Our top priority is always delivering a great user experience with our products, based in part on acting quickly on important user feedback. Following the launch of the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro in March, some users told us about some areas where we could improve the devices’ battery life and heat management. As a result of this feedback, our R&D team has been working over the past few months to optimize the devices’ performance when using 300 of the most popular apps, including Chrome, by matching the app’s processor requirements with the most appropriate power. This has helped to provide a smooth experience while reducing power consumption. While this may impact the devices’ performance in some benchmarking apps, our focus as always is to do what we can to improve the performance of the device for our users.
OnePlus is known for boasting utmost device optimization in their phone marketing sprees, bragging with top performance scores and heretofore it was mostly attributed to the light and nimble OxygenOS Android overlay its phones are running, coupled with their top-notch processing and memory specs.
In other words, OnePlus seems to be sabotaging its own “So, so smooth” slogan that advertises OxygenOS. It’s not something you’d notice on a day-to-day basis, of course, as Snapdragon 888 is plenty powerful to run any app you throw at it even on its lower frequency cores but the “optimization” is there and systemwide.
