If you’ve been reading Expert Reviews (or any other tech site – I forgive you) for a while, you’ll know that there’s a standard refrain in most high-end smartphone reviews. “This smartphone is good,” it’ll say, “but the OnePlus 3/3T/5/5T/6 is better and cheaper.”
So it’s a treat to be able to say that the OnePlus 6 is even cheaper for Black Friday. It’s down to just £399 – a £70 saving on its usual RRP . It’s not yet showing up in stock on the OnePlus website , where the deal was announced, but it is available from Amazon.
Smartphone experts can rightly point out that this isn’t the newest OnePlus model – and that’s true. The OnePlus 6T is out now, and I reviewed it for Expert Reviews myself . It’s great, but is it £100 better than the OnePlus 6? Definitely not. In fact, most of the internals are the same, right down to the Snapdragon 845 processor and dual-camera array. The biggest difference is the in-screen fingerprint scanner, which is a cool party trick but, again, not worth paying £100 for.
That means it’s still a performance match for the best Android handsets out there, going toe-to-toe with the Samsung Galaxy S9, the Sony Xperia XZ3 and the LG G7. The difference, of course, is that all those handsets go for a lot more. As Nathan said in his OnePlus 6 review : “the decision to add a Snapdragon 845 processor to a phone that costs a good £300 less than its similarly-equipped competition is a seriously smart move.
“This is a smartphone that’s just as meaty as its rivals, with a not-so-outrageous price tag attached. That was always going to work in the OnePlus 6’s favour, wasn’t it?”
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