OnePlus Nord Unboxing

So the moment has come. There's been a lot of talk, a lot of speculation, as you're well aware

It's the new product from OnePlus. Whole new name, whole new product. OnePlus Nord, getting back to

the roots, getting back to the budget value mindset in the form of a new product. This isn't early

unboxing the time that I'm filming this. You should be aware. So there's still some questions for me

but I think I'm going to get all my answers inside of this box. Now, before I do get inside here

I want to remind you of the giveaway, which was the previous video that came up

I actually have, look at this, I have like eight of these things to give away to you guys

So go check out that video if you haven't seen it yet for your chance to win one of these for yourself

But yes, this is the unboxing experience. Meet the OnePlus Nord, a smartphone with the smooth experience, powerful cameras

and exceptional quality you'd expect from us. Pretty much everything you could ask for, all within a couple of boxes, or four actually, within a bigger box

So five boxes. How about the box poetry there? Or a riddle, it might be

All right, so I think we grab right here. I believe this entire piece comes off

Yes, it does. Now keep in mind, this is not the retail package

This is a special version of the package. ah because they've included the first party accessories of course so we do have some

cases over here on the side as well as the retail version of the device

all right so the cases this looks like a black sandstone bumper case pretty simple stuff

they've also got a blue sandstone bumper case is it sandstone also sandstone and then a pretty

straightforward clear bumper case and of course if you want to go for something different something

thin there will be a later case for the oneplus nord as well and you can pre-order it right now

i'll link it in the description here's what it looks like on the oneplus 8 pro that i'm using

currently all right so this is a gray onyx 256 gigs of storage and 12 gigs of ram in a budget

minded value device this has the snapdragon 700 series chip in it but oneplus says there's all

kinds of software optimizations to make it feel incredibly smooth to go along with the 90 hertz

display that also happens to be in here you guys know you've heard in the past i'm a big fan of

faster refresh rates and that popping up in the budget minded devices as well

Okay. Woo. Now this has unveiled this teal color

I don't know if this is going to be a kind of theme color

for the Nord brand going forward, but they have leaned on this color

and a lot of the material they put out on the Instagram page and all the rest of it

So maybe going forward, that's the theme color. This way, Nord. So we have the indication right away

of the in-display fingerprint scanner in this location here. Flip this around and we don't learn too much else

Let's look at the other items inside the package. We have some paperwork

Oh, and a case to actually get you started in there as well. There's a welcome letter

Dear friend, today when a new phone hits the market, we often ask, what are the specs

But then we would be asking the wrong question because if the experience is smooth

if the camera is powerful and the quality is exceptional, if everything works just the way we expect

do the specs really matter? OnePlus Nord brings new focus and refinement

to the essentials of the modern smartphone So there your team And what they basically saying is hey we feel like we put a package together here that you gonna be satisfied with and maybe it not all about specs

And well, obviously they have the other products in the lineup as well, in the form of the OnePlus 8

and 8 Pro, whatever set of specs you're looking for, they have something for you now

but this is certainly a return to the roots from a price to performance kind of perspective

So yes, there's a clear case, kind of a standard clear case also inside the package

We can do a quick comparison to the more premium clear case over here

So there you can see the two options. This one will get you started

give you a little bit of protection on the device, if that's what you're looking for. and then this steps it up a little bit

This is a slightly harder material. Also inside the package, you have the OnePlus charge cable

This is your standard red and white style that they've been using for a while

Type C on one side, type A on the other. And this of course pairs to a fast charge power brick

or as OnePlus calls it, warp charge. This is the warp charge 30, 30 watt fast charge capable

All right, Warp Charge 30T, smart and fast. It will recharge the 41 milliamp hour battery

that's inside of the OnePlus Nord to 70% in half an hour

So that's the spec that they wanna share. Okay, let's remove the wrap

So there it is, the OnePlus Nord. It's kind of crazy to see it in real life

because I've been talking about this thing and the leaks and the rumors and just covering it a lot

especially on the Lou Later channel. And now it's here. It's a real thing and it exists

And of course, I've heard a little bit about the inspiration behind this device

and wanting to tie it in with the various other OnePlus devices

I think it fits. It definitely says OnePlus right away when you look at it

This is a kind of gray metallic finish that they're using on the back

You see the vertical camera design, which reveals a number of camera modules as well as a flash beside it

The edges are actually more curved than on the 8 Pro that I'm currently using

You have the power switch in this location as well as the OnePlus alert slider

This has been a signature of the devices for a really long time. I use this every day, to be honest

It has a nice texture to it, and it's easy to discern from the power switch if you reach into your pocket without looking

The volume rocker is over here on the other side. The bottom of the device, you have your SIM card tray as well as your Type-C connector

and that looks like the speaker grill beside that. And the other unique characteristic of this phone is the front-facing camera setup

because there are two front-facing cameras, including a wide. We're not seeing this all that frequently anymore

So for the selfie takers or the group shot takers, you're going to have a little bit more play, a little bit more versatility with the two camera modules in this kind of pill cutout

Alright, so I've got the device booted up. And honestly, the thing that hits you straight away with these OnePlus devices is just how Google-ish they are from an operating system perspective

So yes, there are various optimizations that go into it through the Oxygen OS mods that take place

but not in such a fashion that completely overhauls or overwhelms the user experience

And that's something that I like. In fact, on this particular unit, they just went ahead and put Google Messages in there

and some other native Google apps that don't even exist on the other OnePlus devices

So that a welcome addition as far as I concerned I always looking for something close to that vanilla Google experience And then if the enhancements that a manufacturer does don modify that too much

but just actually add to it, then that's a bonus. So as mentioned, this is a 90 hertz display

So it's got a fairly rapid refresh rate. And if you head in here, you have a couple of different settings here

You can actually toggle it back to 60 hertz if you want to save some battery life

instead of the ultra smooth movement. But myself, of course, I'll keep it at 90 hertz

There's some other screen calibration options for how you want colors to be represented

Of course, you can put this into dark mode. It has a couple of different ways to unlock the device

Of course, there's the inbuilt fingerprint scanner. I've registered my thumbprint, so that works kind of as expected

But it also has face unlock, which I've been a fan of in the past. So maybe I should go ahead and register it

because my kind of optimal unlock experience is the versatility of both

Sometimes I'll use face, sometimes I'll use thumbprint, depending on the circumstance

So let's go ahead and set up the face unlock and see if it's as fast as it's been in the past

I look at it, no thought necessary, hit the button, fast unlock

I'm just a fan of that. Now, like I said, sometimes the thumbprint is more convenient

So having both or the versatility, that's my choice when available. Now OnePlus gives you a few more customization settings around clock style, wallpapers, fingerprints

but also system customization for your accent color and your system icons

I can change the accent color to red just like that. I can change the system icons from round to square to teardrop

This is not an incredibly major thing. You can go in with your own launcher and do this fairly easily

but it's nice to see the manufacturer give you some customization options right within the OS

again, without being overbearing and attempting to change the look of Android altogether

Another interesting thing is OnePlus's decision to do the dual front-facing camera setup for the

selfie cameras. And so I'm curious about the focal length of each of those. So I'm just going

to go ahead and flip it around here. Maybe Kirk can get a better look of that. There's Kirk. You

got that so this is your typical focal length which is which is actually pretty wide to begin

with i mean that's a pretty wide shot there but you can go even wider that's a crazy wide shot

that's a group shot that's uh well i mean we could fit 10 people in there kirk so you get the whole

unbox therapy crew and all the dogs and even vin where's vin there he is over there just finished

a slice of pizza. He's not happy about that. Now on the rear, by comparison, we've got three camera

units and one of them is also a macro lens. This is something we're fairly used to at this point

We can go from your typical 1x shot to a fairly wide, ultra wide, and then also a zoom factor as

Well, so versatility in the camera department, that's what you're looking for really at any price point

So as far as the screen is concerned, I know a few people are gonna be interested

in what this hole punch, this notch is going to look like

when you zoom into a video. And so that's what you're working with

I've mentioned this in the past, but if you're gonna have some sort of a cutout

whether it's for a single camera or in this case, a dual camera, sticking it in the corner rather than the center

gets it more out of the way for video content. So even though you don't have the symmetrical design

you end up kind of pushing it down into a less important screen section for video consumption

As far as the resolution of this display is concerned, yes, it is an AMOLED display

and it's coming in at 2400 by 1080. All right, so that's your unboxing

of the brand new OnePlus Nord. I can't go in depth at the moment

In fact, I can't show camera samples and various other things because we are super early right now at the point of this unboxing video However I likely going to put my SIM card in here and use it over the coming weeks So if you have questions about

it, you can hit me up on social media, on Twitter, or in the comments section here, and I'll attempt

to get to the bottom of it over the next couple weeks. But it's nice to see OnePlus making a move

back towards its roots a little bit in the form of the Nord product. I think this is going to make

a lot of people happy. When the 8 and 8 Pro launched, there were some questions about the

future of OnePlus and where the attention was being placed. And a number of people were hoping

that there was some kind of value play in the future. That future exists now in the form of

the OnePlus Nord. The device is going to be available in two colors, blue marble and gray

onyx, which is the device that I've got in front of me here. It's running Oxygen OS 10.5, which is

and of course, based on Android 10. It's got the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 5G processor

with an Adreno 620. It's available in two different configurations for RAM

either eight gigabytes or 12 gigabytes, and storage options are 128 or 256

The battery is 4,100 milliamp hours, capable of recharging to 70% in half an hour

over warp charge 30, 30 watt fast charging. The display is 6.44 inches at 2400 by 1080 pixels

for an effective PPI of 408. Supports a refresh rate of 90 Hertz

And of course, it's also an AMOLED panel. The main camera sensor is the Sony IMX586

with 48 megapixels and an f1.75 aperture. The OnePlus Nord is capable of shooting 4K video

up to 30 frames per second, or it can shoot super slow-mo 1080p up to 240 frames

And remember, you have a chance to win one of these. I have eight OnePlus Nord units

that are looking for a new home. Go check out the giveaway video

I'll link it in the description of this video. It's pretty simple to enter

And yeah, you can have a chance to win one of these for yourself