Unboxing EVERY ONEPLUS Smartphone EVER!

 

Unboxing EVERY ONEPLUS Smartphone EVER!

What's up guys? Saf here on smart support and this is a very, very special artical. With the help of OnePlus, I've managed to get a hold of every single OnePlus smartphone ever. What's really interesting isthat I've personally owned every single one of theseat some point or another, so in this video, we're going to go ahead andunbox every single one of them.

 

It will be a bit of atrip down memory lane, and towards the end, there is going to bean exclusive surprise, so stay tuned for that. Don't skip towards the end. I've got an algorithm on this video, which will let me know if you've skipped, so you won't be able to see the ending unless you watch everysingle minute of it. Okay, I totally made thatup, but nevertheless, it's going to be a very exciting video, so you're going to want to see it all. Let's get through it to it. Firstly, it is of course the OnePlus One. This is where the journeyreally started in 2014.

 

This device was dubbed the flagship killer and that is because itoffered flagship specs, but at around half the price. This started in the UK at 229 pounds. You will see the box is quite flat, this is something that could pretty much fit through the letterbox, and that's because youhad a separate little box, which had the power brick, and here's where we alsosaw the introduction of the red and white OnePlus theme. Here it is. This theme also continuedover onto the USB cable, which we still see to thisday with the red wire. It was actually flatinitially with USB type-A going to micro USB. And this is it, the OnePlus One.

 

 This sandstone back reallybrings back a lot of memories. It was very unique, gave it a lot of grip anda very different texture. The display, a 5.5 inchfull HD LCD display, which was really good forthis price, and for software, we had CyanogenMod. For those of you guys whodon't remember CyanogenMod, it was an open source OS thatwas built on top of Android and it allowed lots oflittle customizations, which people actually wanted, something that reallymade the OnePlus unique. Internally, this was poweredby the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chip set, which was theflagship chip set at the time, with 3 gigabytes of RAM and either 16 or 64 gigabytes of storage. A single 5 megapixelfront-facing camera, a 13 megapixel rear-facing camera with a 3,100 milliamp power battery.

 

 The OnePlus One, as well as being dubbedthe flagship killer, was also dubbed the bestsmartphone that you could not buy and that was because it was only available on an invite only basis. In my opinion, this wasabsolute marketing genius from OnePlus. A new player on the marketthat nobody's really heard of, how do you get people talking about it? If you make it exclusive andsomething that you can only get with an invite, inviteswere given out as giveaways and if you did manage to buy one, you would get a couple ofinvites to share with friends, and this really got a lot of people talking about the OnePlus One, but it also made it verydifficult to get ahold of. My OnePlus One, I actually had to get itshipped in from China and that had color OS on it and I had to kind of flashit and get CyanogenMod on, but an excellent smartphone. I actually still see people using the OnePlus One to this day.

 

Every one of my brothers had a OnePlus One because it was such anaffordable smartphone that offered everythingthat you really needed. Then in 2015, OnePlusintroduced the OnePlus 2. The OnePlus 2 also came with an option with this sandstone finish back, but what was cool aboutthe OnePlus 2 was that you could actuallyremove these back covers and replace them with different styles. We still had a 5.5 inchfull HD LCD display powered by the QualcommSnapdragon 810 chip set with 3 or 4 gigabytes of LPDDR4 RAM and either 16 or 64 gigabytes of memory. A 5 megapixel front-facing camera, an updated 13 megapixelrear-facing camera, this time with opticalimage stabilization, and the OnePlus 2 alsointroduced a few new things. Firstly, USB type-C. Back in 2015, pretty muchall devices had micro USB, even a lot of the flagships, and OnePlus really were one of the first to adopt USB type-C. It's funny because in 2020, there's still somemanufacturers using micro USB, which should definitely not happen. It also introduced the iconicalert slider from OnePlus, something which we are very used to from OnePlus devices now.

 

 This was the first OnePlus device with a fingerprint scanner here at the bottom, and most importantly, the OnePlus 2 was the firstdevice to come with Oxygen OS, OnePlus' very own skinbased on Android Lollipop. Oxygen OS had the aim toimprove Android by giving users a customizable, yet faster and smoothersoftware experience. You have to remember that back in 2015, most Android smartphones came with a very heavy cartoony looking skin, which had lots and lots of bloatware and then along comesOnePlus with Oxygen OS, which is super clean, super light and very close to stock Android, but with useful featuressuch as a dedicated dark mode way before this was athing, app permissions, which were not availableon Android at the time, as well as onscreen navigation keys.

 

It still came in at a verycompetitive 239 pounds, which was really, reallygood, but once again, it was on the invite only system. I remember to get a hold of this myself, I had to get an invite froma friend and then on my video that I uploaded with this, literally, every other comment was Saf, do you have an invitethat you can give me? It was in such high demand, but it was still onthat invite only system, which eventually did go. Next is a OnePlus device thatnot everybody will know about because it was just one of its kind. This is the OnePlus X, which came a little bitafter the OnePlus 2. This was an even moreaffordable OnePlus device, starting at just 199 pounds, still very premium with ametal frame and a glass back and an overall smaller formfactor with a 5 inch LCD full HD display and a lot of the specs that we had on the OnePlus One, so the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 with 3 gigabytes of RAM,16 gigabytes of storage, a micro USB port, an 8megapixel front-facing camera, a 13 megapixel rear-facingcamera, and like the OnePlus 2, it came with Oxygen OS out of the box. This was just one of its kind. It was only available in 2015 and then after, it was discontinued. We didn't have OnePlus X1,or X2 or anything like that.

 

 Then we move on to 2016with the OnePlus 3. Gone is the invite system and now you can go ahead and pick this up, which I straight away jumpedon and got a hold of this. This was the firstOnePlus device to feature a full uni body aluminum design and it was also the first OnePlus device to feature an AMOLEDdisplay, so gone is LCD, and now we have much better colors and deeper blacks with AMOLED,a 5.5 inch full HD display. It was also the introductionof dash charging from OnePlus, which was very fast charging, giving you a day's power in half an hour.

 

That was the tagline. A 3000 milliamp power battery, the Qualcomm Snapdragon820 chip set this time with 6 gigabytes of LPDDR4 RAM and a base of 64 gigabytesof UFS 2.0 storage. 8 megapixel front-facing camera, an improved 16 megapixelrear-facing camera with optical image stabilization.

 

 Oxygen OS based on Android Marshmallow now with more customization options like configurable soft keys, quick wallpaper swappingand shelf widgets, really making Oxygen OSa more unique experience. This whole package wasstill coming in at a very competitive 309 pounds, which was still around halfthe price of a lot of other flagships at the time.

 

 Later that year, we had theintroduction of the T series, not the Bollywood musicchannel, the OnePlus T series, and here we have the OnePlus 3 T. This was an incrementalupdate to the OnePlus 3 with a very similar overalldesign, the same display, but some key improvements. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 chip set with now up to 128 gigabytes of storage, a larger 4,300 milliamp power battery as well as a high resolution16 megapixel selfie camera.

 

The OnePlus 3 T didcome in at a higher price, so this did start at around 399 pounds. Next we had the OnePlus 4. - There wasn't actually a OnePlus 4. - What do you mean therewasn't a OnePlus 4? - I think it's because the number 4 is considered bad luck insome cultures, so yeah. - Yeah. I totally knew that. Anyway, 2017 and we have the OnePlus 5. I remember this devicevery clearly because it was my first OnePlus videoto pass over a million views, but that's of course not theonly reason why I remember it.

 

 The OnePlus 5 wasthe first OnePlus device with a dual rear-facing camera, so we had a 16 megapixelprimary camera with optical image stabilizationas well as a 20 megapixel telephoto camera with optical zoom, 16 megapixel selfie camera, once again, a 5.5 inch full HD AMOLED display with a fingerprint scanner here at the bottom. Powered by the QualcommSnapdragon 835 chip set with either 6 or 8gigabytes of LPDD4X RAM, 64 or 128 gigabytes ofUFS 2.1 2 lane storage.

 

 Oxygen OS based on Android Nougat, continuing the clean, closeto stock Android experience, but with even more newfeatures like a reading mode, which turn the entirescreen to gray scale, a blue light filter foreasier viewing in the dark and a do not disturb mode. I think this is really forme the time when I started appreciating how fast and smooth the interface was with Oxygen OS.

 

An aluminum uni body,which was very premium, with a 3,300 milliamp powerbattery as well as dash charge. This came in at around 450 pounds. Later in 2017, we had the OnePlus 5 T, so another update to the OnePlus line, and now we're gettingreally used to seeing 2 major OnePlus devices a year. You will see that althoughthe overall design language is quite similar to the OnePlus 5, we now have the fingerprintscanner on the back. One of the main reasonsfor that is this larger 6 inch AMOLED displaywith much smaller bezels. Similar internals to the OnePlus 5, same front-facing camera, but the rear-facing camerahad a bit of a change-up.

 

We had the same primary16 megapixel camera with optical image stabilization, but the secondary camerawas a low light camera, which was a little bitconfusing as a secondary camera. The OnePlus 5 T alsocame with Oxygen OS based on Android Nougat, but with even more features like the introduction of parallel apps, allowing you to have multipleinstances of the same apps and a gaming do not disturb mode, which mutes your notifications to give you an uninterrupted gaming experience. The OnePlus 5 T still camein at around the same price, so around 450 pounds, which wasdefinitely quite reasonable. Now we come into 2018with the OnePlus 6.

 

Although the designlanguage is quite similar, instead of an aluminum uni body, we now have a glass back. You'll also see that thecamera and the fingerprint is now all center aligned on the back, which gives it a lot more symmetry. 2018 was definitely the year of the notch, so we can see this notch here, but the bezels havenow shrunk even further and we have a 6.28 inchfull HD AMOLED display.

 

 Of course, the QualcommSnapdragon 845 chip set with either 6 or 8gigabytes of LPDD4X RAM, UFS 2.1 2 lane 64, 128 gigabytes, and also this time, up to256 gigabytes of storage, a 3,300 milliamp power battery,16 megapixel selfie camera, 16 megapixel primary rear-facing camera with optical image stabilization, a 20 megapixel kind ofdepth camera, I believe, and Oxygen OS based on Android Oreo, now with super fast face unlockand an improved gaming mode, with the price now starting at 469 pounds. The OnePlus 6 wasthe last OnePlus device with a 3.5 millimeter jack. The OnePlus 6 T. Again, a similar design to the OnePlus 6 with the metal frame and the glass back.

 

You'll notice, however, on the back, there is no fingerprint scatter and that is because this wasthe first OnePlus device where the fingerprint scannerwas in the display. Having the optical in-displayfingerprint scanner meant that there was more tech that wasgoing inside the OnePlus 6 T, one of the reasons why the 3.5millimeter jack was removed, and this also allowedspace for a bigger battery, 3,700 milliamp power. Bezels also now smaller, so we do have a larger 6.41inch full HD AMOLED display and this time, we've gota smaller teardrop notch.

 

The OnePlus 6 T also jumpedfrom Oxygen OS 5.0 to 9.0 to coincide with AndroidNine, Android Pie, now with adaptive batterysupport, new gesture navigators, do not disturb mode withadjustable settings, as well as gaming mode 3.0with many more options, and we were looking at astarting price of 499 pounds. Then we moved to 2019. What an amazing year 2019 was, right? You know, before the whole worldwas on fire and everything. I mean, I'm fine. Everything's okay. I'm fine. But anyway, 2019 was thefirst year when we had 2 OnePlus devices announcedat the same time, the OnePlus 7 andthe OnePlus 7 Pro. The OnePlus 7 Prodid come in a regular as well as a 5G version.

 

 These devices were quite different. Starting with the OnePlus 7, an incremental updateto the OnePlus 6 T, coming in at same the price, 499 pounds. We still had the teardrop notch, a 6.41 inch full HD AMOLED display, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chip set, 6 or 8 gigabytes of RAM, 128 or 256 gigabytes of UFS 3.0 storage, 16 megapixel front-facing camera, 2 rear-facing cameras, a 48 megapixel primary camera with OIS as well as a 5 megapixel depth sensor, under 3,700 milliamp power battery. The real star of the show was of course the OnePlus 7 Pro, and the OnePlus 7Pro was really one of the biggest updates we had seenfrom OnePlus in many years and that was mostly aroundthis beautiful display.

 

This is a 6.67 inch quad HD plus display, so we have now gonefrom full HD to quad HD. The bezels are absolutelyminimal, no notch, no punch outs. We've got a pop-up selfiecamera, but most importantly, this is a fluid AMOLED display with a 90 hertz refresh rate, and OnePlus was one ofthe first manufacturers to introduce 90 hertz ona mainstream smartphone and this really tiedin well with Oxygen OS on Android Nine, makingthings very fast and smooth.

 

 Oxygen OS on the OnePlus 7 Pro also brought a built-in screen recorder, something which still wasn'tavailable on stock Android. It didn't stop there. As well as the 16 megapixelpop-up front-facing camera, we did now have a triplerear-facing camera setup, 48 megapixel primary camera,now for the first time, a 16 megapixel ultra-wide camera and an 8 megapixel telephoto camera, so this really put it in linewith a lot of the flagships out there by giving us thattriple rear-facing camera setup.

 

You also had, of course, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chip set with up to 12 gigabytes of RAM and up to 256 gigabytesof UFS 3.0 storage. The combination of thesehigh-end specs, Oxygen OS, along with that smooth90 hertz refresh rate made this one of the fastestsmartphones out there and even now, this isabsolutely fine to use. My brother still usesthis as his daily driver.

 

The OnePlus 7 Proalso saw the introduction of warp charge 30, 30 watt wide charging with a 4,000 milliamp power battery. The OnePlus 7 and theOnePlus 7 Pro were also the first OnePlus devicesto support stereo speakers, something that we had beenasking from OnePlus for for a long time, so it wasgreat to see this here. The OnePlus 7 Prowas priced at 649 pounds, which was still a very, verygood price for everything that you were getting.

 

Now we move on later into 2019and you'll notice that the box design has changed quite a bit. We've got some messaginghere at the front. Here, we've got the OnePlus 7 T as well as the OnePlus 7 T Pro. Now the OnePlus 7 T Pro, very much an incremental updateto the OnePlus 7 Pro, but the OnePlus 7 Twas quite a bit different, so we'll have a look at theOnePlus 7 T Pro first and then we'll look atthe OnePlus 7 T.

 

 The design, pretty much thesame as the OnePlus 7 Pro. However, the blue is slightly lighter, and the biggest updatesreally came on the inside. First up, the 7 T Prohas the 855 plus chip set, compared to the 855, making it 50% faster, and although the camerasetup is very similar to the OnePlus 7 Pro, we now see the introductionof being able to use the ultra-wide 16 megapixel camera as a macro camera and beingable to focus right up close.

 

This is something thatI really liked about the OnePlus 7 T Pro. The OnePlus 7 Proalso came with Oxygen OS based on Android 10 out of the box with an improved UI redesign,enhanced location permissions, and new quick setting icon customizations. A slightly larger batterywith now warp charge 30T, which is around 23% fastercompared to warp charge 30. This started at around 699 pounds. The OnePlus 7 T. This was priced at around 549 pounds, but cutting back on someof the features of the OnePlus 7 T Pro to achieve that price, firstly, with the display.

 

 A 6.55 inch display with 90 hertz, so we've still got that high refresh rate, but as you can see, wedo have a teardrop notch rather than the popup camera. A 16 megapixel front-facing camera and a very unique lookingcircular camera module here at the back witha triple camera setup, 48 megapixel primary camera with OIS, a 16 megapixel ultra-wide camera, as well as a 12 megapixeltelephoto camera. For me, what was reallyinteresting about the OnePlus 7 T was thateven though it was priced at a very reasonable 550 pounds, you still had the triplerear-facing camera setup. Not only that, this is poweredby the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 plus chip set with8 gigabytes of RAM and either 128 or 256 gigabytesof UFS 3.0 storage.

 

 As with the OnePlus 7 T Pro, the OnePlus 7 Tdid come with Oxygen OS based on Android 10 out of the box. Now we come to the year 2020. I mean, it actuallystarted off pretty good, so let's not complain there. The OnePlus 8 andthe OnePlus 8 Pro. You'll see that theboxes look very similar and the overall design of bothdevices is also very similar. You'll see that we do havea metal frame with this frosted glass back finish,which I'm definitely a fan of, as well as the centeraligned camera modules. Also from the front, Ialmost forgot I had this. I made this wallpaper for the review. Anyway, as I was saying, from the front, very similar as well, curved displays, minimal bezels with apunch out towards the side.

 

However, the OnePlus 8does have a 6.55 inch full HD 90 hertz AMOLED displaywhereas the OnePlus 8 Pro has a larger 6.78 inch quad HD plus 120 hertz fluid AMOLED display. Both smartphones are very smooth and both are also powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chip set, both did come with Oxygen OS10.5 on top of Android 10, and we did finally get an official IP 68 water and dust resistant ratingon the OnePlus 8 Pro.

 

 With the cameras, both have a 16 megapixelfront-facing camera. The OnePlus 8 has a 48megapixel primary camera, a 16 megapixel ultra-wide camera, and this is also where we saw the 2 megapixel macro camera. I'm not going to give OnePlustoo much stick for it because they did help me find all of these phones, which was not easy, but you guys know exactly how I feel about 2 megapixel macro cameras. However, the OnePlus 8Pro did have the biggest leap in cameras for a OnePlus device. A primary 48 megapixel camera with OIS, a 48 megapixel ultra-wide camera, an 8 megapixel telephoto camera, as well as a 5 megapixelcolor filter camera. The color filter camera wasdefinitely controversial after some people figured outthat it could see through thin materials and thinplastics and things like that.

 

All of that's covered in myfull OnePlus 8 Pro review. I'll link that in the cardsand in the description. The OnePlus 8 has a4,300 milliamp power battery, does support warp charge 30 T, but the OnePlus 8 Profinally gave us what we had been asking for for a long time, so not only do we have warp charge 30 T on the 4,510 milliamp power battery, for the first time on a OnePlus device, we have wireless charging. Not only that, this is 30watt wireless charging. Reverse wireless charging is also supported on the OnePlus 8 Pro.

 

 For pricing, the OnePlus 8started at around 600 pounds whereas the OnePlus 8Pro, in true flagship style, started at around 800 pounds. That brings us on to the mostrecent OnePlus smartphone at the time of this video. That is the OnePlus Nord.

 

 For me, the Nord has beenone of the best smartphones at this price, and thatprice is 379 pounds. For that, you get a 6.44 inch 90 hertz fluid AMOLED display with minimal bezels and a dual punch out, so that does mean that youget 2 selfie cameras, a 32 megapixel primary camera, as well as an 8 megapixel ultra-wide, a quad rear-facing camera setup, 48 megapixel primary camera, 12 megapixel ultra-wide camera,5 megapixel depth camera as well as that 2megapixel macro camera. Anyway, powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G chip set, so 5G supported, 8 or 12 gigabytes of RAM, 128 or 256 gigabytes of storage, Oxygen OS 10.5 based on Android 10 with a promise of 2years of software updates and 3 years of security updates, a 4,115 milliamp powerbattery with support for warp charge 30 T, and of course, Oxygen OS 10.5 based on Android 10.

 

 and that gives it one ofthe fastest and smoothest experiences that you'regoing to find at this price. That's all of the OnePlus devices so far, but I did promise youan exclusive, didn't I? Inside this box is nothing, actually. It's not the OnePlus 8 T. I've not got it as yet. I'm not Marques. I've not been using it for acouple of weeks now already, but I do have some exclusive information about the OnePlus 8 T. We already know officiallyfrom OnePlus that the 8 T will have a 120hertz fluid display. We also know that it willsupport warp charge 65, which is twice as fast as30 T that we have right now.

 

However, what I can nowtell you exclusively, so this is where you're hearingabout this first anywhere, is that the OnePlus 8 Twill be coming out of the box with Oxygen OS 11 based on Android 11, and that will make it oneof the first smartphones in the world that will be coming out of the box with Android 11. I have been using OxygenOS 11 for the past couple of weeks now, even thoughI'm not Marques, but anyway, I've got the beta versionhere on my OnePlus 8 Pro.

 

 OnePlus have been workingon multiple software optimizations to furtherimprove the overall experience, particularly when it comes to using your device with one hand. If you remember myOnePlus 8 Pro review, one of the pieces offeedback I had in that video was that I would like OnePlus to improve the one-handed usage experience, and this really goes backto the core of Oxygen OS, which is to take feedbackfrom the community fans, tech reviewers like myself,and implement that for us.

 

 I can show you a few examples here. When you are in the gallery, for example, you'll see that we've got the heading and subheading here at the top, but I can easily accesseverything here with one hand. I'm not going to have to use 2 hands or I have to do some gymnasticsto reach towards the top. Another quick example, you can see here thatI'm in the settings menu and I've got the header portion here, but I can easily accesseverything with one hand, so OnePlus has been working, doing lots of testingwith users to find out what the best way is to implement this.

 

 OnePlus engineers have also implemented as many as 142 software optimizations. This means with Oxygen OS11 on the OnePlus 8 T's 120 hertz refresh rate displaywill be very optimized, continuing that fastand smooth experience. We also now finally havean always on display with Oxygen OS 11, something that I've beenasking about forever. There we have it guys, every OnePlus smartphonethat we've had so far laid on the table side-by-side, first time I'm seeing it like this. I'm sure it's the firsttime you're seeing them all like this as well.

 

 Of course, there is goingto be a new addition to this family with the OnePlus 8T in just a couple of weeks. If you want to see that coveragefirst here on the channel, as soon as I'm officiallyallowed to talk about it, then do subscribe and hit that bell icon. (bell rings) You're not going to want to miss out. Which OnePlus smartphone hasbeen your favorite of all time? Do let me know in the comments below. I think for me personally,it's probably the OnePlus One, the OG, but after that, it'd probably have to bethe OnePlus 7 Pro.

 

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