OnePlus 10T 5G Review

The OnePlus 10T 5G is an odd phone that many people have stated shouldn’t exist and is an unnecessary wing to the current OnePlus lineup. It just doesn’t to seem to fit a reason to be virtually for many people and fellow tech reviewers. I have been lucky unbearable to have had the opportunity to use it for a few weeks now and to try and see where it fits into the crowded market as a whole and moreover the OnePlus lineup. During this review, I will try and wordplay that question and requite my impressions and thoughts on who this phone is for. 

To requite a little context and preliminaries we have seen the T series of phones surpassing as a follow-up without the main lead phones have been spoken for that yearly cycle. Now for some reason, this did not happen with the OnePlus 9 family last year as they had the OnePlus 9 Pro 5G and moreover the OnePlus 9 5G. I think that this was perhaps OnePlus testing the water. I dont think they found that this release pattern was how they wanted to work which perhaps explains why we have had the 10Pro 5G with all its Hasselblad camera polish but then there has been a spell of nothing until the launch of the 10T which comes without the camera goodness but focus increasingly on sheer performance with a bit increasingly of a gaming focus that we have perhaps seen surpassing with OnePlus. This is I believe one of the reasons why we have the OnePlus 10T 5G. The other comes lanugo to the visitor wanting to ensure that they stay in the realm of the printing and the technology news as nothing gets you noticed as a phone launch does in the mobile tech domain, expressly when your price point is as warlike as the one that OnePlus has stuck on the 10T but increasingly on that later on!

As is the specimen with all my reviews let’s start with the diamond and hardware.

Design

For those of you who have read the unboxing post I put out of the OnePlus 10T 5G on launch day, this will all be familiar ground, however, for everyone else, I will imbricate it then here.

Starting on the right-hand side where we can find the Power key, sadly no zestful slider this time around! This is a real shame as it was one of the staples that differentiated the OnePlus flagships from other ones on the market and it was something I did unquestionably use a lot when I carried the phone. Could this be an indication that OnePlus is not thinking of this device as a flagship model?

Well, I have thought well-nigh this one for some time during my time with the phone and come to the conclusion that it was a diamond visualization that had to be made to unbend the internals of the phone. The zestful slider is unquestionably quite a large module that needs to be fitted into the side of the phone as it is not just the physical slider that needs to be rumored for but there is moreover the internal mechanism to indulge the slider to convert the slide whoopee into an electrical signal for the phone to interpret. Now if you put yourself in the position of the designer who had been given a unenduring of cramming this phone with as much power and performance as he can you can see that any way of saving space would be looked at. I think it is for this reason that the zestful slider has been given the heave-ho. Will this be a new diamond language we see on the next “Pro series” models in 9 or so months only time will tell but I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t make a return, particularly on future “T series” devices?

Next is the wiring where we can see the USB Type C 2.0 charging port slantingly one of the two speaker grills. Then here we can see flipside unshared difference in focus from the 10 Pro in that the USB Type C port has received a downgrade from 3.1 to 2.0 indicating then to me that the target regulars of this phone from the designer’s viewpoint is not one that would need the sufficiency of USB 3.1. as it is a non “Pro” device. As a side note Apple moreover unexplored a similar policy between their Pro and Standard devices (especially in their computers) so this move is not unprecedented. 

Of course, this port does still support the propriety fast charging technology which is now tabbed SuperVOOC. This phone will tuition at 150w when used with the included 160W charging brick. The name may have reverted but the technology stuff used is the same just with a ramp-up in terms of speed.

We moreover see a sim vellum slot here which will house 2 sims if required and does have a gasket to enhance waterproofing. We moreover have a large mic vent Notice how I mentioned enhance waterproofing. Well, this was considering this device does not have an IP rating, unlike its fellow family member’s as this was flipside zone where OnePlus has been worldly-wise to remove a forfeit from production and diamond development. I have not tested how resilient to water this phone is but during my time with it, I have never been concerned well-nigh the liguid ingress protection on offer. It plane managed to survive having a half can of Monster spilt on it with no ill-effects as far as I can tell and that was 2 weeks ago!

Moving virtually to the left-hand side is where you will be worldly-wise to find the volume rocker key. Not much increasingly to say on this on untied from it requite a good positive clicking whoopee dn is easy to find without the initial first few minutes of adapting form the previous phone I had been using.

Moving virtually the top we have got we have got a pinhole mic and then a secondary larger mic. You will have noticed I have referred to oval shaped holes on the phone as spare mic inputs however I am yet too have had this confirmed by anyone, once I have the update I will be sure to include it here as either confirmation or correction as required.

The rear of the phone contains the camera module, which contains three variegated camera sensors/lenses. Firstly the primary is a 50MP Sony IMX 766 sensor with an f/1.8 vent and a 7P lens. Next is the 8Mp f/2.2 vent Ultra-Wide angle. Lastly, we have got a 2MP macro camera which has an constructive shooting loftiness of 2-4cm. They are moreover supported by the same dual-LED “ring flash” that was to be found on the OnePus 10Pro 5G

Around the front is where we find the 6.7 ” exhibit which has a resolution of 2412 x 1080 with a PPI of 394 and an speciality ratio of 20.1:9. The panel is a unappetizing one and is made up of the same Fluid AMOLED that is found on the Nord 2 5G range.

It will support up to 120Hz but it will only indulge three options of 60Hz, 90 and of undertow 120Hz. There are a load of other little features well-nigh the screen but I will imbricate those increasingly in the full review.

For now, though I can say this exhibit is a good exhibit and I really like using it.

The last thing to mention on the top is the top speaker which hides just unelevated the bezel and it unquestionably sounds reasonably good given the constraints of the space it occupies certainly good unbearable for Zoom calls etc.

That concludes the hardware tour. Now that I have taken to going through hardware detail in a bit increasingly detail and depth I am drawn to the similarities between this device and the Nord 2 5G as there is a lot that this very similar to that device in terms of the specs, the screen and the camera setup. Some may plane be inclined to say that this is where this phone may fit as a Nord 2 Pro, whilom the Nord 2 and unelevated the 10 Pro, an interesting thought but requires a bit increasingly pondering on that one I think. 

Specifications

Hardware

This is where OnePlus is really hoping that they can yank in the specs aficionados. There are a couple of key areas where the OnePlus 10T separates itself from the masses. As normal I am going to go through these key areas as otherwise, the phone is your normal glass-fronted rectangle chock full of some very shiny hardware. So the key features I wish to talk well-nigh are.

1. Battery and charging
2. Processor
3. Back panel

So the first thing I want to imbricate is the shower and the charging as this is the first OnePlus device in the European market that has got the first 150w charging speed. This is lanugo to the use of the new SuperVOOC 150W fast charging system which is a propriety system that has been ripened by the OnePlus and Oppo partnership. We have once seen the SuperVOOC charging technology on some of the OPPO lineups of phones. This is a name transpiration for the OnePlus as previously they tabbed their charging technology was tabbed Dart charge.

I am really happy to see that we are now starting to see these faster-charging speeds on phones however the issue I have here is that the use of the Propreit technology does limit the usefulness of the charger for powering other devices. It would be superstitious if, for example, I could use the SuperVOOC 160W charger to tuition my Chromebook however as the SuperVOOC 160w charger does not support Power Delivery that will not work so it ways I still have to rely on my trusty Anker Mini GAn charger. As for the shower itself, this is designed to that it works as a two-cell system which will indulge for faster charging as you are no longer having to cram the power into one battery. It does midpoint that you have to siphon out some lamina balancing near the end of the charging cycle. This however is all taken superintendency of by the SuperVOOC charger and minimal heat unquestionably gets transferred to the device when it is under charger load.

In terms of speed to recharge the phone, its advertised rate is 19 minutes to fill the 4,800 mAh shower and a day’s charger from 1o minutes of charging. These speeds are superstitious and it makes up for the lack of one of the biggest convenience features of the OnePlus 10 Pro 5G device and moreover the preceding 9 Series. This is moreover a downside of the worthier shower technology and the larger heatsink as they were not worldly-wise to fit in a wireless charging coil. Increasingly on this later on though when I imbricate the cons

Next up have the processor which is then flipside of the main attractions of this device. OnePlus have managed to put a Snapdragon 8 gen 1 into the phone which ways that it is packing the latest and greatest in terms of tweedle performance and power. insert snapdragon image here I have not got flipside Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 device misogynist to yank a uncontrived comparison against, but I can say with a unrepealable stratum of conviction that this phone is fast and it feels it in normal day-to-day use. I was never left wanting when I was trying to load apps and move through the UI. The only time i was left wanting was when I was in a weak signal zone and I was stuff let lanugo by the mobile network signal. This was something that did happen when I was touring the southwest tailspin of Wales on a recent trip. I was trying to push this phone so I tested opening multiple apps in sequence to see if I could get it to stutter at all. performed this test of the Pixel 6 Pro that I run as my daily suburbanite as well and the results are shown in the video below.

As we can see from the video and as I expected there is some slight difference in the speed of the apps opening once a few apps are open. This will of undertow be unauthentic by RAM as well, with the Pixel 6Pro having 12 GB of RAM and the OnePlus 10T having 16 GB of RAM. These differences in RAM However should not come into effect until the apps are stuff “reopened” For the first opening of the app the device should be substantially just working on the power of the processor with minimal support from the RAM. It moreover has to be stated that the Pixel 6 Pro is on Android 13 whereas the OnePlus 10T is running on Android 12 so there will, of course, be differences due to the way that these respective Operating systems deal with enshroud memory usage etc.

Put simply if you are looking for speed over anything else then you want a phone with the SnapDragon 8 Gen 1 inside it which is exactly what OnePlus has delivered and just to make it uneaten punchy, they slathered a massive 16GB of RAM on top. That is the same value of RAM as my Macbook Pro 14! With that stuff said the difference was not as marked as I expected it to be.

I moreover found that the phone was plenty fast unbearable for plane my moderate gaming needs, admittedly these don’t proffer much remoter than the odd game of World of Warships and Alto’s Odessy but the phone was slick to l0ad up the game and the UI was velvety smooth, this was no doubt helped withal by the well-done 120Hz refresh rate of the screen which unliable the gameplay to be smooth and stutter-free.

Next is a bit of a weird one that I would normally not imbricate in the hardware section of a review but I finger that this needs to be mentioned. The when panel of the phone. it is not what most people think in that it is not made out of Toughened glass or indeed any glass. it is on the other hand made up of a type of plastic known in the “tech world as Glastic” it has some of the properties of Glass but is made out of a plastic composite.

This is a unshared throw-away from what we have seen surpassing with the OnePlus Flagship lineup. While it doesn’t necessarily finger as premium it does unquestionably bring some benefits that I finger do get overlooked by some reviews. As the material used is not as dumbo it does not woodcut the radio signals in and out of the phone meaning that you will not find an antenna unravel line anywhere on the outside of the phone. This is moreover due to the outside of the frame stuff made of plastic as well. In theory, this should indulge for a near 360-degree antenna coverage and it should be largest than say the likes of the Pixel 6 Pro.

While this was true for mobile signal and Wi-fi as far as I could tell. I did find that the phone really struggled to maintain a GPS signal in some of the areas in South Wales when I driving between our cottage and the various sites we wished to visit. I moreover had this occur in possibly the flattest of all counties East Anglia! As such I don’t think that problem is due to not having a line of sight to the Satellites but potentially increasingly to do with how good the GPS radio is and where it is positioned on the device. I have asked to see if fellow reviewers have had a similar wits as I did but they have not been worldly-wise to personize this or not.

Those are really for me the real differentiators between this and some of the similar phones that are stuff offered at these price points. There are of undertow two other things that need to be addressed which I do think are things that OnePlus users will miss. The first is of undertow the most obvious. I am of undertow talking well-nigh the zestful slider or increasingly virtuously the lack of one. This full-length has been a staple of the Oneplus Flagship lineup since the very first OnePlus One was released to the market. It was plane present on the OnePlus X which was sadly the only overly version that we saw of that device. This is the 1st OnepLus device I have overly encountered without this sunny full-length and I have to say it is something that I miss.

Alert Slider we miss you!

It was not something that I used every day as I work in an environment where it is required to not have my phone ringing or pinging yonder constantly. Honestly, i used to use it as something that i would absent-mindedly fiddle with in my pocket increasingly often than not but on the occasion where I did need to quickly transpiration my alerts to loud or silent it was just unconfined to have the facility to do so with a simple slide of the switch. I have asked for the reason for its exclusion on this phone and the cited reason was that the space it takes up is stuff used for seeking out the uneaten shower size without making the phone thicker or wider. I am not 100% that I buy this but whatever the reason it is not there it stings a bit to not have it on workbench as it was a genuinely useful full-length that people loved, it was moreover something that was a big standout full-length for OnePlus as it made the phones different. I do hope that they can find a way to get it when on workbench for the OnePlus 11T if they are going to go lanugo that route next year.

The second big omission for me is the lack of QI Wireless charging. I finger that for a phone of this level and moreover this price point wireless charging is a must-have as people have now come to expect it on their devices. Then I understand from a diamond point of view it would have widow uneaten zillion to the rear of the phone and it would have moreover widow weight. However with all that stuff said QI Wireless charging has been a normal way of people charging phones these days with most new cars now either featuring it or at least having it as an option. This for me is an indicator that technology has moved out of the niche domain and into the mainstream as the car industry can in unrepealable terms be quite a bit overdue that of the mobile tech industry. I am enlightened that OnePlus, has the technology to include this plane with the SuperVOOC Wireless charging technology that was seen on the OnePlus 10 pro older on this year so this is just a cost-saving exercise in my mind and it is one that I finger they didn’t need to do. If I am paying over £700 for a phone I expect it to be near flagship grade and this requires in my vision at least QI Wireless charging onboard.

Finally, flipside legation that is not as major as the other two mentioned whilom is the lack of the official IP rating on the phone as then this is just something that has come to expect for this price point these days. Now I know that while the phone has not got an IP rating the phone is at least splash resistant as I mentioned older this test phone has had an energy drink shower!  Surely in terms of the scale that OnePlus is hoping to shift these phones, it would have not forfeit that much to get the official rating, so instead of scrimping next time virtually just send it through the testing and certification process, please!

So that wraps up my thought on the hardware side of the phone. Now it is time for the cameras!

Camera

I have seen a lot of people who have been hating the Oneplus 10T for the camera which they are stating is a massive negative on the phone. I have seen some reviewers who are unquestionably calling out OnePlus and saying that this is now the ripen of OnePlus! Now whilst I don’t necessarily stipulate with that lattermost judgement, I am not sure that the direction Oneplus have taken with the 10T’s camera is the correct way to go. don’t get me wrong i unquestionably think that camera setup is veritably fine and i am very happy with the result. i mainly take a lot of wide-angle photos or landscape shots and the camera has performed really well in these scenarios of choice. During the review period, I was lucky unbearable to yonder on a “staycation” in South Wales. As such, I was worldly-wise to really reservation some outstanding scenes with this camera and I would like to share the with you if I can.

As you can see there is quite a good mix of various variegated styles of photos in the mix here and I was suitably impressed with these images and many increasingly that I have taken in my time with the phone over the few weeks I have had use of it. 

Now, none of this should come as a surprise as the camera stuff used here are substantially the same as those found on the OnePlus Nord 2 5G that I reviewed near the end of last year. I really enjoyed using that camera and I have really enjoyed using this one as well. The sensors are well-judged and the time between shots is quick using the software is easy and does indulge you to switch into the increasingly wide stuff if you wish to. Now I have not had the opportunity to use the Oneplus 10 Pro 5G with all the Hasselblad software that came on that phone but I did test these features when I was using the Oneplus 9 Pro 5G and I honestly would have preferred that they were not on that phone as in my vision all they did was add to the forfeit of an once expensive phone. 

I suppose what I am saying is if you like your camera relatively simple and easy to use without having to put a massive value of thought into what you are doing then this is exactly that. If you want a pro Grade camera with enhanced functionality then consider a Oneplus 10 Pro 5G however i think you may be largest served with something in the Sony Xperia lineup as they are really honing in on full-featured Cameras on their latest releases but you are paying a premium for this. I think in this vain this is why the Pixel phone lineup has moreover appealed to me as it is a simple and intuitive camera UI that unquestionably takes some damn fine images.

On the video front, the camera is then veritably serviceable without needing to be something fancy and shouty. I very rarely use the video on my phone and I will really only use it to capture footage on the rare occasion when something catches my eye. this waterfall was one of these moments.

As you can see the quality is fine for capturing these memories but it isn’t going to worry anyone in the mucosa industry either!

As for the selfie camera well it does what it says on the tin and having the slightly wider wile lens does help when you are trying to squeeze in increasingly than one person. See the example below.

It does the job and I was worldly-wise to get some nice shots of me and my family but you will have to make do with the above!

For a phone that is not marketed with the camera at the forefront, this is a good fit for a camera in my opinion and I had no reason to question its performance when I was using it.

That pretty much covers that camera and my thoughts. Now time for the software. 

Software

This can and has wrenched unconfined phones for me in the past fortunately I have found that the software on the OnePlus 10T does not fall into this category. Yes, this is Oxygen OS with a lot of influence from the sister trademark Oppo’s Colour OS but I have used a lot worse when it comes to customizations. the things that made a OnePlus phone are still here and they are good. OnePlus have moreover been shielding to not include too much bloat and associated crapware on the phone when you get it out of the box. I found that the UI was intuitive and smooth in daily tasks with barely a hiccup. The icon scaling was unobjectionable and didn’t finger that it was too cramped when I compared it to the Pixel UI. I was only worldly-wise to get a grid width of 4 icons in the app drawer, which unsated me when I moved from my Pixel, but I got over it reasonably quickly and OnePlus is not the only offender in this respect. I have been using this slantingly an Honor 70 whilst I have been doing this review and I have to say that the OnePlus scales so much better. Here are some comparison pictures of the UI’s in various variegated scenarios.

It is very much a specimen of larger icons on the Honor 70 but the smaller text on the titles at least. Fortunately, in the web browser things settle lanugo and the scaling returns to normal as can be seen below. but when you load the same image up on the Pixel things do transpiration quite a bit as you can see below

OnePlus 10T vs Honor 70 Website

However, if I fire up the Pixel 6 pro to the same glorious site then we see flipside massive transpiration in text size see below.

OnePlus 10T vs Pixel 6 Pro website

Whilst the obvious difference between the phone’s resolution is unveiled in that last image the UI does have a part to play in this as the scaling could be unliable to be tweaked remoter by the user to indulge us to create the effect of a higher resolution screen. This is something you have been worldly-wise to do in Google’s other OS for years and it can be washed-up via developer settings so why can we not be given the option?

Anyway moving yonder from my pet peeves. I like the things that OnePlus have widow to the UI that are nice to have, one in particular that I wish was worldly-wise to be used on other devices in the form of the Zen Mode app. I find that I use this quite a lot if I have had a stressful day as it gives me a bit of time just surpassing I turn in for the night when I can just zone out for 20 minutes or so and decompress mentally. I unquestionably find that if I am using a variegated phone (which I do a lot), I will still use the OnePlus 10T to use this app.

The Games mode and app are useful to have all your gaming settings in one place and this, in turn, allows you to tenancy the Hyperboost gaming Engine to take full wholesomeness of the processor power and the GPU. 

It moreover allows you to have a unvarying ticker of your performance if that is the sort of thing that is important to you in gaming. You can moreover set up screen recording from this menu as well. I have not pushed the gaming on this phone as I am not really a big mobile gamer but I like knowing that I can play games with very upper performance if I wanted too!

That pretty much closes the software of the phone for me.

Pricing

So the OnePlus 10t comes in two flavours to the UK. they vary in terms of Storage/RAM and colour so nice and simple. If you want the Moonstone Black version then you will get 8 GB RAM 128 GB Storage for £629 from Oneplus. If you go with the colour of my unit here then you would be choosing Jade untried and getting 12GB RAM 256GB Storage for £729. if you have an older phone that you are willing to get rid of then you can moreover get a £100 trade-in bonus. I priced up my Pixel 6Pro 128GB and i was offered £400 trade-in value Which isn’t too shabby, however, unlike some other offerings, this value is not deducted from the purchase price and will only be credited to you without the trade-in has gone through, please read through the trade in FAQ’s surpassing going superiority with this option.

Conclusion

So at the top of this review, I stated that the Oneplus 10T doesn’t quite fit into the market anywhere in particular and some of my fellow reviewers have been struggling to find where it fits. i think I can now requite you my thoughts and I have a space for where I think this phone sits in the OnePlus stable. 

Firstly who is this phone for, I think this is a phone for those who want the raw performance of a Flagship spec chip, memory and storage but don’t have or want to spend uneaten on things that may be superfluous to what they need, in this a high-end camera. I  can see this stuff a phone that gamers would be increasingly than happy with as it gives unbearable in terms of the gaming performance whilst stuff good in other aspects of what that sector wants. This is not a phone for the camera aficionados but that is fine as that is where the OnePlus 10 Pro 5G sits in the lineup. I think the segment that will really fathom this phone will be those of us who are a bit too old for stuff wannabe social influencers but still want to have fun with their phone and demand the weightier in terms of the hardware that counts to them. ironically unbearable this is unquestionably the segment i see that i could potentially fit into if i was unquestionably ownership the phone!

I do think that OnePlus did however make one big mistake when they launched this phone. it should not have been tabbed the OnePlus 10T. As I mentioned at the top of the review the T has been traditionally been used as a moniker for the mid-season refresh of the existing lineup that was launched older that year. This phone falls into a variegated slot for me it falls into the space between the Oneplus flagship lineup and the spanking-new Nord range of phones. in that respect, I finger that this phone should have been tabbed the OnePlus Nord 2 Pro. If that had been the specimen then I honestly think there would not have been as much disdain from the industry as a whole and people would have been worldly-wise to see what Oneplus had been trying to do with the phone. By calling it the OnePlus 10T the industry was expecting this to be an incubation of what had come surpassing in the form of the OnePlus 10Pro 5G which is not what this phone is about.

i will leave you to ponder this thought and on that bombshell, I will see you on the next one which is coming soon.

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