Priced at a sweet Rs 999 during the crowdfunding stage, this is one of the cheapest smart LED bulbs that one can buy.Cozy Home: Strangely bright, but with a blue-white-yellow hue that makes you feel like having warm lights at home. The heat dissipation does seem fairly good, and it would definitely help the bulb’s lifespan. You can also choose between warm white and bright white in the app itself. However, while we thought that this mode would flash when there is a notification or call on your phone, it does not do any of the same.The Xiaomi Mi LED Smart Bulb is constructed using three parts — a high transparency and high light scattering plastic dome which houses the electronics and the LEDs under it, a plastic-clad aluminium structure that allows better insulation and higher heat dissipation apart from offering a ribbed design for a good look, and an E27 base for the power connection.

Date night: Similar to Birthday, but dimmer, with an orangish hue that simulates a candle-lit room.The bulb can be operated by multiple family members and you can also operate or control the bulb from a remote location as long as the Xiaomi Mi LED Smart Bulb is connected to the internet. Using the app, you can set timers, schedules, colours or plain white, set the intensity or use default scene modes such as:Sunrise: which simulates the sunrise early morning and the light gets brighter gradually in 15 minutes. We are not in favour of the E27 base and Xiaomi should make the necessary changes if they are selling it in the Indian market as all bulb sockets here are B22. At every stage where you feel the colour and intensity is just right for you, simply hit the Heart icon on the top right of the screen and you can save the settings as a favourite.

The screen has the colours you want to produce and all you need to do is swipe left to right to choose the colour and swipe up to down to change the intensity.Birthday: A bright reddish-yellow hue that alternates to create a party mood lighting.Flash Notification: Nothing descriptive about it, but it simply flashes the LED in full white brightness, three times and returns to producing an orange light with medium intensity. You can also set schedules to automatically turn on or off the bulb at specific time intervals. The breathing is random and produces a nice warm effect. If you own multiple bulbs, you can form them into a group and control them together too. Lastly, the bulb is also compatible with Google’s Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa where you can use your voice to instruct the voice assistants to control the bulbs..

You won’t find anything cheaper in the market at this price point. The intensity can be controlled on a scale of 0 to 100% with a 1% precision.Candle Flicker: Does not flicker, but produces a candle-lit environment with a breathing style illumination that feels like a few candles are lit around the room.Romantic evening: A pretty dim light with alternating colours between red, blue, pink, purple and in between. On another note, with modern homes adopting to more and more ceiling-based flush LED lights that mount inside false ceilings, we would only wish that Xiaomi also tries to bring in more variants into the market, similar to what other brands such as Syska, Philips, Wipro and a few others have.Sunset: Similar China self drilling screw to Sunrise, but reverse and the light gradually dims in 10 minutes. These bulbs can only be restricted to lamps placed in the corner, on a table or in chandeliers.

The only hiccup is the E27 base that adds the hassle of buying an adapter, which also increases the height of the bulb by a few cms.The Xiaomi Mi LED Smart Bulb is definitely a light bulb that we would recommend if you are looking for something in the category. So next time you want the lights to that particular mood, simply head to the favourites and choose that mode.The Xiaomi Mi LED Smart Bulb does run warm, but it depends on the intensity at which it is being used.Movie: Produces a light blue dim hue to have ambient lighting while watching movies in the room. When at full intensity, it runs slightly hotter, but not as hot as conventional and similar rated bulbs. It would have been nice if the feature was built-in by the app.Using the app to change colours and intensity is very simple too.The app is feature rich and there are a lot of controls available. Firstly, you can lock the access using face, PIN, password or fingerprint so that it is not accidentally controlled by anyone else. This mode can be used to alert someone in the room for attention

But let’s face it, the strong point of OnePlus 7T’s battery isn’t the amount of juice it can carry on a single charge but the fast top-up you can get by plugging it in, even for a few minutes, and that makes more sense for most people. The benchmark score of the phone on Antutu is 3,89,482, which makes it the second-fastest phone right behind only the Asus ROG Phone II, which is a dedicated gaming device. Battery life is great thanks to optimisations and the 1080p screen also takes a smaller toll. Camera ups and downs are insanely soft and smoother while small jerks and regular shakiness is completely negated. Video on the front cam is limited to 1080p at 30 fps, but you do get electronic image stabilisation. It, however, made up for that with its fast 20W Dash charging.0 storage.0 and Wi-Fi and both 2.

The phone takes care of day-to-day tasks without breaking a sweat and can run over 10 apps at a time without refreshing any of them when you switch.Another key feature the OnePlus 7 missed out on was the beautiful yet powerful stereo sound found on the OnePlus 7 Pro. That’s taken care of here as the 7T comes with stereo sound with the large earpiece on the top edge doubling up as a secondary speaker. Perhaps one of the best premium smartphones out there too!.In terms of connectivity, the OnePlus 7T China chipboard screw yzp supports 4G and VoLTE and can take two nano-SIM cards.The price of Rs 38,000 for the 128GB variant and Rs 40,000 for the 256GB arguably makes the OnePlus 7 Pro from just 4 months ago look over-expensive. Dolby Atmos support means your sound is not just loud but also balanced, clear and crisp.Charging is super fast and the company’s claim of 70 per cent charge in 30 minutes is no joke.GamingAs good old Uncle Ben said, with great performance power, come great gaming responsibilities. Qualcomm’s aptX HD sound support means pairing the phone with aptX HD supported audio devices will produce unmatched sound quality.4 and 5 GHz.Battery

The battery life on the OnePlus 7 was above average but nothing special. We tested popular resource-heavy titles like PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty Mobile on the phone and were very pleased with the results.PerformancePerformance has been the core element of OnePlus devices right from the beginning, and the 7T does not differ. That means more accessory compatibility across the 7 series, without sacrificing speed. Fun fact though, the new Warp-Charge 30T has got nothing to do with the new charging brick itself, which is the same one you will find on the 7 Pro. That translates to you getting through a day’s use easily on moderate use, but you probably won’t make it through Day-2 without plugging it back again. With the 7T, you get the best of both worlds.VerdictThe OnePlus 7T hits all the spots.All that adds up to a phone that can do everything at blazing fast speeds; without the slightest feeling of being slow, or the odd frame-drop. There’s no FM radio but NFC is supported and so is dual-band GPS with support for A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO, and SBAS.All of this makes the camera department undoubtedly the biggest update on the OnePlus 7T over the OnePlus 7. Well, he may not have actually said that but he didn’t get to try his hands on the OnePlus 7T either.Recording video on the OnePlus 7T is too good with the new super-stable mode that uses the optical image stabilisation to give you footage that barely shakes at all. There is also 8GB RAM on both variants of the OnePlus 7T and there’s UFS 3.PUBG, for example, can be run on HDR graphics at Extreme frame-rate, which is the highest possible combination on Android right now.

The Snapdragon 855+ SoC combined with Adreno 640 translates to effortless gaming with no lags whatsoever.OnePlus 7T supports HDR graphics at Extreme frame-rates. The cherry on top is the 90 Hz refresh rate, which makes everything that’s already fast, feel even faster and smoother. A full charge on the phone takes less than an hour. There is support for Bluetooth 5. It’s got the latest specs, has the OnePlus 7 Pro’s best features and costs a lot lesser than it too.Other factors that enhance the great gaming performance are the loud and crisp stereo speakers, the compact size and the great battery life. The battery is slightly bigger than the OnePlus 7 at 3800mAh, and you get Warp-Charge 30T, a 23 per cent faster implementation of the 30W charging. There is just no slowing down in the media department either, with big video files playing easily and looking good while at it. This is no doubt the fastest fingerprint scanner we’ve seen.With UFS 3.

The Geekbench score is 777 (Single-Core) and 2813 (Multi-Core)OnePlus 7T Antutu ScoreThe fingerprint on the bottom of the screen is an optical one that’s crazy fast, needing pretty much no time between the touch and the unlocking. That was bettered with the larger battery on the OnePlus 7 Pro, which ‘Warp-charged’ at 30W.0, data transfer through the USB-C port is super fast and so is the in-app performance, with big apps and games loading much faster. While the regular video is recorded at 1080p, you can go up to 4K and even 4K at 60fps. The phone is simply put a gaming beast. The difference is actually engineered inside the 7T itself, giving you faster charging speeds with the same brick. In terms of sheer value for money, the OnePlus 7T is as close to the perfect smartphone as we have gotten so far. Talking specs, the phone comes with the latest Snapdragon 855+ SoC which is claimed to be about 15 per cent faster than the 855 on the 7 series.? Heating, however, could be an issue as the phone can get hot quickly with heavy games being played on max graphics. With the speed, the latest Android update, a clean UI, exceptional camera abilities, super-fast charging and great gaming, the OnePlus 7T is the best OnePlus device out there right now