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OnePlus Open Review: Stepping Up To The Crease
The OnePlus Open is a remarkably good folding phone with top performance, excellent design, and very good cameras
OnePlus Open Review: Stepping Up To The Crease
What we love
- Best inner display on a foldable
- Normal size outer display
- Incredibly good cameras
- Clever software
- Fast charging
What we don’t
- Not fully waterproof
- Very expensive
The OnePlus Open is an incredibly accomplished foldable phone despite it being OnePlus’s first go at one. It is a better looking and feeling device than the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5, with less of a crease in the folding screen and a more suitable sized outer display that is like using a regular smartphone.
OnePlus Open Review: Stepping Up To The Crease
The Open is also blessed with very good triple cameras that take frankly unbelievable photos for a foldable – every other folding phone compromises on camera performance to either keep the size or price down, but OnePlus has gone all-out. You might not love the big circular camera bump on the back, but we’d rather that than sub-par cameras on a £1,599 phone.
OnePlus Open Review: Stepping Up To The Crease
It’s a shame the price is so high. Even if it’s £150 cheaper than the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Google Pixel Fold, it’s still an awful lot to pay for a phone – especially as you have to fork out the full price because this phone isn’t being sold by any mobile operators on contract. But if you go for the OnePlus Open you’ll be rewarded by premium hardware build, awesome displays, great performance, and thoughtful software with updates guaranteed until 2028.
OnePlus Open Review: Stepping Up To The Crease
The absence of full waterproofing and wireless charging shouldn’t bother you too much, especially when you can charge the phone in about 40 minutes with the included fast charger. The OnePlus Open is one of the best folding phones you can buy in the UK.
OnePlus Open Review: Stepping Up To The Crease
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