Some phones that are in the studio, in the back of my mind, I wish I could convey the feeling of holding them in our video. OnePlus 15 is one of those phones that I want to review in this video and I hope I can convey the feeling to you. OnePlus 15 is this year’s flagship from OnePlus that we want to see how much it can beat the competition.(OnePlus: From “Flagship Killer” to Oppo’s Sibling)
Oneplus 15 design review
The first part of the design section, where ugh! This year, the design is really not in the hand. Now I’ll tell you one by one. If you look at the back of the phone, it has a matte sandstorm color frame; it feels soft, fun and matte. The camera protrusion is a very reasonable square, that’s matte. The logo is a shiny but beautiful logo that fits in its place.
We have the Gorilla Glass Victus 7i on the back of the phone and a Ceramic Shield has been applied. The point is that a series of processes have happened; this is fiberglass. If you draw a line on its black color, it will be erased with anything you touch. Even a line won’t come off on this color! It is so resistant that it is 3 to 4 times more resistant than aluminum in laboratory tests. It is aluminum all around, but again, with a series of processes and a series of technologies, a ceramic layer has been applied to it, which is still much more resistant to lines and scratches than the aluminum used in other phones.
The bottom of the phone is the Type-C port, SIM card tray, microphone and speaker. The right edge is the power button and volume up and down and antenna lines. The top of the phone is the speaker and microphone and again the antenna lines. The left edge has a shortcut button, like the iPhone’s action button, and again the antenna line. The front panel is the display as far as the eye can see; the bezels are extremely small, 91.2% of the front panel is the display. The selfie camera is in the punch hole and Gorilla Glass Victus 2.
This phone has an IP69K certificate. IP69K is the highest water and dust resistance certificate. What does it mean? It means you can wash the phone with a water jet at high pressure, you can put the phone in boiling water, you can put it in water up to a depth of 30 meters, and leave it in a depth of one meter for up to 30 minutes! It is extremely resistant to water and dust. And because of this design and the manufacturing technologies used in its material (fiberglass and ceramic), it is incredibly resistant. Of course, you should be careful! Its design, along with all this resistance, has a unique feel. I tell you and I give you a 100% guarantee that the best phone in terms of design this year is the OnePlus 15 and that’s it.
Oneplus 15 Screen Review
The next part is the screen; An LTPO OLED panel, with a refresh rate of 165 Hz, 1800 nits of brightness that supports HDR10+ and everything. That is, it has everything you need. There are just a few points; 1800 nits of brightness will get you going, but this year flagships are usually positive 2500 to 3000 nits. If you put this phone next to another flagship phone in equal conditions, the brightness is likely to be a little lower, but you still have no problem seeing it in bright light like under the sun.
The display is really everything. 165 Hz is the food for a number of games; a number of games can change from 1 to 165. Extremely clear, great contrast, great clarity, the quality is good. The display is great.
OnePlus 15 battery performance review
The next section is the battery section. The 7300 mAh silicon carbon battery is unmatched. I love this silicon carbon. How can the thickness be less but give you more battery capacity and better charging? It gives you 10 to 11 hours, sometimes 12 hours of screen time! That is, unparalleled. With normal use, you can work with it for up to a day and a half or 2 days. 12 hours, 11 hours of screen time is truly unparalleled. This battery is amazing. If you don’t use it too much, you might even reach the third day.
Do you know what’s interesting about it? It has a 120-watt adapter in the box; it is fully charged in under half an hour. It charges 7300 mAh in under half an hour. It also has wireless charging, but the point is that it doesn’t have Qi2. Why? Because the magnet can’t stick to it so that it can charge wirelessly at 25 watts, but you can charge it with a 120-watt cable. We can also see one of the strengths of this phone in the battery section. A full hour will drain the battery by about 8-9%, but the screen time it gives you in everyday use is unmatched. The charging speed is perfect.
Oneplus 15 Fingerprint Function
The next part is security; the under-display fingerprint sensor unlocks the phone quickly and easily.
OnePlus 15 camera review
We have 3 50-megapixel sensors. There is no Hasselblad this year. That is, there was no collaboration with OnePlus on the cameras. We have 3 50-megapixel sensors, the main sensor is clean and tidy. The only thing is that the dynamic range could be a little better, a little, but it’s not too bad. The point is that the processing it does on the photo may not be to your liking in some places. If you want to have a cleaner, more natural photo of a subject, especially if your subject is a person, sometimes this process that takes the photo and the AI that comes to improve it becomes a bit unnatural. But it’s cool, I mean unnatural is eye-catching, but it’s a bit far from reality.
The portrait photos it takes are clean and tidy photos; the main subject is well separated from the background. You can’t see any flaws in it 70, 80, maybe 90 percent of the time. On the other hand, it blurs the back very cleanly. But again, the point is that it performs a series of processes on the subject that make it look a little more beautiful than it really is, which may be pleasant for many, but may not be pleasant for some.
Its photos in night mode are also excellent; that is, you can see the least amount of noise and blurring of the subject you have in the photos you take in night mode. That is, it can do light metering beautifully. One of the strengths of this phone’s camera is good light metering.
Ultra-wide and telephoto camera performance
Two more 50-megapixel sensors; one is ultra-wide, and the ultra-wide and telephoto photos both have some color difference in the subject with the main camera. The color difference is natural, but the ultra wide does its job cleanly, the photos it takes are good. In low light, it’s a bit confusing to focus. The same thing happens with the telephoto. The telephoto is also a 50-megapixel 3.5x optical zoom, which we usually see on flagships up to 5x. In 3.5x optical zoom photos, the light decreases a bit, so it’s a bit difficult to focus. This is their only drawback, but the photos they take, both ultra wide and telephoto, are clean and clear. Of course, I can’t say that its camera is unique, because here we have Xiaomi’s Redmi K90 Pro Max, which has a better camera. In this price range, we also have phones from Honor, Oppo, and Vivo that can really have better cameras than this phone. But this phone’s camera is not as unique as the rest of its parts; it is doing a normal job well and can satisfy you nicely.
Video recording and selfie camera performance
It has 8K 30fps and 4K 120fps video recording. The videos you take with it have a neat and tidy stabilizer and its sharpness is also good, it doesn’t confuse you too much. You should have fun with its image quality. You can also take good videos with it.
Let’s go to the 32-megapixel selfie. I will take a selfie with it and then check it. You can see the selfie! I will zoom in; what detail, what brightness, what color and light, what exposure. A selfie is really a clean selfie. You just have to be careful to take a selfie a little focused, your hand doesn’t shake too much. Of course, it’s not a serious problem, the selfie is really a clean selfie.
Oneplus 15 Hardware Review
The next section is the processor section, where the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the flagship Android processor on this phone, is located. This phone here is the ROM. The ROM comes with ColorOS, the global ROM comes with OxygenOS. Since you are one of my old fans, you know that I am one of my old fans of OxygenOS. So if you want to buy it, the global one can be cool, but the ROM has a number of features that I will tell you later.
In terms of processing performance, it is really good; it plays all the games at their highest level. Then it has a game mode, where you can monitor FPS and ping and everything. While you are playing, in that gaming mode, you can open other apps, reply to my girlfriend’s messages! Along with all this, you can boost your gaming performance. Along with all this, the 165Hz display brings speed, clarity, and power to your hands in a number of games, and you have an attractive feeling from playing with this phone.
Oneplus 15 User Interface Review
Everything is clear and clean in the user interface. The difference between Color OS and Oxygen OS is exactly like a Chinese and German car. Both of them give you options, compare a Chinese and a German car. But the Chinese one comes with a wheelbarrow and dumps everything it has options on you; the German one comes with a wheelbarrow and dumps the options on you, leaving the ones you want that are very practical, cool, and attractive, giving you a nice feeling. This one has a wheelbarrow of options! You can customize the color, size, text, and I don’t know the dimensions, icons, themes, and everything, everything.
It also has a series of AI capabilities, some of which are exclusive to Google itself. You can use the Circle to Search and these. It has a series of features that can convert your voice to text, it can improve your voice. In photo editing, it can improve the quality of your photo, change the exposure of portraits, change the direction of light, and … remove the subject from the background.
Shortcut button features
And one interesting thing is that it has an AI that you can set as an action button. What does it do? It gives you an analysis. When you tap the screen twice, you can ask it questions about the features it gives you. When you tap the screen once, it analyzes the page you are on, you can ask it questions, and it gives you some data from that page. When you hold it down, it can record your voice and summarize that voice for you. The AI has its own name, Bruno, and it has some cool tricks like Gemini Live, which you can set as an action button by holding this button.
This button itself is like the iPhone action button, even its animation is like that. It’s called the Shortcut Button, and in the settings, you can set it to silent mode, Do Not Disturb, camera, flashlight, record, translate, and all of these, whichever you like.
Overall, I can say that the hardware is great, the user interface is full of options. The AI could have a few more tricks to make it more useful, but it’s not like it’s completely dead. It also gets updates for 4 years, which is 3 years less than Samsung and Google, which are 7 years old, which I don’t think is a weakness. It also gives you a lot of customization features, which is cool; That means you can work with your phone with a theme, a style, and a shape every day and make love.
The point of this phone is that it has a Chinese ROM. Chinese ROM has a few stories. First, it doesn’t have a Persian menu. Adding a Persian keyboard to it is a bit of a story, it’s not complicated. And when you turn on the phone, you don’t have Google Play; that is, you have to download Google Play and its application, then download any other Google app or any other application from Google Store or Google Play itself. This is not a very complicated limitation. Chinese ROM has a number of features, such as call recording, which is not on the global ROM.
Oneplus 15 speaker review
Let’s move on to the last part, the speaker performance and regular music playback. The sound is loud, but in the high tones, it doesn’t have very good bass, there is a bit of choking in it. The separation is not bad. The speaker could have been better and its competitors will definitely give you better speakers, such as the K90 Pro Max.
Is the OnePlus 15 worth buying?
Let’s get to the OnePlus 15 review summary:
- Design: This year’s one, without a doubt.
- Screen: One of the best of the year.
- Battery: Excellent; if not the best, it’s definitely in the top three.
- Camera: Average, good, not excellent. Okay, we have better cameras in this range.
- Hardware: Excellent, works well.
- User interface: Tasteful.
If I were you, the OnePlus 15 would be around this price and I wanted to recommend it to you, it has 2 serious competitors:
- One is the K90 Pro Max, which is 20% cheaper, and which focuses more on sound. The build quality and durability of this is much better than the K90 Pro Max, but in other areas it is a close match, the price is cheaper and it is worth buying more.
2H There is another phone, the Nothing Phone 3, which is almost as good as the Nothing Phone 3 in almost every way, for the same price. That is, you can put the Nothing Phone 3 in your back pocket and sit on it! That’s it.
This phone is a special, clean phone that, in my opinion, has nothing to do with the feel of a flagship. I say the camera is good, because there are better competitors, but the camera works beautifully. The feel and feel are truly unique. When you hold this phone in your hand, you feel like you have fallen in love.