The OnePlus 6 Review: Among The Best Of 2018
by Andrei Frumusanu on July 27, 2018 8:30 AM EST- Posted in
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- OnePlus 6
Battery Life
The OnePlus 6 contains a 3300mAh / 12.7Wh battery. In general there’s nothing pointing out to expect bad battery life out of the OnePlus 6 as both the SoC and screen should be quite efficient. The most comparable phone would the Galaxy S9+ in the results, as both have the same SoC and both employ AMOLED screens of similar sizes, with the OP6 having a 6% smaller battery capacity.
In the web browsing test the OP6 ends up pretty much exactly where we projected it, at slightly above 10 hours of runtime the phone lands on the better side of battery life results for this generation. Only Huawei’s phones with larger batteries and phones with more efficient screens end up higher. Overall a very respectable result for the OnePlus 6.
In the PCMark test, the OnePlus 6 ends up below the S9+ - here the OnePlus 6 essentially achieving the highest scores of any Android device bar the MIX 2S also have to be accounted in the result. It’s interesting to see the OP6 beating the MIX 2S in the web browsing test yet losing to it in PCMark – the discrepancy could come due to different dynamic brightness behaviours between the phones and we can’t maintain a steady backlight level throughout the totality of the scenarios, something that’s of particular concern in the LG G7 which we’ll be reviewing in the very near future.
Overall battery life of the OnePlus 6 is excellent – of course there’s devices beating it, and most of the time this can be attributed to their higher battery capacities. Active heavy usage of the phone will naturally result in more battery drainage, but that’s also because the device is able to sustain also very high performance in a variety of use-cases.
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GREAT Expectations - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
Just wanna know... Did you even read the article or did you skip right to the comments?I'm pretty sure the author has addressed your concerns already. And I've yet to see you providing a convincing counterargument. Reading the article isn't that hard is it?
Xex360 - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link
I'm entitled to have a different opinion, and the the writer addressed the notch "problem" wasn't satisfying for me, I'm of the opinion that most phone manufacturers are just copying Apple nothing else, and copying the worst design choices from Apple and not the good/great ones.markiz - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
Well, other than your subjective aesthetical opinion, reasonably, notch just makes sense. If status icons are moved there, that means you can get an extra line of text on the screen.Like, one extra email, or a message, or whatever.
I too also hate how it looks normally, but honestly, with OLED screen, it's barely noticeable, and I do appreciate extra space. I've come around :)
The fact that apple was first is could just be dependent on only 2 things:
- Samsung did not want to do it
- nobody else has scale and numbers to custom order OLED manufacturers to make special equipment to cut up their screens.
Teckk - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
S9/S9+ might be better phones no doubt, but they're not "nearly the same price".markiz - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
Where I live, in Europe, they certainly are. It's 20€ more for S9.PeachNCream - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
I don't see how a notch could possibly make a phone useless. They aren't appealing to me, but it seems like the rejection of the notch is based more in a dislike of Apple than a concern about functionality in a lot of cases.mrochester - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
The notch rejection comes purely from the hipsters.PeachNCream - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
I'm not even sure exactly what traits make someone a hipster or not, but I think people that object to notches represent a fairly broad set of demographics.Flunk - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
I don't think there are really that many people who care about notches. But if there are, all they need to do is refuse to buy phones that have them and suddenly alternatives will appear.ummduh - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
"mrochester - Friday, July 27, 2018 - linkThe notch rejection comes purely from the hipsters."
I'm definitely as far from a hipster as you can get and I'm also definitely anti-notch. Unless being so anti hipster is the new hipster? Never mind, I don't want to know.
I'm also vehemently anti on-screen buttons and want my dedicated buttons back. I don't get this new screen form factor, it doesn't help anything and removes things I value.
I have a OP5 (not T). I like it. It's the last of the honest phones. I do miss IR blasters being in phones as well.
The Note4 was honestly the last great perfect phone. I went back and tried to use my old one and unfortunately it is just too slow. The new versions are over priced, and over Samsung'd. (That is to say, they're too locked down now.)