OnePlus 7 Pro

The near-meteoric rise of OnePlus has in large part been thanks to a pretty clear strategy: offer the most important features of the year’s biggest flagships, minus the flashy fluff, at a fraction of the price. With the OnePlus 7 Pro, that all changes.

The 7 and 7 Pro phones mark the first time that OnePlus is releasing two phones at once: the 7 is the natural next step from last year’s 6T, while the 7 Pro is a step up from that. It’s a full-blooded flagship, OnePlus throwing the gauntlet down and trying to prove once and for all that it can make phones to rival the likes of the Galaxy S10 or Huawei P30 Pro if it wants to. And on the strength of the 7 Pro, the company clearly can.

I’ve been using the 7 Pro for over a week, and I have been seriously impressed. The core OnePlus ethos is still present, but backed up by better specs focused on two of the areas of the phone people really use the most: the camera and the screen.