Hello Guys! so oneplus has just launched two fresh new flagship smartphones you've got the billy big bollocks oneplus 9 pro and then you got the standard vanilla oneplus 9 which scales back some of the tech to deliver a more affordable asking price so i'm going to whip the oneplus 9 5g of course because you've got to add 5g to the end of every smartphone name right now out of its big red box which isn't at all phallic and take you on a full-on tour of the hardware and the software ahead of my in-depth review and for more the latest greatest tech please do put subscribe and in that notifications bell cheers absolutely love this box so inside the box you've got of course a one plus nine you've got the usual quick start guide shenanigans and of course the obligatory welcome letter with the old symptoms stuck in there.
so let's see what mr pete has to say this time around that basically boils down to congratulations on buying a oneplus phone instead of being one of those iphone you also get oh goody goody a condom case and it's your typical rubber johnny protective cover with a nice bit of never settle action on it as well and you've got your big ass psu as well goodbye warp charge 65 t support and last up of course the usual extremely red type-c to type-c usb cable so that's what you get in the box and butter my beans was that exciting and now it's time to actually check out the phone so here is the vanilla oneplus 9 and it's pretty standard oneplus design as you can see there from a quick glance you've got gorilla glass front and back .
as well and they've actually got a polymer frame separating the two a fiberglass infused polymer frame to be absolutely precise and the oneplus 9 is a little bit more compact than the pro version it's a 6.55 inch device the camera chassis jutting out ever so slightly with that hasselblad brandon because that's one of the big headlines for the oneplus 9 series is oneplus has teamed up with hasselblad for the next three years to help it fine-tune the camera tech now if you decide you fancy a bit of oneplus 9 action you then got a choice of three different models just to complicate things a bit you've got the blue and the black base models which come with 8 gigs of ram and 128 gigs of storage otherwise you can upgrade to this here winter mist version which is 12 gigs of ram and 256 gigs of storage and i do quite.
like the color option here on the winter mist it's basically a very subtle purple hue and hopefully you can make out there it's actually kind of a frosted finish up at the top almost a matte style finish and then down at the bottom it turns fully glossy yeah gotta say first impressions i really do like it but it is a bit unfortunate that the glossy bit is here at the bottom where you're actually handling the smartphone so all of your hand grease and general scum is going to leave a bit of an impression there they really should have swapped it around the frosted was at the bottom because he was at the top and also in the pre-launch specs there was no mention of an official ip rating for the oneplus 9 so we've got to assume unlike the oneplus 9 pro it does not have ip rated water and dust resistance of course that doesn't mean that the oneplus 9 isn't at all water resistant i'm sure it'll be absolutely fine if it gets a bit of a splashing.
uh but yeah i'd be careful with it and no surprises with the rest of the design the alert slider is back in action again after being called for the cheaper oneplus nord handsets and once again sadly there is absolutely bugger all headphone jack action okay so let's crack on with the good stuff let's get the oneplus 9 all set up and then take a proper full on tour the rest of the hardware and software and when you come to stick your uh sim card into the oneplus 9 if i can just actually get the tray out of there you'll notice there's a double-sided sim trace you can fit two sims in there at the same time but there's no space as usual from micro sd memory cards all right now.
so the oneplus 9 is all set up and ready for action and on the software front it's basically the same story on the standard oneplus 9 as it is on the pro you've got the latest android 11 os with of course oneplus is oxygen os slatted on top so i really like the stock android vibe that you get from oxygen os you know you got all your standard android features like the good old apps tray uh you know you got your dark mode in there gesture navigations all of that good stuff on there by default but then of course you've got those bonus oxygen os bits like the shelf which of course has been a stalwart of the the oxygen os for quite some time although now it's dragged down uh from the top like so you can go into the home settings and you can actually change that so.
it is your a notifications panel by default instead which i do prefer i like the shelf but i do prefer to be able to quickly access that notifications panel because the oneplus 9 bit more compact than the pro but it's still a big bugger you've got some oneplus apps on here as well to quickly migrate your stuff from your old smartphone you've got quick access to the community forums you've got the oneplus clock of course and customizing a oneplus smartphone is a bit easier than a stock android handset because you've got a dedicated customization section which allows you to for instance just quickly change up the wallpaper you've got the usual jazzy selection there you could also create your own wallpapers based on your gorgeous or in my case gormless.
mug me though i prefer my geeky anime effort so i'm going to stick with that there's plenty of other stuff you can play around with in the customization section as well including that ambient display of course lots of different options there still got that sexy bit of edge lighting for when your notifications stroll in as well you can mess around with the icons the fonts all of that good stuff so let's check out that screen and what you got here on the oneplus 9 is a 6.55 inch amoled display it's actually perfectly flat which will definitely impress the gamers among you unlike the slightly curved effort on the pro you've got a full hd plus resolution here so they not quad hd plus like some other premium smartphones so you don't get that finer detail when you are you know watching an ultra hd movie or anything like that but still very nice visuals indeed you've got hdr 10 plus support so you can get that nice.
sharp contrast natural looking colors on the go in hdr content from the likes of netflix the oneplus 9's display is set to the vivid mode by default uh you can alter that in the settings if you want but frankly i really like the vivid mode especially if you're watching a bit of anime or some disney something like that those visuals will just slap you right in the chops oh yeah love it but yeah if you want to you can stick the oneplus 9 screen on more natural colors always dive into advanced you've got proper srgb setting in there which is handy if you're going to be editing uh pics on the fly got dp3 as well and you've got freaking loads of other settings in the display menu as well like too many to be perfectly frank with you and a lot of them seem to do the same things you've got comfort tone which adjusts the temperature of the screen based on your ambient environment then yu've also got like.
the reading mode the vision comfort mode here into the advanced section you can play around with the refresh rate which as you can see there is set to 120 hertz by default uh but you can scale that back down to 60 hertz if you'd rather favor the battery life suddenly there's no dynamic refresh rate here on the standard oneplus 9 so it can't automatically buffer between the two and on the top brightness no issues with visibility whatsoever yeah top off and over a thousand nits i believe oneplus said it was 1 100 on its maximum level so outdoor visibility and everything not an issue as for audio well the oneplus 9 once again has a stereo speaker setup just like that pro model let's bump up the volume see if it's actually any good news this week included the frankly unwarranted return of the dreaded budgie .
smuggler the one thing that makes me kind of glad i can't actually go on a holiday right now so that's not bad at all on top volume certainly a nice and punchy and powerful uh the clarity isn't you know fantastic or anything but be absolutely fine just for kicking back with some netflix or whatever this is a damn shame you don't get a headphone jack again like most other premium smartphones these days apart from you know like say your sony's uh but you do have bluetooth 5.2 support on here all of the usual audio smarts including a good bit of ldac action you got some dolby atmos fine tuning as well so i can just tweak the audio to match whatever you're up to and then there's the performance and the oneplus 9 is powered by the snapdragon 80 chipset qualcomm's billy big bollocks super top end smartphone platform and that is backed by either 8 or 12 gigs of ddr5 ram this of course being the missed version is the 12 giga so certainly everyday.
performance is nice and nippy oxygen os is apparently more resource efficient now so you don't have so many apps closing in the background and certainly gamers will be happy with this as well gentian impact played on those high detail settings at the 60 fps level and there's the occasional little jitter in frame rate when things get a little bit hectic because this is a really demanding game but overall very playable the oneplus 9 is definitely starting to get a little bit toasty at the back end uh after gaming for about sort of 20-30 minutes on genchin impact we're nothing too troublesome and certainly doesn't seem to be throttling the performance which is the main thing you do have a bigger than ever vapor chamber uh stashed inside.
the oneplus 9 now just to help with the coolant aspect you've also got the usual graphite layers and all of that good stuff let's get a bit of a move on and before i forget you've got the usual oneplus gaming features as well these have actually been revamped a bit for the nine series instead of a fanatic mode you've now got the pro gaming mode but it's essentially the same thing it will block your notifications make sure all the resources are dedicated to your game just cancel out that second sim if you've got one in there because the oneplus 9 has that snapdragon 888 stuffed inside that means you automatically get 5g support courtesy of the built-in x60 modem we've also got wi-fi 6 support as well so absolutely fine on the networking side of things now moving on to the battery and the oneplus 9 pack say 4 500 milliamps.
so i should hopefully keep you going all day long even with plenty of use and you do have 65 watt wires to charge it as well that warp charge 65 t support so that should get you powered back up again in about half an hour or so which is pretty damn impressive stuff and as for wireless charging yes it's supported here on the oneplus 9 not incredibly nippy though it's 15 watts that's one five so let's finish up the squint at the triple lens rear camera slapped on the arse end of the one plus nine and as i mentioned back at the start of the video oneplus has entered a partnership with hasselblad the swedish optics expert so the primary lens is different to the oneplus 9 pro here on the oneplus 9 you get this sony imac 689 primary sensor it's a 48 megapixel shooter and there's no optical image stabilization built in the actual camera ui remains.
the same on the oneplus 9 though you will get 12 megapixel photos by default you can bump up to that maximum 48 megapixel resolution by going into the camera settings and selecting high res it's only really recommended if you've got a very well lit scene however at any point you can swap to the 50 megapixel ultra wide angle lens with a quick tap like so this uses sony's imx 766 sensor and you get the anti-distortion tech just to help when you shoot a photo prevent you from getting that weird warping around the edges which you often get with ultra wide angle lenses but for the third and final lens on the oneplus 9 sadly it's not a telephoto shooter.
so you've just got two times digital zoom what you get is a two megapixel monochrome lens that's for your bonus camera mode you get all the standard stuff including of course goodbye portrait mode to have your subject stand out and hasselblad is apparently fine-tuned to the pro mode i just offer accurate really natural looking colors which of course will be funny testing for my in-depth oneplus 9 review and while you do shoot in jpeg by default using this mode you can just give that a little tap you tap and start shooting in 12-bit raw instead if you want to edit on the fly you've also got the likes of nightscape 2.0 to really brighten up those low light shots and then of course a bit of video action.
and with the oneplus 9 it's in full hd mode by default but you can shoot 4k footage at either 30 or 60 frames per second otherwise you can bump all the way up to 8k level if you want some really sharp looking horn movies and you've got hdr smarts on there as well but as long as you're shooting at full hd at 30 fps and then last up if we flip to the 16 megapixel a selfie cam that's using sony's imx 471 sensor and i'm sure that i will be able to capture some great looking snaps oh god maybe not and they have in a nutshell the oneplus 9 vanilla edition so as you can see.
quite a few bits have been
scaled back from the oneplus
9 pro but the oneplus
9 should still prove strong
competition for the likes of samsung's galaxy
s20 fan edition
with that fresh snapdragon 88 chipset in there it's a nice solid performance
hopefully the battery
life and the camera tech
will work out well as well but i'll be fully testing
out for my in-depth review so stay tuned for that for now what i want to know is what do you guys
reckon are you tempted by the oneplus
9 or maybe more suede by the oneplus 9 pro which
i've also unboxed
go check that out i will be doing a full side-by-side comparison
of the two smartphones as well you can see exactly what the differences
are and work out which one might
be best for you so. Thank You Guys!
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