The OnePlus 10T brings back a good flagship smartphone price: $649.

Four months after the launch of the OnePlus 10 Pro, OnePlus is back with the new OnePlus 10T device. After we beat the OnePlus 10 earlier this year for a hefty price tag, the OnePlus 10T looks like a worthy fix, at $649, $250 less than the $899 OnePlus 10 Pro.

Let’s look for the missing $250 in the spec sheet: The OnePlus 10T is slightly faster than the more expensive OnePlus 10 Pro, thanks to the Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 SoC. This is 10% faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and gives about the same score in benchmarks. That 10 percent speed increase finally brings the performance of Qualcomm’s 2022 processor back to the level of its 2021 chip – it used to be slightly slower.

The phone still has 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage (and a new tier of 16GB/256GB for an extra $100). There is still an in-screen fingerprint scanner and a USB-C port. The battery has become 4 percent smaller – 4800 mAh instead of 5000 mAh, and there is no more wireless charging. The phone doesn’t support Wi-Fi 6E (only Wi-Fi 6), and it seems like all the cameras are down a level: The phone now comes with a 50MP Sony IMX776 camera, and then just for fun, an 8.Ultra wide-angle and 2MP macro camera.

The 10T features a 6.7-inch 120Hz OLED display with a resolution of 2412×1080 with a dynamic refresh rate that switches between 120, 90 and 60Hz depending on the content. The more expensive 10 Pro has a higher resolution, 3216×1440, and a more dynamic refresh rate that can scale down to 1Hz to save more power. For the price, I’ll take both of those compromises. We’ve been saying for a long time that there are too many pixels on phone displays, and the extra resolution is invisible in real life. The 10T display still has a density of 394 ppi, which is completely normal.

Another cost-cutting measure, the OnePlus 10T is missing OnePlus’ three-position alert switch. Previous OnePlus phones had a physical switch on the side that toggled between mute, vibrate only, or mute/no vibration. OnePlus sent a seven-paragraph PDF titled “No Warning Slider Statement”as if the company thought it was answering some sort of massive controversy. The final paragraph even promises: “While the OnePlus 10T does not have a warning slider, this does not mean that it will be removed from all future OnePlus devices.”I really didn’t give a damn about its removal and wouldn’t have noticed if OnePlus hadn’t said anything. Most phones don’t have an alert toggle because the volume keys work just fine!