OnePlus 9 and Pro, What’s The Difference between Them?
March 24, 2021OnePlus has finally announced its devices for this year. The company’s latest flagship phones, the One Plus 9 Pro and 9, seem far superior than the phones that they will replace. Featuring thin aluminium frames, the new offerings have a sleeker design and Hasselblad branding on the rear camera frame.
That’s right, OnePlus teamed up with Hasselblad, one of the best camera makers in the world, to build a great camera system. The new phones are the first in a long line of devices that the duo will work on together, in the near future. A lot of the work that was done by Hasselblad pertained to sensor calibration and fine tuning the color performance.
Though both the 9 and 9 Pro and look similar, there are subtle differences between the two. The former is lavished with a triple camera ssetup: 48MP main Sony MX789 sensor, 50MP ultra-wide and a 8MP telephoto. The latter gets the same 48MP and 50MP sensors but has a monochrome camera in lieu of the telephoto.
The 48MP sensor is capable of shooting 4K videos at 120fps nd features 2×2 on-chip lens (OCL), 12-bit RAW, dual native ISO, and DOL-HDR. The 50MP has a freeform lens that uses a series of unique curves to correct the incoming light, bringing distortion at the edge of photos down to around 1%. It can focus on subjects are just 4cm away.
Then, there’s the Telephoto camera. It comes with optical image stabilization and a 30x digital zoom. Working with the main sensor, it can detail and layering to black and white photos, while a new tilt-shift simulates the special miniature effect of a tilt-shift lens. The new Hasselblad Pro Mode is supposed to help capture accurate and natural pictures.
OnePlus has given the 9 Pro a 6.8-inch QHD+ display while the 9 inherits the 6.65-inch 1080p one of the OnePlus 8T. Both get the same variable 120Hz refresh that can be adjusted to suit what’s on screen. The rate can be reduced to 1Hz when needed and help lower power consumption.
The 9 Pro’s screen boasts low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) technology, the most advanced backplane technology used in high-end OLED displays. It also has 1,300 nits of peak brightness, native 10-bit color depth, E4 emitting material, HDR10+, MEMC, automatic color temperature adjustment, front and back ambient light sensing.
Both phones are powered by the latest Snapdragon 888 chipset and LPDDR5 memory but the 9 Pro gets up to 12GB of RAM while the 9 tops out at 8GB only. Both use UFS5.1 storage, which allow for accelerated data transfer speeds. That’s not the only thing that’s fast about these phones.
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Their dual battery (4,500mAh) battery design enable them to take advantage of the 65W fast charging tech called warp charge. It takes just 29 minutes to fully charge these phone from 1%, which is nothing short of impressive. And while the 9 Pro supports the 50W wireless changing the 9 has to make do with just 15W.
Expect the new OnePlus phones to fly off the shelves soon……
