-red ‘ Photochrom’ camera that you’ll love, hate or ignore.

The waterproof glass-backed case, Oneplus’ first with IP68 waterproofing, is currently available in shiny Onyx Black or frosted Glacial Green (aka turquoise). The latter also doubles the storage to 256GB and costs an extra £100. The memory ( RAM), something we don’t often talk about with mobile devices, also increases from an already generous 8GB to 12GB. Either way, the latest Snapdragon 865 processor has excellent performance for apps and games, and we got 20 hours 30 minutes from the battery (charged wirelessly or via USBUSB-C) in our videovideoplayback test, barely affected if we chose the 120Hz mode for a smoother display.