In our assessment of the OnePlus 12, we stated the smartphone’s affordability was among the finest issues about it. Now, thank’s to Amazon’s upcoming Prime Day sale, that is an much more compelling level. A 19 p.c low cost drops the value to $650 for the mannequin with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. That is a a brand new all-time low (it is gone for $700 just a few instances beforehand). The mannequin with 16GB/512GB can be $150 off and all the way down to $750.
This can be a new low worth for the (already fairly inexpensive) Android smartphone. Â
Apart from being an amazing worth for a flagship telephone, the OnePlus additionally has strong cameras that take sharp and clear pictures. Simply word that the digicam module is strikingly cumbersome and you may see a watermark from Hasselblad (the digicam firm OnePlus companions with) until you choose to take away it.
The battery life is one other win. We measured a lifespan of over 26 hours in our video rundown take a look at. And after simply 10 minutes of wall charging, the telephone bought from 10 to 55 p.c. It refilled to 37 p.c in the identical period of time sitting on a OnePlus wi-fi charger, which is accessible individually for $50.
The design is pleasingly “retro” (in case you can apply that time period to an aesthetic that harkens again a mere 5 years) with the rounded corners and tapered edges of one thing just like the Galaxy S10+. The OnePlus 12 additionally takes notes from the previous on the subject of AI — in that it principally forgoes the buzzy new tech in favor of fundamental (however strong) smartphone performance.
The display and processor are totally fashionable, nevertheless, with an excellent brilliant and crisp 120Hz display and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip that we discovered to supply fluid efficiency, regardless of clocking in a tad low on some benchmarks.
Elsewhere, Amazon can be promoting the OnePlus Open for $1,300, which is a $400 low cost on the telephone we named the extra inexpensive choose for a flagship foldable. That is a worth the Open has hit beforehand, as lately as final month.
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