OnePlus 13R 12/256 GB Trusted by AI Research for Superior Quality

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Value for money

Pros: Very good performance, camera is extraordinary, quality display, no heat issues, and smooth UI Cons: battery could have been better, not a impressive build, bit heavy body and price is bit high.

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Mostly great but evident cost cuttting

No phone can be rated 5 out of 5. At the best 4.5 would be possible with something or the other falling short in a practical sense. Oneplus 13R has many great things under it's hood but half heartedly done to retain the difference between R and the non R phone. A. Positives. 1. Display. Excellent and flat display. No concerns as it now comes with life time warranty for green line issues, if any and if at all which is a great peace of mind considering Oneplus would honour it. Supports Dolby vision, HDR +. The display is bright, clear and crisp. The under display optical finger print sensor is placed lower closer to the bottom bezel failing to the ergonomic placement. It could have been an inch above. However, no issues with it's operations. Quite quick but not as fast and quick as ultra sonic sensor. 2. Processor. Excellent. No lags and no hiccups. (I am not into gaming but i know this would fare well based on my experience with S24 Ultra. Note that there would be heating felt upon prolonged heavy app use. However, this SoC would serve well for several years with new android updates. Now with Oneplus offering 4 plus 6 years SW update policy this is future proof hardware. 3. Sound. Ok, the stereo sound is decent and loud enough but there's evident distortion over 90 percent volume setting. Bass isn't very evident. Also Dolby Atmos is now not available. Otherwise it's a proper stereo sounding speakers. 4. RAM, Storage and Communication. Excellent specs with DDR5 and UFS 4.0. With base version starting at 12GB/256GB it's more than enough for most users. It is however let down with USB 2.0 post that limits transfer speeds but then it's something that wouldn't bother to most people who wouldn't be transferring data to and fro from other devices. IP protection is IP65 which is fine but IP 68 is a common thing at these prices especially from chinese phone makers. Haptics are tight but weak. A little more stronger motor would have been perfect. 5. Battery. Excellent. Anything between 7 to 10 hours of SOT can easily be had from this phone. A proper full day battery unless you are into gaming all the day. I use 50 percent for my use case which involves social media, few camera photos and browsing with about 4 hours of SOT. Calling drains faster than multimedia watching which probably needs to be rectified with future updates. Some carrier bands seems to have been removed, however I didn't have any issues with calling or internet on my 4G airtel SIM. There's no wireless charging though. 6. Call quality Very good and clear. No issues at either end..signal reception is also good. B. Negatives. 1. Software This is Color OS 15 which is slightly modified as Oxygen OS 15. It's super smooth and slick with lots of customizations possible. But still it's no where near Samsung One UI which is far superior, functional and feature rich than Oxygen OS 15. Also Oneplus added few bloatwares like Phone manager, Phone pick and few other apps. Luckily, you can either uninstall them or disable them. Interestingly, as an example the biggest overlooked setting is you can chose when to enter Power saving mode but you can come out of it only when you charge it till 90 percent. This is something that's silly and Oneplus must automatically disable power saving mode once the battery crosses it's trigger point. There are couple of such thoughtless things in Oxygen OS 15 which should be rectified. There's also nothing like Routines which Samsung offers on their S and A series for phone automation tasks. 2. Cameras Some changes are positive but half hearted. Something like adding a telephoto 2X instead of macro which is such a welcome move, but then this lens has no OIS. UW 8 MP is just passable in daylight. In day light both main and 2X give good quality photos however low light performance is much to be desired. 3X with OIS would be more practical as such. Video on this phone is even more compromised with 4K limited to main sensor. All other sensors are capped at 1080P. In the front 16 MP camera is again okish for photos and handicapped for videos capped at 1080, 30 FPS which is a bummer. Overall Oneplus could have done better with the cameras but it seems like they intentionally subdued R series more to differentiate it with the pricier Oneplus 13 rather than on pricing front. 3. AI There are few AI features in photos, notes etc..but frankly they don't work as seamlessly or effectively as what can be seen on my S24U from Samsung. Oneplus has a long way to go in this aspect. Right now it's more gimmicky. My last Oneplus phone was 3T post which I switched to Samsung S series. No doubt S series, especially Ultra is leagues ahead both hardware and software but when it comes to value for money Oneplus 13 series does shine. Moreso with their introductory pricing and offers. Yes some of the above shortcomings could have been included at this price point, but stills it's a safe bet and a promising phone for years of use with the kind of hardware and SW you get from Oneplus. I would recommend the Oneplus 13R phone under 40K for its hardware and revised SW update policy. Yes, Cameras could have been better though.

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Best buy at cheap price

Using this phone for almost a year. Very nice camera and fast phone at a very cheap price. Build quality and updates are good. At this price point the phone fulfills all the requirements.

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BATTERY DRAINING ISSUES

Battery backup not good as they mentioned 6000mah it's like equal to 5000mah