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OnePlus Nord CE 5G Review: A beautiful cell phone with great endurance

Thanks to (not only) great marketing, OnePlus succeeded with the Nord model, which was one of the best-selling phones in its category. The company wants to build on this success with the model OnePlus Nord CE 5G, where the letters CE stand for Core Edition. So, in essence, it is a more trimmed Nord, which is trying to attract at an even lower price. At the moment, however, he is not affected by the fact that many e-shops have made the original Nord cheaper, so if you are lucky, you can buy it for almost the same money as the model reviewed today.

Content of the review OnePlus Nord CE 5G

Package contents OnePlus Nord CE 5G

A special edition landed in our editorial office, which, in addition to the phone itself, also contains several original caseswhich are very good for us. If we look directly into the box, we will find here, in addition to the OnePlus Nord CE 5G phone itself, also silicone case, typically red USB-A / USB-C charging cable and also 30 W adapter. Of course, we can also count on various brochures.

Quality of workmanship and appearance of OnePlus Nord CE 5G

It would be very difficult to distinguish the OnePlus Nord CE 5G from the original Nord. The phone is almost the same size and color Blue Void it also looks the same at first glance, except that the company has chosen here matte finish. It looks a bit better for us and is also more practical, because you will not grease your phone right away. Stone of injury can be used materials for someone. Personally, we don’t mind plastic phones, of course the original Nord was made of real glass.

  • dimensions 159.2 x 73.5 x 7.9 mm
  • weight 170 grams
  • plastic body
  • 3,5mm jack

The frame is also made of plastic and affects our taste too loudly and clearly shines in the distance. The question is whether it would color when used for a long time without packaging she didn’t start peeling. For obvious reasons, we did not try that. Thanks to plastic, however, we managed to reduce the weight to very good ones 170 grams. The phone is really light and even when watching videos for a long time, your hand will not hurt. An undeniable advantage is also the presence of an audio jack, which is missing in the original Nord. Unfortunately, there is only one speaker, which we would appreciate in this price category. What we miss by far the most is a typical Alert Sliderwhich OnePlus copied from iPhones and IP certifications. On the contrary, we must praise a suitably placed power button as well as volume buttons that are not too high.


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Displej OnePlus Nord CE 5G

The front of the OnePlus Nord CE 5G is covered 6.43 ″ Fluid AMOLED display with a resolution of 2400 x 1080 pixels and a refresh rate of 90 Hz. It’s basically an identical display that is located in the original Nord and that’s definitely good. The display is flat, which suits us personally much more than curved panels, but it is more a question of personal preference. If you switch from an older phone, you will certainly appreciate the 90 Hz frequency, which has a great effect on the feeling of fluency.

  • 6.43 ″ Fluid AMOLED display
  • resolution 2400 x 1080 pixels
  • 90 Hz refresh rate

Thanks to the AMOLED display, you can count on vivid colors and great black rendering. Some would argue that such a POCO X3 Pro offers a 120 Hz display for an even lower price, but there it is an LCD panel. The display basically has nothing to complain about, it is sharp, responsive and sufficiently legible even in direct sunlight. It then has an integrated fingerprint reader, which works great. It’s not as fast as the real GT 5G, but you can probably count on it. In addition, a fingerprint reader on the display is still not a complete standard in this price range.

Hardware OnePlus Nord CE 5G

In the original OnePlus Nord ticked one of the most popular chipsets of the middle class – Snapdragon 765G. The heart of the OnePlus Nord CE 5G model is the Snapdragon 750G, a relatively new chipset from Qualcomm workshops. The performance of both chipsets is comparable, The 750G works even better. The difference is in the technologies used (7nm vs. 8nm) so it is possible that the newer processor will consume a little more power, but the difference will not be noticeable. Of course, we can count on support for 5G networks, but the absence of Wi-Fi 6 will freeze.

  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G
  • 6.8 or 12 GB RAM
  • 128, 256 GB storage
  • support for 5G networks

In our case, the chipset is seconded by 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage. The basic variant has 6 GB RAM, the middle one has 8 GB RAM. Games like Call of Duty Mobile, Genshin Impact or Fortnite run quite well, with medium or lower details you can get to 60 FPS. There is definitely no gaming phone, but if you play games only occasionally, you will have no problem with performance. In most cases, normal use is trouble-free and fast. Sometimes it happened to us that some animation was a bit more choppy, but it was definitely not the order of the day and it is possible that OnePlus will still tune everything through updates.

OxygenOS user interface

In our opinion, OnePlus phones are the best alternative to Pixels from GoogleIf for any reason you don’t like it but pure Android suits you. The OxygenOS superstructure is one of the best, with the fact that it is of course built on Android 11. However, the company has added some features to it, such as game mode or Zen mode.

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