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Mobile phones have lost their meaning a bit in 2020 due to a certain global pandemic that has us tied home more than ever. Why do you want a phone that takes the best photos, lasts the battery all day and has a huge screen on which to watch movies while traveling that you can hardly leave home?

But in case you need to renew a phone, the OnePlus Nord is a wonderful phone. OnePlus, which in its day was known for its very affordable and powerful phones and which, in recent years, had missed that first part by the wayside; but the Nord is a small return to that concept.

On sale from this week, it costs only 400 euros, has 256GB of storage, 8GB of RAM (or 12GB, if you pay for the 512GB version of space) and a 765G processor, which without being of the highest range, is very powerful.

It is, along with Google's Pixel 4a, one of my favorite phones of 2020 because it does not destroy your bank account and gives you everything you need. It has no luxury, of course: no wireless charging, no 100x zoom, no water resistance ... but these features are luxuries.

If you are a standard user, who uses your mobile a bit for everything, from taking photos on field trips to using it to answer work emails, quickly edit photos and watch a series or movie on public transport, this phone is plenty.

It also has those characteristics that give it a touch of quality to get away from the mid-range: its screen is OLED, 6.44 inches and works at 90hz, so the illusion of fluidity in the menus is fabulous. Its battery lasts a day quietly even if you use it a lot and you can play Fortnite without fear, which is not going to get stuck.

It also has details that I personally like a lot. The screen is not curved, which some say is a sign that it is not a 'premium' mobile, but for me it is the opposite: it handles better, there are no accidental keystrokes, the keyboard responds better and, now that the Android mobiles are handled by gestures (to go back, to go to 'home', to access apps in the background), a flat screen is better than one with curves on the sides.

It may be finished in plastic, which perhaps OnePlus could have achieved even without raising the price entirely, but I understand that it saves these things for its other mobiles, the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro, that if the pandemic allows it, They will receive updates at the end of the year, as is tradition in the brand.

Speaking of updates, it goes without saying that OnePlus usually keeps all their phones up to date even if they are one or two years old and that they receive Android updates. Right now it works with Android 10, but version 11 already works in beta version and nothing indicates that they will not receive version 12 within a year or so, so if you buy it today you will not be out of date before that you plan to buy another mobile.

In this sense, it is very similar to official Google phones, because its customization layer on Android (what makes a Samsung or Xiaomi or Realme or Oppo mobile different in use) is very basic and hardly adds strange things.

So much so that Google's own photography app, called GCam, can be installed relatively easily to take advantage of the advantages of software when taking photography. It is at this point that it is most noticeable that the OnePlus Nord is a mid-range mobile.

Although it has three rear cameras, a wide angle, a super wide angle and a 'macro' lens, none of them have spectacular results. The same can be said of its two selfie cameras, which no matter how much they do a good blur effect, they still throw normal images. If you install the Google camera, as I said above, this improves a lot.

Everyone can do what they want with their money, but with phones like this or the Pixel 4a, unless you are one of those who want the best of the best, I think that the OnePlus Nord is an outstanding phone and whose price is a very strong point in its favor.

If the world worked as it should, mobiles of this kind should prevail over those that cost more than a thousand euros, which should bet on formats such as folding to really make a difference and make that investment of money really worth it. Samsung seems to be pointing in that direction and time will tell if it is the right one.

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