After the initial launch in China back in January, OnePlus has finally debuted its latest flagship device, the OnePlus 10 Pro globally. The flagship device has been launched for Indian, European, and North American markets, so let’s take a look at what it has to offer.

Design and display

The OnePlus 10 Pro takes design cues from the Samsung Galaxy S21 series and comes with a metal camera housing that melts with the frame on the side. On the right edge, we get the signature OnePlus alert slider while the back features a matte rear glass panel like its predecessors. Talking about size and weight, the handset measures 163 x 73.9 x 8.5mm in dimensions and weighs 200.5g.

On the front, the device flaunts a 6.7-inch second-generation LTPO AMOLED display (flexible) with support for variable refresh rates (1Hz to 120Hz). This curved panel has a resolution of 3216 x 1440 pixels (QHD+), 525 PPI,  a punch-hole at the top left corner, and an in-screen fingerprint sensor. Other specs of the screen include 1300 nits peak brightness, 5000000:1 contrast ratio, 20.1:9 aspect ratio, 92.7% screen-to-body ratio, and Corning Gorilla Glass Victus protection.

Performance

The phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset paired with LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. The operating system on the device is the Android 12 based OxygenOS 12.1. The OS shares its codebase with OPPO’s mobile operating system (ColorOS) and brings along features such as HyperBoost (for gaming) and more.

The device gets its energy from a 5,000mAh battery. The North American version of the device has a 65W charger in the box, while users in Europe and India will be getting the 80W SuperVOOC power brick. The phone also features support for 50W AirVOOC fast wireless charging. It also has support for reverse wireless charging.

Other features of the smartphone include 5G connectivity, WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, GNSS, NFC, USB Type-C (USB 3.1), x-axis linear vibration motor, and dual stereo speakers with support for Dolby Atmos.

Camera

As far as optics are concerned, the OnePlus 10 Pro houses a triple camera setup on the rear. This system includes a 48MP Sony IMX789 primary sensor with OIS, a 50MP Samsung ISOCELL JN1 sensor 150° ultra-wide unit, and an 8MP 3.3x telephoto shooter with OIS. For selfies and video calls, there is a 32MP Sony IMX615 sensor on the front. All these cameras are co-tuned by Hasselblad with features like Hasselblad Natural Color Optimization 2.0, XPan Mode, and more.

OnePlus 10 Pro Price and Availability

The OnePlus 10 Pro will retail at the following markets with the price tags given below:

North America

• 8GB + 128GB – $899

India

• 8GB + 128GB – ₹66,999
• 12GB + 256GB – ₹71,999

Europe

• 8GB + 128GB – €899
• 12GB + 256GB – €999

UK

• 8GB + 128GB – £799
• 12GB + 256GB – £899

Buyers can avail the phone in either Volcanic Black or Emerald Forest (Green) color options. Pre-orders are already open, with actual sales scheduled for April 5 in India and April 8 in other regions.

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A few months back, OnePlus launched the OnePlus 10 Pro flagship smartphone in China with a refreshed design and the latest hardware. The device is now arriving in the Indian, European, and North American markets this month.

OnePlus has officially announced that the OnePlus 10 Pro will be launched on March 31 (7:30 PM IST) in the aforementioned markets. The flagship phone will be accompanied by the OnePlus Buds Pro in the new Radiant Silver color. Interestingly, the Indian region will also get the OnePlus Bullets Wireless Z2.

OnePlus 10 Pro Specifications 

The OnePlus 10 Pro global model is expected to have the same specs as the Chinese model. The device comes with a new design sporting a 6.7-inch LTPO 2.0 AMOLED display with 2K resolution. It has a variable refresh rate from 1Hz to 120Hz. The screen has 1300 nits of peak brightness, Gorilla Glass Victus protection, and a 92.7% screen-to-body ratio.

The smartphone is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC, paired with LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 internal storage. It has an under-display fingerprint scanner for added security. The device has a triple camera system at the rear with a 48MP Sony IMX789 sensor with OIS support.

It has a 50MP Samsung ISOCELL J1 secondary lens, and lastly, an 8MP telephoto lens with OIS and 3.3x optical zoom support. This time around, the cameras on the flagship are co-tuned by Hasselblad. It packs a 5,000mAh battery and has 80W SuperVOOC wired fast charging and 50W AirVOOC wireless fast charging support. The phone boots on the Android 12 OS in China.

OnePlus Buds Pro and Bullets Wireless Z2 Features 

The OnePlus Buds Pro has 11mm drivers and supports Bluetooth v5.1. It has Active Noise Cancellation support and packs a 37mAh battery. The TWS earbuds offer up to 7 hours of music playback without ANC and the charging case. With the charging case, it offers up to 38 hours of battery life with ANC disabled.

The OnePlus Bullets Wireless Z2 was leaked recently. The necback-style earbuds are tipped to come in Blue and Black colors. The earbuds will come with 12.4mm dynamic drivers and offer a battery life of up to 30 hours. It will have a fast charging support that will offer up to 20 hours of playback with just 10 minutes of charge.

It will have Bluetooth v5.0 and an IP55 water and dust resistance rating. The earbuds are expected to come with magnetic controls.

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Lately, I am a bit disappointed with the flagship phones that have been released this year. I mean, can you believe it? They are worse than the previous generation in a lot of departments. And the price isn’t much cheaper either. In contrast, you could be better off getting last year’s flagship phones. That’s right, I’m talking about Xiaomi, IQOO, and today’s star: OnePlus 10 Pro.

I think the biggest upgrade to the OnePlus 10 Pro this year is in its appearance. Those who like it must feel that it has a really unique look. It’s easier to recognize than the OnePlus 9 Pro.

OnePlus 10 Pro Review: Design & Display

The frosted glass on the back cover is still silky smooth as ever. And the lens module part is made of ceramic, which looks extra premium when illuminated by light. But some people feel that this design does not look good. They think it copies Samsung’s design. Not to mention there is a gap between the frame and the lens. The upper frame is cut and flattened, but the lower frame is still rounded.

It looks like the design features four lenses but it’s actually just three. What looks like a ring flash design turns out to be just an ordinary dual flash. The lens is very easy to get fingerprints on. All in all, it’s a good thing that some people are debating how good the OnePlus 10 Pro looks. 

At least it shows that it’s different this year, which is an improvement of sorts, right?

When compared to last year’s 9 Pro, the OnePlus 10 Pro’s screen is almost unchanged. It still features 1440P resolution, 120Hz refresh rate. Even the light-emitting material is still the same Samsung E4 material. Although this screen is still top-level, bright and vivid, the screen is not significantly off-color when viewed obliquely. But it also means that if you switch from the OnePlus 9 Pro to the 10 Pro, you won’t see any change. There are still a few upgrades in the experience though. The first upgrade is that the fingerprint recognition area has been moved up, making it more comfortable to unlock.

The second upgrade is that it uses the second generation of LTPO. the principle of LTPO 2.0 was explained in detail in the Xiaomi 12 Pro review, so we won’t go over it again. But it has a different adaptive refresh rate strategy than the Xiaomi 12 Pro. When you stop swiping the screen, the OnePlus 10 Pro can reduce it to 1Hz in a very short time. and that’s true for almost all apps.I also found that the LTPO 2.0 screen refresh rate is also related to the brightness. For example, if you are in high brightness, the screen can go down to 1Hz when it is stationary, but when the screen brightness is slightly reduced, it can only go down to 5Hz or 10Hz at minimum. When the brightness is low enough, the OnePlus 10 Pro can only display at 120Hz refresh rate all the time.

The Xiaomi 12 Pro, which also uses LTPO 2.0, will have a similar phenomenon, except that it can be displayed at a 60Hz refresh rate even when reduced to its lowest brightness. So when you’re in a room at night with the lights off and a low brightness screen, LTPO does little to save power.

OnePlus 10 Pro Review: Performance & Gaming

Although the OnePlus 10 Pro is using Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, OnePlus says: Hey, we’re very confident in our optimization tuning for gaming. So let’s see what happens.

 Antutu scores 980,000, GeekBench 5 scores 1239 single-core and 3407 multi-cores. 3D MARK scores over 10,000, making it the first phone we’ve tested to break 10,000 in room temperature conditions. And whether or not the high-performance mode is turned on, it can successfully complete the 3D Mark Extreme Stress Test.

The maximum temperature of the body is only about 47 degrees Celsius. Although the stability is not high, but it is much better than some Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 phones that cannot even complete the test.

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Before we start the OnePlus 10 Pro gaming test, I would like to introduce two features. The first is the Hyper Response Engine, which allows you to be more responsive with your touch. Although we can see in the slow-mo video that it does make you shoot faster, you can hardly feel it in reality. And it will increase your power consumption, so this feature will not be turned on for the next test. There is also a feature called Ultra-steady frames which allows you to have smoother transitions when the frame rate drops. This feature is also available on the OnePlus 9 RT and is a really good experience, and will be turned on for the next game tests.

PUBG is the same as ever and is not a threat to Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Almost 60fps all the way through. There was a big update to Genshin Impact recently. It boosted the highest resolution of all Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 phones, so we retested the Xiaomi 12 Pro’s results before comparing them.

As you can see there is actually a big difference between the OnePlus 10 Pro and the Xiaomi 12 Pro. The Xiaomi tends to keep the FPS high, but lags more often. On the other hand, OnePlus lowered the average FPS in order to reduce lag. However, the temperature difference between them is not much, neither of them exceeds 50 degrees Celsius.

Brightridge both have strikingly similar gameplay strategies, with both phones going back and forth between 40 and 25 fps late in the game. The maximum temperature is also close to 50 degrees Celsius.

It seems that both phones perform pretty much the same for games that are not optimized. Based on the above tests, I am quite satisfied with the gaming performance of the OnePlus 10 Pro. At least the more stable frame rate results in a good gaming experience.

OnePlus 10 Pro Review: Cameras

The biggest step back for the OnePlus 10 Pro this year is the camera system. Let’s compare the camera system of the OnePlus 9 Pro.

There is a monochrome camera missing, which is not a big deal. The biggest problem is the ultra-wide camera has been downgraded to the even weaker JN 1. Last year we did a comparison of flagship phones, and the OnePlus 9 Pro had the best ultra-wide camera of the bunch last year.

Ultra-Wide 150-degree camera

Can the OnePlus 10 Pro defend that honor? The answer is No. First of all, it is very difficult to take pictures with this 150-degree fisheye lens. It is very difficult to compose a picture. Its severe distortion will make all objects very strange. And your fingers are very easy to enter the picture. Second, the ultra-wide image is doomed to its edge quality is not too good. The image quality performance at the edge of the frame is poor. It’s really a step backward compared to the Freeform Lens of the 9 Pro. OnePlus is aware of these issues, so after cropping and AI correction, this fisheye lens is also usable as a normal ultra-wide camera. The processed ultra-wide photos perform much better. As long as you don’t zoom in to see it, both exposure, dynamic range, and color are excellent. Especially in night mode, the OnePlus 10 Pro takes very bright images. But there are still some things that can’t be fixed by AI. For example, the light in the upper right corner of this photo looks like it was cut off. Also, if you take a picture of a street lamp, there will definitely be a circular halo. However, the normal ultra-wide lens will not have this problem. This lens because there is no more auto-focus function, so you also have no way to take macro photos.

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Main Camera

The main camera performed better than last year’s OnePlus 9 Pro. There is no problem with greenish photos. Daytime colors are vibrant and dynamic range is excellent. Colors and exposure are very accurate at night. Auto mode is almost at the level of night mode. Overall, this lens is excellent. The only thing to worry about is its stability. The night mode is sometimes buggy when there is not enough light, but this bug should be fixed soon. So, there is no need to worry.

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Telephoto Camera

This 3.3x telephoto lens has a relatively small sensor size, so you can probably tell what its performance is like. Its main drawback is that the dynamic range is not as good as the first two cameras. It tends to overexpose the high light areas. However, because it has OIS stabilization, it has a higher success rate at night than other phone telephoto lenses that don’t have OIS. Of course, the sensor size is small, so even if you don’t blur the photo because of shaky hands, you won’t get much of an excellent photo. But even so, it is one of the best telephoto lenses in the new phones of 2022. It really is so ironic.

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The main camera supports up to 8K 24fps video recording. The ultra-wide lens supports up to 4k 30fps, while the telephoto can only record 1080p video. Probably considering the problem of poor image quality at the edges, the ultra-wide camera can’t use 150° fisheye mode when recording video. In fact, this mode is probably much more useful for video recording than for taking photos. Because this view is very much like a sports camera like GoPro shot, shooting a first-person video will be very interesting.

OnePlus 10 Pro Review: Battery & Charging

There is an 80w charger inside the box. So that means it can charge at 80w. You must be thinking: Wow, 80w must be much faster than the 65w charging speed of the OnePlus 9 Pro. But in reality, that’s not true. When charging the phone, we were surprised to see ow  this 80w charger is so slow. Although the battery is 500mAh, larger than the 9 Pro, it’s not like this charging time is an 80w charging result. And this charger went back to USB-A to C wire from the 9 Pro’s USB-C to C wire. So, charging wise OnePlus 10 Pro can be said to have no real progress. The charger even regressed.

Can that big 5000mAh battery make the OnePlus 10 Pro battery life longer? Watching videos and Tiktok for half an hour both consume 5%. Half-hour video recording is 14%. Genshin Impact consumes 12%. It does seem that the battery life has improved a bit with 5000mAh and LTPO 2.0.

OnePlus 10 Pro Review: Verdict

Is the OnePlus 10 Pro a good phone? Yes, it excels in comparison to recently released flagship phones. I even think it’s the best Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 phone to buy right now.

But is it a good OnePlus flagship phone? No, it’s not a qualified successor to the OnePlus 9 Pro. Missing IP68, a weaker ultra-wide camera, and almost the same charging speed as the 9 Pro. Makes me think the 10 Pro really isn’t much of an improvement. Instead, over a hundred dollars cheaper OnePlus 9 Pro seems like a much better choice.

Since OnePlus came back under the OPPO umbrella, “Never Settle” has become “Always Settle”. I miss the days when OnePlus was the flagship killer, at least when I didn’t have to pay more for less. Well, that’s it for our OnePlus 10 Pro review.

What do you think of this year’s OnePlus 10 Pro?

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After teasing for days, OnePlus has officially launched the OnePlus 10 Pro in China. The latest flagship smartphone from the brand is the successor of last year’s OnePlus 9 Pro. However, it does not look like one as it features a revamped design. Let’s check out what all it has to offer.

OnePlus 10 Pro Specifications and Features

The OnePlus 10 Pro takes design cues from the Samsung Galaxy S21 series and the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra. The metal camera housing melts with the frame like on the Samsung. Further, it has large camera sensors as on Xiaomi. It also retains the signature alert slider and matte rear glass panel from its predecessors. Talking about size and weight, the handset measures 163 x 73.9 x 8.5mm in dimensions and weighs 200.5g.

On the front, the device flaunts a 6.7-inch second-generation LTPO AMOLED display (flexible) with support for variable refresh rates (1Hz to 120Hz). This curved panel has a resolution of 3216 x 1440 pixels (QHD+), 525 PPI,  a punch-hole at the top left corner, and an in-screen fingerprint sensor. Other specs of the screen include 1300 nits peak brightness, 5000000:1 contrast ratio, 20.1:9 aspect ratio, 92.7% screen-to-body ratio, and Corning Gorilla Glass Victus protection.

The phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset paired with LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. It is the debut handset for ColorOS 12.1 based on Android 12. The latest version of OPPO’s mobile operating system brings features such as HyperBoost (for gaming) and more.

As far as optics are concerned, the OnePlus 10 Pro houses a triple camera setup on the rear. This system includes a 48MP Sony IMX789 primary sensor with OIS, a 50MP Samsung ISOCELL JN1 sensor 150° ultra-wide unit, and an 8MP 3.3x telephoto shooter with OIS. For selfies and video calls, there is a 32MP Sony IMX615 sensor on the front. All these cameras are co-tuned by Hasselblad with features like Hasselblad Natural Color Optimization 2.0, XPan Mode, and more.

Other features of the smartphone include 5G connectivity, WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, GNSS, NFC, USB Type-C (USB 3.1), x-axis linear vibration motor, and dual stereo speakers with support for Dolby Atmos.

Last but not least, the device gets its energy from a 5,000mAh battery. This cell can be filled either by 80W SuperVOOC fast wired charging or 50W AirVOOC fast wireless charging. It also has support for reverse wireless charging.

OnePlus 10 Pro Price and Availability

The OnePlus 10 Pro will retail at the following price tags in China.

• 8GB + 128GB – ¥4,699 ($737)
• 8GB + 256GB – ¥4,999 ($785)
• 12GB + 256GB – ¥5,299 ($832)

Buyers can avail the phone in either Black Out or All things Green color option. It will go on sale from 10 AM on January 13.

OnePlus is yet to reveal the global launch date for the OnePlus 10 Pro.

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