OnePlus 7 Pro 'Flagship Killer' unveiled with king specs

OnePlus 7 Pro has launched with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, offering up to 12GB RAM and 256GB of storage.

(Web Desk) – Unsung heroes of smartphones OnePlus ‘Flagship Killer’ unveiled one of the most awaited beast of smartphones today as OnePlus 7 Pro was launched with the king specifications.

OnePlus has always sort of been a niche enthusiast’s smartphone brand which may not be as popular as the majors, but it’s carved a pretty nice niche for itself by delivering great smartphone hardware at equally great price points as GSMarena reported.

The company released their first smartphone less than five years ago but today, with the experience gained over the past little iteration, OnePlus is really going after the top dogs in the business with the OnePlus 7 Pro.

OnePlus 7 Pro has launched with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, offering up to 12GB RAM and 256GB of storage.

It is the company’s first foray into higher refresh rate display. A pop-up camera is also present so that the 1440p 90Hz display can fill 6.67-inches of AMOLED without being impeded by an unsightly notch.

The OnePlus 7 Pro is the company’s first entirely bezel-less device, substituting the notch for a pop-up camera. Because of this change, the front of the device greets you with a 6.67-inch Gorilla Glass 5 “Fluid” AMOLED display – the largest of any OnePlus smartphone.

Underneath the phone is a single USB-C port and a microphone, along with one of two dual speakers. The earpiece at the top doubles up as a speaker, which is how the company achieves a dual speaker setup despite it not looking like one at first glance. The single bottom-firing speaker was also moved to the bottom right of the handset so that users would block it less while gaming.

The back of the device features the exact same design as the OnePlus 6T, except for three vertically aligned camera sensors instead of two. The dual LED flash remains below the triple camera setup, with the OnePlus logo below that. The “Designed by OnePlus” insignia has been replaced with just “OnePlus” at the bottom.

Powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset, the company claims a 45% performance improvement on top of a 20% battery life improvement over last year’s Snapdragon 845. The Adreno 630 GPU boasts similar statistics, with a 20% performance improvement while also boasting a 30% reduced power draw. “Go Beyond Speed” is the marketing tagline that OnePlus is pushing this time around.

The OnePlus 7 Pro will have three RAM variants, starting at 6GB of RAM and going all the way up to 12GB, it goes from average to overkill real fast. With that, you’ll be able to get up to 256GB of UFS 3.0 dual-lane storage, which is currently only available on the Samsung Galaxy Fold. The storage speed improvements are, theoretically, pretty crazy.

The battery has also seen multiple improvements. Not only has it been bumped up to 4,000 mAh, but it also supports Warp Charge 30, the charging standard that powered the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition last year. It charges at 30W, a good bit faster than OnePlus’ regular fast charging that charges at “only” 20W. OnePlus also promises the same low temperature charging with Warp Charge 30 as they always have had.

Finally, the in-display fingerprint sensor is here to stay and is much faster than the one included on the OnePlus 6T. It also has 38% larger sensor, which should help make it easier to use and more accurate.

OnePlus 7 Pro has a tri-camera arrangement on the back, with the 48MP Sony IMX 586 the star of the show. It features a custom-made lens with an aperture of f/1.6, OIS, EIS, and a pixel size of up to 1.6 μm.

Alongside that custom-made 48MP sensor is a telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom, OIS and EIS and an aperture size of f/2.4. There’s also a 16MP ultra-wide 117° camera, a first for a OnePlus smartphone. It has an aperture size of f/2.2 and is useful for squeezing a lot of people or landscape into a single shot.

Great hardware is nothing without software though, which is why OnePlus is debuting the UltraShot Engine with the launch of the OnePlus 7 Pro. It supports HDR+ and Super Resolution, with HDR+ basically being an evolution of HDR. Super Resolution is a lot more interesting, as it extracts the key information from multiple photos and combines them to make the best photograph possible. Nightscape is also much quicker too.

The OnePlus 7 Pro features a 16MP f/2.0 front-facing camera along with face unlock OnePlus says this motorized camera sensor has been tested 300,000 times. That means that if you used it 150 times a day, you could still theoretically use it for over five years. It will also automatically retract when the device is detected to be falling so that if you drop your phone it doesn’t damage the sensor.

The OnePlus 7 Pro launches with the latest version of OxygenOS based on Android Pie. The addition of Zen Mode is interesting, as it effectively locks down your device for 20 minutes except for the ability to make emergency calls.

On top of that, a much-requested feature is the addition of a Screen Recording application. It even records internal sound too, so that not only can you commentate, but users can hear the audio from your device as well.

The OnePlus 7 will launch in two colors’ Mirror Gray and Nebula Blue, with two RAM and storage configurations each. The Nebula Blue is the only device to have 12GB of RAM, though that’s likely overkill for most phone users regardless.