OnePlus 12 & OnePlus 12R Unboxing

NOTE: At 11:39 the OnePlus 12R is listed on screen as $480, but the actual price is $499 like Linus says aloud. Sorry!

OnePlus is back with a new "flagship killer", but with rising prices and stiff competition, can they do enough to stand out? A 50W wireless charger is a good start, but Linus is here to see if the phone is more than gimmicks wrapped in a pretty marble body.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 OnePlus is back
0:31 OnePlus 12 unboxing and display/battery LABS results
1:35 Ports/buttons, specs, and cameras
3:32 OnePlus 12R unboxing and differences between the two
4:45 LABS performance results
6:02 Sponsor - brand
7:00 OnePlus 12R camera impressions
8:22 Testing "Aqua Touch"
9:31 Trying to make 50W wireless charging work
10:26 Google rant and speaker impressions
11:34 Pricing and overall thoughts
12:08 Outro

[dil]

10:40 - THANK YOU. The homogenization of Google's app icons was a huge step backwards. It always takes me a few extra seconds to find the right app if more than 2 of them are grouped together in the same folder.

[Tom-bubx]

Is this a new intern? He did a great job

[kadenk.]

It's crazy how 2019 Linus had access to a OnePlus 12

[DanielColson]

For the wireless charging speed issue, there's a setting under "Wireless charging settings -> Quiet charging" in the OnePlus 12 which is on by default and has a description of "This wireless charger runs at a lower power level to minimize noise." So that's likely why it wasn't doing the full 50W charging speed.

[ksawiersawa]

Nice thing that many people forget to mention is that the european vesion has 100W charging.

[AlexTenThousand]

OnePlus went back to its flagship killer roots, and Linus went back to his beardless roots.

[wenimechoinasama]

with 1080p being the most common resolution used on youtube, I'd love to see 1080p youtube battery results.

[OussamaAbuUmar]

9:40 Wireless charging goes from AC to DC to high frequency AC. This HF AC over the coil causes a changing magnetic field which is picked up by the receiver coil. The receiver generates HF AC which gets rectified to the charging voltage.

[Darkhouse]

Run from him, dread him, Beardless Linus Arrives all the same.

[oxfordsparky]

I don’t understand only testing a phones battery life at 480p 200nits when it has a much higher resolution and claimed brightness, it’s fine to include these settings to show how far you can push it but the main test should be using the phone they way that people will actually use it.

[jalcome]

That 12 gb dub over was uncanny, but i dig it

[RahRan]

The voiceover was funny but he says 12 every other sentence you could have just clipped that in! lol

[fish_bacon]

I got my OP12 this week, jumping from the OP7Pro, and I'm a man in love. We get a 100W charger in the EU btw, over the US 80W.

[ricardasposkrebysevas]

Got OnePlus 12 yesterday as an upgrade from Huawei P30, its outstanding, smooth, camera is perfect, battery will last forever. Really love it. One bug which I encounter is 2 sim card activation, need to play a little bit with settings to get it working. No fog on camera but it's not cold outside so hard to test.

[DaveTriesToPlayGuitar]

I've seen linus with a beard long enough that i dont even know if i still recognize this man without it.

[milkmanchannel]

I'm a Pixel boy now a days, but back in the day I had a OnePlus 5 or 6 (can't remember which one. I'm leaning towards 5) and I loved it. It was rock solid for so long. Not that they ever left the phone conversation, but I'm glad to see them getting talked about more again, and these phones, although not perfect, do seem to be a return to form based on my experience with them

[jakehiggins]

Im glad im not the only one that gets googles apps confused because they all look the same lol

[agentbravo]

I quite like this new employee, perhaps he should start making more recurring cameos even on the main channel.

[artryanrock]

Linus without beard is like an AI generated Linus

[SlimeKing]

This new hire is scary good at hosting videos, make him a regular!