64 PCWorld JULY 2019REVIEWS ONEPLUS 7 PRO
option, but the tapping and raising-to-wake
are plenty effective.
OnePlus has stuck with its in-display
optical fingerprint sensor. While it’s less finicky
than we experienced on the 6T, it still feels
like a step backwards. It’s incredibly fast when
it works, but on a whole it’s way less accurate
than a standard hardware sensor. I’d much
rather OnePlus either returned to the rear
fingerprint sensor or adopted a time-of-flight
sensor for 3D facial recognition on the next
OnePlus phone.TREMENDOUS SPEED
INSIDE AND OUT
Once you unlock the OnePlus 7, however,
you won’t have any complaints. The model I
tested had a whopping 12GB of RAM, but
even if you opted
for a more
reasonable 6GB
or 8GB, the
Snapdragon 855
processor will
absolutely shred
anything you throw
at it. To say I didn’t
experience any lag
is to understate just
how fast this phone
is, thanks in large
part to the
evolution of
Oxygen OS, whichhas become one of the fastest and cleanest
custom Android skins this side of the Pixel.
Oxygen OS 9.5 even has some
personality of its own. All of the Android Pie
features are here—Digital Wellbeing,
gesture navigation, streamlined notification
shade—but OnePlus has considered how
the user and the features coexist before
making any changes. For example, there’s a
new Zen Mode that goes beyond app
timers to force you to take a 20-minute break
from using your phone. And when you
open the notification shade, a “clear all”
icon appears at the bottom of the screen
so you can easily reach it.
Gesture navigation is the same as it is on the
6T, which is to say it’s not always as intuitive as it
could be. Quibbles aside, it’s almost as ifThe 6.67-inch OnePlus 7 Pro (left) makes the 6.25-inch 6T look downright small.