Talking about the OnePlus 12 experience in detail: why does the ten-year flagship, which has made the stacking to the extreme, surpass the Pro?

Preamble:

Doing a good job of strengthening the "big cup flagship" is the core strategy of each Android mobile phone manufacturer this year, compared with the previous years in order to avoid "the following offenses" of various picks and ropes"Forced castration", this year, each manufacturer took the lead in releasing the "big cup" flagship has a very strong product force, Xiaomi 14Pro, vivo X100Pro, OnePlus 12 are very good mobile phone products, and they are also full of sincerity in the stacking.

This year is the 10th anniversary of the creation of the OnePlus brand, which has a special significance for OnePlus, because the 10th anniversary flagship must be a product full of product power, so OnePlus 12 must also be such an existence, but OnePlus is not named 12Pro, but is very low-key named OnePlus 12, but OnePlus 12 is obviously a product that surpasses many Pro models.

From the world's strongest domestic "Oriental Screen" to the first Sony Light Yu LYT-808 image sensor, and Android's motor that surpasses Apple's experience for the first time, OnePlus 12 products have not yet been released, which has attracted the attention of many technology enthusiasts.

As a 10-year refueling that has been paying attention to OnePlus products since the first generation of products, I first purchased the black OnePlus 12 with a memory version of 16+512G, and I have experienced it for about a week to share my experience with you.

1. Design and feel

How to improve product recognition is a difficult problem for mobile phone manufacturers, and their solutions tend to adopt a "family-oriented" design.

However, the full screen has developed to the present, and the only direction that can be "designed" is the camera module, so there is Apple's "rounded rectangle" and Huawei's "Star Ring", which is a highly recognizable design.

OnePlus has opened the "family-style" design of the camera module connected to the middle frame from the 10th generation product, compared with the current cookie-cutter "circle centered" OnePlus 10 has become recognizable, but it feels incongruous. And such a design camera should not be too protruding, and it is well known that the development trend of mobile phone camera modules is more and more "huge" and more "convex".

It's not difficult to flatten the camera, so at present, in addition to the rotten fruit (Meizu is known as the little apple), other Android manufacturers have worked hard to flatten the camera module, so the camera modules that are normally seen are protruding several layers of "crater" plus flat multi-camera modules.

OnePlus 12 continues OnePlus's family-oriented design, a pure flat module that is as good as a stream, and the texture of the officially advertised "high-end watch".

The shimmering grey "dial", the textures around the edges that resemble dials, the specification text around the camera module, the Hasselblad "H" logo on the left, and the four most important camera modules really look like the functional discs of a watch, except for the fact that there is no way to see the time properly in a high-end watch.

According to OnePlus, the installation of the module adopts a very high standard of dust-free environment, which ensures the flawlessness inside the lens group.

In fact, after this week, the tightness of the mirror group and the hardness of the mirror surface are very good, and no ash, water vapor and scratches were found.

Compared with the "big cup flagship" of various friends, OnePlus 12's camera protrusion is relatively smaller, and there is only one layer of "crater" instead of multi-layer splicing, which is more integrated.

The black OnePlus 12 in my hand is made of frosted glass on the back, which feels delicate and delicate without fingerprints, but it feels a little slippery, and it should be safe to hold on the bare machine.

The frame is made of glossy aluminum alloy material, and the texture is of course full, and the back is made of silk glass.

The symmetrical dual speakers work very well, the infrared remote control can control a variety of household appliances, and the position of the fingerprint recognition is comfortable.

The front of OnePlus 12 adopts BOE 2K "Oriental Screen", which is known as the world's best screen made by the Chinese, and the eye protection, brightness display, etc. are directly achieved to the ceiling, visually the left and right bezels are extremely narrow and wide up and down, the front is centered and cut, and there is no obvious color cast on the left and right of the curved screen.

The iconic three-stage mute button is currently the only one in the industry, and I personally think it is very easy to use, and the physical button is very secure when you need to turn on/off the mute.

The OnePlus 12 bare metal weighs about 220.5g, which is the lightest among the "big cup flagships", but it has also entered the 220g mark.

My own black personal feeling is low-key and introverted, the feel is excellent, the other colors are versatile and good-looking, but the glossy glass is more likely to be stained with fingerprints, the green is very recognizable, and it has both personality and feel, which is my personal favorite color.

PS: But green depends on personal preference, and my cousin bought black with me instead of white and green.

OnePlus 12 is very recognizable, the appearance design and overall texture are very good, and it can be said that it is also a very good one among the "big cup flagships".

Second, the sunrise "Oriental" Chinese good screen

I believe that all digital enthusiasts are full of curiosity about OnePlus 12's domestic top "Oriental screen", so let's talk about the screen first.

OnePlus 12The "Oriental Screen" used is known as the world's leading domestic first 2K resolution 120 frames refresh rate DisplayMate A+ display, display quality, screen brightness, eye protection ability, service life, light-emitting materials, and circuit design are all world-leading.

In actual use, OnePlus 12's screen is clear and bright, whether it is a system page or playing high-resolution pictures and videos, it has a very delicate display effect.

I mainly share it with you by playing the 4K resolution video of station B and shooting the screen with reference to my own naked eye.

First of all, when watching a particularly high-contrast picture, such as some scenes in the film and television hurricane A7S3 "Into the Picture" promotional video, OnePlus 12, which has a very high peak brightness, can pull the highlights to a very high level, and the picture is extremely immersive.

The "Oriental Screen" is rich in color and gorgeous, with delicate display and a very comfortable appearance.

The brightness of the tilt angle is not obvious, the screen color accuracy is excellent, and there is no problem that the OLED screen is tilted to blue.

In terms of eye protection, the "Oriental screen" adopts a low brightness of 2160Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, medium and high brightness-like DC dimming, and the comparison of a certain fruit "blind screen" at low brightness is as follows.

There is also a hardware low blue light eye protection mode、Ambient color temperature adaptation、Sleep mode、Bright eyes low flicker and other eye protection modes can be selected according to your own feelings (multiple choices can be selected),I only turn on the bright eyes low flicker function in order to avoid screen color cast。

Personal Xi, I lie down and brush my phone until one or two o'clock every night, compared to the iPhone I used in the past to change to OnePlus 12 will indeed be much less fatigue and dryness after use.

It can be said that OnePlus12's "Oriental screen" is worthy of being the top existence of domestic screens, with excellent display effect and good appearance, and it is also very friendly to eyes, considering that modern people can't live without mobile phones every day, eye protection"Oriental screen" should be popularized quickly.

3. Performance and gaming experience

OnePlus 12 uses the third-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 processor (also known as 8Gen3) that comes standard with LPDDR5X memory and UFS4.0 flash memory, which is currently the strongest hardware configuration on the market, and the measured entertainment rabbit score can reach 210W+.

The performance of the product can be represented to a certain extent, but the experience has a lot to do with the manufacturer's optimization, especially the frame rate stability of medium and high load game scenes.

I'm a heavy "Honor of Kings" user, although "Honor of Kings" has long been reduced to a "light load application", but I can open the highest image quality +120 maximum frame rate, which is also a very rare game that can touch the OnePlus 12 extreme frame rate.

With performance mode and extreme frame stabilization enabled, the OnePlus 12 runs "Honor of Kings" at a very stable frame rate, and it is rare to see the frame rate below 120.

"Glory of Kings" experience,The most comfortable is the ColorOS system,Various functions that come with the game assistant,Not only can you turn on the event immersion mode, block gestures, phone calls, text messages, etc. to avoid interruptions, but also just block the keys to avoid accidental touches,There are also game voice changes、Network acceleration、4D vibration、Screen recording and screenshots and other very rich practical functions。

In addition, no one has a self in ranked mode, OnePlus 12 will provide hero selection ban suggestions, not only season ban rate ranking tips but also hero restraint suggestions, OnePlus 12 can be said to be the best partner of the king to score.

As the first shootout mobile game, "Peace Elite" has a large player base, of course, it is also a must-test game,"Peace Elite" can be turned on at the same time90Frame and HD quality,After turning on 90 frames and high image quality,The game is smooth and there is no obvious frame drop problem,Those Pro models do not have 90Frame + HD mode。

As early as the beginning of this year, OnePlus reached a game experience optimization cooperation with miHoYo, and invested 100 million yuan in research and development funds to establish the OnePlus Genshin Impact Experience Optimization Laboratory.

With a significant increase in hardware performance and better software optimization, the OnePlus 12 should have no problem running Genshin Impact's highest image quality and highest frame rate.

In the actual measurement, whether it is the limit running map of Sayu+Yelan Sumeru City, or the copy scene of the release of cool skills, OnePlus 12 does not feel any obvious frame drops, which is consistent with the average frame rate of 59+ in professional institutions.

Of course, in addition to being a two-dimensional game of card drawing, Genshin Impact is actually also a game of traveling to see the scenery, just like "World of Warcraft" "Little Genshin Impact - The Legend of Zelda" is also a good way to wander around the game map.

miHoYo's new game "Honkai Impact - Star Dome Railway" integrates the mantle of "Genshin Impact" and has become a new generation of "scoring tools", and I have always been curious about why a turn-based game has such a large load. After the experience, I found that in addition to miHoYo's traditional optimization ability, the animation of Star Railway is indeed very gorgeous, and the manufacturer's optimization of the new game has not yet kept up.

I found a few characters with cool skills to challenge the boss with the coolest skills,OnePlus 12I'm still quite satisfied with the smoothness of the picture quality,"Honkai Impact - Star Dome Railway" is not a real-time game, and the most important thing is that the picture is beautiful and gorgeous.

In actual testing, the performance of the OnePlus 12 is strong enough to meet various high-load (in fact, gaming) scenarios very well.

Fourth, the highly recognizable Hasselblad tone

Originally, the image system was the hardest hit area of the mobile phone manufacturers' mutual "volume",Seeing this year's OnePlus 12、Xiaomi 14Pro、vivo X100ProSuch a "big cup flagship",It is foreseeable that this year"Super Cup"The difference between "Big Cup" and "Big Cup" is only the difference between "image system",2023There will be no periscope telephoto,It can't be called a flagship。

OnePlus 12 uses three CMOS main camera levels to form a camera module, which are respectively

Wide-angle main camera: Sony LYT-808, 50 million pixels 1/1.4-inch equivalent focal length 23mm equivalent aperture F1.6;

Ultra-wide angle: Sony IMX581, 48 million pixels, 1/2-inch equivalent focal length, 14mm-equivalent aperture F2.2

Periscope telephoto: OmniVision OV64B, 64 million pixels 1/2-inch equivalent focal length 70mm equivalent aperture F2.6, 3x optical zoom, 6x optical quality zoom, 120x digital zoom.

The image system has the OPPO Find flagship algorithm and Hasselblad shadow tone blessing,I won't do the manual to explain the functions one by one,I don't want to evaluate any night scene、Macro and other individual functions,In 2023, I think the judging criteria for flagship mobile phones can't just be who shoots clearly。

The combination of multiple cameras is indispensable for the problem of inconsistent colors, such as Xiaomi 14pro, vivo X100Pro, and OnePlus 12. The color difference between the three cameras is still obvious, after all, the hardware is different, the difference is still obvious, but I think it should be consistent through algorithms, isn't it better?

For example, when switching from the main camera to macro mode, the colors will be noticeably different.

Hasselblad Shadow Tone is a great way to show off the contrast between light and shadow, and the texture is very strong when shooting portraits, still lifes or landscapes with light and shadow changes.

The "German flavor" Lycra and Zeiss colors are actually the distinctive atmosphere created by the color shift (inaccuracy) left over from the film era, and the "Hasselblad Shadow" can actually be well demonstrated by the picture below.

OnePlus 12 offers 3 Hasselblad Master filters: "Master Fairy Tale", "Master Portrait", and "Master Scenery".

Among them, the "Master Scenery" filter color is blue and biased to show light and shadow, which is very suitable for showing cold and desolate scenes, such as the northern courtyard after snow in the picture below.

The real photo without filters is posted below, you can compare it, I think it is very distinctive, but it is also very picky about the scene.

The overall blue style of "Master Scenery" is also very suitable for taking landscape photos with the sky, and the picture below shows Mount Tai under the 6x telephoto, which I personally feel full of atmosphere.

Pictures that don't use filters are actually nice to look at these days.

The same is true for "master portraits", which raises the contrast of the picture, highlights the texture of the skin tone, highlights the changes in light and shadow on the face, and the portrait is more artistic, and the face is picked, and the "senior face" with high recognition and angular angles is good to shoot.

The girl I photographed can see the obvious effect of light and shadow projection on the human face, the little girl's face has not grown, so it is average, it is really not a "high-level" effect, it is recommended that you use it with caution.

My favorite is the "Master Fairy Tale" filter, which has a brightness increase and slightly lower saturation, bright colors, and ruddy skin tones. The image below shows the portrait effect of the "Master Fairy Tale" filter in the same scene.

"Master fairy tale" The skin tone of the filter is really good-looking at a glance,I don't know if it's the credit of Hasselblad or the OPPO image team has made an exclusive optimization for the skin tone of the Chinese people.,Shoot my daughter and look good no matter how you shoot。

The "Master Fairy Tale" filter can also be used to shoot colorful scenes, which can also make people poison at a glance, which is really beautiful.

The following three pictures once again show the architectural pictures taken at the same time and angle without filters, master fairy tales, and master landscapes, so that you can clearly know their style orientation.

Without filters, the colors of the photos taken by the OnePlus 12 can also show the real-world light and shadow changes well under the premise of conforming to the real color of the environment, and without the blessing of stylization, it looks more natural and friendly.

However, it is unknown how much of the Hasselblad watermark has been blessed.

Whether it's artistic creation or recording life, the most important thing in taking pictures is to take pictures of people and objects to look good and take high-end photos, OnePlus 12 is very good, as for the details of the parameters, magnifying the number of hairs is really not important.

PS: All pictures are turned on30% of the character beauty pictures are uploaded to the media platform compressed, focusing on one atmosphere.

5. Charging range

OnePlus 12 is equipped with a 5400mAh large battery, the battery specifications are the same as those of the Blue Factory X10OPro, far exceeding the 4800mAh of Xiaomi 14Pro, and the actual battery life is also obviously advantageous. In order to take into account the huge size of the imaging system and maintain a long battery life, flagship mobile phones are generally conservative in terms of charging specifications, OnePlus 12 is equipped with 100W fast charging and 50W wireless fast charging solutions.

The measured 10-minute charging is more than 50, and the 25-minute meter shows 100% power, OnePlus 12 is the benchmark of a certain factoryPro flagship pro-test 120W fast charging is about 35 minutes to fully charge, obviously it is 120W number larger.

100W>120W, Meizu inequality belongs to yes.

PS: The charging speed is greatly affected by the temperature of the fuselage, and the charging power will also be reduced if the fuselage temperature is too high, and the above data only represents the charging speed performance of the machine at hand.

Since I don't travel much and basically stay in the office all day, wireless charging is a feature I've always liked.

I also purchased a OnePlus 50W AIRVOOC wireless fast charging charger for OnePlus 12, which can be charged to about 45% in 30 minutes after multiple measurements.

In fact, wireless charging saves the trouble of frequently plugging and unplugging cables, as long as the power is not as fast as Apple, OnePlus's 50W personal feeling is enough to use.

In terms of battery life, OnePlus 12 is really top, the official DOU is 1.79 days, and the battery drops only 1% after 7 hours of sleep, and I personally think it can last for two days if you don't play games.

PS: I don't have a day when I don't play games, it's just subjective guessing. I also felt that the OnePlus 12's battery was particularly durable when playing games.

As shown in the figure below, when the Honor of Kings app is turned on and the lightning start, the game is 2 hours and 29 minutes, and the standby time is 11 hours and 30 minutes, which only consumes 8.23% of power, about 449mAh battery power.

Sixth, fingerprint recognition, vibration interaction is miscellaneous

OnePlus 12's vibration motor is also the strongest in the industry, the bionic vibration motor 0916Turbo, the vibration is strong and crisp, and the typing is opened to the maximum, giving people the feeling of hitting a mechanical keyboard.

In addition, the adaptation scenarios of the vibration motor are also very rich, such as unlocking, taking screenshots, multitasking and other interactions.

The vibration of the alarm clock and phone prompts is extremely strong, and it feels like it is about to take off when it is placed on the table, and it looks like electrotherapy in the pocket.

OnePlus 12 uses an ultra-thin under-screen fingerprint, the position of the fingerprint recognition is very good, the unlocking speed is fast, the animation is smooth, and there is nothing to complain about.

In addition, OnePlus 12 also features a wet hand touch function, which basically does not affect the touch when the screen is splashed.

Wireless reverse charging, infrared remote control, full-featured NFC and other mobile phone application scenarios are all "Page", in terms of rich functions, OnePlus 12 really no one can beat it.

7. Summary

OnePlus 12As a blockbuster product launched at a key time node of the OnePlus brand for ten years, it has comprehensive functions and strong performance, which can be said to be a rare "polygon warrior" on the market.

I borrowed the Xiaomi 14Pro, and I am interested in these two Snapdragon 8gen3 "big cup flagships", and if you want to see the comparison review, remember to like and follow, and I will try to update their comparison review next week.