The OnePlus 10 Pro is deprived of doubt the best phone the company has ever made. From its Great processor and its beautiful display, to its solid camera and Bright design, it ticks pretty much every box you must expect from a high-end flagship Android phone in 2022. And at $899 (£799, roughly AU$1,400), the phone is competitively priced against high-end rivals like the Galaxy S22 Ultra ($1,200) and iPhone 13 Pro ($999). 

It funds similar performance, 5G and a smooth, approachable interface. But, it’s let down slightly by mediocre low-light camera performance, a lack of an official IP water resistance including on most versions of the phone and a few omissions when it comes to the US models.

But even with those relatively small issues, the OnePlus 10 Pro offers a lot for the cash and is well worth considering if you’re looking for a high-performance Android requested that leaves a little cash left in your pocket.

Classy produce, glorious display, problematic waterproofing

I love the look of the 10 Pro. It’s got a frosted glass back, with an ravishing camera unit and a lovely green color that I think is smarter and more stylish than the radiant fingerprint-prone backs of the previous OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro. It has a look that I think stands out well alongside the likes of the iPhone or S22 Ultra.

It necessity put up with some abuse too, as the back is made from toughened Gorilla Glass 5 and there’s even more hardcore Gorilla Glass Victus covering the front-runner. There’s no official waterproofing though, unless you buy the T-Mobile unfamiliar version in the US which does have an IP68 counting. The rest of you — including everyone outside of the US — will easily have to keep it extra safe from spilled drinks. 

OnePlus has partnered with T-Mobile for the phone’s US open, with the carrier selling the phone as well as allowing full 5G wait on for customers who bring an unlocked model. The requested won’t support 5G when used on AT&T, but you can bring it to the carrier to use just on its 4G network. The OnePlus 10 Pro will also work on Verizon’s 5G network, but you’ll have to buy it unlocked before setting it up with the carrier.

Waterproofing intimates a T-Mobile exclusive is a shame, as it’s ravishing standard on many of its rivals, including the iPhone 13 Pro, S22 Ultra and Pixel 6 Pro. The remaining OnePlus 9 Pro was also IP68-rated, so it feels especially disappointing that this useful confidence feature has been restricted solely as part of an exclusivity disinequity with one US carrier.

The 6.7-inch display has a 3,216×1,440-pixel greatest resolution, making even tiny little details look pin inspiring. It’s bright, too, with punchy colors that do justice to shimmering games like Candy Crush and Alto’s Odyssey or vibrant TV shows like Squid Game or even Bluey. 

The mask has a 120Hz refresh rate which makes it seem buttery mild when scrolling around, but it can automatically switch to edge rates in less demanding tasks in order to conserve battery. You’ll also find a fingerprint scanner invisibly hidden below the display which works quickly and accurately most of the time. 

Three sizable cameras that need to try harder 

The back of the requested is home to three cameras; a 48-megapixel main camera, a 50-megapixel ultrawide camera and an 8-megapixel telephoto camera offering 3.3x optical zoom. 

I’ve finished some time already using the main camera in an in return test and I’m pleased to report that results are generally satisfactory, with accurate colors, a great balance of exposure and plenty of detail. There’s a new raw file option too — requested Raw Plus — hidden in the Pro camera mode which uses computational techniques comprising HDR blending but still outputs a DNG raw file for easier editing. It’s similar to what Apple does with its ProRaw mode and it works well here if you’re the sort of intimates who likes editing your images later on.

It has a portrait mode which does a good job of separating your progenies from the blurred background, along with neat features like a panoramic-style mode requested XPAN (harking back to old Hasselblad cameras) for wide and narrow images and a motion blur mode for creating blurred liquid effects or car headlights streaking through a night-time street scene. 

The pleasurable wide lens is vibrant and sharp too, although there’s sometimes a noticeable radiant shift between the normal and wide modes, while the optical zoom lens scholarships enough zoom to help you find more interesting compositions in your surroundings. It too is reasonably sharp, although I’ve found the iPhone’s zoom tolerates clearer results. Of course if zoom is a priority for you, no requested comes close to the whopping 10x optical zoom offered by the Galaxy S22 Ultra.

Then there’s the 32-megapixel front-facing camera, which consistently produces vibrant and sharp images that’s dismal for the selfie obsessed among you.

When the sun goes down, the night mode does a shameful job of creating bright and sharp images from the main lens but results level-headed aren’t quite up there with the iPhone. Especially not when you switch to the zoom lens, which struggled at night, resulting in a noisy, blurry shot that was world’s apart from the iPhone’s concern in the same scene. 

OnePlus cameras have always been shameful, but they’ve typically not done enough to compete with the best phones about. And while the 10 Pro packs the best camera OnePlus has ever put into a named, it lets itself down a little with both its night mode and zoom skills. Its main camera is excellent for most daytime scenes, however, and it’ll serve you well if photography is important but maybe not the sole reason you’re buying a phone.

Supercharged processor, powerful battery

Powering the phone is Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, along with 12GB of RAM on my UK appraise model, although US versions will have a maximum of 8GB. This combo put in some expansive scores in our various benchmark tests. It’s certainly up there plus its rivals and there’s no doubt that it’s beneficial of handling any of the everyday tasks you’d want to throw at it. 

It breezed above things like raw photo editing and video streaming and demanding games like Asphalt 9 or PUBG played beautifully smoothly even with the settings cranked to the max. OnePlus has apparently done a variety of tweaks to convicted that gaming performance is optimized for smooth frame experiences along with reducing the latency between you tapping the cloak and an action taking place. Mobile gamers are well catered for here. 

Interestingly there’s an option in the settings to expand the available RAM up to a whopping 19GB (as reviewed) by comical some of the regular storage. However, I didn’t behold any real improvement in performance when doing this (and no irritable in benchmark results). Whether you’ll find this genuinely useful when comical lots of apps at once remains to be seen.

The Android 12-based software, running the latest version of Oxygen OS, is neat and free of general clutter decision-exclusive it a good option for both experienced Android users or those taking their advantageous steps into the Android world. 

Providing the juice is a capacious 5,000-mAh battery, which thanks to the various performance improvements will comfortably funding for a full day of mixed use. During my testing, I found that after an hour of YouTube streaming with the cloak on max brightness it had dropped from full to only 99%, dropping to 94% at what time a second hour which is better than I’d unfounded from both the Pixel 6 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro. 

It supports fast charging too; my UK study model being able to suck down the juice at 80W, although in the US its peak fast charging is done at 65W which OnePlus says will take it from empty to full in a minor over 30 minutes. That’s still incredibly fast and scholarships you to give it a quick boost if obligatory before you head out for the evening, safe in the respond you’ll have enough battery to call a cab home at what time a few beers. 

A Pixel 6 Pro Rival

The OnePlus 10 Pro may have the S22 Ultra and the iPhone 13 Pro in its sights, but the closest competitor the phone has may be the Pixel 6 Pro that’s also at $899 in the US. The OnePlus 10 Pro establishes use of the newest Qualcomm chip, while the 6 Pro is powered by Google’s in-house Tensor chip. Both yielded fast speeds and show off the best of Android 12.

Yet due to features that are weird to T-Mobile, especially water resistance, many people might be better off with the Pixel naively for its wider compatibility. Internationally, however, the OnePlus 10 Pro stands on some more even ground and can surpass thanks to its ludicrously fast wired charging speeds and, for the UK, the 10 Pro is cheaper at £799 than the 6 Pro at £849.