OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G review: Features of OnePlus in less money, much better than budget phone

OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G review: The movement in the smartphone market is very fast. The distance between premium and budget smart phones is fast shrinking. Today all the premium smartphone companies are offering light editions of their products keeping in mind the budget segment. These Lite Editions have many features like expensive smartphones, but the price fits perfectly for the budget segment of less than 20000. With these efforts, this OnePlus also OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G has been launched. Our team tested this phone on many scales for about 3 weeks. We tried to find out whether it still gets the OnePlus touch despite being in the budget segment and whether you should really buy it or look for other options. Let’s know about the merits and demerits of this phone…

looks impressed

The real strength of the phone lies in its technical features, but the first attraction is its looks. OnePlus CE 3 Lite Talking about it, its build looks like a premium phone. This phone is not very heavy. Talking about the look, the phone we reviewed was in Chromatic Gray colour. Along with this, it also comes in Lime Green color. There are two big circles at the back in which three cameras are fitted. There is an LED light. The OnePlus trademark logo on the back of the phone indicates that it is a member of the OnePlus family.

OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G

Display is average

Now it comes to the display. Your real interface with the smartphone is through the display itself. Seeing here, it is known that it is not a premium, it is a light edition. It has a large 6.72-inch FHD display, but alas, it is LCD and not AMOLED. Although everything is fine in terms of design, but the illumination around the edges of the screen is a bit dim. Despite the 120Hz adaptive refresh rate, scrolling through text and websites shows a lack of visibility sharpness.

OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G

speaker and output

Talk about its speaker, the company has given a dual-speaker system in it, which gives a very loud sound. For those people who are still using wired jack headphones, the phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack. It has a function that lets me boost the volume up to 200%, but to be honest, that seems like a notch above 100 percent. It does not give the feeling of double sound.

OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G

camera

The biggest feature of any OnePlus phone is its camera. According to the company, the Nord CE 3 Lite is the first OnePlus smartphone with a 108-megapixel main camera. Although it looks good on paper, the quality of the pictures captured is average. In bright sunlight, you will see the pictures clearly, but indoors or in dim light, it looks like a mediocre phone. In many places, it has turned out to be below average. Photos taken at night were also blurry. Macro shots were also missed as the lens was not able to focus properly. For selfies, there is a 16-megapixel front camera, which does a decent job of capturing skin tones.

OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G

performance

The OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G is powered by the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 5G chipset as other phones in its range such as the iQOO Z6 and POCO X5. The unit I reviewed had 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. While multi-tasking wasn’t really an issue, especially with browsing and casual gaming.

Battery

The phone has a 5,000mAh battery. This has become a standard in all phones nowadays. The battery of Nord CE 3 Lite impresses. You will not feel the need to carry a power bank or charger even after heavy use throughout the day. It comes with a 67-watt SUPERVOOC Endurance Edition charger. The charger gave the device about 30 percent battery with a quick 15-minute plug-in.

OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G

Decision

If you compare it like the flagship phone of OnePlus, then you will definitely do wrong. We all know that in the case of budget devices, one has to compromise on the prices. With the OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite, users get a large display, great battery life, a smooth interface, and a 3.5mm jack. However, the absence of an AMOLED display and an average camera may disappoint you. In such a situation, if you want to get a budget phone, then this is a good option. But if you want a good camera then you can look for other phones.