OnePlus 9 Pro: Excellent Performance, Display, and Camera
PC Magazine|May 2021
The OnePlus 9 Pro smartphone delivers a streamlined flagship experience to T-Mobile and Verizon subscribers, finally catching up to its competitors. The phone itself is light in the hand, and the user experience is weightless as well.
SASCHA SEGAN AND STEVEN WINKELMAN
OnePlus 9 Pro: Excellent Performance, Display, and Camera

The cameras take knockout photos in pretty much all conditions, and the integrated fast charging is the best we’ve seen. The Galaxy S21 Ultra scores a bit better in our battery and wireless radio testing, it works with Samsung’s excellent S Pen stylus, and its camera offers killer optical zoom, so it just edges out the 9 Pro to be our Editors’ Choice among flagship smartphones. Still, the OnePlus 9 Pro is outstanding. If you want a top-notch, loaded phone that makes your heart sing, you’re now spoiled for choice.

THE ONEPLUS PROMISE IS FINALLY REALIZED

OnePlus was once a company that made just one great phone at a time. Now, it has a full line of phones at T-Mobile (and providers such as Google Fi, Metro, and Mint Mobile that use T-Mobile’s networks): the OnePlus 9 Pro ($969.99), the OnePlus 9 ($729.99 ), the OnePlus Nord N10 ($299.9), and the OnePlus Nord N100 ($179.99). They all share the OnePlus philosophy—speedy, elegant software and a streamlined physical design.

Cameras have always been the one area in which OnePlus tended to fall behind Samsung and Apple, so OnePlus made a deal with Hasselblad for color tuning and bought a new sensor from Sony. As a result, the 9 Pro’s camera is mostly on par with the latest from Samsung, slightly short only on optical zoom.

The OnePlus 9 offers similar overall performance to the 9 Pro but steps down a bit on screen, camera, and radio quality, and it doesn’t integrate super-fast wireless charging. If you don’t mind those downgrades, you can save $240 and get an even smaller and lighter phone. See our review of the OnePlus 9 for all the details.

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This story is from the May 2021 edition of PC Magazine.

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