The review about flagship device One Plus 11

The review about flagship device One Plus 11. Early OnePlus flagship devices gained notoriety for having top-tier specifications while costing hundreds less than the competition.

Although the company’s glory days appear to be behind it now, the OnePlus 11 is still a reasonably priced Android phone that is decent enough to suggest above more expensive rival models.

For $699/£729, which is hundreds less than the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and even a bit less than the ordinary S23, you simply cannot find a phone with a larger screen, incredible performance, great cameras, and extended software support that compares.

Build and design:

• Nicely thin
• The alert slider is still great
• Only IP64

Even though the OnePlus 11 is a huge phone, its rounded corners and curved display make it feel thin and portable even in small hands. It is only 8.5mm thick and is pocket-friendly.

I was given the annoyingly slippery Titan Black model on loan. Since there is no case included in the retail package (at least in the UK), the phone will slide off surfaces and out of your hands rather easily. But, I’ll excuse this since the matt glass coating means it will not attract any fingerprints.

Although I find the Eternal Green variant to be less appealing, it is stickier and simpler to handle thanks to its glossy glass back. On the back of both models is Gorilla Glass 5, while the screen is shielded by the more durable Gorilla Glass Victus.

Nevertheless, annoyingly, when using the Chrome browser, if you flick the slider, it opens the “Find in page” search field—a daily annoyance I haven’t noticed on other OnePlus phones.

Instead of a headphone port, there is a power button on the right and a clicky volume rocker on the left. The haptics on this phone, some of the best vibration feedback available on an Android phone, is also gratifyingly clicky. The keyboard’s pips have an almost mechanical feel, which enhances the handset’s use.

Despite its size, this attractive phone weighs only 205g and doesn’t feel very hefty. It’s unfortunate that there is only IP64 protection, which is only truly splash-proof but completely protected against dust penetration. It’s unfortunate that this doesn’t match all of the IP68-certified phones at this price point because OnePlus consistently scrimps where it shouldn’t.

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Screen & speakers:

• 6.7in AMOLED
• 1-120Hz dynamic refresh rate
• Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos

The OnePlus 11 is gifted with a premium 6.7-inch AMOLED screen that supports HDR10+ and Dolby Vision and has a 3216 x 1440 QHD+ resolution. The words “colors are great” and “items always appear pin sharp” are interchangeable. It is enjoyable to use.

It has LTPO 3.0 technology, which allows it to adjust its refresh rate. When playing appropriate games or (smoothly) scrolling through social media and text, it can run all the way up to 120Hz, but when not in use, it may pull back down to 1Hz to conserve power. Although it is bright, it doesn’t compare to the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s exceptional outdoor visibility.

As a result of the screen’s tall 20.1:9 aspect ratio, the phone is only 74mm broad, making it ideal for reading with one hand or using in the landscape while playing games.

The phone’s dual stereo speakers, one in each earpiece and one on the bottom, can play music loudly without distorting. It’s wonderful for podcasts or the radio, but the music sounds thin and tinny, as with all phone speakers.

Better still is Dolby Atmos support, which is best experienced with Bluetooth headphones (OnePlus hopes for the Buds Pro 2) that can adjust the EQ for different types of audio.

Specs & performance:

• Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 flies
• Up to 16GB RAM
• Incredibly quick phone

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 CPU from Qualcomm, which is also present in the Samsung Galaxy S23 and the iQoo 11 I recently reviewed, is nestled inside. It’s one of the most potent chips for an Android phone at the time of writing in February 2023, and it shows.

Everything you throw at the OnePlus 11 doesn’t cause it to lag in any way. High-end games with difficult-to-render graphics, multitasking with many apps, and video calls with split-screen streaming video? This is all good.

Here’s how it fared against similarly hench smartphones in our regular benchmark app tests:

Camera & video:

• Very good 50Mp main lens
• Color accurate results
• Excellent manual and pro modes

I will state up front that the OnePlus 11 has fantastic cameras because OnePlus has previously been wrongly criticized for the caliber of its cameras. The 2x optical telephoto lens, as opposed to the 3.3x one on the OnePlus 10 Pro from 2022, is the only slight degradation.

It’s not a hugely bad thing, particularly at $699/£729. The $799/£849 iPhone 14 doesn’t have a telephoto lens at all.

The primary lens is always the best lens on a phone, and this 50-megapixel camera is no exception. In fact, I think it’s really quite good. It has an optical image stabilization system (OIS) to reduce hand jitter and an aperture of f/1.8, which lets in enough light to adequately expose pictures.

When compared to Samsung phones, which sometimes oversaturate tones, it provides natural, true-to-life colors. The OnePlus 11 can capture scenes just as well in daytime as the iPhone 14, albeit occasionally people and backgrounds can appear a touch washed out. The 16Mp front-facing camera, which is unexceptional and struggles in low light, shares this flaw.

It offers real, accurate colors in contrast to Samsung phones, which occasionally oversaturate tones. Even though occasionally people and surroundings can appear a little washed out, the OnePlus 11 can record situations in the sunlight exactly as well as the iPhone 14. This shortcoming also affects the 16Mp front-facing camera, which is average and struggles in low light.

However, the OnePlus 11 lacks the sophisticated algorithms that the iPhone and Google Pixel 7 use to accurately preserve users’ natural skin tones. It boasts “natural color calibration with Hasselblad,” which isn’t specifically designed for skin but seeks to preserve the natural colors of scenes. This is generally being picky about a fantastic main camera.

Battery & charging:

• 5000mAh battery for all-day power
• 100W fast charging
• No wireless charging

With great all-day performance, OnePlus has impressively fitted a dual-cell 5000mAh battery into the trim OnePlus 11. I had no trouble unplugging the phone at 7 am because I knew it would last till 11 pm. This was with consistent use of messaging, Bluetooth-enabled music listening, connecting to a smartwatch, and utilizing it for photos, videos, maps, and other things.

If you use your phone extremely sparingly, it won’t last two days. The 100W fast charging, which in my testing charged the phone from 0% to 71% in 15 minutes and from 71% to full in 26 minutes, is great if you abuse your phone.

There’s no wireless charging, something I personally do not use even when it’s on a phone, but it’s worth noting. At this price, you might expect it.

Software & updates:

• Android 13
• Four years of Android updates
• Five years of security updates

Even though OnePlus still refers to its own operating system as OxygenOS, OnePlus phones now essentially run Oppo’s ColorOS Android software skin. That implies that former OxygenOS’s stock-like, almost unaltered Android appearance is no longer present.

Instead, the most recent version, OxygenOS 13, which is based on Android 13, has an interface with rounded corners on widgets, app icons, and notifications. The large rectangular and circular symbols in the notification shade are acceptable, but I found that the alerts themselves were the most aggravating aspect of using the phone.

It’s difficult to swipe away notifications as they arrive, which makes me think of Apple’s iOS and how rigid it is. It’s not always obvious whether you should tap or swipe down on a stack to deal with them, and sometimes I ended up nuking the entire list out of frustration because you must swipe to the right to dismiss.

The promise of four years of Android upgrades and five years of security fixes, the first such guarantee for any OnePlus phone, and matching Samsung, is maybe the best part of this deal. In terms of Android software support, it places the OnePlus 11 in a tie for first place in the market at the time of release.

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Specs:

• Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8
• Android 13 (Oxygen OS 13.0)
•    6.7in, 3216 x 1440 QHD+, 1-120Hz LTPO 3.0, 20.1:9, AMOLED display
• In-display fingerprint sensor
• Camera
• 50Mp Sony IMX890 main camera, f/1.8, OIS
• 48Mp Sony IMX581 ultrawide, f/2.2
• 32Mp Sony IMX709 portrait telephoto, f/2.0
• 16Mp Sony IMX471 selfie camera, f/2.45
• 8/16GB LPDDR5X RAM
• 128GB UFS 3.1/256GB UFS 4.0 non-expandable storage
• USB 2.0 Type-C port
• Dual nano-SIM slot
• 5000mAh dual-cell battery
• 100W wired charging
• NFC
• 5G
• Bluetooth 5.3
• Wi-Fi 7-ready
• 163.1 mm × 74.1mm × 8.5mm
• 205g