As some of you may already know there are reports of various display issues on the new OnePlus 8 Pro. A phone that supposedly has an "A+" rated display.
I released a poll yesterday to try to gauge how widespread these issues were:
Poll Here
I was shocked at the results as so far from almost 500 votes, over 50% of device owners are reporting that they are having display issues, so it's clear it's not just a few unlucky units.
I received my original device in a pop-up box directly from OnePlus UK. Because RMA's can take a long time (and i'm still waiting for OP support to reply to me based on my issue) I decided to order a second phone from Amazon UK to compare. It arrived this morning and the first thing I did was to check the manufacturing date and there's 9 days between them so it's safe to say they're not the same batch.
I immediately fired up some display tests and there it was the same issues that were present on my first unit... This Amazon unit was actually worse in some areas of the display and better in others. But it was clear that both the phone's have issues.
What does this mean?
It could be one of two things:
An issue with the quality of the display panels themselves or a manufacturing fault, which could be the case as in my case the two devices in my possession have similar issues but not identical.
Or if you're hopeful and because it's seemingly so widespread it could very well be a software bug or bad calibration that's causing these issues meaning it could be patched in the future.
Until we hear official word from OnePlus I'm personally not going to risk holding the devices past the return window, just to wait for a "fix" as it's possible they will reject RMA's based on this issue claiming it's a non-issue.
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