
OnePlus’s Shelf widgets are now accessed with a swipe from the top right, just like on iOS. The Nord 2T runs incredibly quickly with Android 12 and OxygenOS 12.1 but it looks a lot more like the Oppo Find X5 Pro than a OnePlus phone from a few years ago. It means OnePlus phones still run OxygenOS but it’s now based on Oppo’s ColorOS with an OxygenOS skin over the top. Software and updatesīBK Electronics owns both Oppo and OnePlus and recently decided to merge the software of both companies. The combination of this excellent longevity and very fast charging is one of the best reasons to pick the 2T if your current phone has short battery life or slow charging (or both). Our usual battery benchmark test using PC Mark’s app failed when I tried it but rest assured this is a phone with good staying power. There were many days when I got well into the afternoon of a second day before I had to reach for the charger.

I got six hours of screen on time during a heavy day of testing of the Nord 2T when it simply didn’t give up. There’s no wireless charging, though that is common for phones of this price.Īfter all this, the actually battery life of this phone is impressive.

A 10-minute charge will give you potentially hours of use. With this kind of tech at your disposal, you no longer have to charge your phone overnight or worry about having 10% if you’re about to step out the door. I charged the phone from dead to 100% in 27 minutes and it was at 67% after 15 minutes. One of the only upgrades in the Nord 2T from the 2 is the wired charging speeds with the included charger, which has gone from 65W to 80W. It’s more than good enough for video calls. IPhone 13 Pro thanks to their moody use of contrast and bokeh.

I took some selfies I preferred to the Pixel 6 Pro and

The 32Mp selfie camera sensor is the same one as in the OnePlus 10 Pro and is superb. Images look fine but zoom in and there’s a lot of noise in the processing. The ultra-wide lens is 8Mp and can take in a lot of your scene with its 120-degree angle, but the quality is much worse than the main lens.
