The brand-new OnePlus Nord CE4 looks set to give any phone a run for its money in the sub-Rs 20,000 price bracket. The phone brings along several features from the more premium Nord CE4 to a more affordable price point. OnePlus has an excellent track record with the Nord series and that record will surely stand unbroken. The new Nord CE4 Lite comes in a stunning package and is seemingly providing potential buyers all the meaningful technology. If you’re out in the market for a new phone, you’d certainly want to know what makes it such an excellent device and that’s exactly what we’re going to tell you. Here are the top 5 reasons that make the OnePlus Nord CE4 Lite the go-to device under Rs 20,000.
Big battery and fast charging
Those who demand long-lasting battery life will be delighted with the OnePlus Nord CE4 Lite. Its 5,500mAh power pack can easily deliver two-day battery life with moderate usage. In fact, as per OnePlus’s very own Day of Use usage model, the phone easily survived 2.27 days on a single charge, which is incredible. If used continuously for streaming YouTube videos, it can keep running for 20.1 hours on the trot. And if used for a continuous video call, it can last a whopping 47.62 hours. So, gamers and binge-watchers have plenty to look forward to here, and so do those who hate hooking their phones up to the charger every now and then.
Even when you eventually plug your phone in for charging as the Nord CE4 Lite can charge from 0 to 100 percent at a rapid rate. Its 80W SUPERVOOC fast charging support ensures that it’s fully charged in just 52 minutes! This means if you’re in a hurry, just a quick burst of charge will be enough to let you step out of the house worry-free. With such fast charging also comes the concern of the battery health deteriorating over time but OnePlus has that covered as well. Its Battery Health Engine (BHE) employs the services of AI to learn your usage habits and adjust the charging speed to protect battery capacity. The presence of BHE means that the battery capacity of the Nord CE4 Lite will stay at 80 percent even after 1,600 charging cycles.
As if that wasn’t enough, the Nord CE4 Lite even gives you the ability to stop charging when the battery hits 80 percent. This is great for the battery’s overall health and will lead to a big difference in long-term usage. Furthermore, the phone supports 5W Reverse Charging as well. You can use it to juice up your earphones and other accessories and make the most of the 5,500mAh capacity. Just remember that it’s a feature that needs to be manually activated in the Additional settings section of the phone’s Settings menu.
Visual brilliance
For the Nord CE4 Lite, OnePlus has chosen an AMOLED panel that gives it superiority not just in terms of colours and brightness but also viewing angles and lifespan. The large 6.67-inch 120Hz AMOLED panel renders splendidly smooth visuals that almost pop out of the surface. This makes gaming all the more immersive and the same can even be said of watching movies and TV shows. The panel’s peak brightness of 2,100 nits leads to excellent contrast levels that make the content on the screen shine. And how could it not, considering that this display is using the same illumination material as the OnePlus 11, which is still a solid flagship to buy. The device also supports a 300% volume boost, taking the multimedia experience to a whole new level.
Aqua Touch
The OnePlus Nord CE4 Lite happens to be IP54 water resistant, meaning it can easily deal with a little water spillage on its body. But unlike other phones, where the screens start being all weird the moment even a drop of water hits them, the OnePlus Nord CE4 Lite distinguishes itself. Aqua Touch, a functionality first introduced on the OnePlus 12 has made its way to the Nord CE4 Lite to ensure that your touch input remains precise and accurate even when the screen is wet. This will prove incredibly useful for situations like calling a taxi when it’s raining or dealing with sweaty fingers during intense gaming sessions. It’s the kind of feature that makes you wonder why it isn’t standard on all smartphones by now.
Stunning photography
We mentioned that the Nord CE4 Lite adopts many features of the Nord CE4 and the 50MP Sony LYT-600 camera sensor is just one of them. Having such a high-end camera in a phone priced below Rs 20,000 is a huge benefit for consumers, especially the ones that value image quality. With the help of its OIS apparatus, it produces highly detailed shots with a remarkable dynamic range. This is a 1/1.953-inch sensor with a pixel size of 0.8μm, which spells great news for night-time photography. Blurry noise-filled images will be a thing of the past with the amazing camera that the Nord CE4 Lite carries. This sensor is also accompanied by an Aspherical Lens (ASPH), which helps it avoid issues like aberrations, distortion, and limited fields of view. The high resolution of the Sony LYT-600 sensor also allows it to offer 2x in-sensor zoom. The OnePlus Nord CE4 Lite indeed boasts a stellar camera that promises a top-notch experience whether you’re capturing photos or videos.
Effective RAM Management
The OnePlus Nord CE4 Lite ships with 8GB worth of RAM but that’s not the only feather in its memory management cap. With the help of OnePlus’ RAM-Vita and ROM-Vita technologies, the phone can keep up to 26 applications active in the background simultaneously. Moreover, these attributes also allow it to keep dishing out the same smoothness to the user interface for 48 months. Up to 256GB of UFS2.2 storage is accessible on the device but there’s scope for more since it comes with a microSD card slot as well. Up to 2TB of additional space can be added using this slot, which should leave absolutely nothing to be desired by the user. Lastly, OnePlus has even blessed the handset with its RAM Extension technology which allows you to convert 8GB of vacant storage into additional RAM, further boosting the phone’s performance.
OnePlus Nord CE4 Lite – All-rounder phone at an unbeatable price!
All said and done, the OnePlus Nord CE4 Lite truly is a force to be reckoned with even if its price tag isn’t taken under consideration. But knowing that all this meaningful technology is accessible at less than Rs 20,000 makes you wonder why there’s any need of looking at other options. June 27th is when it will be made available for purchase, available in 8/128GB and 8/256GB variants, the OnePlus Nord CE4 Lite starts at an effective price of Rs 18,999* (*including bank offers). Mega Blue, Super Silver and Ultra Orange are the three colour options and they will be available via Amazon, the OnePlus India website, and Vijay Sales.
