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The video compares the OnePlus 12 and Google Pixel smartphones, focusing on design, display characteristics, hardware specs, software features, camera performance, and overall device quality. While the Pixel is praised for aesthetics and camera quality, the OnePlus 12 shines in hardware specs, battery life, and charging speeds. OnePlus offers better performance and features like Oxygen OS4 and faster charging, making it a preferred choice for many users despite the Pixel's camera superiority. The OnePlus 12's camera is highly praised, and the device is deemed better overall due to its performance advantages.
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In this segment of the video, the focus is on the OnePlus 12 smartphone being compared to the Google Pixel. The OnePlus 12 is targeted at the $800 price point in the US and $849 in the UK, undercutting the Pixel by a couple of hundred dollars in the UK. The video highlights the design differences between the two phones, noting the OnePlus 12 feels chunkier and heavier than the Pixel. Both phones have high-end features, but the Pixel’s design is preferred for its aesthetics over the OnePlus 12’s slightly cluttered design. Display characteristics, such as screen size and brightness, are discussed, with OnePlus boasting a higher peak brightness rate of 4500 nits compared to the Pixel’s 2400 nits. The OnePlus 12 comes in a black variant with a matte texture and sparkly sandstone finish, while the Pixel’s design is praised for its streamlined profile.
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In this segment of the video, the focus is on comparing Google’s Pixel phone to OnePlus. The Pixel is praised for its looks, particularly the colorway, but OnePlus outshines with superior hardware specs including the latest Snapdragon processor, more storage options, faster charging speeds, and a bigger battery. OnePlus offers better battery life and quick charging up to 100 WTS. OnePlus software, Oxygen OS4, is highlighted for its smooth performance and quick out-of-the-box experience, resembling iOS with plain aesthetics.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker highlights key features of Oxygen OS and Pixel 8 Pro. Oxygen OS offers multitasking features like small floating windows and smart sidebar, while Pixel 8 Pro excels in AI features such as Magic photo editor and call screening. Google promises seven years of software updates and monthly security patches for Pixel 8 Pro, while OnePlus offers 4 years of updates but with a less frequent security patch schedule. The camera comparison between OnePlus and Pixel shows OnePlus coming closer to Pixel’s quality, with OnePlus exceling in low light performance but lacking in color science compared to Pixel. Overall, Pixel is still considered the winner in the camera contest.
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In this segment of the video, the comparison between OnePlus and Google cameras is discussed. OnePlus tends to produce sharper images with more sharpening in processing, while Google’s images are slightly softer. Google’s ultrawide camera offers a wider field of view and better exposure compared to OnePlus, but Google may over-brighten images at times. The telephoto performance comparison reveals that OnePlus’s three times camera captures more detail than Google’s hybrid zoom. OnePlus excels at closer portrait shots with its higher resolution and brighter aperture. In challenging lighting conditions, Google’s camera performs better with sharper images and superior dynamic range. In video capabilities, Google produces warmer hues with brighter and evenly exposed footage, while OnePlus offers slightly brighter nighttime videography with stabilization, but at the cost of the jelly effect.
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In this part of the video, the comparison is made between the OnePlus 12 and the Pixel 8 Pro camera systems. The Pixel is noted to have a narrow win in terms of photo and video quality with features like Ultra HDR supported in Google Photos. However, despite having a better camera system, the OnePlus 12 is deemed as the better device overall due to its performance advantages such as Snapdragon HN3, cooling system, extra RAM and storage, better battery life, and faster charging, making it a preferable choice for most users. Additionally, the OnePlus 12’s camera is praised as OnePlus’s best yet.