72 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 65BUYING GUIDEimportant features of the year’s biggest flagships,
minus the flashy fluff, at a fraction of the price.
With the OnePlus 7 Pro, that all changes.
The 7 and 7 Pro phones marked the first time that
OnePlus released two handsets at once: the 7 is the
natural next step from last year’s 6T, while the 7 Pro
is a step up from that and is a full-blooded flagship.
It's clear OnePlus is throwing down the gauntlet
and trying to prove once and for all that it can make
phones to rival the likes of the Samsung Galaxy
S10 or Huawei P30 Pro if it wants to. And on the
strength of the 7 Pro, the company clearly can.
I’ve been using the 7 Pro for over a week, and I
have been seriously impressed. The core OnePlus
ethos is still present, but backed up by better specs
focused on two of the areas of the phone people
really use the most: the camera and the screen.Display
Easily the first thing you’ll notice about the 7 Pro is
the display, which excels in just about every way it is
possible for a smartphone screen to excel.
Size? A whopping 6.67in. Refresh rate? A smooth
90Hz. Resolution? QHD+, or 3,120x1,440 to be
precise. I could go on: colour range, pixel density,
curved edges, HDR, Gorilla Glass 5 – on paper this
is one of the best panels you’ll find in a smartphone
today, and it’s entirely uninterrupted by a notch.
The 90Hz refresh rate is perhaps the most
welcome new feature. Mostly limited to gaming
phones such as the Razer Phone 2 or Asus’s ROG
Phone before now, higher refresh rates smooth out72 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 65BUYING GUIDE
important features of the year’s biggest flagships,
minus the flashy fluff, at a fraction of the price.
With the OnePlus 7 Pro, that all changes.
The 7 and 7 Pro phones marked the first time that
OnePlus released two handsets at once: the 7 is the
natural next step from last year’s 6T, while the 7 Pro
is a step up from that and is a full-blooded flagship.
It's clear OnePlus is throwing down the gauntlet
and trying to prove once and for all that it can make
phones to rival the likes of the Samsung Galaxy
S10 or Huawei P30 Pro if it wants to. And on the
strength of the 7 Pro, the company clearly can.
I’ve been using the 7 Pro for over a week, and I
have been seriously impressed. The core OnePlus
ethos is still present, but backed up by better specs
focused on two of the areas of the phone people
really use the most: the camera and the screen.Display
Easily the first thing you’ll notice about the 7 Pro is
the display, which excels in just about every way it is
possible for a smartphone screen to excel.
Size? A whopping 6.67in. Refresh rate? A smooth
90Hz. Resolution? QHD+, or 3,120x1,440 to be
precise. I could go on: colour range, pixel density,
curved edges, HDR, Gorilla Glass 5 – on paper this
is one of the best panels you’ll find in a smartphone
today, and it’s entirely uninterrupted by a notch.
The 90Hz refresh rate is perhaps the most
welcome new feature. Mostly limited to gaming
phones such as the Razer Phone 2 or Asus’s ROG
Phone before now, higher refresh rates smooth out