OnePlus Nord CE 4: Can it be the best mid-range Smartphone of this Year? 

Majorly all of the big smartphone manufacturers worldwide are trying to capture the mid-range segment where most of the consumers lie. But only some of them have been successful in gathering the trust from the middle class and OnePlus is one of them which has gained pretty much success. 

They have a new addition to their long list, the OnePlus Nord CE 4, which just launched yesterday but will be for sale on April 12th in India. Let’s try to understand its specifications in detail with Price and whether it is a good buy considering other options available in the competition. 

Specifications of OnePlus Nord CE 4

Display of OnePlus Nord CE 4

• The phone comes with a Fluid AMOLED display with a size of 6.7 inches that provides a great viewing experience because of the pre-installation of more than 1 billion colors on the screen. 
• It has a 120 Hz fast refresh rate for smooth scrolling across the apps where the user has an option in the settings to set the refresh rate, adaptive, where the UI handles the refresh rate according to the usage, if you are scrolling, it’ll be 120 Hz but if you are reading something or just watching videos, it’ll around 60 Hz to save the power consumption. 
• The phone offers HDR10+ to watch the content of popular streaming platforms like Netflix, Prime Video, etc. in 4K where you’ll able to see the punchy blacks and proper highlights which overall enhances the movie-watching experience. 
• It has a screen-to-body ratio of around 88.57%, which means fewer bezels and looks like a modern display where the user immerses themselves because of the big size display. 

Processor of OnePlus Nord CE 4

• It comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor which has around 850K Antutu score and comes in the perfect mid-range processor that can handle all your daily tasks and some mid-to-high-level gaming smoothly. 
• The processor is based on 4 nm technology which means it saves power consumption and provides simultaneously a high quality performance. 
• It has an Adreno 720 GPU graphics card to handle high-end graphics games smoothly where it provides constant gameplay without dropping off the frames too much. 

Camera of OnePlus Nord CE 4

The phone possesses a dual camera setup at the back and one front camera: 

• It has a 50 MP primary camera with LYT 600, CMOS image sensor to click impeccable portraits and it can do video recording in 3840×2160 @30 fps where the camera possesses HDR modes, Phase Detection Autofocus, and Exposure compensation features to enhance overall picture quality. 
• The second is an 8 MP wide-angle camera to clicks distant objects and can cover more screen in one frame and it does decent work there except for some overexposure of the human face. 
• It has a 16 MP front punch-hole camera for selfies and can do video recording in 1920×1080 @30 fps where the quality of the video is above average when we compare in the mid-range section. 

Battery of OnePlus Nord CE 4

• It comes with a big battery of 5500 Mah which is more than enough for your all-day work and will be left behind if you don’t play games and use it for scrolling social media and watching movies or YouTube videos. 
• The phone has a Super VOOC 100 W adapter to charge the phone which has the capacity to charge it fully 100% in just 29 minutes so if you live in a hurry to go to the office or college generally, this adapter will give you enough charge in just 10 minutes. 

Connectivity of OnePlus Nord CE 4

• The phone comes with all the latest 5g bands with Bluetooth v5.4 for the sharing of files wirelessly without any cable. 
• It possesses the latest WiFi 6E for the network connection where the phone catches fast network and provides fast internet.  
• The phone has an on-screen fingerprint sensor for unlocking the phone which it has a very fast responsive time and generally opens within touching your fingers. 

Storage:

• It comes with two different variants of storage (128 GB, 256 GB) with UFS 3.1 type which helps in downloading and storing the data very fast and simultaneously power efficient. 
• It also possesses expandable memory of up to 1 TB where the user can store their personal data to that extent which is so rare to find in ay kind of smartphone these days. 
• It has RAM 8 GB with LPDDR4X type for multitasking where you can several tabs side by side and the data won’t get lost in the background. 

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Why should you purchase this OnePlus Nord CE 4?

There are quite a few factors responsible for why you as a user should go for this phone which we have discussed below: 

• The first is Oxygen OS 14 which has all the incredible features required for customization and has one of the cleanest UIs available in Android without much malware. 
• The Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor is quite good for the mid-range section where it provides very smooth performance overall including playing high-end games like Call of Duty, Pubg, etc. 
• It possesses a big 5500 Mah battery with a 100 W super Vooc adapter and that is just a killer combination considering some competitors provide big batteries but slow adapters like 30 W and some provide fast adapters like 67 W but provide small batteries like 4500 Mah generally. 
• It has quite a decent camera with an AMOLED display where you get a 120 Hz fast refresh rate and that all culminates into a very good package. 

To Sum Up:

This newly launched OnePlus Nord CE 4 is somewhat a full package at an affordable price of around 24,999 Indian rupees for 8 GB/128 GB variant which seems a very good deal considering the other options we have right now in the market. If you are looking for a mid-range smartphone these days, just go for this one and you’ll not regret it for a minute. 

That’s it for now.