PROCESSOR AND PERFORMANCE
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Android builds in the business. They’re fast and
smooth, they have frequent updates, and they have
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I’d like to call out Zen Mode, which forces you to not use
your phone for a while, and Night Mode, which dims
and yellows the screen in the evenings. There’s very
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Google’s apps and Google Assistant rather than trying
to reinvent and duplicate everything like Samsung does.
The phone’s basic performance is impeccable. The 7T is
the only mainstream US phone I know of with a
Snapdragon 855+ processor, which clocks the 855’s
“performance” core from 2.8GHz up to 2.96GHz. That
does, in fact, juice processor-dependent tasks a bit. The
7T scored 2752 on the Geekbench 5 multicore score to
the 7 Pro’s 2668.
But that’s made up for by what appears to be slower
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7995 compared with the 7 Pro’s 12666. I was shocked
enough by this to follow up with a test using the A1 SD
Bench storage benchmark, and the 7T write speed was
238.9Mbps to the 7 Pro’s 423.7Mbps.
OnePlus, wisely,
relies on
Google’s apps
and Google
Assistant rather
than trying to
reinvent and
duplicate
everything.