The $699 OnePlus 11 is the corporate’s first true flagship to launch in 2023, and it gives lots to get enthusiastic about. From its slick refreshed design to its hyper-powerful processor and quick charging abilities, this telephone works laborious to earn its flagship title. 

Nevertheless it’s not a large overhaul from final 12 months’s already wonderful OnePlus 10 Professional. It is related in design, it is acquired a hefty (arguably redundant) increase in energy and the brand new digicam setup, whereas good, is not an enormous leap ahead. In the event you had been hoping to see a radical new OnePlus telephone, you could be disillusioned. House owners of current OnePlus gadgets should not take into account upgrading. 

Value is definitely on its facet. The OnePlus 11 base mannequin is $699 (£729 or roughly AU$1,270) comes with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Even the higher-end evaluate mannequin I examined, with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, will solely set you again $799 (£799), undercutting its rivals by an honest chunk. The telephone’s greatest competitors comes from the excellent Google Pixel 7 Professional, which at $899 is not an enormous step up in value (it is $999 for the equal 256GB mannequin, though there is no increase in energy with the additional storage right here). 

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• Unbelievable efficiency for gaming
• Slick, refreshed design
• Hyper-fast charging
• 5 years of safety assist

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• Cameras are good however not nice
• Higher waterproofing on rivals

The Pixel 7 Professional was certainly one of our favourite telephones of 2022, incomes a coveted CNET Editors’ Alternative award when it launched in October because of its excellent cameras, slick interface and engaging design. It is a tremendous telephone and certainly one of my favourite methods to expertise Android 13.

The place the OnePlus 11 excels is in its uncooked energy, providing blistering speeds for gaming and heavy multitasking. It costs faster than Google’s telephones too. The Pixel’s Tensor G2 processor is not constructed for straight-line velocity, however nonetheless handles something you may discover within the Play Retailer. The Pixel’s pure Android 13 software program is clutter-free, and the cameras usually carry out higher — particularly with the addition of the 5x optical zoom lens, which the OnePlus lacks. 

Then there’s the brand new Samsung Galaxy S23, which begins at $800 and comes with a 6.1-inch show, a triple-camera setup, 8GB of RAM and the most recent Qualcomm Eight Gen 2 processor. It is the identical chip you may discover within the OnePlus 11, although it has been personalized for Samsung. With the S23 vary happening sale on Feb. 17, we’ll have to attend to see how the brand new Samsung and OnePlus’ telephones stack up in opposition to one another.

OnePlus 11: A refreshed design, now with added waterproofing

OnePlus’ flagship has arrived in 2023 with a recent look, swapping out the sq. digicam unit of the 10 Professional for a round one, fringed with metallic that curves gracefully to fulfill the sting of the telephone. My evaluate mannequin’s inexperienced tone appears each trendy and sensible, whereas the curving glass on each the back and front makes it satisfying to carry. 

I really like the telephone’s look. It manages to look totally different from its predecessors, whereas nonetheless trying acquainted sufficient to really feel a part of the identical household. The glass is toughened Gorilla Glass, so don’t be concerned an excessive amount of about shattering it. The brand new telephone one-ups the 10 Professional by coming with an IP64 score for defense in opposition to water. The shortage of waterproofing on most variations of the 10 Professional was annoying because it’s one thing we have come to count on on all flagships. So, it is good to see extra official safety right here. 

Learn extra: How Waterproof Is My Cellphone? IP Scores Defined

That stated, IP64 solely gives gentle safety in opposition to water splashes whereas rivals — together with the Pixel 7 Professional, iPhone 14 vary and Galaxy S23 vary — all have IP68 rankings which shield them from precise submersion in water for at the very least 30 minutes. IP64 is best than nothing although and will definitely assist preserve your telephone protected once you take calls within the rain.

At 6.7 inches, the show is sizable sufficient to do justice to cellular video games, whereas its most 3,216×1,440-pixel decision makes every little thing look good and crisp (you possibly can go for a decrease decision to assist eke out the battery life). It is a SuperAMOLED panel that helps Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR and HDR 10 Plus, that means it is shiny, daring and able to correctly displaying off suitable HDR content material. 

Its adaptive body fee can shoot as much as 120Hz to offer a clean expertise for high-intensity duties like gaming, however can dynamically drop to solely 1Hz to save lots of energy for much less demanding duties like net looking or displaying the always-on show. 

There’s an in-display fingerprint scanner, which works properly. Longtime OnePlus followers will likely be happy to see the alert slider on the precise of the telephone, which helps you to immediately set the telephone to silent or vibrate. The slider was notably absent on final 12 months’s OnePlus 10T.

OnePlus 11: Potent energy

Powering the telephone is the aforementioned Qualcomm Snapdragon Eight Gen 2 processor, backed up by a meaty 16GB of RAM (on my evaluate mannequin). It is a potent chip that put in some significantly spectacular scores on our suite of benchmark assessments, touchdown it comfortably among the many strongest telephones round. 

Benchmarks do not imply every little thing, in fact, however relaxation assured that this telephone will deal with something you care to throw at it. Its graphics efficiency is especially robust. Demanding video games like Genshin Influence, PUBG Cell and Asphalt 9: Legends (all at max decision) displayed at constantly excessive body charges for clean gameplay. 

OnePlus touts the telephone’s “optimized RAM allocation,” “hardware-accelerated ray tracing” in video games and “greatest in school” lighting and illumination results, which is all properly and good, however there are no video games accessible on Android but that assist issues like ray tracing. It is like having a automotive able to driving on MagLev tracks — superb expertise, positive, however no manner of really placing it to make use of simply but. 

In the actual world, all that energy means the telephone is swift to make use of. Merely navigating across the Android interface is quick, clean and freed from the lag or stutters which may sign poorly configured {hardware}. There’s little that may sluggish it down. It dealt with video streaming and picture enhancing completely properly.

That swift expertise is helped by the telephone’s Oxygen 13 OS software program. Primarily based on Android 13, Oxygen OS is a light-weight Android pores and skin with a clear look that is straightforward to make use of. I appreciated it straight out-of-the-box, however you possibly can customise the system fonts and the always-on show to offer it a extra private contact. 

OnePlus prolonged its assist interval to 4 years for Android updates and an extra fifth 12 months for safety updates. That is the longest the corporate has ever supported a telephone for and implies that the OnePlus 11 will nonetheless be protected to make use of 5 years from now. 

OnePlus 11: Cameras that might do higher

There are three major cameras on the again of the OnePlus 11; a 50-megapixel major digicam with an f/1.Eight lens and optical picture stabilization, a 48-megapixel ultra-wide digicam with shut focusing macro capabilities and a 32-megapixel portrait digicam with a 2x optical zoom. It is a pretty predictable triple-camera setup, however that portrait digicam disappoints me. 

That 2x zoom is a step down from the three.3x zoom seen on the OnePlus 10 Professional and an enormous step down from the 5x telephoto zoom on the Pixel 7 Professional. Zoom abilities may not look like a very powerful function, however if you wish to take nice pictures in any setting, a robust zoom may be a useful device. 

As an alternative of utilizing a large lens and easily capturing every little thing in entrance of you in a single picture, an extended zoom lens permits you to discover extra attention-grabbing compositions inside these scenes by cropping out distracting highway indicators, vehicles or crowds of individuals. A telephoto lens is usually a part of any skilled photographer’s equipment bag (together with my very own) and I completely love utilizing the zoom on the Pixel 7 Professional — and the whopping 10x optical zoom on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Extremely. Even the 3x on the iPhone 14 Professional provides me extra room to work with. 

Not having a correct telephoto lens on the OnePlus 11 seems like I’ve to make compromises in my pictures that I would not with different telephones. It isn’t as absolutely rounded of a pictures package deal because of this.

OnePlus has once more partnered with iconic digicam maker Hasselblad, which has apparently calibrated the digicam for higher colours. Nonetheless, I am unsure it is doing both firm a lot good because the outcomes are hit-and-miss. Whereas some photographs look true to life, with punchy colours and pleasing distinction, others look oversaturated, with heavy-handed HDR processing that lifts shadows and tones down highlights to an unrealistic diploma. 

Taken with the primary digicam, this picture above is fantastically uncovered, with heat colours and loads of element. 

This shot above of a ruined cottage deep within the forest is vibrant and pin-sharp. It is an ideal snap, all spherical. 

The close-up shot above is completely filled with element and the colours look spot-on. Good work, OnePlus.

Vibrant blue sky, beautiful element on the constructing to the left and a stunning flash of coloration from the rainbow. The telephone has captured this scene above properly.

This scene does not impress me although. The telephone’s software program has actually gone laborious on the HDR processing, lifting the shadows right here to such an extent that the shot above appears unrealistic. 

Taken on the iPhone 14 Professional, this comparability picture above is darker, however the deeper shadows in opposition to that shiny blue sky are far more practical and this shot appears far more pure because of this.

The OnePlus 11’s major digicam has once more lifted the shadows quite a bit within the snap above. The sky has extra of a teal tone to it, which does not mirror actuality. 

The Pixel 7 Professional’s shot above has a deeper distinction and extra pure coloration tones each on the buildings and within the sky. 

Switching to the ultrawide digicam, the OnePlus 11’s heavy-handed auto HDR resulted within the picture above the place the sky appears virtually pretend in opposition to the buildings. There’s additionally a noticeable coloration shift between the OnePlus 11’s major digicam and ultrawide — a element I would observed on the OnePlus 10 Professional, too. 

By not decreasing the brightness within the sky to the identical extent, the Pixel 7 Professional’s shot above appears extra genuine. 

Utilizing the macro mode on the ultrawide lens, the OnePlus 11 has delivered an ideal close-up shot above. I really like the wealthy, vibrant inexperienced tones. 

By comparability, the iPhone 14 Professional’s macro mode has produced the shot above the place the inexperienced tones are fairly washed out and yellow-ish. I do not prefer it as a lot. 

The OnePlus 11 Professional lacks the zoom prowess of a few of its rivals, however its 2x lens does enable for first rate portrait photographs. The colours within the picture above are slightly chilly, and there is not a ton of element on my face. However the blur impact is sweet. 

The iPhone 14 Professional’s 3x portrait mode has resulted in a closer-up portrait (it was shot from the identical place), and I feel there’s higher background blur (often called bokeh) right here. The main points on my face are sharper too, and though the colour tones give a hotter look to the picture above. It is a robust yellow impact that I do not like every greater than the chilly look of the OnePlus 11’s shot.

There is not any query, although, that I would miss having a bigger zoom. Above is a picture from the 2x zoom lens on the OnePlus 11. 

The 5x optical zoom of the Pixel 7 Professional permits you to get inventive zoomed-in photographs, like above, which can be out of attain for the OnePlus. 

As a part of the Hasselblad partnership, the telephone comes with quite a lot of coloration presets created by Hasselblad ‘Grasp’ photographers. Have a look above. I do not actually like them and would a lot choose to easily edit pictures my very own manner utilizing any of the excellent picture enhancing apps on the Google Play retailer. 

At night time the digicam performs very properly nevertheless. I used to be impressed on the brightness it was capable of obtain, delivering brighter pictures (see above) than even the iPhone 14 Professional, albeit with much less element. 

The iPhone 14 Professional’s night time mode shot above has a contact extra element on among the distant buildings, nevertheless it’s not as shiny because the shot from the OnePlus. 

It is brighter than night time mode photographs from the Pixel 7 Professional, too. See above.

It’s going to shoot video at as much as 8K decision, however its commonplace 4K footage will likely be lots for many, providing HDR footage that helps preserve shiny skies below management. Colours look good in movies and whereas the optical picture stabilization helps clean out shaky arms, it may end up in upright objects in your footage (timber, for instance) showing wobbly because the sensor tries to appropriate the motion. Take a look at the video beneath for some clips recorded on the OnePlus 11.

The digicam can take some nice photographs general. If pictures is not an enormous focus for you, and also you simply need crisp, vibrant photographs of your pals or your children on the seashore you then’ll be properly served by the OnePlus 11 — notably for those who like taking pictures at night time. In the event you’re searching for a extra well-rounded pictures expertise then look towards the Pixel 7 Professional. 

OnePlus 11: Stable battery and quick charging

The telephone runs on a 5,000mAh battery that is able to getting you thru a full day of use, so long as you are fairly cautious in how you employ it. With the show set to its most 3,216×1,440-pixel decision, at 120Hz refresh fee and with display brightness on max, the battery dropped from full to 92% remaining after 1 hour of streaming a YouTube video. After the second hour it had dropped to solely 85% remaining, which is not an ideal efficiency.

With the decision dropped to 2,412×1,080 pixels and the refresh fee at a most of 60Hz, it did not even drop beneath 100% after an hour of YouTube streaming and solely dropped to 95% after a second hour — not dangerous in any respect. However 30 minutes of gaming in Genshin Influence with all settings on max comfortably knocked 10% off the battery. 

With extra conservative settings you will not want to fret an excessive amount of about your telephone dropping useless midway by means of the afternoon, and you need to nonetheless have loads of juice remaining once you put it on cost at night time. Demanding avid gamers can ramp up the settings once you need to get pleasure from each final element, however ensure you’ve acquired your charger close by. 

Fortunately, even for those who do drain the battery with gaming or YouTube streaming, getting the juice again in is a speedy course of. The telephone helps 100-watt quick charging within the UK (80W within the US) which is able to fill the battery from empty in solely 25 minutes — or 27 minutes on the 80W mannequin. That is faster than the 1 to 2 hours you possibly can count on a full recharge of the Pixel 7 Professional to take. 

OnePlus 11: Do you have to purchase it? 

In the event you’re searching for a high-performance telephone to sort out gaming, video streaming and all of life’s necessities, the OnePlus 11 is a superb telephone to contemplate. It is acquired energy sufficient to sort out something within the Google Play retailer, it appears nice and its fast-charging implies that battery life is not a difficulty. The 5 years of safety assist is a pleasant bonus, too. 

And whereas the digicam setup is much from the very best round, it is completely able to taking photographs of your children on vacation you may be excited to share together with your wider household and pals. 

Nevertheless it’s the value that stands out right here, being one of many most cost-effective flagships you should purchase, undercutting each the Pixel 7 Professional and Samsung Galaxy S23. If pictures is not your prime precedence however you do need final efficiency for gaming on the go, the OnePlus 11 is definitely value your time.

How we check telephones

Each telephone examined by CNET’s evaluations staff is definitely utilized in the actual world. We check a telephone’s options, play video games and take pictures. We look at the show to see if it is shiny, sharp and vibrant. We analyze the design and construct to see how it’s to carry and whether or not it has an IP-rating for water resistance. We push the processor’s efficiency to the extremes utilizing each standardized benchmark instruments like GeekBench and 3DMark, together with our personal anecdotal observations navigating the interface, recording high-resolution movies and taking part in graphically intense video games at excessive refresh charges. 

All of the cameras are examined in quite a lot of situations from shiny daylight to darkish indoor scenes. We check out particular options like night time mode and portrait mode and examine our findings in opposition to equally priced competing telephones. We additionally try the battery life through the use of it every day in addition to operating a collection of battery drain assessments.

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