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What You Need to Know
hey guys this is the oneplus nord well in here
this is the fancy reviewers packaging uh we
have the regular retail box in here so i thought
i’d do a quick unboxing for you guys uh if i actually
can do that and give you a bit of a sort of walk
through of what’s new first impressions and just
an idea of what actually the nord is with nord
basically being like one plus coming back to
their roots they say like nord is sort of north it’s
like their true north as you guys know oneplus
phones have been getting better and better but
also more expensive so the oneplus nord starts
at just 379 pounds here in the uk or 399 euros
with the higher spec version for 469.
now considering the oneplus 8 starts at 599
that’s a good deal cheaper pull this down and
there we have it so this is as you can see a
genuine unboxing i’ve not even seen this phone
yet except for my little virtual pre-briefing last
week so i’m actually pretty excited for this and
you can see on the front there in this matte
black text we’ve got nord written there so let’s
open this up and there we have it this way this
way nord so let’s open the plastic oh look at that
look at that blue marble that’s shiny so you can
Design
see straight away this is quite a unique design
actually they’ve gone with a glossy shiny back
here but which one do you think looks better
the nord or the oneplus 8 let me know in the
comments below although of course bear in
mind this should be a good deal cheaper so if
we put this down just for one second and
have a little look in the box and as usual with
the oneplus phone we get this clear sort of
rubbery plastic case which actually has a bit
more of a design on it than usual that’s how it
looks so this comes in the box you don’t have
to go out and bind on the case if you don’t want
to which is a nice touch it looks pretty good
and then we have the usual usb a to usbc charger
cable as well as the power plug this is the uk
outlet model and it also supports the warp charge
30t technology so the same as the oneplus 8
we still have oneplus signature little uh what do
you even call that vibrators silent mode toggle
which i really like i use that before i go to bed
every night to put it into silent mode we’ve got
this dual hole punch cut out the top which is
quite reminiscent of the huawei p40 pro with its
dual cameras up there camera module on the
side it’s a quad camera setup we’ll come to in
oxygen os 10.5 and a 90 hertz screen
a second and importantly i know a lot of you
guys will be pleased to hear this we have a
flat screen no headphone jack unfortunately
but on the bottom we have the dual sim card
slot as well as the usb-c port the speaker grille
although unfortunately the nord doesn’t have
stereo speakers this little one up here is just
the earpiece for calls so that’s a little bit
disappointing we also don’t get any form
of ip rating here although oneplus say it
will survive in 30 centimeters of water for
up to 30 seconds so it’s splash proof basically
once you’re up and running though with android
10 oxygen os 10.5 and a 90 hertz screen it
feels fast responsive it really is lovely to use
left of the home screen is the google news
feed and during the setup you can choose
between the nav keys or gestures which i
prefer although the first thing i do is jump
into the customization menu then change to
the dark tone you can actually fiddle around
with a whole bunch of different options here
so you can really make it your own then i go
into the display settings screen calibration
and i like to change it to amoled wide color
gamma under the advanced settings so the
screen itself is a 6.44 inch full hd plus 90 hertz
fluid amoled display it’s a tiny bit smaller than
the oneplus 8 but the most obvious change is
UNBOXING
this bigger hole punch cutout we also get an
optical fingerprint reader under the screen plus
there’s the usual face unlocking which i tend to
use so far so good then but let’s talk specs
and as you can see we’re getting the snapdragon
765g here which is the first time we’re not getting
a flagship chip in a oneplus does it really make a
difference well i’ll leave that for my full review but
importantly we are still getting 5g support with
this so even though it’s a mid-range phone that
does make it a little bit more future-proof now
of course i’ll run full benchmarks and comparisons
in my proper review but i do think that we focus
too much on you know geekbench scores when
in reality when you have fast lightweight software
like this and you’re not pushing a quad hd 120 hertz
screen this may well be all you need the good
news though is they haven’t really compromised
on the ram and storage the node comes in two
different flavors uh we have the eight gig model
eight gig of ram plus 128 storage and also
the 12 gig of ram 256 storage option which i
have here which is great although bear in mind
that they are slightly slower it’s the ufs 2.1
and lp ddrx4 ram as opposed to ufs3 and 5 ram
plus having a less power hungry chip and also
combined with this full hd resolution and the 90
hertz screen rather than say 120 hertz may
actually help conserve battery because inside
OnePlus Nord camera
we get a 415 milliamp hour battery which is a
little bit smaller than the 4300 milliamp hour
cell in the oneplus 8 so we’ll have to see
how long this lasts with some proper testing
in my full review and of course then we get
the 30 watt charging oneplus is 30t warp
charger uh which as i say will get you 70
in half an hour but unfortunately it doesn’t
support any kind of wireless charging which
is a bit disappointing and finally let’s talk about
this camera setup starting with the front and for
the first time on a oneplus we get two selfie
cameras a 32 megapixel main lens and an 8
megapixel ultra wide round the back we get a
48 megapixel main lens and an 8 megapixel
ultra wide we can zoom in but it’s a two times
digital zoom as we don’t have that dedicated
telephoto lens but instead we have a two
megapixel macro and a five megapixel depth
sensor which should help with more natural
bokeh blowing shots importantly though
the main lens is using the sony imx 586 sensor
which is the same one as the more expensive
oneplus 8.
what oneplus
now as well as my full review i’ll be doing camera
comparisons with the nord so do let me know in
the comments below what phones you’d like to
see tested against this so i guess you could think
of this as a kind of oneplus 8 lights although i do
appreciate they went with the nord name it’s a little
bit different and it also suggests they’re going back
to their you know true north of having a good phone
that is good value as well because that’s always
what oneplus we’re about you know more choice
is good i love seeing great budget phones although
this has a lot of competition so do stay tuned for
my full review this was just more like a extended
unboxing uh which i hope you guys found useful
if you do want to see more from me and of course
watch those camera comparisons and battery
tests and all that good stuff make sure you do
thankyou
