In our evaluate of the OnePlus 12, we mentioned 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 worth 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 a number of instances beforehand). The mannequin with 16GB/512GB can also be $150 off and right down to $750.
It is a new low worth for the (already fairly reasonably priced) Android smartphone.
Apart from being an awesome worth for a flagship cellphone, the OnePlus additionally has stable cameras that take sharp and clear photographs. Simply observe that the digital camera module is strikingly cumbersome and you may see a watermark from Hasselblad (the digital camera firm OnePlus companions with) except you decide to take away it.
The battery life is one other win. We measured a lifespan of over 26 hours in our video rundown check. And after simply 10 minutes of wall charging, the cellphone 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 on the market 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 in terms of AI — in that it largely forgoes the buzzy new tech in favor of fundamental (however stable) smartphone performance.
The display screen and processor are totally fashionable, nevertheless, with an excellent shiny and crisp 120Hz display screen 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 also be promoting the OnePlus Open for $1,300, which is a $400 low cost on the cellphone we named the extra reasonably priced decide for a flagship foldable. That is a worth the Open has hit beforehand, as lately as final month.
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