In 2022, Nord CE 2 Lite was the highest selling phone under Rs 20K. And it's successor is OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite. And I'll not be surprised if this year's phone is the highest selling phone under Rs 20K. Because there are a lot of good things in it. There are a few things that are not that good, I was hoping they'd be there. But they aren't. But some things are really good. There's no alert slider. Let's do its unboxing & first impressions. We'll tell you everything about it. The box is a little
different, it's Nord Nord Nord & it's only blue. It's a black box. Let's open it. It doesn't look like it's a black box as OnePlus flagship phones have red boxes. It's a red box & not this one. First, there's documentation. There are stickers, Nord stickers, sim card tool, safety guide, membership card, quick guide, stickers. Let's keep this aside. There's a case & it looks like flat sides. This is the phone. It's a 80W adapter. The phone supports 67W but I think it's the highest phone under Rs
20K for charging. I'm talking about OnePlus. There's some red color on the red cable & it's USB Type A to Type C. Let's keep this aside & look at the phone. Let's drop it & test it. Look at the color! It's a pastel lime color with a chromatic grey color. It's so flashy & premium. It's not like other phones that are cheap if you add more colors. It looks like a glass. It's plastic but it looks good. It gives a glass look. It looks like a glass back but it's a plastic back. The frame is also plas
tic. There's a power button on the inside but the positioning is perfect. It also doubles up as a fingerprint sensor. There's a speaker grill, USB Type C, 3.5mm jack, mic, a volume rocker on the left & a sim card tray on the top. There's a noise cancelling microphone. There's no alert slider. Let's look at the sim card tray. It's a hybrid sim card slot. You can use 1 sim & 1 SD card or 2 nano sim cards. I like this phone. It feels great in the hand. It's flat & won't slip from your hand. The wei
ght distribution is also good. Let's talk about the weight. It's around 180g with a 5000mAh battery. But it's still about 180g. It's not very heavy. It's 198g! Oh my God! Why does it feel light in the hand? I don't understand! It's seriously 198g! And I ate 180g! You must be thinking that it's not like that. Yes, we do research on the phone but I don't see the weight. I'll tell you this much. By the way, there's a screen guard which I have to remove. It's very fun! There's no sound. We've seen t
he outside, do we want to see anything else? No, let's look at the inside. Display- It's a 6.72'' IPS LCD 120Hz adaptive refresh rate with 240Hz touch sampling rate with 680nits brightness. Overall, I think it's below Rs 20K. Motorola & Amoled display is a flat IPS LCD display. It would've been better if it was Amoled but let's talk about the quality. Let's talk about the price before we start the unboxing. It's base variant is 8GB 128GB, not 16GB 128GB. And the upper variant is 8GB 256GB. The b
ase variant's price is under Rs 20K, which is Rs 19,999. And the upper variant is 256GB with 8GB. I don't know the price when I'm unboxing it but it's definitely going to be under Rs 20K. And I'm going to look at it accordingly. Bezels are smaller than average. The upper bezel is smaller than average. The chin is there but not very big. It's an average sized chin. Viewing angles are very good. It's a quality IPS display. Look at the colours, I don't know if you can see it properly. They look ver
y nice! The quality of the IPS LCD is good so that's good.
It's a decent display. Specs are Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 with 5G SoC. We've seen a lot of phones on 695 in the last 6-8 months. When we did the benchmark test, it's AnTuTu score was 4.20L. So I'd say it's the most optimised 695 SoC & 5G SoC. If I talk below Rs 20K, then I'll talk about Realme, Xiaomi phones. But I'll tell you what, it feels like OnePlus Nord 3 Lite will take the cake in 2023. It'll outsell these other brands. That's what
I feel. Let's see! Performance, I've told you the score on paper. But you can play games on the highest settings. We've played Apex Legends, COD Mobile. And you can play on the highest settings & the gameplay is smooth. So the performance of 695 is really good. What I was surprised was that it's cold. We played games on the highest settings for 30-45 mins. But it wasn't too hot. So the thermals were within control. Battery, it has a 5000mAh battery with a 6Nm processor. So it'll easily last you
the whole day. And it has 67W charging which does 0-80% in about 30 minutes. So it's one of the better fast charging phones under Rs 20K. OS UI, I have 2-3 things to talk about. It runs on OxygenOS 13.1 which is based on Android 13. We tried talking to OnePlus but we didn't get much clarity on the updates. But I'll tell you what, it's not like it won't be there. I'm expecting 2-3 years of security updates. I'll confirm that when I get to know. So do follow our news & subscribe. We'll keep you u
pdated. But at this time, we don't have clarity. There are some interesting things. It's not a third party app. It's clean & doesn't have much bloatware. But it does have 1 bloatware, Hot Games. And you can't deactivate or turn it off while setting it up. You'll have to go to their internet browser & you can deactivate it there. So it has Hot Games. Sensors, it has side mounted fingerprint sensor. I liked its positioning, it's generally a little upwards. It's like when you hold your phone, your
thumb goes straight up. So I liked its positioning. It has face unlock, all sensors work well. Connectivity, it has dual 4G VoLTE, WiFi calling support, 5G, 13 bands, dual band WiFi & Bluetooth 5.1. I didn't talk about RAM & storage type. It has LPDDR4X RAM type & UFS 2.2 storage type. And it has 8GB virtual RAM so you get 8GB RAM. Yeah, if you're in that. Let's talk about multimedia. It doesn't have an AMOLED screen but it has IPS LCD, good quality screen, good viewing angles, it has an immersi
ve display, it's bright, it's 680 nits brightness so it's bright. That's really good. So display wise, I don't have any problems. You'll enjoy watching videos outdoors. It has a 3.5mm jack so you'll enjoy watching videos with wired earphones. But I'll say 1 thing about the display, it's not AMOLED but it's not a 10bit panel, it's an 8bit panel. I don't know, it's looking surprisingly good but that's what it is. Audio wise, you get dual stereo speakers. There's no speaker grill on the top but the
re's a speaker inside the earpiece & on the bottom. So there are stereo speakers & the quality is decent. Overall, you'll enjoy multimedia. I'd say it's an above average multimedia experience. Drop Test! I just got reminded of the drop test. I know you're waiting for it. Let's do this before going forward. We'll talk about the camera & the small features but let's drop it. There's plastic at the back & there's Gorilla Glass protection at the front. I don't know which one it is, we'll find out af
ter dropping it. And I've removed the scratch guard too so let's do this! 1,2,3! Oh, it's bouncy! Alright. From the back, it's good! It's a decent build quality & there are absolutely no problems. Features & Features Let's talk about the small features before going to the camera. It has Widevine L1 support but it's HDR supported so you won't be able to watch HDR on Netflix or YouTube. You can stream in Full HD so there are no problems & the SAR value is within limits. There's nothing mentioned a
bout the IP certification. There's a fingerprint magnet so remember that. There's Camera 2 API support, no FM Radio & no notification lights. Camera & Camera Let's move towards the cameras. I'm not very happy that they're stopping giving Ultra Wide on a Rs 20K phone. I mean, I've already mentioned this trend in my videos. It has a triple camera setup but it's not Ultra Wide. The primary sensor is a 108MP Samsung HM6 sensor & that's a good sensor.
But where's the Ultra Wide? The other 2 sensors h
ave a 2MP macro & 2MP depth. So we'll talk about the HM6 more. I've already mentioned the negatives but if I talk about the positives, then this is a good sensor. It gives you really natural colours & you get a real 10 Pro with
And people will like it. But I liked this camera more than Realme 10 Pro because of the colours.
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It has a good dynamic range & sharpness. And you get 1X & 3X digital zoom which is lossless.
You get more resolution on 108MP so they basically zoom out & you get lossless digital zoom. In videography, unfortunately there's no 4K recording & the 695 SoC doesn't support it. You have to be satisfied with 1080p at 30FPS. The front sensor is 16MP & we've taken a lot of photos & videos with it. And we were very curious to see how it turned out as it's going to be sold a lot. Make sure you check out the G-Drive link where I've stored the photos in low light conditions. So just go & check that
out. You'll see all the photos in original quality. Features- It has dual video mode, so you can use the front & rear cameras at the same time. You can use it in Pro mode, Portrait mode etc. So all the features you expect from a smartphone camera are there. There are 2 things, 1 is the ultrawide camera & AMOLED. I'll skip the AMOLED as it's a bit difficult under Rs 20K with all the other features. But it should've had an ultrawide camera. Other than that, this phone looks really compelling. Yes
, the one I'm missing is the 8MP & Alerts slider being a OnePlus phone.
But other than that, the OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite has 8GB RAM & 128GB storage. And you get a base variant which is under Rs 20K. The 695 is a very good mid range performing processor. So I'd say it's good in terms of performance. I'll accept that it doesn't have an ultrawide camera. But overall, I'd say it's going to be one of the highest selling phones of 2023. If you have any questions, do let us know in the comments. That's
all for this video, until the next one, Keep Trakin & Stay Safe!
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