66 PCWorld JUNE 2020REVIEWS ONEPLUS 8 PRO
OnePlus 8 Pro
PROS- Insanely great display with all the trimmings.
- Wireless charging and IP-rated water resistance
arrive. - Gorgeous design that rivals Samsung’s best.
CONS - Price tops off at a thousand bucks.
- 5G isn’t ready for prime time.
- Camera pales in comparison to the Google Pixel 4’s.
BOTTOM LINE
The OnePlus 8 Pro isn’t just another OnePlus phone
with high specs and a low price—it’s a bona fide
premium Android handset, with a price to match.
$899
You can have some fun with the filter camera on the OnePlus 8 Pro (from left, Photocroma, Vivid, B&W),
but ultimately it’s a useless gimmick.Pro just isn’t on their photography level yet.BOTTOM LINE
There’s no denying that the OnePlus 8 Pro is a
great phone. It can hold its own against any
other Android flagship when it comes to
performance, and in an apples-to-apples
comparison, you won’t find a better price for
a phone with these specs.
That said, the $899 starting price isn’t
the same bang-for-your-buck deal that the
$669 7 Pro was, especially when you
consider that it’s limited to just one color,
green. If you want the OnePlus 8 Pro in black
or blue you’ll need to swing for the $999
model with 256GB of storage and 12GB of
RAM. That’s still less than the $1,200 S20+
or the $1,400 S20 Ultra, but the value isn’t
nearly as apparent as it once was.OnePlus had an opportunity to expose
how excessively expensive high-end Android
phones have gotten. All it has proved with the
8 Pro is that building a cutting-edge 5G
phone in 2020 is expensive.