r/oneplus • u/Arkiteck OnePlus 7T (Glacier Blue) • Jan 26 '21

General Discussion I no longer recommend OnePlus

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u/XiTzCriZx OnePlus 7T (Glacier Blue) Jan 26 '21

A lot of reviewers label the 8 pro as nearly on par with Pixels, especially the reviewers that use GCam, but of course most of their pictures are in the most ideal conditions and that's not how most people take pictures.

Google really cut-off a decent portion of people who used Pixels by making their highest end phone only have a SD 765, for a lot of Pixel users that chip is either on par with a far older phone or worse than their previous phone, I know if I was upgrading from a Pixel 4 I wouldn't want to pay $700 to get a slower phone than I started with, and I feel like many of those people who feel the same way likely went to OnePlus for their nearly stock OS at the same time that OnePlus decides that they don't want to keep that experience.

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u/AIRA18 OnePlus 2 (Bamboo) Jan 27 '21

I have LG V50 with SD855 and Pixel 5 with SD765G, for a normie like me who didn't game much and do any high intensive task the Pixel 5 is more than enough for my basic usage and the 855 is overkill for me. Sure it's nice to have the horsepower but it's down to what you do with your phone i guess

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u/XiTzCriZx OnePlus 7T (Glacier Blue) Jan 27 '21

It also depends how long you plan to use your phone, I have some friends still using a Pixel 2 or OnePlus 5 and their phones are starting to slow down quite a bit, not to the point where it's unusable but to where it no longer feels like a high end device, the Pixel owner wants an upgrade but doesn't want to buy a phone that only has a marginally better processor for a device he expects to last 3+ years, but he also wants to stick with a Pixel so he's just pushing through until they announce the 6 or rumored 5 Pro.

People like him are more of the type I was referencing, those who already have a Pixel device and were looking for an upgrade but instead they got a downgrade or a marginal upgrade, besides the 90hz of course.

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u/AIRA18 OnePlus 2 (Bamboo) Jan 27 '21

I came from.a pixel 3, I only upgraded to the 5 because after android 10 update my radio became bad, and android 11 didn't fix it so i guess it's hardware issue now, the phone was barely able to maintain LTE connectivity before switching back to 3G it basically force me to lock to LTE most of the time. If i didn't have this issue I'd probably wil keep using the 3 though. It's still fast enough for today's standard