OnePlus 13 Review The Bar Has Been Set!!! #tech
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00:00so i've been dailying this phone for about three weeks now it's really good but it's also really
00:08exciting because there are three things in this phone that are going to be trends in smartphones
00:15for all of 2025 so even if this phone isn't for you there's gonna be a lot more phones like it
00:20that are really good which is sick so those three things are the incredible battery the chip
00:26and the record-breaking display so let's just get right into this battery it's an easy place to
00:31start this is the one plus 13 and it has a 6 000 milliamp hour battery this perfectly reasonably
00:38sized kind of slim phone without being super thick has a battery literally double the capacity of the
00:44galaxy s8 it's kind of nuts actually so if you've been keeping track of phone battery sizes for the
00:50past few years you might be wondering what is happening like how is this jump all of a sudden
00:56happening with a bunch of phones like the galaxy s24 ultra from last year this you know full-size
01:00mega flagship has an enormous 5 000 milliamp hour battery but yet suddenly there's a bunch of new
01:05phones in the past few weeks that are not thicker that have a 5 500 6 000 even 7 000 milliamp hour
01:13battery like what is happening and the answer is silicon carbon these new batteries without getting
01:19too technical they are still lithium-ion batteries but with a new silicon carbon anode or a mixture of
01:25silicon and graphite but the results have really spoken for themselves they've been bangers more
01:29energy density obviously but also enabling faster charging and a greater range of operating temperatures
01:36so pretty much great all the way around it's also pretty new so this is a bit of expensive technology
01:42so it's going to be in flagships mostly to start but this is the first part of a wave of new phone
01:47shipping with them this will be great for small phones having better batteries this will be great
01:51for folding phones like we've seen already with the honor magic v2 which is impossibly thin but has
01:565 000 milliamp hours of capacity and that is absolutely how we got this one plus 13 being thinner
02:04and lighter than the one plus 12 yet having a 10 larger battery it was honestly hard to find a day
02:11to challenge it and try to drain the whole thing the truth is even with my high brightness use plenty
02:17of multitasking this is a two-day phone at 120 hertz and i turned it up to high resolution i had days
02:23of like hours of you know gps navigation high brightness a whole bunch of stuff happening bluetooth
02:29streaming a whole ton and i'd end the day with six hours of screen on time and i'd still have 35
02:36battery left so i basically can't kill it in a day it's sick but when it finally does get low it has
02:4180 watt fast charging so it can go from zero to 100 in 36 minutes and it supports 50 watt wireless
02:48charging with the right charging pad this is the best that smartphone batteries have been since the
02:53beginning of the modern smartphone i promise this is a great battery and there's going to be a lot more
02:58like it that's the exciting part hell yes so that's number one the battery number two is this new chip
03:04inside as well this is the snapdragon 8 elite chip in this phone and you know this new chip comes out every
03:10year from qualcomm and a bunch of us flagships use it and typically we see you know five percent
03:15improvements here ten percent improvements there if we're lucky and that's respectable but this year
03:21the improvement over last year's best has been way bigger it has a 31 percent higher cpu clock speed
03:28it scored 36 percent higher on the antutu benchmark 44 percent higher on the single core geekbench it jumps
03:36up 14 percent on 3d mark like this thing is putting up bullet chamberlain numbers i'm loving it now if
03:42you're just opening up instagram or flipping through emails it kind of sounds like none of this is going
03:47to matter and you'd mostly be right but i love to see this type of jump on both power and efficiency
03:54because it means if you're pushing the chip it's been shown to hold high frame rates and high power
03:59outputs for longer without throttling but if you aren't gaming and you are just bouncing around casual
04:04apps or scrolling blue sky or emailing or whatever it turns out your battery efficiency gets much
04:10better too so this chip has been great in a couple of phones that it started to show up with late last
04:14year uh rog phone 9 pro red magic 10 pro great performers great gaming phones but now it's going
04:21to also start to show up in regular flagships i'm pretty sure galaxy s25 lineup is going to have this chip
04:26and it's going to be great too so lots more phones to also have that this year so number one is the
04:32battery it's great number two is the chip it's great number three last but not least is around
04:38the front and it's this display uh holy nits so i called this a record-breaking display earlier which
04:45might not mean much because you know every year there's been a new record-breaking phone with the
04:48highest max nits uh this is another one on that streak 1600 nits in high brightness mode 4500 nits peak
04:57brightness and apparently this is the world's first display that's gotten an a plus plus from
05:03display mate whatever that means i feel like i'm getting dxomark flashbacks here what you really need
05:09to know is this is a big display that looks really good all of the time and it achieves that because
05:15on paper it absolutely does not miss it's 6.82 inches corner to corner quite hd plus resolution
05:22so it's nice and sharp 120 hertz ltpo it's mostly flat with like just the very edges curving over
05:30just slightly so i can forgive that it has great viewing angles and it just gets insanely bright from
05:36corner to corner and it can get super dim as well plus it has 2160 hertz high frequency pwm dimming for
05:43those with sensitive eyes and there's an ultrasonic fingerprint reader underneath that's crazy fast
05:48and it also has a new glove mode for increased sensitivity while wearing thin gloves and aqua
05:54touch 2.0 which does a great job at keeping the screen responsive when there's water on it
05:58which a lot of older phones struggle with the peak brightness number the 4500 nits is you know
06:03it's an impressive very big number but it doesn't really mean that much it can't do that on all the
06:09pixels at once and also the oneplus 12 had the same number but it's more just about the crazy full
06:15screen brightness if you're out in the sun taking pictures or if it's up in your dash like this
06:20this screen gets insanely bright and it's surrounded by basically no bezels they're even all the way
06:25around what more could you ask for from a screen so look i'm excited for a bunch of other phones to
06:30also be coming out this year with the same impressive big three that this phone has they can have this
06:36awesome battery this great chip and an incredible display but what you may have also noticed is that is
06:43three of my five pillars of a great smartphone the other two being build quality and cameras
06:51and this phone does pretty good with those also so i think the design and build is pretty nice this
06:56is good hardware there's three colors to pick from and they do this thing where the base version which
07:01is 900 bucks is only available in the black but then the upgraded one for a thousand bucks you can get
07:06in any color including this nice blue vegan microfiber leather it's kind of soft to the touch and i like
07:12it now but there's also still an alert slider on the flatter sides which is a crowd favorite i
07:17personally use it every day the vibration motor inside is super good it's really precise and oneplus
07:22has also hilariously leveled up their ip rating their certification for water and dust resistance it's
07:29not ip68 it's ip69 it's nice which means it can be not just submerged but also can sustain high pressure
07:38water jets at extreme temperatures which is crazy and it's also funny because i remember a few years
07:43ago oneplus not wanting to pay for ip certification at all so now they're on the total opposite end this
07:49phone can survive the laundry or being in the dishwasher if that happens to you now there's no qi2
07:56magnets built into this phone but uh i really like what they've done with their cases so they've got these official
08:03cases that have magnet rings in them and they are basically the exact same diameter as magsafe so now
08:13this phone with this case on it works with all of my magsafe accessories and i know that might not
08:19seem like a big deal since most people buying this phone you know don't already have an iphone and a
08:23bunch of iphone accessories lying around but what it does do is basically unlock a whole world of
08:30accessories for this phone so with this case on i've been using all my magsafe phone mounts in the
08:36car or any magsafe charger or dock they all work and just lock right in firmly with the magnet it's
08:43great maybe the only design downside that i don't like is the camera bump is kind of awkwardly slightly
08:49to one side but that's not a huge deal speaking of cameras though that's the other pillar and this phone
08:54has a solid set of cameras it's it's definitely not its strength this is kind of you've seen this
09:01before this is the oneplus story where they they have fast phones super smooth great charging and
09:06all that it's just the cameras are a notch below other flagships it's not a bad camera it's just
09:11if you're gonna have an awesome spec'd out flagship but also undercut the other flagships
09:16then you gotta save a little money somewhere so the oneplus 13's primary camera is the 50 megapixel
09:21sony lyt 808 sensor with an f1.6 aperture essentially the same as the oneplus 12. it is
09:28clearly look it's gathering a lot of light and the pictures during daytime and in nice conditions
09:32are really nice it's even good for a little soft depth of field with close-up subjects and it does
09:37a good job of freezing moving action and has good autofocus it's just that performance drops extra hard
09:43when the light goes away which feels like an obvious statement it's like saying a tire loses
09:47traction when the ground is wet but it's just a little worse than other competing flagships here
09:53so it gets a little softer gets a little hdre more often with lights and is definitely a victim of the
10:01make every dark photo look bright syndrome that we've observed in a lot of phones in the past
10:06rarely is anything actually in a deep shadow with this type of processing and then there's also a 50
10:11megapixel ultra wide and a 50 megapixel 3x tri-prism telephoto camera which offers some space savings
10:18over a periscope zoom but that's about it and their performance in the dark is worse than the main camera
10:24video quality is definitely passable though i like that basically every new flagship phone now can shoot
10:294k 60 from all three lenses and this one can also shoot 8k 30 from the main camera this is the
10:36fifth generation of this oneplus hasselblad partnership and i remember when it first got
10:42announced back in the day and people were wondering if this is going to be anything special or if it was
10:47more along the same lines of what we've seen from like sony and zeiss or xiaomi and leica and to be
10:53honest apart from you know some portrait mode stuff and the orange shutter button and a few tweaks to
10:59their pro mode honestly it's turned out to be right in line with those there wasn't some dramatic
11:04reinventing of color science or suddenly a huge revolutionary new sensor but it's just a little
11:10bit better than before it's fine it's not i mean people again you're not buying this phone just for
11:14this camera but it's not a disaster it'll hold up and it'll be fine now some of you might have noticed
11:19ai is not yet one of my pillars of a great smartphone it's not really close to the list yet but it is
11:26in some of this os there are some features with ai built in and the camera and some operating system
11:32stuff but honestly the os is more important you could argue that could be a pillar and i think some
11:37people will buy this phone just for the os and i think they'd be right oxygen os 15 is still so fast
11:44and smooth and brings android 15 features and a tiny bit of a coat of fresh paint over a lot of things
11:51along with uh some shall we say familiar elements like they added this little dynamic island copycat
11:59feature so hey if you liked apple's dynamic island well you'll feel right at home with the oneplus 13
12:05they're actually called live alert capsules but it also literally shows up in settings if i search
12:11island so i think they know what they're doing but anytime music is playing or if you have hotspot or a
12:17screen recording going on this little bubble pops up around the selfie camera and then you can tap it to
12:22bring up a card with the controls for that activity and then you can always long press to jump into the app
12:28itself so look if you're gonna copy stuff copy the good stuff right also i got it i have to at least
12:34take a second and i don't know how to feel about this yet maybe i'm curious what your takes are on
12:39this but there's this whole genre of phone testing videos i've seen mostly on twitter where all they
12:47really do is they just open and close apps super super fast a bunch of them in a row just to test the
12:53animations like this and a part of me is like what that's not how anyone uses their phones like who
12:58cares i wouldn't have known if my phone passed that test or failed whatever but also oneplus has
13:04specifically seen those tests and optimize this phone change the animations to do really well on that
13:09test now so here's the galaxy s24 ultra doing this and the oneplus 13 i promise it's not something
13:18i would take into consideration when buying a phone and i don't think i'd even notice it for
13:22everyday stuff but i guess it's impressive that they've done it they've optimized this animation
13:27chain thanks honestly though as a whole oxygen os on this phone it's gonna be pretty familiar to
13:32anyone who's used any previous oneplus phones or oppo phones with a couple ai features sprinkled in now
13:38like i still think circle to search is awesome there's also an ai editor in the stock camera app now
13:44with things like ai unblur and reflection eraser and detail booster and some of which work okay
13:52sometimes but also other times they're still very obviously ai and not that good and all of which
13:58require an internet connection to work and there's also some writing features that can do things like
14:04summarizing or adjusting tone or proofreading text but it only works in the oneplus notes app
14:11which is a fine app but it would have been nice if it worked in other places too and it also requires
14:16an internet connection they usually call me a bit of a skeptic on a lot of these ai features actually
14:21being useful but in general like i said the software smooth super fast it's really good and it will be a
14:26reason why some people would buy this phone over say a vivo flagship for example uh well that and the
14:33price but yeah oneplus trying to undercut other flagships by being slightly cheaper than them
14:38we've seen it before that's their formula and they're sticking to it but i'm excited about the
14:43fact that everyone else can also stick to their formulas here and it still means we're going to get
14:49much better batteries chips and displays across the board so i think we're winning here sick thanks for
14:57watching catch in the next one peace
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