ISSUE 68 • ANDROID ADVISOR 105Connectivity
The OnePlus 7T features most of the connectivity
options you’d expect, including Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac,
Bluetooth 5.0, NFC and GPS, but unlike the standard
OnePlus 7, there’s no dedicated 5G variant of the
smartphone. That means you’ll be stuck on your
network’s 4G LTE band, even if you’re one of the few
people that currently have access to the faster 5G
connectivity. You’ll also find a USB-C port for charging
with built-in OTG support, although those hoping
that the OnePlus 7T would reintroduce the 3.5mm
headphone port will be sorely disappointed.
Battery life
Battery life is an area where the OnePlus 7T excels,
boasting a 3,800mAh battery that we’ve found during
testing can last a day with ease, even with tweeting,
snapping photos and playing the odd game here and
there. This is backed up by the Geekbench 4 battery
benchmark test at a standard brightness, which saw
the 7T last 9 hours and 17 minutes. That’s just under 4
hours longer than Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 lasted.
Even if the 7T needs a top-up during the day, the
Warp Charge 30T support (aka 30-watt fast charging)
should get you untethered in no time. OnePlus claims
that it’ll provide 50 percent in 20 minutes, 70 percent
in 30 minutes and 100 percent in an hour and we’ve
found this to be fairly accurate during our testing:
20 minutes: 46 percent charge
30 minutes: 69 percent charge
53 minutes, 23 seconds: 100 percent charge