AH Award: Best Budget Phone – OnePlus 12R

The OnePlus 12R is a flagship pretending to be a budget phone

It’s time to pick the best phones of the year, and we had to include the OnePlus 12R. OnePlus has a strong focus on giving users some serious bang for their buck. Its “R” series of phones are the next best thing to its main flagship phones, and it’s often hard to tell them apart.

The OnePlus 12R costs only $499, and this puts it in the mid-range segment. Be that as it may, you’re still getting an extremely powerful phone. It uses a flagship processor, the same processor that powers the Galaxy S23 series and other powerful phones. This means that you’re getting a smooth and snappy experience right out of the box. You’ll be able to breeze through everything that you throw at the OnePlus 12R.

No matter if you’re gaming, working, consuming content, creating content, etc., everything will be perfectly smooth. It’s much more powerful than most handsets at this price.

You’re getting one of the best screens on the market

Moving onto the display, while the OnePlus 12R is an affordable phone, OnePlus spared no expense with this screen. In fact, it seems that the company used the same display in this phone that it used in the OnePlus 12. So, you’re getting one of the best displays on the market. It’s a crisp screen that brings some beautiful and punchy colors.

Not only is it colorful, but it’s also super bright. The OnePlus 12R has an extremely bright 4,500 nit display. This means that you’ll be able to view it comfortably in the bright sunlight.

The OnePlus 12R has a 5,500mAh battery, and this leads to some good battery life. It doesn’t last as long as many other phones on the market, but it’s still able to last you a full day on a single charge.

The OnePlus 12R uses OnePlus’ own Android skin called OxygenOS, and it comes with a ton of features. These include some great customization features to personalize your phone. OnePlus is also distributing some AI features through its software releases.

With its top-notch performance, software, display, and battery, the OnePlus 12R greatly deserves the AH award for best budget phone of 2024.