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- The recently announced $670 OnePlus 7 Pro is available to buy now, but it’s the priciest OnePlus phone to date.
- The cheaper version of the OnePlus 7 Pro, the regular OnePlus 7, won’t be available in the US, so those who want to stay under the $600 mark will have the option to buy the $550 OnePlus 6T, which came out in November 2018.
- The OnePlus 6T is still a fantastic smartphone that costs $120 less than the OnePlus 7 Pro.
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OnePlus has unveiled its new OnePlus 7 Pro smartphone that schools Apple and Samsung in how to make a premium smartphone.
With that said, starting at $670, the OnePlus 7 Pro is uncharacteristically pricey for OnePlus phones, which have never started above the $600 mark. The OnePlus 7 Pro is the priciest phone that OnePlus has released so far.
The company does have a cheaper OnePlus 7 — without the "pro" part — but it’s not available in the US, and it doesn’t have a US price tag to compare.
Instead of the OnePlus 7, the company is making its previous OnePlus 6T, which was released in November 2018, available for $550.
Here’s how the two phones compare:
The OnePlus 6T starts at $550 — $120 less than the OnePlus 7 Pro.
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Keep the price difference between the two phones in mind when you consider what the OnePlus 7 Pro has compared to the OnePlus 6T.
The OnePlus 6T runs on 2018 specs, while the OnePlus 7 Pro runs on 2019 specs, but that’s not a bad thing — especially with OnePlus phones.
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The OnePlus 6T runs on an older chip than the OnePlus 7 Pro — the Snapdragon 845 versus the Snapdragon 855, respectively.
Running on older chips sounds bad, but it’s really not, especially with OnePlus phones. The older Snapdragon 845 from 2018 is still a workhorse. Coupled with OnePlus’ lightweight Oxygen OS interface that runs on top of Android, and the fact that the OnePlus 6T comes with 8 GB of RAM, the OnePlus 6T is still an extremely capable smartphone.
In fact, the $550 OnePlus 6T now comes with 8 GB of RAM as standard, whereas the newer $670 OnePlus 7 Pro comes with 6 GB of RAM as standard. (If you buy the OnePlus 7 Pro from T-Mobile, the model with 6 GB of RAM isn’t available. T-Mobile versions of the OnePlus 7 Pro start at $700 for the 8 GB RAM and 256 GB storage.)
For what it’s worth, RAM is directly related to how fast your phone feels, and OnePlus phones have a lot of RAM. It’s the thing that lets your phone keep the apps you recently used running in the background so that, when you return to those apps, they open almost immediately right where you left off. If your phone had no RAM, it would need to reopen every app, which takes longer.
The OnePlus 6T has a great camera, but it doesn’t have as many options as the OnePlus 7 Pro.
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The OnePlus 6T has a dual-lens camera setup, but one of the lenses is purely used for depth-sensing to make portrait mode photos better, which isn’t particularly exciting. The camera is still great, and made me question the Google Pixel 3’s title as the greatest smartphone camera in the world.
But at the end of the day, the OnePlus 7 Pro does have a triple-lens camera system, and each lens does something more valuable than simple depth-sensing. You get a regular-angle camera, like you do on the OnePlus 6T, as well as an ultra-wide-angle camera, and a 3X zoomed camera.
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