ONEPLUS Nord Dual Sim 5G Phone (Gray Onyx 8GB RAM 128GB)

Value for money with great features

I like the way oneplus going. It's worth for the price and the display, it's amazing. I love it. Oneplus doing the great work all the time. And thankz Amazon for the kind service.

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This is going to be a big review, and is not about detailed specs that you can find anywhere online. This is a completely user review. So I have been using this phone for a week now, and here are my observations: 1. An extremely well-built, solid hardware-software, very refined and polished. You will like every moment of using it. 2. The display is awesome, almost at par with Samsung's super-amoled displays. Videos in Youtube, Netflix, etc. are super clear, have high contrast and colours, and super quality. 3. A 3.5mm jack is sorely missed. You ned to buy a separate type C to 3.5mm for the headphone. You need to click the mic button for the mic to work. The mic also doesn't work with many earphones, and those without the button may not work at all. But the phone's built-in mic will be used and the sound output is via the earphone. I need to research more into this. Bluetooth headphones work great though. I am using a cheap Rs.100 converter, and the sound output through my Sony/AKH/Boat earphones are mindblowing. No loss in sound quality. Very high bass. It becomes higher when you turn on "Bass bosst" in the equaliser settings. 4. Sound output through the speakers is awesome too. It does not produce the tin-can sound that most phones produce. The sound output is really good even for small things like notification alert and ringtones, and whatsapp messages. 5. The camera is absolutely fantastic. It produces crisp, real colour images with high detail in both front and rear cameras. I am a very long time user of Samsung flagship phones, and the only good cameras are above Rs.60k phones. But still they produce unrealistic high contrast software boosted images that look great, but not realistic. The Nord's camera is the best I have seen in any phone, even better than Iphones. 6. The battery is incredible too. Again coming from Samsung flagships, I never remembered the time I actually charged the phones more than 20 minutes, and had more than a day's worth of power. The Nord is better than that. I charge my phone to 75% in the morning, and then connect to laptop (wifi hotspot) for around 8 hours, listen to music, watch videos, an hour of calls, and continuous whatsapp Skype use, and the battery still shows 30-35% next morning. 7. Following the above point, yes I have a couple of habits, and always use dark themes, kill all apps every single time before locking my phone, have turned off all notificaions from most apps except whatsapp, Skype, Zoom, messages, etc. Have also denied permission of location, etc for all apps until I actually use them and need location access. Bluetooth, wifi, NFC, tap to wake, lift to wake etc are always off. I don't need them and it's disturbing to receive nonsense notifications. I am a hardcore PC gamer, and do not like to play games on the phone. I had always got mindblowing battery backups from my previous Samsung devices, and the Nord's backup beat every one of them. 8. That slider on the Nord is a magic wand. With my previous phones, I had to unlock, and then change profiles to ring, vibrate and silence. The Nord has a 3-point slider (yes, it is 3-point, and it took me a while to realise this as I thought it was 2-point at first). You can switch between ring, vibrate and silent just by the slider. 9. There are options to set the display area to just below the front camera holes so they are not intrusive on the videos is awesome. 10. There is also an option of "greyscale" that turns the display, and everything you see, to black and white, and this is system wide, and also turns the video playback to black and white, which I think is pretty awesome too. This part of the review is biased: My previous 3 phones have all been Samsung flagship devices, Note 4, A8, and then Note 8. They are absolutely brilliant devices, and I need to write a comparison for people who are thinking of switching. 1. The camera on the Nord beats all of them is quality and real colour reproduction. The Nord's front camera is better than all the Samsung device front cameras combined. Those were absolute garbage, a little better than VGA level cameras. 2. Samung devices always have bad music quality, even with the dolby atmos turned on, and volume turned to max level. The Nord's music quality is far far superior, even without touching the equalizer, and the volume halfway up. 3. I never felt the need to use an S-Pen much on the Notes, and the thousands of software customisationsly that Samsung offers. They are mostly a gimmick and you wouldn't use them past the first 1-2 weeks of purchase. These features are not missed. 4. Now, the Samsung flagship Super Amoled displays are better than Nord's Amoled display. The whites on a Samsung are milky bright white, and the blacks are absolute deep blacks. This was system wide. The Nord's blacks are greyish blacks, and the whites are greyish too. The reds on a super amoled is blood red, and the Nord's reds are crimson yellow-ish. Similar with the blue colour. If you are coming from an LCD or OLED display you won't notice any difference, but if you are coming from a Retine HD, or Super amoled 1080p/1444p 400 ppi plus display, you are going to notice it for a very long time. 5. Samsung's built-in theme store is very sorely missed. It was very exciting to change themes every 3-4 days, an have a complete system-wide new look. Oneplus's software does not have themes. Third party launchers and theme apps, even paid ones will only let you customise the lock screen, home screen, and the menu icons. Everything else will still look the same. Also, the lock screen and home screen have nice contrast if you set an HD wallpaper. The rest of the system has a grey-ish black background if you set the "dark" theme, and greyish white with the default theme. 6. I personally was a big fan of the old 3x4 keyboard layout that Samsung has built-in. I am now trying to get used to the qwerty srtyle keyboard. Third party keyboards are not as smooth as the default ones. Although Nord's keyboard has a cool feature of setting custom background images on the keyboard. 7. I do miss the 3.5mm jack. I could connect the desktop to usb tethering, or charging, and still listen to songs while I work. This is no more possible with the Nord. Some third party converters have a type c and 3.5mm jack split 2-in-1, but it can only be used to slow charge the device and listen to music at the same time, and not data transfer or usb tethering. This was important to me. Finally about my decision to buy the Nord: So obviously I wanted to upgrade to a Samsung flagship S-series or Note series device. But the choices were all above Rs.40k. That too after applying exchange value and discounts. The Lite series for the note and S series Samsung phones are all renamed lower-end phones and have horrible cameras, and other half-baked features. I also looked at LG's G8X, and they were selling at largely different rates at different websites, and it was untrust-worthy. Moreover, all of the flagship phones are at 6.5 inch display sizes, or larger. I hate large displays that I couldn't operate with one hand, and are not just practical for a primary device. I feel a 5.5 inch device is the perfect size. The Nord is bigger than that, but fit in one hand well. All the other features fit the bill perfectly. I was not ready to shell out Rs.40k and above for a phone I wouldn't use to it's 100% design and hardware capacity and intent, and I was getting the Nord at Rs.20k after exchange of my old phone. I am very happy with my purchase, and it was very much well worth it. I have played around with the phone, tweaked a lot features, and found the complete package far better than flagship devices from other brands. I bought another 2 Nords for family members, and they are happy with the devices too.

Very Good phone with incredible performance

I've been using my OnePlus 3T for almost 3 years now and I still didn't feel the need to upgrade from there since my screen of that phone is gone. Being an OnePlus fan I was eyeing for 7T. But I couldn't justify the price for that according to my day to day needs. So not being a hard-core user of mobiles I started looking for other options which will fulfill my usage without spending extra bucks. And the day 1+ announced the Nord i knew this will be my next mobile. It's a fantastic daily driver with decent camera quality (unless you're a mobile photographer please wait for the Pixel 4a) Now coming to my pros and cons- Pros: 1. Battery life is excellent. Getting almost more than a day with 100% charge. 2. Display is fluid and "big" (do keep in mind I was using 3T for 3 years now so screen is a big improvement for me. May not be valid for the ones who has used 5T or 6T in recent times) 3. Still love the Oxygen OS with the add-on features 4. Bluetooth connectivity is fast. I'm using OnePlus Wireless Z earphones which connects to Nord quite fast compare to my 3T 5. Design is good though I still love my Gunmetal design of 3T. Don't think any other latest 1+ phones can beat that design (just my perspective) 6. Signal strength is good too. Don't have any problems with my cellular calls. 7. 128GB storage is plus. 8. Already received 2 updates within a week. Now coming to the cons - 1. Camera set-up. I really don't like the design of "Quad-camera" set-up at all. The kind of audience they are targeting with Nord i think it would be much more appreciated if they just give 2 camera selection with some good image processing software. 2. Now talking about image processing unit, they could have done better. I mean night images are okay but it could have been good. If they followed the simpler approach like pixel 4A I don't think anyone would buy Pixel unless someone is Pixel fanboy. 3. Next thing speaker. Again this is decent mono speaker but they could have added stereo one instead of macro and useless lens. People like us we don't do macro photography and never going to do it with a phone but we will definitely watch some videos and songs on our phone. But don't take me wrong because quality of the speaker is good but it lacks the base. Compared with my wife's 1+ 6T (yeah we got 3 OnePlus phones and one earphone in our house) Summing up, 1+ Nord is a good budget phone for those who are planning to use it on day to day basis. Good screen, good battery life, decent camera and speaker will definitely justify the price. Having said that it would have been a real "budget killer" if OnePlus opts for two camera set-up with better quality and stereo speakers. My take if someone is really into mobile photography then wait for Pixel and buy that without any second thought. But if you want a good phone and ready to compromise the camera quality then look no further. Hope this helps. Cheers