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1 ONEPLUS NORD CE 5G

• From £299, oneplus.com

The first Nord seemed to be a case of OnePlus remembering what its original market was – the affordable mid-range – and throwing out something those buyers might like; this second bite of the apple, while not an actual Nord 2, seems to be the result of OnePlus working out what mid-range buyers actually want. The price is a clue, with the CE costing £80 less than the bottom end of the original Nord spec (though also £80 more than the bargain Nord N10). The battery, a 4,500mAh upgrade over the 4,100mAh cell of its predecessor, will suit casual users better.

This launches with Android 11 (with two years of software updates promised) running on an a mid-table Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G chipset backed by up to 12GB RAM; minimum storage is a very reasonable 128GB, and jumps up to 256GB on the top-end model. Sacrifices against the Nord are, realistically, very few: the

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