Oneplus always bought into its tagline of never settle and made a global splash since its very first foray. Ever since the oneplus3t they have without fail come up with a “T” variant of their devices. There’s a break in that 5-year-old tradition now - kinda. While the 9t and 9t pro have been officially canceled - their new cheapest flagship the 9r is getting at variant - meet the 9rt - Oneplus just took the wraps off earlier today and in this review, let's see what’s the deal with the 9RT - Before we talk about the one plus 9rt, a small history lesson, the "T" variants have always been minor incremental upgrades six months after the dog version drops, this was kinda based on apple’s incremental S line up - get it? 1+ s is t?
Now oneplus has always gone with the best chip in the market for their flagships - given the flagship killer moniker they started with- well now they are more “core audience” killers by jumping to flagship territory themselves. Anyway - as I said earlier, oneplus recently announced there ain't gonna be a 9t or a 9t pro this year - makes sense since there isn't much they could add to those phones, not that that’s stopped me in the past but their new 9R this year, for the first time aone Pluss flagship phone did not have the latest and greatest chip inside… instead it used Qualcomm's 2nd most powerful chip the snapdragon 870 which is a minor improvement on last year's 865 plus… That's what oneplus has gone to rectify with thee 9rt - the chip inside here is now the 888 instead of the 870 bringing it squarely to2021 flagship performance territory… So that's the big change… The oneplus 9 RT seems to have a similar design to the one plus 9 except for the fact that the camera bump seems larger than the last one.
Apart from that, the devices look nearly identical. It sports a 6.62-inch AMOLED hrd10+ display with a refresh rate of up to 120hz. This is the Samsung E4 panel we’ve seen on phones like Mi11x and K40 lineup of phones. The displays on one plus devices are usually good and I fully expect to be satisfied with this one too, but due diligence and all that, we will reserve judgment till we test out the device. We are also getting a 600hz of touch sampling rate which is one of the highest in the market today. If all that sounds very familiar then it's cuz it's the same thing ash just said about the realme gt neo2 - but of course, the difference here is the chip inside...
This one has the snapdragon 888 processor,8 or 12 gigs of LPDDR5 ram with either 128 or 256 gigs of us 3.1 storage. Oneplus hasn't been one for gimmicks like oppo or Samsung. But this time they have indulged and graciously given us an additional 7 gigs of virtual ram, for those that don't know, this is a pseudoram that's being scavenged from ur internal storage that is supposed to help you with multitasking and holding more apps in memory,
Let’s talk about the cameras now.
1.The 9RTcomes with a triple cam setup this time around. They’ve ditched the 2MP monochrome sensor from the 9R. The 16MP ultrawide and 5MP macro sensors seem to be the same as the 9R tho.The primary sensor on the other hand gets a slight spec bump. It’s a 50Megapixel f/1.7lens compared to the 48 Megapixel f/1.7 sensor on the 9R. I’m not saying a 2MP bump up is gonna make any major difference but this is the Sony IMX766 sensor they’re going with here. While we’ve seen this sensor on good camera phones like Vivo X70 Pro and Oppo Reno 6 Pro+, I’m interested to see OnePlus’s implementation here. After all, it’s the same sensor Oneplus has used on their mid-range phone Nord
2. The selfie camera here is a 16 mp shooter that we expect will perform the same way it did on the 9r. Other specs include a 4500 mah battery and65W fast charging that promises 0-100 in 29 mins, which seems to be the same across oneplus 9 variants, there is no mention about wireless charging or the max speeds. one other notable addition is a larger vapor chamber that is supposed to increase performance gains, so a 888 that should technically not throttle as much as on other oneplus phones add to it we have 600 Hz touch sampling and 120 Hz refresh - leave me quite optimistic of the experience - that's despite the whole oxygen os color os fusion stuff - despite that, this seems to be shaping up to be one of the best performers in the segment… Now, what segment would that be?. The base variant of the 9 RT with 8 gigs of ram and 128 gigs of storage is priced at 3299 yuan which when converted is 38621 INR and the top 12/256 is priced at 3799 yuan - 44475 INR. So basically the top variant of the should be priced a little cheaper than the current one plus 9 - given the RT has to coexist with the 9 and 9 pro - that seems to make sense… Compared to the 9r, if and when this arrives in India - I am sure oneplus is gonna push that pricing up a couple of grand - which given the 888 I can't complain about but the constantly rising cost of oneplusphones is annoying - what do you think?
3. Now given there’s no oxygen OS anymore…How would this fare against the realme GT? Sadly enough, realme seems to have a better track record with handling temps - avoiding heating or throttling issues - so what would that be? It’s a new interesting dynamic we’d probably get to know more once people start getting their hands on the RT - GT vs RT - is that something you’d like to see?Leave a comment down below… So that's pretty much everything oneplus 9rt- all you need to know - if you have any questions you know what to do - and with that, Thanks for viewing our review comment down how was your experience about our review.