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You know, if I was looking for a real product,

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rather than a meme that destroyed the mobile division of the company that made it,

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I might consider the OnePlus open. I mean, I'm not. This is making me very, very happy right now.

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But if I was looking for something like that, let's take a look at what I would be getting.

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This is OnePlus slash Oppo's new fold

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that boasts the lightest weight out of any foldable on the market.

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And that's still pretty heavy,

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but that's for a device that has a gigantic,

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nearly creaseless screen. Wow, that is really impressive.

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Not to mention, what about second screen? And that is only about the same weight

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as an iPhone 14 Pro Max. Oh my gosh, they have what might be the largest camera bump

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that I have ever seen. Are they sure they collaborated with Hasselblad on this?

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And not the Ming dynasty? Because they made that wall that's visible from space?

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Like this hump? Okay, that was a bit of a reach.

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Anyway, let's have a look at what's included in the package.

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I got a super VOOC charger. This will apparently charge the device

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in about 42 flippin' minutes. It doesn't have wireless charging

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and that fast wired charging was part of their justification for it,

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along with keeping weight down. But I gotta say, I'm kind of wondering if the reason is

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that it wouldn't sit on a wireless charger. Ha ha ha ha, ah, I mean, yes.

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Okay, what else we got in here? Did they include a case, really?

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Doesn't surprise me they were able to include it. I mean, look how much material they didn't have to have here.

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Ah, hold on, to be fair, it is really hard to make a good case for a folding device.

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Oh wow, it was in my notes that there's some controversy

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around the device because people don't like that they can't use it just unfolded

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and sitting on the desk. And I was like, well, why couldn't you do it? Ha ha ha ha ha.

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I personally am more into the taller foldable form factor.

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I can turn it sideways when I want to enjoy content and having something more square means that

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for watching TV or watching movies, I'm only actually getting about the same screen real estate

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as if I didn't have a foldable, but I can see the justification for this

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if you're more into productivity. I am really liking this front display though.

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Wow, that combined with the very reasonable thickness

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and the weight makes it feel more like using a candy bar phone.

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Wow, yeah, that is a fingerprint sensor. Gonna be very important to make sure you move your finger

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around a lot on this thing. It is a tiny sensor and your thumb is,

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statistically speaking, probably bigger than mine. So, you know, it's so fast on their phones

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that it's just a non-issue to me here.

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Ha ha, it's really good. Oh, I love the sound of that hinge.

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Like any foldable device, I have concerns about whether or not it'll stay like this,

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but out of the box, feels really good.

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I might start using this thing once I'm done with my wing adventure.

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Wait, I just realized I never finished showing you guys all the outer buttons.

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So you got your lock button, volume rocker. Oh yeah, got the alert slider

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in typical OnePlus fashion. Ring, vibrate, silent, love to see it.

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And that's about it. Stereo speakers, there and there.

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Does this have the same thing as Oppo's Flip with the 360 degree antenna stuff?

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Cause I see little gaps for antennas all over this device.

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They're claiming that that gives their devices better cellular reception.

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And we actually have a chamber that will finally allow us to test those claims.

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We are almost done getting it set up, but it's gonna take a little bit more time.

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It's nice, is that those are still gonna work in stereo mode when the device is closed.

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Sorry, I've gotten a little bit distracted trying to do this unboxing here,

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but I promise you guys, that's a good thing. I am really liking what I'm seeing so far,

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but let's get this back on the rails. In terms of specs, it's running a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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with 16 gigs of RAM. It's got 512 gigs of storage at a price

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that is $100 less than Samsung's 256 gig model.

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And there is a lot more else going for it as well. We've got 120 Hertz LTPO displays

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on both the outside and the inside. The outer screen is using ceramic guard glass,

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so it should be more resilient against breakage. And the inside is apparently using

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what they're calling ultra thin glass,

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which is, I think another way of saying plastic?

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Samsung is the only game in town for high end folding displays like this.

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So realistically, it's that. Which raises the question,

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how did they make this crease so hard to see?

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Like, look at that, when it was off, I'm sure you guys had no trouble making out the ripples.

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But with the display actually on, how impressive is that?

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Can you see them? Oh, I was gonna say, one advantage for Samsung

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is they've built a hinge that goes basically flat with no gap, but so has OnePlus.

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That's really impressive. This is probably the most candy bar feeling foldable

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when it's not unfolded. And I mean that in a really good way.

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Like, here's the Pixel Fold for contrast. This thing is chunky to hold on to.

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Like, you can't really get your fingers around it the same way.

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Also, I do not prefer the extremely short display.

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I don't judge it, I just don't prefer it. Definitely like to have more vertical scrolling.

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I'm a big reader, I read on my phone a lot, so I like to be able to scroll

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as I'm reading through articles. They make some other big claims about the display,

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like that it can handle up to 2,800 nits peak brightness.

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OnePlus hasn't been particularly forthcoming about their methodology for testing that.

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of testing at this time, and we were not able to replicate it

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even in high brightness mode in SDR. What we can validate is that the displays

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are extremely high resolution, clocking in at over 420 pixels per inch

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on both the inner and the outer displays, and they operate at an adaptive refresh rate

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of anywhere from one to 120 Hertz, which should help with battery life,

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even if only a little. And I also noticed that OnePlus doesn't have adaptive display refresh rate enabled by default.

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Whoa, have you guys adjusted anything on here?

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Was it in the natural screen color mode by default?

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No, it says natural recommended. That is awesome.

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I love to see it. I could just tell looking at the icons that they're not all color juiced.

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Let's turn up my crab rate now. Not bad.

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Very little distortion, even at max volume. Can I find a downside here?

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I feel like I wanna go downside hunting. Okay, what else we got for specs?

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You know, Wi-Fi seven, Bluetooth 5.3,

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USB 3.1 Type-C, so high speed Type-C.

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Okay, maybe it's not dual SIM. Is it not dual SIM?

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Well, let's pop the SIM slot. SIM, oh.

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SIM one, SIM two, dang it. I thought there was, and eSIM?

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Okay, maybe the camera sucks. Maybe Hasselblad got it wrong this time.

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The double click open camera sure does. Oh yeah, given how thick it is,

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I'm not even expecting this to be a major downside for this thing.

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Really natural color profile. Definitely not compensating for that bright studio light,

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as well as some of the phones that we've seen.

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Okay, this is some weird.

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The LG wing just starts playing this music sometimes.

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It happened before I set up anything on the phone. Watch, I unlock it, nothing, it's nothing.

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It's not, it's not anything. That was not, that was not a notification.

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Nothing, nothing happened. Happens like every couple hours.

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Thank you very much, Reddit. Good job picking a phone for me.

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Anywho, extra dynamic range? You're like, what am I, whoa.

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Okay, that's actually pretty cool. So you choose whether you want to

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juice up the highlights or not. Very cool. Oh right, I guess it's worth talking about these cameras.

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They're using a 48 megapixel main shooter. They've also got an ultra wide as well as a telephoto.

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It looks like a periscope style one. Where's my spec? 64 megapixel 3x telephoto with optical image stabilization

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and it's a 48 megapixel for the ultra wide. So this is a very high end camera suite.

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Also, being a fold, you can use your main shooter

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for taking selfies if you're into selfies.

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I mean, if you have to be a narcissistic douche, you might as well do it at the highest resolution possible, right?

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Am I in portrait mode? That's some pretty impressive bokeh. That's gotta be portrait mode.

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That's not portrait mode. No way.

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Wow, that looks awesome. Also, I don't think there's any image enhancements

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on by default. Man, this is like the anti, you know,

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Chinese phone trends, Chinese phone.

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By the way, the selfie camera is 20 megapixels, total of four flipping cameras.

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Apparently the cameras aren't even the most impressive part of this whole system though.

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Marquez was blown away by the microphone recording quality, apparently.

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They record in 60 FPS by default.

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Now that's a weird choice. I can't say that I am 100% supportive of that.

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I also can't say that I'm a huge fan of the way that it handles light shining directly into the lens.

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You can see when I turn around, my color saturation is fine,

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but then I come back over here and it has to contend with, yeah, that light up there

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and it's really struggling as possible that by shading it a little bit, oh yeah, there it is.

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See, that fixes it. Let's listen to those mics, that.

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I also am not a huge fan of the way that it handles backlighting.

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You can see when I turn around, wow.

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That is really good. How many mics they got on this thing? At least two.

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At least another two, one, at least another one. And when it's not in a really challenging scenario,

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it actually looks really good too. Normally Android suffers from this like an iPhone,

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but crap vibe when you're recording video. Oh my God, there's a fifth camera.

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How the heck did I not notice that before? What the crap?

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It also has a selfie camera on the inside.

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How many cameras does one phone need? This one is the 20 megapixel selfie camera.

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The one on the cover screen is 32 megapixels.

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I am loving this thing so far. Even the battery life is good.

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It managed over 24 hours in our video playback test.

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That can't be right. Is that right? 26 hours and 20 minutes playing YouTube videos

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at 200 nits and 2.33 hours in our stress test.

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How can you possibly play back a YouTube video for over 26 hours?

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That's at 200 nits, mind you. That's really dim and that's not doing anything else,

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but that's a really good result in our longevity test.

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The stress test didn't do quite as well, managing only 2.33 hours,

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but that's still reasonable considering that that's playing what, 3D Mark wildlife extreme?

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So you could game on this thing for over two continuous hours.

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Charging time, we were able to validate their claims. We managed a full charge in 44 minutes

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with their Super VOOP charger and an hour 23 minutes with a regular 65 watt charger.

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Oh wait, no, I've got something. It is only IPX4 rated.

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So like other foldables, it has no dust ingress protection rating whatsoever.

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That's probably because of the hinge. So remember when you got moving parts,

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even the device manufacturers are not as confident in their longevity.

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And unlike the Pixel Fold and the Galaxy Fold series,

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it's not rated to be submerged in water.

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With that said, I have personally visited a OnePlus factory

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and watched them putting like waterproofing gaskets

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into a phone that had no waterproofing rating whatsoever. And at that time, it was, well, hey,

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we're gonna put this stuff in. We just don't wanna talk about that.

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We don't want people actually putting it in the water. I don't know if that's still their approach today though.

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Maybe the software is a major downside. Let's try their multitasking thing.

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So let's get some Chrome. We're gonna, I don't know, search for ladybugs.

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And then you're supposed to,

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Oh, open another app, just split the screen. Here we go, YouTube.

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I'm gonna browse the web and watch Crab Rave because that's all I do in my spare time.

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No way you can add another one. Okay, I also wanna do some messaging.

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Simply tap it to display. No way!

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This is like the ultimate zoomer phone. Wow, that is pretty cool.

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If I go home, what happens if I, okay, there it is. But if I multitask back to, yeah, there it is.

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You can open up that grouping again. Oh, that's super cool.

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Oh no, I don't even have to go all the way to the, hold on, hold on, hold on.

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Okay, okay, let's go back to Chrome. I don't even have to go all the way there.

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I can just navigate to it from here. Yeah, totally remembers where I am too.

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Ooh, I am liking this. When in split view, swipe down with three fingers

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on one side to take a screenshot of that side or from the middle to capture the whole screen.

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Good gravy! Oh, you have to go slow.

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And then that's a screenshot. Touch and hold and release.

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Select a region to cat. What the heck?

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Okay, super cool. Okay, I just want this note about ladybugs.

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I'm gonna share that. Oh, gotta mark it up first.

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Ladybugs, yeah! Come on, show me there's a share right from here.

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Oh yeah, there it is. Boom!

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Ooh, me likey!

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Me likey the software so far! Oh, I haven't tried watching an HDR video yet.

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The preview is so much brighter than the playback.

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Why would that be? You notice that?

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This is not the most impressive HDR experience

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that I have had on a phone. Overall, I'm excited though.

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Like any foldable at the price,

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I would hesitate to recommend it, but I'm almost certainly gonna daily drive this thing

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at some point just to try it out. I'm really impressed.

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And I don't use wireless or even fast charging anyway. I'm a five volt two amp guy.

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Yeah, I still think the price is a hurdle. I think where that's still a solid like $300, $400 more

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than an iPhone. If you're buying something like this on contract,

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well, that might be a different story for you with a carrier subsidy, but not everybody does that.

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