OnePlus 8 Review: Special No More!

OnePlus 8 does a lot right for $699... but the landscape is different.

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[mangovarun]

2014 to 2017: Cheap phones are getting good and good phones are getting cheap.

2020: Good phones are getting expensive and expensive phones getting super expensive.

[peterthepanda]

Day 36: Marques still alive after that Escobar phone video.

[colevano]

2016: It still looks small in MKBHD’s hands
2017: Better, but still looks small
2018: Better again, but not quite the right fit
2019: Super close, just a little more
2020: All phones now look like they are made for Marques’ hands

[shreyask]

Marques on his wedding day

“So I’ve been trying this wife for a week now”

[aaronekka]

2014: OnePlus releases new phone half the price of Apple
2020: Apple releases new phone half the price of OnePlus

[isaaclee]

"this thing catches more fingerprints than the csi agent of the month" - MKBHD 2020

[parkerwilkins]

2020 is literally the weirdest year, there is a world wide shortage of toilet paper, no school, visiting family is frowned upon, shaking hands is cruel, and the worst of them all APPLE made an actual budget phone and oneplus made a flagship 😂

[chandranshsingh]

*"You either die a flagship killer or you live long enough to see yourself become the flagship"*

[sydpolash]

OnePlus 2014: never settle

OnePlus 2020: finally settled.

[the.fremen]

marques: "dangerously close to Linus territory"
linus: "speaking of territories..."

[FllnThBlanks]

I'll answer the question that no one else is answering round here:

If you can afford the 8Pro, get it.
If you can't afford the 8Pro, save your money and get the 7T/Pro.

The 8 really doesn't do anything the 7T doesn't, if we're honest.
There really isn't much reason to buy the 8, save for the aesthetics, 5G and slightly better processor, but y'all know what's up with that.

[evancarley]

I. do. not. understand. wireless. charging. It's inferior to normal charging, and the fast charger is included! I would take lower price any day, even if it is only slightly lower

[vineetpatel]

2014: Never settle
2020: Finally settled

[Perhaps]

2020: when Apple launched an iphone cheaper than oneplus.

[coreyisabigpushover]

Seems silly to me that a $700 phone is now considered a "cut-down" phone.

[MacrobianNomad]

I don't know why Marques loves wireless charging, I just never understood the fascination to the slowest tooth brush powering tech.

[MYTV_account]

I love the "dangerously close to Linus territory" bit. Even Marques struggled to keep a straight face on that one.

[prathams]

I bet there’s an iPhone se lying on his desk right now.




Edit : I WAS RIGHT

[VFXPlug]

Everyone gangsta until mkbhd says the phone ain’t special

[charleskim]

One plus 8 color: silver
In the light: shiny Instagram app