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every once in a while a phone comes along that sparks a conversation or that

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changes the way that we use our mobile devices

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and for the people who don't actually want to carry around adapters and

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relearn all of their gestures well for them there's the oneplus 5t a purely

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incremental improvement over the oneplus 5

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and now in sandstone white

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i first checked out the 5t when oneplus sponsored my trip to their new york

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launch event and since then i've spent about a month using it and i've got a

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few impressions to share oneplus slogan is never settle but

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if we're being honest they come in at a lower price with a few key feature

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trade-offs against the top tier flagships so

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isn't that exactly what they're asking us to do well when it comes to

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construction quality the original black 5t feels good with a great curved shape

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nice clicky buttons and a satisfyingly smooth body to glass transition and then

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the sandstone white adds a little bit more grip

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and subjectively a better look though with that said if you're the type to

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apply a dbrand skin this might not be a huge issue for you

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the one area where you are settling is water resistance and this is

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something that i would really hope to see oneplus address in the six

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moving on to specs here's a rundown of the freshly launched sandstone white

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edition it's exactly the same as the regular 5t which

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is pretty much the same as any other flagship smartphone

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at least until qualcomm snapdragon 845s start showing up in the wild sometime

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later this year the decent sized 3300 milliamp hour

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battery combined with the lower 2160 by

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1080 resolution on the 18x9 OLED display

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amounts to a settling or a compromise of sorts but

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it's not one that i think anyone is likely to notice in day-to-day use i got

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great battery life out of the 5t regularly making it through very

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demanding days and the screen was sharp with no off-axis viewing anomalies or

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burn-in on either of my units and watching movies in the wider aspect

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ratio was a treat aside from the bottom mounted single

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speaker which i would like to see addressed on the six as well

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on the software we are settling a little bit again to be

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clear i actually really like oxygen os it's damn close to stock Android but

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with a few thoughtful add-ons like better screenshot management shortcut

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keys oneplus signature notification toggle and this really cool feature that

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i've mostly only seen on asian focused phones the ability to run multiple

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installs of apps so you don't have to switch your login profile all the time

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which is a huge boon for anyone with separate work and personal social media

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accounts like me however

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instead of shipping with oreo like the pixel 2 we're stuck with nougat until

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oneplus rolls an update sometime in 2018

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and you can't count on the support period either the 3 and the 3t both got

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Android nougat with oreo to come but the 2 which was released in mid 2015 is

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still stuck on marshmallow so your mileage may vary

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now let's talk about the quality of life things oneplus facial unlock

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isn't as good as face id on the iphone 10 or even samsung's iris scanner from

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my anecdotal experience but now that winter is rolled around it

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is a heck of a lot better than nothing so i definitely prefer that to taking my

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hands out of my gloves or my pockets though it should be noted that when i

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wasn't wearing gloves i was really pleased with the performance of the

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rear-mounted fingerprint sensor even if i do continue to prefer front

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placement as for the camera well ditto i guess it's missing some top tier

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features like 480 FPS slo-mo and it's not across the board quite as good as

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the best flagships out there but there are a couple of things that it

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does really well one it just works it's got pro mode options

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like the ability to see an on-screen histogram and shoot in raw but the

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default app in its default mode is super simple to use and gets it right enough

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most of the time and even their portrait mode is actually pretty good among the

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ones we've tested and two with the second camera actually

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dedicated to low light i got some really impressive shots in very challenging

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situations like in a dimly lit aircraft i mean it's not like you're going to be

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able to do up a poster size print with acceptable quality but

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if you gauge a cell phone camera on its ability to capture the moment the 5t

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with its quick launch with the double tap its fast shutter and acceptable

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image quality performs admirably so i guess by this point in the video you've

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probably picked up on my point by now the never settle slogan

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is a bit i don't know let's call it optimistic

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but i'm still going to recommend the 5t

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because at 500 bucks for the base model it's cheaper than anything else that i

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would consider competitive with the overall user experience

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also a sort of related comment literally

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as i sat down to write this script

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my type c to three and a half millimeter adapter died forcing me to toss aside my

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daily driver pixel 2 xl for the 5t

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so i could plug in and jam out to some tunes like bloody hell cell phone industry why

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are you doing this to me and as for oneplus

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thank you for at least putting it off for one more cycle

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