OnePlus 11 5G Smartphone Review: A competitive Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 flagship with some unmissable quirks

[Redaktion]

The OnePlus 11 promises a premium, flagship-class smartphone experience with its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, improved imaging sensors, UFS 4.0 storage, and long-term OS updates. However, OnePlus complements these developments with a few regressions in order to keep the price competitive.

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[Michael L]

FYI - PUBG Mobile does support 90fps when using the "smooth" graphics option. The 90fps does not appear otherwise.

[Ednumero]

The matrix photo shows the dot rows going horizontally, while the temporal dithering clip shows them running at 45 degrees. Horizontal would make it a full-RGB matrix panel, while 45 degrees would make it RG/BG PenTile.

Please stop angling the device when taking the subpixel matrix photos! It misrepresents the panel.

[Vaidyanathan]

The matrix photo shows the dot rows going horizontally, while the temporal dithering clip shows them running at 45 degrees. Horizontal would make it a full-RGB matrix panel, while 45 degrees would make it RG/BG PenTile.

Please stop angling the device when taking the subpixel matrix photos! It misrepresents the panel.

It is very difficult to align the microscope properly without movements for the temporal dithering test as the glossy screen is quite slippery. I will see what I can do though.

[Mr Twister]

The obvious elephant in the room is 470 cdm max brightness for a phone that costs over $1000 in some markets. Is that a mistake?

[Vaidyanathan]

The obvious elephant in the room is 470 cdm max brightness for a phone that costs over $1000 in some markets. Is that a mistake?

That's a bit of an odd one. Normally, if one shines light at the ambient light sensor, it should automatically increase the brightness if set to Auto mode. Didn't happen here unfortunately. Not sure if that's a fault with the unit or software or both. But the rated typical brightness is only 500 nits.

[Abc]

Moved from USB 3 to USB 2? Did they forget some people use external displays through USB-C as a desktop replacement?

Also with no SD slot, people are increasingly using USB C thumb drives to store photos and such, which now works much slower.

Seems like a huge downgrade to save $1.

[Ednumero]

It is very difficult to align the microscope properly without movements for the temporal dithering test as the glossy screen is quite slippery. I will see what I can do though.

I see. I think I may have misspoken on the relevance of the temporal dithering video specifically.

What I mean is that the static matrix photo needs to correctly represent the horizontal and vertical axes in order to characterize the panel accurately, and the disparity between it and the video indicates that one of the two must be wrong.

Most AMOLED phones have the dots running at 45 degrees to the display edges, which corresponds to an incomplete PenTile RG/BG matrix. This is what the video shows. But the static matrix photo shows them running at 90 degrees instead, which suggests that they may actually be arranged in a full-matrix pattern with four dots (RGGB) per pixel. If true, this would make for a higher-detail panel that doesn't exhibit a "de-resolution" effect in heavy red and blue shades. But if not, then the photo is misleading.

What you say about the slippery screen on the microscope makes sense. I'll concede that it probably doesn't matter in the video how the device is rotated, as long as we can trust the photo. The photo orientation really should be correct if at all reasonably possible.

[haliyou]

OnePlus 11 is the best android phone I've ever owned.
OnePlus makes good phones in their price range, highly recommended.
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