This review has been updated to incorporate some changes observed in a different unit (the one reviewed originally had some defects)

Chinese electronics maker OnePlus’s mid-year upgrades, which go by name of T-edition, are mostly about minor but relevant cosmetic and hardware tweaks. But the company’s latest midrange flagship, the OnePlus 7T, brings several improvements over predecessor OnePlus 7. In terms of upgrade, the phone gets a fluid AMOLED screen of a 90Hz refresh rate, a triple camera set-up on the back, a frosted glass design, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus mobile processor, and the Android 10 operating system. On the face of it, the new upgrades should improve the user experience. But do they? Let’s find out: