Tencent Digital | Li Xincao
From the launch of the first smartphone in 2014 to the release of the OnePlus 10 Pro in early 2022, in less than 8 years, OnePlus has launched the tenth generation of smartphone products. As the smartphone market enters the stock market, the competition of domestic mobile phone manufacturers has intensified, and the launch of a generation of products in half a year has become a tacit stereotype in this market.
Oneplus 10 Pro is a product born in this environment, after last year's company merger, product line split, one plus in the change to find their own positioning, but they do not intend to give up the previous product law, every year a flagship machine product ideas, in the one plus 10 Pro to continue.
This is a stacked smart phone, the new Snapdragon 8 with the top screen, coupled with a larger and more three-dimensional cooling system and Hasselblad cooperation camera, while this generation of products finally broke through the previous 65W fast charging that the European and Canadian system has been using, reaching the level of 80W wired + 50W wireless, which makes this year's mobile phone seem to have more points of view.
Before the conference, I got this phone, used it for a few days, and tested some of my own concerns about this phone, let's see if we can answer your questions about the OnePlus 10 Pro.
About the feel and lens module
OnePlus has long had an independent pursuit of mobile phone design, which has created a unique feel for one plus mobile phones, no matter how large a screen it uses, the feel of the product will always surprise the user.
This OnePlus 10 Pro is no exception, the phone has a very good grip feeling, the back of the AG matte process treatment of the surface feel is excellent, but also not easy to stain fingerprints.
The green of the fuselage has been used for several generations of products, for one plus users, although this year one plus gave him a new name called "All Things Blue", but it is inseparable from its origin, which is the color of one plus mobile phones.
The biggest design change on mobile phones this year came from this lens module. Before the conference, OnePlus took the initiative to expose the design of the product, and this lens module was also considered by many people to be like a metal hinge.
In fact, this module is made of ceramic material, taking into account the brightness and hardness, but this ceramic module is not integrated, but spliced with the metal frame. After all, ceramics are a very brittle material, and when designing mobile phones, OnePlus must take into account versatility and durability.
The three-paragraph button still appears on the right side of the phone, which is a design that OnePlus added from the original mobile phone, and its ease of use and symbolism have made one plus have no reason to abandon this element.
About the brand new LTPO screen
Since last year, LTPO technology has appeared in some high-end smartphones in a large area, including Apple, Samsung, OPPO, vivo, millet and other mainstream manufacturers have used this technology, although and the legendary power saving 30-50% of the various official data have a certain experience gap, but this technology does represent the current future development direction of the screen refresh rate technology.
However, in the past year, the Android manufacturers' collective LTPO has encountered a more embarrassing problem, Android mobile phone manufacturers can not cross the Android too open system, so LTPO in addition to the most basic "BASED APP customization refresh rate" such a dynamic strategy, it is difficult to achieve a real sense of dynamic refresh rate.
But this year there has been some turnaround in the issue. After a year of technology accumulation and adaptation adjustments with third-party app manufacturers, almost all Android vendors this year claim that this year's LTPO dynamic refresh rate is more intelligent than last year.
OnePlus is no exception, they brought LTPO 2.0 technology to this year's OnePlus 10 Pro. According to OnePlus, OnePlus has provided two major LTPO technology upgrades for this year's screen.
The first is the flexible adaptive refresh rate, in the LTPO technology link of Android manufacturers, customizing different screen refresh strategies for different APPS is the basis of LTPO, and switching the refresh rate between different scenarios in the APP is the biggest change brought about by the so-called LTPO 2.0 this time.
The three frame rates of the Weibo app show changes
For example, when I test the Weibo app, he will display it at three different frequencies, when sliding, the screen will maintain a refresh rate of 120Hz; when the screen stops and the Weibo video is automatically played, the OnePlus 10 Pro will display at a screen refresh rate of 60Hz; when there is no video in the picture, and the picture is still, the OnePlus 10 Pro will display at a refresh rate of 1Hz.
At the same time, another upgrade is the increase in frequency conversion rate. OnePlus's improvement is the screen refresh rate when changing from static to 120Hz, which has the advantage of allowing users to feel the tearing of the screen between dynamic and static switching.
From last year's OnePlus 9 Pro to join LTPO for the first time, to this year's OnePlus 10 Pro LTPO technology upgrade, this change is easy for users to perceive, perhaps so far, Android open ecology is difficult for mobile phone manufacturers to do LTPO like Apple's ProMotion to adapt to the global situation, but from the experience of OnePlus 10 Pro today, such an upgrade is indeed a big step forward.
On the cooperation between OnePlus and Hasselblad
Since last year, OnePlus and Hasselblad have cooperated to create an imaging system, and want to replicate the success of Huawei and Leica on smartphones, they pioneered the introduction of Hasselblad's professional model into mobile phones, which undoubtedly made last year's OnePlus 9 Pro a generation of gods in the hearts of OnePlus users.
And 10 months after the release of the OnePlus 9 Pro, the OnePlus 10 Pro returned with Hasselblad.
What is a bit surprising is that this year, OnePlus did not make major adjustments to last year's camera module on this phone, removing the 2 million pixel lens that was made up last year and retaining all three other lenses.
The main lens is still the IMX789 that spent one plus "100 million yuan" and created with Sony - a lens sensor with 48 million pixels, 1/1.43-inch sensor area, and support for 12-bit color depth. The secondary lens also continues to use the IMX766, a 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens, and the 8-megapixel telephoto lens that supports 3.3x equivalent optical zoom.
There is no change in the hardware module, and OnePlus has mainly enhanced The depth and breadth of Hasselblad's image tuning on this generation of 10 Pro.
The so-called depth, Hasselblad introduced the second generation of professional mode on this one plus 10 Pro, the biggest improvement is to make these three lenses support the professional mode and incorporate the super RAW+ format of computational photography capabilities. This means that users can have more space to shoot to create their own photos.
The so-called breadth is that Hasselblad has increased the range of color optimization on this phone and added several new shades to make the photos you take at your fingertips more "Swedish".
Let's take a look at a few samples.
About Snapdragon 8 and OnePlus' brand new cooling system
OnePlus is a relatively late release manufacturer in this batch of Snapdragon 8 processors. In all the mobile phones equipped with snapdragon 8 chips that I have tested before, without exception, manufacturers are trying to suppress the still hot heart of Snapdragon 8. So what you see is no longer the running score of various manufacturers competing for new machines, but everyone is comparing the VC heating plate area used inside the mobile phone.
OnePlus is no exception, this time the OnePlus 10 Pro has a three-dimensional heat dissipation area of 34119mm, including the VC heating plate, but also includes graphite sheets, thermal silicone and so on. This means that oneplus has at least made preliminary preparations for the heat generation in response to the extreme operation of the Snapdragon 8.
And in order to let you play the game well, OnePlus also added a technology called graphics heterogeneity to this generation of 10 Pro. To be honest, this is indeed the first time I have heard of this term, and I have heard a lot of asynchronous architecture on computers before, but this is the first time I have heard such a statement on a mobile phone. I also have to admire the ability of smartphone manufacturers to "make words" in recent years.
According to the official interpretation of OnePlus, this so-called "graphics heterogeneity" is to let the privacy instructions sent by the CPU to the GPU be liberated from the disassembly operation on the GPU side, and this step is completed on the CPU side, reducing the gpu's computing pressure and allowing it to do more of what it should do.
All of these innovations add up to one thing that OnePlus wants to tell you, this machine is playing games this year without pulling across!
OnePlus 9 Pro King Of Glory 90Hz frame rate curve
I used last year's OnePlus 9 Pro test frame rate curve to make a comparison, in last year's test, one plus 9 Pro adapted to the King of Glory 90Hz display frame rate, but in the actual performance, OnePlus in last year's Temperature Control Policy for Snapdragon 888 was relatively aggressive, resulting in one plus 9 Pro in the game about 4 minutes before the start of the frequency reduction frame, the final game ended, the frame rate was frozen at 80 frames.
OnePlus 10 Pro King of Glory 90Hz frame rate curve, the middle of the frame rate curve is the role selection link between the two games
But this year things have changed significantly. The two games I tested consecutively for The Glory of Kings, and I could see that the frame rate stability of the two games was quite good, basically stable at 90 full frame rate. After two consecutive games, the heat control of the mobile phone is also much better than that of the OnePlus 9 Pro, and the heat on the back of the mobile phone is not obvious after many consecutive games.
In the processor usage curve, it can also be seen that the operation of the entire processor is quite stable, and the processor reduces the frequency of use when switching between disks, and in the middle of the two games, the frame rate remains almost the same.
Peace Elite 90Hz frame rate curve
At the same time, I also tested the peace elite, at a frame rate of 90Hz, the running stability of this phone is a bit surprising to me, about 30 minutes of game time, basically there is no large frame drop, the final test score of 89.7 full frame rate, but also I tested the one plus mobile phone, the most outstanding.
Although there is no way to see how the graphic heterogeneous technology of OnePlus works in the mobile phone, from the experience of getting started on the real machine, the OnePlus 10 Pro is currently one of the best products in all the new mobile phones equipped with Snapdragon 8 processors that I have experienced.
About charging speed
Finally, Oga was willing to come up with a new standard of more than 65W flash charge. Thinking back to that year, oppo took out the super VOOC 65W flash charge, it was amazing. But after several years of iteration of charging speed, when competitors have run at a rate of 120W, OPPO and OnePlus are still stuck at the 65W charging rate, and small steps are tight.
As a representative of the more geeks in the Oujia brand, OnePlus took the lead in breaking such an embarrassment, using 80W wired flash charge and 50W wireless flash charge on one plus 10 Pro, although it did not use the 120W fast charge that OPPO first showed that year, but the upgrade was better than no upgrade, right?
The battery capacity inside the fuselage has also been upgraded, and the battery capacity of the OnePlus 10 Pro is as high as 5,000 mAh, which is also a new high in the battery capacity of one plus mobile phones in the past.
In the actual charging speed test, the battery charge from 1% to 100%, one plus 10 Pro takes 35 minutes, from the charging curve, the entire charging speed is relatively average, into 90% after there are signs of trickle. In the case of a 500mAh increase in battery capacity, the charging time of the OnePlus 10 Pro is the same as last year's OnePlus 9 Pro.
Summary: This is probably one of OnePlus' best flagship phones
From the launch of the first smartphone in 14 years to the release of the OnePlus 10 Pro in 2022, OnePlus has experienced glory and has been forced to catch up with the pace of the market because of the transformation, but it seems that the pursuit of product design has not undergone a major directional change. The OnePlus 10 Pro is still the kind of product that pursues the ultimate experience.
This year, OnePlus's slogan for this OnePlus 10 Pro is "the best performance flagship for playing games", and they have achieved progress in the game experience through the matching of the core hardware tuning and system, which is deeply felt in my tests. OnePlus has also added additions in other aspects of this generation of products, making the product strength of one plus 10 Pro significantly more competitive than the one plus 9 Pro in the same period last year.
With the official release and listing of Snapdragon 8, this wave of flagship machine competition at the beginning of this year tends to be white-hot, and in terms of experience alone, OnePlus is indeed not weaker than any competitors in this link of the game. Coupled with a more balanced product experience, the OnePlus 10 Pro is one of the most worthwhile Android flagship phones to buy before the Spring Festival this year.