The performance of the OnePlus Nord CE 4 is to the point. It has a Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC, made on TSMC's 4nm fabrication. The phone handles heavy day-to-day tasks and Gaming very easily.
With LPDDR4X RAM and UFS 3.1 Storage Nord CE 4 scores a very good 8,50,000 AnTuTu Score. It is able to play games like BGMI at 60fps and Genshine Impact at 40fps. Overall gameplay is very smooth and lag-free.
On the front, there is a 6.67" 120Hz FHD+ AMOLED display supporting 1100nits peak brightness, 2160Hz PWM Dimming, and HDR 10+. The display produces very accurate colours which are better than the recently launched Nothing Phone 2a.
The phone is backed by a 5500mAh Battery and a 100W Hyper Fast charging that charges the phone 100% in just 30 minutes. With the 4nm chip the phone lasts for 1.5 days with moderate usage and nearly one day with heavy usage.
CE 4 has 50MP Sony LYT-600 main + 8MP Sony IMX355 Ultrawide lens on the rear while there is a 16MP selfie on the front. The Sony sensors click very sharp, colour-accurate, and natural-looking photos but it lags in low light compared to the Nothing Phone 2a.
The phone brings Android 14 based OxygenOS 14 along with 2 OS + 3 Security updates. The UI has so many bloatware apps. Even OnePlus don't ask at the time of setup and directly starts installing that unwanted apps whicht is very annoying.
Nord CE 4 is made from plastic which brings panda glass protection on the front and it also has an IP54 rating. OnePlus has shared a video of dropping the phone from around 1-1.5 meters and still the phone has survived giving proof of its sturdiness.
In terms of multimedia the phone is up to date. It supports HDR in videos on YouTube as well as Netflix. The phone also comes with Dolby Atmos tuned Dual Stereo speakers which give a very detailed and melodious voice.
Talking about the connectivity, the phone has 7 5G bands support, Dual 4G VoLTE, WiFi 5, and BlueTooth 5.4. Note that The phone does not have NFC support.
OnePlus Nord CE 4 is launched in two variants (8 + 128) at ₹24,999 and (8 + 256) at ₹26,999. This is really value-for-money pricing and makes this phone the top smartphone under 25K price in India definitely.