insane performance and battery life thanks to new chipset and silicon carbon battery
Contrary to what many keyboard warriors on reddit are saying, this is a great phone. The performance is incredible with everything you do feeling very fluid and smooth. Great 2 day battery life even with extensive, demanding usage throughout the day. Handles multitasking very well and has many very unique, quirky UI features that make this phone very pleasant to use and easy to transition to from a different UI. The camera is nothing remarkable, but is not bad by any means at all, photos are clear, crisp and well colored. Night photos could be better but that is a small complaint. Sound quality is well balanced with an exception of a bit of a heavier low end. Dolby Atmos (dubbed holo audio on OP15) sounds amazing with shows, games, and movies. The screen quality is on par with Apple and Samsung, (people were complaining about the pixel-by-pixel resolution being downgraded but this is due to the change in screen size and is a very small change that is not noticeable to the human eye), incredibly crisp, well colored, clear display. Durability is not bad but nothing to blow a gasket over either. Its a pretty durable phone but on par with the Samsung with the exception of the paint being more scratch resistant on the OP. Overall a very enjoyable phone to use. I look forward to see what OnePlus will do in the future, this phone is a leap forward in smartphone hardware in the United States. If you are looking for a new phone outside of the Apple and Samsung ecosystems, I could not recommend this phone more. Performance wise it blows other flagships out of the water. Amazing value in a great and highly capable phone.

Incredible phone with pretty neglible compromises
Great phone. With light use I only use a little over 10% at the day. I’m not a fan of the iphone like aesthetics, but behind the skin and design, it still retains the advantages of an android here in early 2026.Pretty thin, large screen, and average weight.Camera is good and although I won’t be beating the newest iphone camera in shots, the gap in quality isn’t too far behind. Low light shots are a weakness, but tbh I don’t take many photos in the dark.The battery is incredible. Even with heavy use leaving youtube on all day, I still come away with about 40%.Coming from the Zenfone 9, I miss the 3.5mm jack, but buying a usb-c dac mostly solves the problem. I’m not worried about charging and listening at the same time since the battery is so robust.The phone has a lot of AI features so please go into your settings and enable/disable at your own leisure.At full price it is a very good phone, but if you find it with a deal like the $100 gift card promotion it’s a no-brainer. It can accommodate dual sims and an esim so you have flexibility.There are some apps like the game assistant that feel vaguely bloaty, but they can be disabled easily. Even if Samsung reduced their bloat, both they and the Pixel are absolutely lapped in real day use. The cherry on top is the proprietary vooc charger which is so fast, sometimes I mistake the charge % while plugged in for a stopwatch.

The Absolute Best of Android
This phone is blazing fast and has a good camera system. The build quality is superb as well and it’s probably one of the most durable phones on the market. I don’t know what else you could really ask for? And it’s a bonus that it’s not Apple or Samsung with their bland yearly releases.