OnePlus Nord CE 5G
The OnePlus Nord CE 5G – the CE stands for Core Edition, fact fans – is an understandably brazen attempt by OnePlus to recreate the success of what it says is one of its best-selling phones ever, last year’s OnePlus Nord.
The essentials of last year’s Nord return in broad strokes – the design, the display, the mid-range specs – but with a few concessions made across the board to help the phone hit a lower price point.
Sadly, there are too many of those cutbacks, for too slight a price drop, to make the Nord CE the absolute slamdunk of the original Nord. But by any measure this is a competitive mid-range phone that delivers solid features, an attractive design, and the OnePlus killer app: OxygenOS.
DESIGN
At a glance the Nord CE looks very much like its predecessor. It’s about the same size – a millimetre taller and fractionally wider, but also a touch slimmer – and adopts the same rounded, vertical camera module on the back.
The primary colour is a similar shade of blue – dubbed Blue Void, thanks to the subtle halo of darker shades around the phone’s edge – though you can also grab the phone in Silver Ray (silver) or Charcoal Ink
