The OnePlus 8 Pro Has Launched

The regular OnePlus 8 will also be launched alongside the OnePlus 8 Pro. Pricing starts from $699 for the OnePlus 8 and $899 for the OnePlus 8 Pro.

From its humble beginnings in 2014, OnePlus differentiated themselves by branding themselves as a flagship killer by offering fast performance at a lower cost.

This year’s OnePlus 8 Pro series definitely emphasizes on the killer specs, but not so much on providing flagship killer pricings.

Both OnePlus 8’s are powered by the latest Snapdragon 865 processor, so you’ll definitely have 5G.

The 90Hz display from the OnePlus 7 Pro has been passed down to the OnePlus 8. The OnePlus 8 Pro will receive an upgrade with what is now an HDR10+ certified 120 Hz display. This gives it even smoother animations and gorgeous colour accuracies, making it on par with Samsung’s Galaxy S20 series.

The OnePlus 8 Pro also comes with significant camera improvements. It now features a quadruple-camera system, with a 48-megapixel main camera, 48-megapixel ultra-wide with a 120-degree angle, a telephoto lens with 3x hybrid and 30x digital zoom, and a colour filter camera.

Here’s a shot in the night with the iPhone 11 Pro Max against the OnePlus 8 Pro

The OnePlus 8 Pro now has official IP ratings at IP68, which means it can handle up to 1.5 metres of water for 30 minutes. Still, we don’t recommend you to dunk your phone in water at any time whatsoever unless it’s an accident.

Sadly, it doesn’t seem the regular OnePlus will have IP68 water resistance.

There’s also up to 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM (which is, super fast) and a maximum of 256 GB of UFS 3.0 storage (also, super fast).

The wireless charging has also become super fast. Never settle right? OnePlus’s “Warp Charging” technology is now officially supported on wireless charging at 30W, capable of charging 50% in just 30 minutes. Regular charging will allow you to reach 60% during that same timeframe.

Lastly, OnePlus claims to have made significant improvements to OxygenOS, which is the skin they run on top of Android. The optimizations are made to make the overall experience smoother on the 90Hz and 120Hz displays.

OnePlus’s “Never Settle” motto definitely resonates with the OnePlus 8 and the 8 Pro. Everything about this flagship appears to give you the very fastest Android phone on the market.

However, all this comes at the expense of higher-priced phones, with the OnePlus 8 Pro priced at $899 with a memory of 8GB RAM/128GB storage and $999 for 12GB RAM/256GB storage.

With this new pricing model, it is clear that OnePlus has now decided to become the flagships.