Unveiling the Powerhouse: A Comprehensive Review of OnePlus 12 Specifications.

Review of OnePlus 12 Specifications. It's easy to get caught up in the Samsung new cycle this time of year. But this is the newly announced OnePlus 12. I think deserves just as much attention I'm going to say something a little crazy here. But I think that this phone in mid-January 2024 already has a very good chance of becoming top three smartphones of the entire year. Let me explain first of all I mean it comes with a proper box. I mean it is mostly a waste of space since this entire insert on top is just filled with booklet after booklet like we're still in 2002, but then underneath the phone, there is not just a USB C cable, but also a top-of-the-line 100 Watt charging brake. Which does sweeten the deal.

The phone also comes with a pre-applied screen protector. Which is not an assumed thing anymore and as we go through this phone. I just want you to keep in the back of your mind the price, because even though I will be comparing it to phones like the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, and the iPhone 15 Pro Max, unlike those phones which are $1,200 plus this is $799.

And for that, it doesn't just pass it absolutely Nails the six core pillars of a great smartphone. Design battery screen software speed and camera, but that one comes with a catch. So this is what the phone looks like and to be honest I love how confidently they've designed it. You've got this chrome rail on the sides which then melts into the back. You got a matte marble texture which feels a bit plasticky but looks Ultra Premium, and then a separate glossy marble on the cameras which is even paired with a smattering of glitter. 

This thing has the character of one of those insane Collector's Edition phones, but it's not one plus like past OnePlus phones it's nicely curved it's rounded it's comfortable and it's got an alert slider on top.  which I can see the appeal of as a way to shut your phone up while it's in your pocket but I don't think I'd ever use it while the phone's in my hand. Since there's no way that like this.

There you go it's easier than actually just tapping a virtual button on the screen, however, the phone does actually fix a separate problem, That I have been having you must have tried at some point using a touch screen when either your screen or your fingers are wet. 

And noticed how even a single drop of water is enough for your phone to think there's another finger on the screen, and all hell breaks loose.  Well, the OnePlus 12 has Aqua Touch which is a customized display chipset that pays very close attention and can differentiate between the two.  

Now it still can cause the occasional screen spasm like that this is not your new diving companion and sometimes the fingerprint scanner doesn't work when the phone's wet, but it is 90% there to just being able to ignore that water. Which is someone who catches up with the latest news in the world. While having a shower feels so freeing,

It's like finally after 10 years actually getting the full benefit from our phones being water resistant. The only thing that stops this design from being absolute top tier for me is that the phone is not the prettiest from the front the top corners look a bit like ears, because of the way the screen curves away on the sides, and you've also got that classic oversized bottom bezel. This frustrates me a little more each year as more and more of the competition starts to do away with it.  But now is where the phone starts to really separate itself. 

Number two is the battery. it feels like battery life is one of those things that almost every manufacturer is just scared to give you too much of they'll happily, give us two times the screen resolution or five times the camera resolution We need. But not the battery maybe companies are worried that you won't keep upgrading if your battery stays good or because God forbid they might have to make the design 0.1 mm thicker to accommodate it. Regardless the 1plus 12 is one of the few standouts, and I rate it for that it comes with a 5,400 mAh battery they've gone from Z.

Wireless charging capability to now supporting extremely high power 50 W wireless charging which can fully charge that massive battery in less than an hour, although it does require a specific OnePlus charging stand to get that speed. So I'll probably just stick to my standard Qi charger it's got reverse wireless charging to top up your friend's phones but then also you know that 100-watt charging Breck that we got in the box that can take your phone from 0 to 100 in 26 minutes.

So compared to current iPhones or even the new Samsungs the battery experience here is a tier above all completed by one very important final extra layer. Battery health realizing that this is very fast charging and such a powerful phone with the potential to generate lots of heat the company has also built in a separate power management chip, which effectively decides at any given point in time using the data from 14 temperature sensors around the phone plus one in the charging brick too, actually exactly what speed to charge at to ensure that your battery stays at the optimal temperature to both receive charge quickly, but also not get so hot that it's going to damage the battery.

Now every battery loses capacity over time, but OnePlus is saying that this mechanism combined with some very cool software trickery which I'm getting to all pull together to make the battery deterioration the slowest here that it's ever been meaning that even after 4 years of daily use. They're saying this phone will still perform like a brand new phone with a 4350 mAh. 

Capacity will still easily last a full day which is absolutely insane if true. But seriously while it's hard to obviously test them on that and they're definitely giving a best-case scenario there is definitely reason to believe that OnePlus knows how to optimize battery efficiently. I mean this thing especially after a couple of weeks as it learns your patterns is the best battery life of any phone I've ever had my SIM in. With really minimal standby drain you can leave this phone overnight and literally pick it up where you left off the next morning, and then you turn the thing on and you're greeted with pillar 3 the screen.

This phone alone breaks like 18 different smartphone display records it's a 120hz QHD plus resolution panel. with more importantly a new pixel structure, because you can have lots of pixels but it's also about how those pixels are arranged, and this blue diamond layout is optimized for better contrast and readability. Are you going to be able to tell probably not, I mean I put it side by side with other phones using different layouts and NADA. but to be fair this Arrangement also improves the longevity of the screen versus a lot of others it's got to 3.0 which is the newest Tech that lets phones scale their refresh rates even more precisely to match exactly what you're doing. it's all about wasting as little energy as possible, but then you want to know the craziest bit guess the max brightness of this phone in nits. if you've been following phones over the last few months you might have seen a couple capable of over 2,000 nits for the first time ever well the 1plus 12 can go to 4,500. 

4,500 is an absolutely Bonkers number I've never seen anything even remotely close to that in my life no TV, no monitor, nothing. it's so bright that, to be honest, it's going to have absolutely no bearing on your day-to-day use of the phone, and you'll only ever reach it while watching specifically High dynamic range content while Outdoors, but you know if you end up in the scorching Sun of the Sahara desert with nothing but your OnePlus 12 and a pre-downloaded. 

The phone is going to switch over to 2160 Hz PWM dimming. what on Earth am I talking about well okay quick lesson old phones used to have LCD displays which are essentially a white backlight that shines onto colored pixels and the way that you change the brightness of that LCD is just by reducing the power given to that backlight, but then we started getting these fancy OLED displays which are way richer and more Vivid because every single Pixel is its own individual LED but the problem then is that if you try to dim an OLED.

In the same way is used to dim your LCD by just reducing the power you give to the display then because each pixel is responsible for color as well as brightness, you also damage the color reproduction at lower power levels, Like Your Greens might start to look like Grays so many phones now use something called PWM dimming, which means that when your phone screen is on what's actually happening is that that screen is flashing on and off very quickly faster than your eyes can see it and then as you lower the brightness your pixels aren't actually getting dimmer but just the gaps between the off and on States are just getting wider your phone is spending more time in the off State and so appears to be dimmer. 

Problem solved right well not really because most Samsung and Apples do this refreshing either 240 times per second or 480 times per second which while fast is not fast enough that your brain doesn't subconsciously pick up on some of this rapid on of flashing so it can lead to headaches and strain especially at night just before bed.

OnePlus has decided to use both DC dimming at higher bright levels where you're not at risk of ruining your colors and then when brightness gets lower PWM dimming but at 2160 times per second best of both worlds and combined with a filter that reduces blue light on a hardware level, this is a screen that is both visually exceptional and also very eye-friendly and fun fact is also easier for us to film because it's not constantly flickering as the brightness gets low plus the display is protected by Gorilla Glass Victors 2, which while not the absolute latest and strongest glass from the company is more than strong enough to theoretically survive a pocket height drop without a case.

Please don't try it then you've got number four the software this phone and its oxygen OS4 is an absolute delight to use I do have a couple of gripes with it but they're all just small aesthetic things for one who decided that square icons were the way to go and why in the settings. Do I have every other option apart from circles how do you actually manage to get Squires octagons and rhombuses but not a circle.

I have no idea and just generally I don't think ever since OnePlus merged with Oppo the software has looked as good as it used to like the icons yes but also the menus the app draws feel more like an Oppo phone than it does the OnePlus phone look at this notification the fact that the name of the group is cut off to the completely unnecessary arrow and the icon that's covering some of the messages it just it could be better thankfully these complaints are only skin deep, because as soon as you delve a little deeper I got to hand it to them the software on this OnePlus 12 is one of the most thoughtful useful Android skins.

I've been on in ways that have actually made my life better like let's say you want to do a screen recording, you can now actually add your front camera footage to that feed of course when you're using the phone with one hand instead of having to enter what can be quite a clumsy one-handed mode, you just swipe up and every icon on the page comes to you this has become my default way to navigate now and quick launch which means straight from the fingerprint scanner, if you carry on holding down you can go right into any app you want leapfrogging, you past any potential distraction on the way. 

So I've set mine up to do all the key work things that I tend to use often plus it can even do actions like start a new Google doc, and the software is just intelligent. it does a lot of clever things that you don't think about but the fact that you don't think about them. This means that it's doing its job for example it'll reduce your notification volume and your vibration intensity. When you're full screen in an app. it knows that when you're full screen you're looking at your screen anyway so you don't need to be blasted, and you probably also don't want to be blasted.

When you lift your phone up to your ears it'll automatically answer an incoming call and it will also switch you from speaker phone into your earpiece, and fluid Cloud which is basically another Dynamic Island clone. but it lets you keep up with what's happening in a way that saves space on screen still a good feature.

I just wish it worked for more apps it seems to be quite specific right now but the phone does all of this while also making sure that any apps you've downloaded are not misbehaving. like I've had a couple of notifications come up telling me that say Instagram is draining too much battery in the background.  with one tap the phone will just start clamping down on them from now on still letting them function if they need to do something in the background, but just not letting them take the Mickey with it it's quite satisfying.

It's just disciplining them on your behalf and like every single option with regards to customizing the way your phone looks or functions. OnePlus just hands it to you no extra apps are needed even granular control over things like your status bar and your fingerprint-scanning animations. my entire first day with this phone I was just navigating settings there's that much to do there are a couple of cool, but probably unnecessary features like this Shelf which OnePlus encourages you to set as your swipe-down option instead of your notification bar, but, I mean there are more background status things that you check way less often.

So I never felt like I needed instant access to them and the other is anti- peeping notifications which when you set it up uses your front camera to see if someone else aside from you is also looking at your phone, and if they are it continues to send you your notifications. but just in a less revealing way very cool idea.

I think the OnePlus 12 is a killer phone there isn't much in the way of cool AI summarization features like you get with Samsung or Hy intelligent cameras like you get with Google but in terms of the cold hard fundamentals this thing is pretty much Nails every single one.

ONEPLUS 12 PHONE SPECIFICATIONS.

Specifications	Information	Detail
SCREEN DISPLAY	Type	LTPO AMOLED, 1B colors, 120Hz, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, 600 nits (typ), 1600 nits (HBM), 4500 nits (peak)
	Size	6.82 inches, 113.0 cm2 (~90.8% screen-to-body ratio)
	Resolution	1440 x 3168 pixels (~510 ppi density)
	Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2
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NETWORK	Technology	GSM / CDMA / HSPA / CDMA2000 / LTE / 5G
BODY	Dimensions	164.3 x 75.8 x 9.2 mm (6.47 x 2.98 x 0.36 in)
	Weight	220 g (7.76 oz)
	Build	Glass front (Gorilla Glass Victus 2), glass back (Gorilla Glass), aluminum frame
	SIM	Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Dual SIM (2x Nano-SIM, eSIM, dual stand-by) or Dual SIM (2x Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
LAUNCH	Date Launching	2023, December 11
USB	Type	USB Type-C 3.2, OTG
PLATFORM	Operating System	Android 14, OxygenOS 14 (International), ColorOS 14 (China)
	Chipset	Qualcomm SM8650-AB Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (4 nm)
	CPU	Octa-core (1x3.3 GHz Cortex-X4 & 3x3.2 GHz Cortex-A720 & 2x3.0 GHz Cortex-A720 & 2x2.3 GHz Cortex-A520)
	GPU	Adreno 750
MEMORY	Card Slot	No
	Internal	256GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 16GB RAM, 1TB 16GB RAM, 1TB 24GB RAM
FRONT CAMERA	Triple	50 MP, f/1.6, 23mm (wide), 1/1.43", 1.12µm, multi-directional PDAF, OIS 64 MP, f/2.6, 70mm (periscope telephoto), 1/2.0", 0.7µm, PDAF, OIS, 3x optical zoom 48 MP, f/2.2, 14mm, 114˚ (ultrawide), 1/2.0", 0.8µm, PDAF
	Features	Hasselblad Color Calibration, Dual-LED flash, HDR, panorama
	Video	8K@24fps, 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/240/480fps, Auto HDR, gyro-EIS, Dolby Vision
REAR CAMERA	Single	32 MP, f/2.4, 21mm (wide), 1/2.74", 0.8µm
	Feature	Auto-HDR, panorama
	Video	4K@30fps, 1080p@30fps, gyro-EIS
SOUND	Loudspeaker	Yes, with stereo speakers
	3,5 mm Jack	No
BATTERY	Type	Li-Po 5400 mAh, non-removable
	Charging	100W wired, PD, QC, 1-100% in 26 min (International) 80W wired, PD, QC, 1-100% in 30 min (USA) 50W wireless, 1-100% in 55 min (advertised) 10W reverse wireless
COMM
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6e/7, tri-band, Wi-Fi Direct
	Bluetooth	5.4, A2DP, LE, aptX HD, LHDC
	Location	GPS (L1+L5), GLONASS (G1), BDS (B1I+B1c+B2a), GALILEO (E1+E5a), QZSS (L1+L5), NavIC
	NFC	Yes, eSE, HCE
	Infrared Port	Yes
	Radio	No
FEATURE	Sensor	Fingerprint (under display, optical), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, color spectrum
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