Hey what's up mkbhd here and you might not know this, but the oneplus 10 pros out kinda oneplus has been on a kind of a weird trajectory lately and i've kind of already talked about it. But this is the latest weirdest step. So i say it's kinda out because well you're watching this video on youtube, which is not in china, but this phone is officially landed and launched only in china. So it's not out where you're watching this, but we'll likely see an international launch at some point.

This year for this phone, so i was able to get my hands on this one thanks to our friends at dbrand. But if you wanted to get one, you have to import it from a site like 28 mobile or something like that. But even so the software that this phone is running is not the oxygen os that oneplus fans have come to know and love in many regions. So basically, this phone might have a oneplus box and the oneplus logo and a oneplus red cable, but this oneplus 10 pro is more like an oppo phone than ever before.

Now you might have seen all the specs and teasers and stuff about this phone as they were coming up to their launch and i'll get to all that in a second. But the biggest thing to note really is that this phone, this one right here - is literally running oppo software, so it has color os the same color os that an oppo phone would have. This is color os 12.1, so the oxygen os - that's been so important to oneplus for years that i've really liked in the past is not here. So we've got some oppo built stock apps and it's got a bunch of incomplete menus that don't have english translations.

There's a bunch of pre-installed chinese apps that can't be disabled. This is clearly not meant to be exported to other regions. The default browser is pretty rough. I mean it's, it's mostly fine and it does have a lot of customization features.

I think the wallpaper color picker is super cool and i've gotten google apps to work other than the assistant, so i can make my way around, but it's not ideal so sort of overhanging. All of this is okay. Will this phone have oxygen os or not when it eventually probably launches internationally? I don't know it's unconfirmed, we don't have an answer yet and even though it's not perfect and honestly oxygen os is more like color os than ever before in its latest version. I still am kind of hoping for it, because it's more complete anyway, the one thing that will be the same, no matter where you get this phone in any region, is this new design, this slightly controversial new design, it's kind of a mixed bag.

For me, i, like parts of it, i don't like some other parts of it, so there's always a difference between seeing it in the renders and the teasers versus actually holding it and filling it in person, and i got ta say in person: it's a pretty solid Design, it's a nice size, roughly the same size as last year's oneplus, 9, pro big, but not too big. It's got the same, smooth, satin black finish in this volcanic black color and the other version is this sort of emerald green type of satin finish, and it's still got all the classic oneplus shapes and cues the centered logo. On the middle of the back, the speaker and sim card tray at the bottom, the alert slider, which has just moved up a little bit higher on the phone, really the biggest change with this new design is the camera layout. So clearly, there's a bit of inspiration from what samsung did with the s21 series a little bit of a copy my homework, but don't make it too obvious going on here.

But i do still like samsung's version more because it still feels more intentional one, because it goes all the way up to the corner and it feels like a more integrated part of the design and two because of this seam here so oneplus has this awesome satin Black and the whole back and all the rails around the phone are satin, but then it cuts at this seam to do a glossy camera array, and i know we've done the stovetop joke about other phones before, but i mean this one. This one looks more like a stove top than any i've ever seen. It's actually only three cameras, though the fourth in the corner is a bi-color led flash with some text in the middle that says p2d 50t. Now, if you're wondering what p2d50t actually stands for, i asked oneplus because i mean there's not a whole lot of other text on the phone.

Why did they put this here? Apparently, p stands for phone 2d stands for second generation hasselblad mobile camera system. 50T stands for 50 megapixel triple camera setup, so so p2d 50t just printed okay. I don't see a specific ip rating anywhere for this phone, but it does have the rubber seals around things like the sim card tray, which the ip68 certified oneplus 9 pro also had. So i'm thinking it'll also survive normal splashes and stuff, but the only other update on the outside is a small one.

It's the new display same size at 6.7, inches with the top left corner, selfie camera cut out and an optical fingerprint sensor. That's nicely higher up on the phone. I was wondering why last year's is so low and i never really got an answer, but this one isn't a nicer spot for sure anyway. It's the same resolution 1440p same max frame rate 120 hertz, but this is an ltpo2 panel, meaning it can modulate all the way down to 1 hertz instead of 10 hertz, so it can save even more power than earlier.

Ldpo displays definitely looking forward to seeing pretty much every high-end phone make this same upgrade this year, then inside this phone does have pretty much all the high-end specs that you'd expect from a oneplus flagship phone. Now this isn't the full review, i'm not daily driving this phone because half the software is in chinese and it's kind of hard for me to do that. But this does give us a pretty good idea of how it'll perform and i mean with high-end specs. There aren't really any surprises here: it's got the snapdragon 8 gen 1 chipset new naming scheme for the new generation of four nanometer chips.

First phone i've tested with it uh it's it's very similar in performance to the snapdragon 8, with a bump in the gpu department and most significantly better ai and ml performance. So you can imagine as the highest end non-custom silicon chip you can get in a phone combined with the high refresh rate display ufs 3.1 storage lpddr5 ram. It's going to perform very well there's even a ram extender feature that you can use. So you can sort of carve out some of that fast storage to act like extra ram.

If you want to basically i have thought for a few years, actually that oppo's color os has some of the better animations of any android skin, and that's still true. So things are very smooth and responsive here across the board. And then the bonus is some slightly better gaming performance and a new image signal processor, which should improve the cameras which, speaking of the cameras, how are they right? This is uh. This is a new.

I mean the design very much highlights these new cameras and the hasselblad logo is right. There, so does it deliver? Well, basically, the camera housing might have gotten a redesign, but the actual camera system is almost the same as last year. So it's the same 48 megapixel main camera, the same 8, megapixel, 3.3 x, telephoto camera as last year and a new 150 degree ultra wide. So the new second generation hasselblad mobile camera system is, as far as we can tell the same mobile camera system, plus a new ultrawide unclear if there's any new lenses or anything going into the hardware.

But that's what we get. Okay got it. So my initial impressions, shooting with it are the actual quality of the images, is still pretty good. I mean we know what this main camera is capable of, which is some pretty nice shots and daytime lighting, plus the larger sensor, giving real shallow depth of field plus a little fringing with some close-up subjects.

But that's not a surprise here, but whatever is in focus in the middle of the frame or near the middle of the frame gets pretty good detail and sharpness and it looks fine. I was looking for some new like color science - maybe maybe the second generation hasselblad stuff has more to do with image, processing and colors in dynamic range, i think, are still good not too over processed, but nothing dramatically better than expected here. The colors from the ultrawide are definitely a bit different from the primary camera and it's definitely not as sharp, but that can improve a bit with software updates. I just found the shutter speed, not very fast, so you got to really hold still and take photos of still subjects, but hey, not all subjects stay still.

So in my initial testing, like object, photos and still scenes are no problem, but people and pets get a little more blurred, sometimes especially in lower light. The selfie camera, though, is actually new. 32 megapixels not super wide and not really noteworthy in the quality department. In my opinion, but hey y'all want to know about the selfie camera, so there you go.

This hasselblad partnership is more than just image quality, though it's also about features, and so the new ultrawide is a new feature, and you know if you just open the camera and just switch to the ultrawide it'll, look exactly the same as any other, but buried in The settings there is a 150 degree ultra wide mode that lets you get really really wide and take advantage of that new sensor and lenses. It does a pretty good job, not distorting things too much, considering how wide it is, which is very impressive at this angle. So, even if the photos aren't super sharp, they're, still unique and pretty impressive, and then you can hit this button and get in that full on all the way. Fisheye circle image mode to capture everything, no video capture in this mode.

I think that would have been cool like sort of reminiscent of old skate videos, but yeah. This is pretty sweet. There's also the hasselblad x-pan mode to shoot in that 65 by 24 aspect ratio reminiscent of a classic hasselblad camera and there's a new pro mode with some raw formats, which is great and a new long exposure mode cool. But overall, as you can tell, you know not a huge difference in the camera department.

Basically, if you weren't sold on last year's phone, then this one's not going to change your mind, but i think i can wrap this up with one thing that did improve dramatically and that is the battery. So without getting much thicker or bigger. This phone is now packing a 5 000 milliamp hour battery and upgrades to 80 watt wired charging plus 50 watt wireless charging, which is sick. So usually you get.

You know a huge battery, but not so fast charging or a medium-sized battery, but with ultra fast charging. It's sort of like pick and choose this is really impressive. This is basically combining the best of both worlds. So from a low battery, you can add about 60 charge in 15 minutes which, on such a big battery, can last you an entire new day and even if you don't have a heavy day of use, you know i haven't really used this phone for very long, But you can already tell this bigger battery, combined with the ltpo2 display is gon na reward lighter usage days with a much longer screen on time.

I feel like there's something different about this charger, though i mean this is the old one, this it's a little more squared off. It's still got the red cable, it's still the same size, oh right, uh, it's an oppo charger. So as part of the the melting of the oppo and oneplus brands, the oppo vacation of oneplus, as we've talked about yeah, they switched literally to a supervooc charger. It says it on their site.

That's the name of oppo's, fast charging, tech uh. It's no longer a warp charger that oneplus used to ship with everything. Now honestly, the name of the charging tech doesn't really bother me that much, but the most annoying part is it's switched back to usb-a. This is a usb-a charger.

Now all of these warp chargers were usb-c, and so now we've gone back, so i can't use usb-c to usb-c cables anymore. I have to use this cable, so this is annoyingly backwards. I mean the fact that the phone does come with the charger in the box. Is sadly like bonus points for this phone? That's what you have to do when 80 watt charging is one of your features is nobody has an 80 watt charger, so you have to throw it in but yeah here you go.

It's a usba charger. Also, if you want to do that, 50 watt airvooq wireless charging, that is a separate extra oppo wireless charger. Still a super impressive battery, though, and you know what else is super impressive channel sponsor cash app, so cash app is impressive, not just because it's the best way to send, spend and save money, but also it comes with a debit card that you can fully customize And then cash app will laser print and mail it to you. Whatever your fancy design and the card comes with free discounts to places you love called boosts, so you're definitely going to want to check out cash up.

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Just talking about how they went from a very enthusiast focused company to a very normal company making normal phones, it didn't really stand out in quite the same way, and this is their most normal phone. Yet now that doesn't mean it's a bad phone at all. It's actually quite good, and you know lots of the stuff that i've always liked about. Oneplus phones are still here.

It's got the fast and smooth stuff. It's got. The high refresh rate display great performance and high-end specs, really really fast. Charging on a massive new battery and of course, decent cameras, still got the alert, slider great haptics.

So it's got a lot of good stuff, but we don't have an international launch. So therefore we don't have a real price for this phone. Yet so i got to withhold any of my official review type judgment until then like if it ends up being seven, eight nine hundred dollars, which is probably about where it'll land, i could see it being pretty reasonable, but anything higher than that. It's competing with the big dogs and i think anything lower than that would be a surprise.

So let me know, would you want a phone like this, the oneplus 10 pro thanks for watching catch, you guys, the next one, peace.