Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is back with another round of deals to share. Today’s deal is headlined by a $150 discount on the OnePlus 7 Pro, a device we called the “fastest, best-designed, best-value Android phone” on the market earlier this year.
The deal applies to unlocked models—which work on Verizon and GSM networks like AT&T and T-Mobile—and brings the phone down to $549. OnePlus says this is their official Black Friday discount for the holiday season, and our own Android guru Ron Amadeo told the Dealmaster it will likely go down as the “smartphone deal of the year.”
You can read Ron’s review from this past May for the full details, but the short take is that the OnePlus 7 Pro was already a good value at its standard going rate of $699. Despite being a large phone, it’s been efficiently designed, with no notches or overly large borders blocking the the 6.67-inch 3120×1440 display. The in-display fingerprint reader and pop-up selfie camera only add to that efficiency, and both work well. That display supports a 90Hz refresh rate, too, which makes operating the device feel noticeably smoother across the board. The Snapdragon 855 processor, 8GB of RAM, and UFS 3.0 storage keep general performance as snappy as a top-of-the-line phone should. The triple-camera system on the back isn’t the absolute best on the market, but it’s still a great value for the price. And the “Oxygen OS” software remains a uniquely clean and useful take on Android.
OnePlus does make a few trade-offs to reach its relatively low price: there’s no microSD slot, headphone jack, wireless charging, or always-on display support, and you won’t get security updates as quickly as something like a Google Pixel phone. It’s also worth noting that OnePlus recently launched a new phone called the OnePlus 7T, which adds a marginally faster chipset and flatter display than the 7 Pro’s slightly curved panel but includes a notch and a more pronounced camera module on the back. The 7T typically starts at $599 outright, but with the deal here, there’s little reason to get it over the 7 Pro, which remains a genuine flagship phone at a mid-tier price.
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