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The OnePlus 10T is a very good smartphone with premium build quality, a great display, top tier performance, and insanely fast charging speeds. At £629 it's also one of the best value high-end phones with Qualcomm's powerful, and power-efficient, Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset.
It's the first time a OnePlus 'T' phone is being sold alongside the older model while also bearing a near-identical design, but the two phones have a lot of differences under their hoods. Thankfully, it's a superb phone, but it struggles to justify its price given the existence of the company's own Nord 2T, which has the same rear cameras, performs well for a mid-ranger, and costs a lot less.
DESIGN
You'd be forgiven for mistaking the OnePlus 10T for the older OnePlus 10 Pro given their very similar looking rear plates. On the 10T, the camera module has four distinctive rings with three camera lenses joined by a circular flash in the top right position.
I didn't like the look at first, but it has grown on me, much like the green hue of my 'Jade Green' review sample has. Its glossy finish made of Gorilla Glass 5 instantly picks up fingerprints but does make the phone grippier and is finished off with glossy silver side rails, which are plastic instead of metal. It's a good looking, great feeling phone although it slides off flat surfaces including tables with the slightest nudge. A case is required to avoid impact disaster.
The camera bump melds into the unibody frame beautifully with no seams, though I suspect the matt finish of the alternative 'Moonstone Black' model (which is, and I quote, “inspired by the texture of basalt”) would better evade fingerprints and appeal more to most colour-cautious smartphone
