OnePlus 7 Pro 256 GB / 8 GB

Smartphone of the year?

If the sixth version of the “flagship killer” OnePlus turned out to be frankly passable, then a year later the Chinese rolled out to the public one of the coolest and most sophisticated smartphones of the year. The list of improvements looks impressive: a top-end processor, 12 GB of RAM, a 90 Hz AMOLED display with HDR, a retractable camera, an under-screen fingerprint scanner and much more interesting things. It’s not for nothing that most reviews call OnePlus 7 Pro the smartphone of the year, and the face of the brand is Hollywood’s highest-earning actor, Robert Downey Jr.

Hardware like a gaming PC

Let's start with the filling. The quality of hardware in the OnePlus 7 Pro is some kind of absolutely prohibitive combination of the most powerful eight-core Snapdragon 855 chip and 12 GB of RAM at the moment. We don’t know why there are so many, but purely based on the numbers, it looks more productive than many modern laptops. Although, of course, comparing mobile and stationary hardware is not entirely correct. If we put it on a par with its competitors, then OnePlus 7 Pro is the most powerful smartphone of the summer according to the Antutu benchmark, leaving behind the gaming Xiaomi Black Shark 2 128 GB and the top-end Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus 128 GB.

Huge Super AMOLED display with HDR and 90Hz refresh rate

It’s more difficult to talk about appearance, since almost all the space here is occupied by a gorgeous QHD+ display with a diagonal of 6.67 inches and a frame refresh rate of 90 Hz. At the same time, in comparison with last year’s models, the new firmware has noticeably changed its face. Instead of a cutout for the front camera, here we have a truly frameless display with a pop-up camera and an in-display fingerprint scanner. Moreover, the scanner turned out to be quite fast and is not much inferior in speed to conventional scanners, and the camera moves out in literally 0.2 seconds. This is definitely faster than all similar cameras at the moment.

Top triple camera

The camera here matches everything else: three lenses led by a 48 MP Sony IMX586 sensor take very good pictures. Moreover, both day and night. It’s no wonder that the smartphone scored an impressive 111 points in the test of the authoritative resource DxOMark and ranks fifth in their ranking of the best camera phones, slightly behind the Huawei P30 Pro and Samsung Galaxy Note 10+.

No flaws

Other interesting features worth noting: The “flagship killer” also boasts fast charging Warp Charge 30 (50% in 20 minutes), loud and high-quality stereo speakers, NFC and fast UFS 3.0 memory (volume 256 GB). Now hold your breath. The OnePlus 7 Pro has no flaws. That's it. In fact, that’s why reviews call it the smartphone of the year. Although, for the price, this is no longer quite a “flagship killer”, but rather a full-fledged flagship itself. And yet, it costs less than the Galaxy Note10 Plus or the new iPhone 11 Pro Max.