ONEPLUS Nord Dual Sim 5G Phone (Gray Onyx 8GB RAM 128GB)

Value for money with great features

I like the way oneplus going. It's worth for the price and the display, it's amazing. I love it. Oneplus doing the great work all the time. And thankz Amazon for the kind service.

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Very Good phone with incredible performance

This is going to be a big review, and is not about detailed specs that you can find anywhere online. This is a completely user review. So I have been using this phone for a week now, and here are my observations: 1. An extremely well-built, solid hardware-software, very refined and polished. You will like every moment of using it. 2. The display is awesome, almost at par with Samsung's super-amoled displays. Videos in Youtube, Netflix, etc. are super clear, have high contrast and colours, and super quality. 3. A 3.5mm jack is sorely missed. You ned to buy a separate type C to 3.5mm for the headphone. You need to click the mic button for the mic to work. The mic also doesn't work with many earphones, and those without the button may not work at all. But the phone's built-in mic will be used and the sound output is via the earphone. I need to research more into this. Bluetooth headphones work great though. I am using a cheap Rs.100 converter, and the sound output through my Sony/AKH/Boat earphones are mindblowing. No loss in sound quality. Very high bass. It becomes higher when you turn on "Bass bosst" in the equaliser settings. 4. Sound output through the speakers is awesome too. It does not produce the tin-can sound that most phones produce. The sound output is really good even for small things like notification alert and ringtones, and whatsapp messages. 5. The camera is absolutely fantastic. It produces crisp, real colour images with high detail in both front and rear cameras. I am a very long time user of Samsung flagship phones, and the only good cameras are above Rs.60k phones. But still they produce unrealistic high contrast software boosted images that look great, but not realistic. The Nord's camera is the best I have seen in any phone, even better than Iphones. 6. The battery is incredible too. Again coming from Samsung flagships, I never remembered the time I actually charged the phones more than 20 minutes, and had more than a day's worth of power. The Nord is better than that. I charge my phone to 75% in the morning, and then connect to laptop (wifi hotspot) for around 8 hours, listen to music, watch videos, an hour of calls, and continuous whatsapp Skype use, and the battery still shows 30-35% next morning. 7. Following the above point, yes I have a couple of habits, and always use dark themes, kill all apps every single time before locking my phone, have turned off all notificaions from most apps except whatsapp, Skype, Zoom, messages, etc. Have also denied permission of location, etc for all apps until I actually use them and need location access. Bluetooth, wifi, NFC, tap to wake, lift to wake etc are always off. I don't need them and it's disturbing to receive nonsense notifications. I am a hardcore PC gamer, and do not like to play games on the phone. I had always got mindblowing battery backups from my previous Samsung devices, and the Nord's backup beat every one of them. 8. That slider on the Nord is a magic wand. With my previous phones, I had to unlock, and then change profiles to ring, vibrate and silence. The Nord has a 3-point slider (yes, it is 3-point, and it took me a while to realise this as I thought it was 2-point at first). You can switch between ring, vibrate and silent just by the slider. 9. There are options to set the display area to just below the front camera holes so they are not intrusive on the videos is awesome. 10. There is also an option of "greyscale" that turns the display, and everything you see, to black and white, and this is system wide, and also turns the video playback to black and white, which I think is pretty awesome too. This part of the review is biased: My previous 3 phones have all been Samsung flagship devices, Note 4, A8, and then Note 8. They are absolutely brilliant devices, and I need to write a comparison for people who are thinking of switching. 1. The camera on the Nord beats all of them is quality and real colour reproduction. The Nord's front camera is better than all the Samsung device front cameras combined. Those were absolute garbage, a little better than VGA level cameras. 2. Samung devices always have bad music quality, even with the dolby atmos turned on, and volume turned to max level. The Nord's music quality is far far superior, even without touching the equalizer, and the volume halfway up. 3. I never felt the need to use an S-Pen much on the Notes, and the thousands of software customisationsly that Samsung offers. They are mostly a gimmick and you wouldn't use them past the first 1-2 weeks of purchase. These features are not missed. 4. Now, the Samsung flagship Super Amoled displays are better than Nord's Amoled display. The whites on a Samsung are milky bright white, and the blacks are absolute deep blacks. This was system wide. The Nord's blacks are greyish blacks, and the whites are greyish too. The reds on a super amoled is blood red, and the Nord's reds are crimson yellow-ish. Similar with the blue colour. If you are coming from an LCD or OLED display you won't notice any difference, but if you are coming from a Retine HD, or Super amoled 1080p/1444p 400 ppi plus display, you are going to notice it for a very long time. 5. Samsung's built-in theme store is very sorely missed. It was very exciting to change themes every 3-4 days, an have a complete system-wide new look. Oneplus's software does not have themes. Third party launchers and theme apps, even paid ones will only let you customise the lock screen, home screen, and the menu icons. Everything else will still look the same. Also, the lock screen and home screen have nice contrast if you set an HD wallpaper. The rest of the system has a grey-ish black background if you set the "dark" theme, and greyish white with the default theme. 6. I personally was a big fan of the old 3x4 keyboard layout that Samsung has built-in. I am now trying to get used to the qwerty srtyle keyboard. Third party keyboards are not as smooth as the default ones. Although Nord's keyboard has a cool feature of setting custom background images on the keyboard. 7. I do miss the 3.5mm jack. I could connect the desktop to usb tethering, or charging, and still listen to songs while I work. This is no more possible with the Nord. Some third party converters have a type c and 3.5mm jack split 2-in-1, but it can only be used to slow charge the device and listen to music at the same time, and not data transfer or usb tethering. This was important to me. Finally about my decision to buy the Nord: So obviously I wanted to upgrade to a Samsung flagship S-series or Note series device. But the choices were all above Rs.40k. That too after applying exchange value and discounts. The Lite series for the note and S series Samsung phones are all renamed lower-end phones and have horrible cameras, and other half-baked features. I also looked at LG's G8X, and they were selling at largely different rates at different websites, and it was untrust-worthy. Moreover, all of the flagship phones are at 6.5 inch display sizes, or larger. I hate large displays that I couldn't operate with one hand, and are not just practical for a primary device. I feel a 5.5 inch device is the perfect size. The Nord is bigger than that, but fit in one hand well. All the other features fit the bill perfectly. I was not ready to shell out Rs.40k and above for a phone I wouldn't use to it's 100% design and hardware capacity and intent, and I was getting the Nord at Rs.20k after exchange of my old phone. I am very happy with my purchase, and it was very much well worth it. I have played around with the phone, tweaked a lot features, and found the complete package far better than flagship devices from other brands. I bought another 2 Nords for family members, and they are happy with the devices too.

I've been using this phone for 2 weeks now Pros 1. 90Hz Amoled Display -- This is the cheapest device in market with an amoled 90hz screen. 2. Oxygen OS 3. Oneplus Brand Cons 1. Selfie Camera even with 0 beautification punches out extremely soft pictures. They are so bad, you can't even use them to post on social media. Taking group selfies with this phone is an embarrassment, as photos are so bad, that someone else would usually volunteer to take the picture. I also installed bunch of other camera apps to remedy this failure including google camera but camera's hardware is in itself pathetic. My Poco F1 took much better pictures. My friends (including me) expects better pictures from a Oneplus Brand but these images just completely ruins the brand. 2. Oxygen OS takes 20+ GB of storage. I wanted to get the 64GB model but considering this and how in future updates, OS size will likely grow, I had to shell out more for the 128GB model. 3. Bad Market Practices While every other brand is giving off amazing discounts, Oneplus didn't. Not only they didn't, they disabled the HDFC 10% discount for the 64GB variant of this device. NORD likely has much better profit margins than a lot of phones in the market. We all know, it's not a value but excluding your device variant from discounts is just bad. NORD lineup doesn't make sense at this price point. Oneplus should've been selling their last year flagships near this price but instead they chose to release a worse product with likely better profit margins. 4. Misleading Ads, Hype Going to Oneplus NORD website, you'll see claims like flagship camera etc. Opening up the box, you'll get a paper listing out what makes a smartphone great and how it is not always about specs. All that marketing and yet the phone is extremely average. Conclusion Oneplus NORD is a fine phone. It would've made sense to launch this in Western markets instead of in India. We have much better options under 20k which makes this phone extremely over-priced. This is coming from a person who is not price sensitive, I was actually looking to buy Oneplus 8T (awful colors though) or Samsung S20+ (Amazing Discounts, this season). But since I don't play games, I thought I was taking a wise decision going with a company which knows it's not always about the specs. Oh boy, I was so wrong. In the end, Nord is an overpriced, very average phone with a great display and a respected brand ( for now atleast )