It takes a lot for me to pull out my phone during a concert. As much as I like to document my day-to-day life, I don’t want to be that guy holding up his phone for the duration of his favorite song. Besides, I’m not usually that impressed with the shots I get in tricky concert lighting, anyway. But, when I started reviewing the OnePlus 13 and dug deeper into its camera features, I began to change my tune.
Suddenly, I had a smartphone camera good enough to trust whether I was in the front row of a bar or the back half of a much larger venue, and I started reaching for the OnePlus 13 over my trusty iPhone 16 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro. Here’s what made me change my mind.