OnePlus Nord Review In India – Price, Specifications, Design, Features: Is It Worth Buying This Affordable OnePlus Flagship Phone, 

The OnePlus Nord is an important moment for OnePlus. For years OnePlus has stuck to flagships. Nowadays it likes to do them two at a time but they're both designed to sit more or less at the top of the market. Now it's expanding with the Nord, its first serious attempt at a mid-range phone in years.

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Launching a mid-range phone means making some tough decisions about what the OnePlus name means to people. It still needs to have those features that people buy OnePlus phones for in the first place but it also needs to make some compromises. Not just because it needs to make it cheap but also so that once it is cheaper it doesn't end up so good that people choose it over your flagship phones. It needs to draw a line between OnePlus features and flagship OnePlus features. It's a balancing act where if you get the balance slightly wrong you could end up with the same kind of flagship killer that OnePlus liked to call its phones back in the day. Only now OnePlus has flagship phones of its own that risk getting caught in the crossfire.

So what does a mid-range OnePlus phone look like? Which OnePlus flagship features do you get to keep and which do you lose?

OnePlus Nord Review Its features and specifications 

OnePlus Nord Price

So this is it, the OnePlus Nord.there are three models with different storage capacity, and it is available in two colors Blue Marble and Gray Onyx. One plus Nord price The model I've been using has 12 gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of storage and which cost Rs.29999. But there's also a step-down model with 8 gigabytes of

OnePlus Nord Display and OnePlus Nord Design

There's a 6.4, four-inch OLED display with a 1080p resolution and a 90 Hertz refresh rate, a quad rear camera array based around the same 48-megapixel sensor that OnePlus used for the 8, dual selfie cameras, including one with an ultra-wide lens and you're getting support for sub six gigahertz 5G. Now the trade-off, on paper at least, is that the Nord is powered by a Snapdragon processor which isn't quite as fast as the flagship processors OnePlus used in the 8 and the 8 Pro. But specs can't tell you how premium a device feels to hold. And the OnePlus Nord's design is one of the more obvious indicators of its lower price point. That said, I still really like it.

OnePlus Nord Review

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We already know you're not getting the same display on this as you did on the 8, it doesn't have that same curve for example. It's also a little bit smaller at 6.44 inches compared to 6.55 inches with the OnePlus 8. But honestly, if you hold them next to each other you barely notice the difference. So it's a very similar screen which means it's pretty great. It's OLED so blacks are lovely and deep, colors are vibrant, it's still 1080p and hey, it's also got that 90 Hertz refresh rate display. Now I've said it before and I'll say it again but high refresh rate displays deserve to become the new standard. But there is a caveat and that's that the slightly less powerful

It is fine if you're scrolling through something simple like the app drawer but scrolls through Twitter with its numerous videos and images and it does start to stutter, it’s still better than a 60 Hertz display but it just doesn't feel as smooth as what we've seen from flagship phones with 90 Hertz displays. It's an acceptable tradeoff for the price but it's also worth bearing in mind. Oh, and by the by, I found it hard to fault the in-display fingerprint sensor. It works every time and I've barely had to think about it. So a high-end display seems to be an OnePlus staple and not something exclusive to its flagships, even if you're not getting the same performance.

OnePlus Nord Battery

Battery life is also good. Now I'll admit that it's still quite hard to gauge this given the amount of time I'm spending at home right now and I'll also caveat this by saying that I was connected to 4G rather than 5G networks. But I was getting between eight and 10 hours of screen time between charges from the Nord's 4,115 million power battery. And that includes everything, from watching copious amounts of YouTube to keeping in contact with friends and colleagues over Slack and

There's no wireless charging but there is support for OnePlus' Warp Charge 30T standard which the company says should get you about 70% of your chargeback in half an hour. So good battery life doesn't seem to be exclusive to OnePlus flagships, it's more of a universal OnePlus feature. 

OnePlus Nord Speakers

Audio isn't a strong suit of the Nord. There's a single downward-firing speaker here which means that there's no stereo and while it gets plenty loud enough there's just not that much base there. So I guess good speakers are a flagship exclusive. One plus Nord review performance So far we've been trying to work out what features OnePlus thinks all of its phones need to have and which it wants to keep for its flagships. 

OnePlus Nord Camera

Cameras are a bit trickier to categorize here because they've never been one of OnePlus' core strengths. They've been good, but never best in class. Now the good news is that the Nord's cameras are in a very similar ballpark to the OnePlus 8 and the better news is there's at least one feature here that is exclusive to the Nord. Now the Nord has a lot of cameras. I mean on the back there's four. There's a 48-megapixel main camera, an eight-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera, a two-megapixel macro camera, and a five-megapixel depth sensor. And on the front, there's two. There are a main 32-megapixel camera and an eight-megapixel ultra-wide with a 105-degree field of view, a neat little exclusive for the Nord. Now that's a lot of hardware. So here's what OnePlus does with it. In the day time, I think you get the same quality photos to the 8 with the Nord.

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Sometimes the OnePlus Nord decides to add a little bit more saturation to photos than the 8 does but most of the time you can barely tell the difference. It's the same when it comes to faces. There's more of a difference when it comes to wide-angle shots through where you miss the extra resolution on the 8's ultra-wide camera. The Nord seems to overcompensate with a little too much image processing sometimes. But, it's probably acceptable at this price and I'd rather it was there than not at all. It's the same deal with the wide-angle selfie camera. Sure, it's images are a little softer than the main 32-megapixel sensor and the selfie camera, in general, seems to make my face a bit weird and bright looking but it's super useful for group selfies or I guess couple selfies if you're socially distancing.

While we're talking extra cameras let's run down the other two that are on the back of this device. There are a macro camera and the camera for sensing depth. Both are kind of a mixed bag. I mean take the macro camera, it's certainly managed to focus on this amoeba that yes, I know, I always use to test macro cameras but try as I might my shots ended up looking muddy and blurry. It's not something I'd ever choose to use. Likewise, with this depth-sensing camera, I think it did a decent enough job generating a convincing background blur in low light, what to expect here. It's acceptable.

OnePlus Nord Performance

OnePlus Nord Review

Final Verdict

Picking a mid-range phone is normally a matter of choosing the battles. You have to pick which features are most important to you because no mid-range phone is going to be able to completely deliver on all of them. But you sort of can't do that with the Nord, it's too well-rounded, which means there are no serious pitfalls. There's also no one area that it completely delivers on. That's not a bad thing at all, it just kind of makes it hard to unreservedly recommend this phone to any one group of people. On the flip side though it does mean that I can sort of recommending this phone to almost anyone. OnePlus made a decent mid-range phone. But look, it's no flagship killer.