OnePlus 9 or Pro Model?

[The Great Kamek]

I am currently using my iPhone 12 Pro for almost one year, and it is about time I like to switch to Android. I experienced some issues and flaws with iOS. I've been looking into both the OP regular 9 and pro models; I am still undecided on what to get. I Before you babble, I only want OnePlus and no other brands, please. Give your thoughts and opinions on them.

[Bombastinator]

45 minutes ago, The Great Kamek said:

I am currently using my iPhone 12 Pro for almost one year, and it is about time I like to switch to Android. I experienced some issues and flaws with iOS. I've been looking into both the OP regular 9 and pro models; I am still undecided on what to get. I Before you babble, I only want OnePlus and no other brands, please. Give your thoughts and opinions on them.

My opinion? Stick with the one you have unless you want to swap phones every year.   It’s got 7 more  years of life in it.  Any android has at most 3, usually less.  If you do though it’s a cheaper way to do the same thing.  This sounds to me like a reviewer thing. There are lots of reviews on the various models. 

[GuiltySpark_]

Funny how things work. I've used nothing but flagship OnePlus phones for the last 5 generations and earlier this year finally went iPhone (12 Pro Max) just to see what its like and I really enjoy it. 

 

To your question, this seems like a simple decision you'd have to make looking at the differences and how much you weigh them in importance vs your budget. We don't have your needs and wants and at the very least, your thoughts on the differences. 

[dizmo]

They're pretty much identical other than the 9 Pro having a slightly "better" screen, cameras, and fast wireless charging.

If you want a very slightly more vivid screen and/or fast wireless charging, go with the Pro.

Otherwise, just get the vanilla 9. The cameras are shit anyway so it won't really matter which you go with.

Being stuck to a single brand is really limiting you. OnePlus isn't that great, it's mostly a hype train now.

[OhioYJ]

23 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

 It’s got 7 more  years of life in it.  Any android has at most 3, usually less.  

The OP is looking at OnePlus devices which actually are well supported, and get good software updates. Not to mention it's an easily unlocked device with good community support, so software updates from the open source community will also be available. For exampe One Plus One released in 2014 still has Android 11 available for it that to the Open Source community. 

 

 

1 hour ago, The Great Kamek said:

 I've been looking into both the OP regular 9 and pro models; I am still undecided on what to get. 

Basically is a "slightly nicer" camera, higher resolution screen, and faster wireless charging worth the extra money to you? Personally I don't think any of those things matter. However, do you want or will you want to possibly install custom ROMs? 9 Pro support is better than 9 right now. 9 Pro for example has official Lineage support, that would undoubtedly tilt the scales to the pro for me.  

 

I'm posting this from an 8T at the moment actually. 

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, OhioYJ said:

The OP is looking at OnePlus devices which actually are well supported, and get good software updates. Not to mention it's an easily unlocked device with good community support, so software updates from the open source community will also be available. For exampe One Plus One released in 2014 still has Android 11 available for it that to the Open Source community. 

 

 

Basically is a "slightly nicer" camera, higher resolution screen, and faster wireless charging worth the extra money to you? Personally I don't think any of those things matter. However, do you want or will you want to possibly install custom ROMs? 9 Pro support is better than 9 right now. 9 Pro for example has official Lineage support, that would undoubtedly tilt the scales to the pro for me.  

 

I'm posting this from an 8T at the moment actually. 

Isnt the most recent android integer update 12?  I had an android phone for a while.  Was good for one integer update officially but more if one wanted to go through the trouble.  Keeping the thing current was possible that way for a while but it was an incredible PITA. Also it wasn’t super reliable. Had to haunt forms to find out what worked and what didn’t, finding the files you needed while avoiding versions injected with malware which outnumbered the ones that weren’t, blind loading a .zip or .tar and hoping it worked, (my success rate was about half) finding out then that you still needed ANOTHER file because the two could not legally be included together for whatever reason, and going through the rigamarole again..  only to go through more because you had to combine the two and then load them..  it was as bad as ghost guns.  Your definition of “well” supported and mine seem to be different.

[OhioYJ]

9 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

Isnt the most recent android integer update 12?  I had an android phone for a while.  Was good for one integer update officially but more if one wanted to go through the trouble.  Keeping the thing current was possible that way for a while but it was an incredible PITA. Also it wasn’t super reliable. Had to haunt forms to find out what worked and what didn’t, finding the files you needed while avoiding versions injected with malware which outnumbered the ones that weren’t, blind loading a .zip or .tar and hoping it worked, (my success rate was about half) finding out then that you still needed ANOTHER file because the two could not legally be included together for whatever reason, and going through the rigamarole again..  only to go through more because you had to combine the two and then load them..  it was as bad as ghost guns.  Your definition of “well” supported and mine seem to be different.

 

Android 12 was officially released in October if I remember correctly, and basically is just on Pixel phones and a select few other devices at the moment. There are closed betas out for the newer OnePlus devices though is what I hear. So basically at the moment, most devices have Android 11. The community is already working on Android 12, with some custom roms already being available to try.

 

Custom roms aren't for everyone (I get that). I've run nothing but custom ROMs since Android 2.  Won't buy a device that I can't unlock and install one too. It's the reason I have devices from 2013 that are still running the latest software around the house right now. That being said, I will admit some devices are much easier than others to flash and experiment with. OnePlus being one of those. Unlocking it, does void your warranty (I'm assuming non T-mobile versions, T-Mobile could have their own set of rules? and the T-Mobile versions have generally always had minor differences). Mess something up, use the MSM tool to recover it. It will put it back to an out of the box state, even if the phone doesn't boot, or turn on (they are a hard phone to brick). Basically if you want to mess with one, back up your persist partition, EFS, your data, and read up (not much to it, and usually easy to recover).