The OnePlus 8 Pro comes with a new 6.78”
Fluid AMOLED display, the largest for the brand yet, and its first to hit 120Hz
refresh rate. The screen comes with 240Hz touch sampling rate to minimize input
lag.
The display is calibrated at the factory
achieving a record-setting color accuracy. It’s a 10-bit panel with HDR10+
support. HDR Boost will take old 8-bit content and enhance it. There’s also
MEMC, which can interpolate 24fps video to 120fps. That’s a “love it or hate
it” feature, but OnePlus also did extensive optimizations to the software to
ensure that the interface flies at 120fps with no snags. The pop-up camera of
previous Pro models is gone, replaced by a simple punch hole camera. The
OnePlus 8 Pro is the first phone by the company to feature an official IP68
rating.
For years OnePlus was saying that wireless
charging tech isn’t ready – well, it finally is. Warp Charge 30 Wireless can
charge the 8 Pro at up to 30W and can fill a flat battery to 50% in half an
hour. Reverse wireless charging is supported as well.
Wired charging is still a bit faster, the
30W Warp Charge 30T goes from 0% to 50% battery charge in 23 minutes. Still,
the OnePlus 8 Pro houses a larger 4,510mAh battery (up from 4,000mAh on the 7
Pro) and the new wireless charging is about as fast as the non-T Warp Charge
30.
The phone has two 48MP cameras plus a
telephoto and an assistant module. The main cam uses the 1/1.4"-inch Sony
IMX689 sensor with 1.12µm native pixels and 2.24µm binned pixels. It has
omni-directional autofocus on all pixels.
It can record 4K video at 60fps using the
new Single Shot 3-HDR feature, which captures three exposures at once, greatly
enhancing the dynamic range. The camera uses a mix of Optical and Electronic
image stabilization. The other 48MP camera has a 120° ultrawide lens and also
doubles as a macro camera taking snaps at 3cm distance.
The third camera is an 8MP telephoto
module. The sensor has 1.0µm pixels and sits behind a lens with f/2.44 aperture
and OIS. The fourth module is an all-new Color Filter camera, which will help
with the rendering of various color effects.
The OnePlus 8 is powered by a Snapdragon
865 chipset. Its performance is further enhanced by the switch to LPDDR5 RAM,
which is 30% faster while using 20% less energy than the RAM on the OnePlus 7
series. The storage is of the UFS 3.0 variety. The phone boasts 5G
connectivity, of course, specifically the sub-6GHz flavor. Locally, there’s
Wi-Fi 6 that tops out at 9.6Gbps – that’s faster than even the 5G modem
(7.5Gbps on a mmWave connection).
The OnePlus 8 Pro will cost US$ 899/£ 799 for
the version with 8GB of RAM and 128GB storage. There’s one step up from that,
the 12/256GB option for US$ 999/£ 899. It will be available in the new Ultramarine
Blue and Glacial Green colors as well as Onyx Black.
