every once in a while a phone comes along that sparks a conversation or that
changes the way that we use our mobile devices
and for the people who don't actually want to carry around adapters and
relearn all of their gestures well for them there's the oneplus 5t a purely
incremental improvement over the oneplus 5
and now in sandstone white
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i first checked out the 5t when oneplus sponsored my trip to their new york
launch event and since then i've spent about a month using it and i've got a
few impressions to share oneplus slogan is never settle but
if we're being honest they come in at a lower price with a few key feature
trade-offs against the top tier flagships so
isn't that exactly what they're asking us to do well when it comes to
construction quality the original black 5t feels good with a great curved shape
nice clicky buttons and a satisfyingly smooth body to glass transition and then
the sandstone white adds a little bit more grip
and subjectively a better look though with that said if you're the type to
apply a dbrand skin this might not be a huge issue for you
the one area where you are settling is water resistance and this is
something that i would really hope to see oneplus address in the six
moving on to specs here's a rundown of the freshly launched sandstone white
edition it's exactly the same as the regular 5t which
is pretty much the same as any other flagship smartphone
at least until qualcomm snapdragon 845s start showing up in the wild sometime
later this year the decent sized 3300 milliamp hour
battery combined with the lower 2160 by
1080 resolution on the 18x9 OLED display
amounts to a settling or a compromise of sorts but
it's not one that i think anyone is likely to notice in day-to-day use i got
great battery life out of the 5t regularly making it through very
demanding days and the screen was sharp with no off-axis viewing anomalies or
burn-in on either of my units and watching movies in the wider aspect
ratio was a treat aside from the bottom mounted single
speaker which i would like to see addressed on the six as well
on the software we are settling a little bit again to be
clear i actually really like oxygen os it's damn close to stock Android but
with a few thoughtful add-ons like better screenshot management shortcut
keys oneplus signature notification toggle and this really cool feature that
i've mostly only seen on asian focused phones the ability to run multiple
installs of apps so you don't have to switch your login profile all the time
which is a huge boon for anyone with separate work and personal social media
accounts like me however
instead of shipping with oreo like the pixel 2 we're stuck with nougat until
oneplus rolls an update sometime in 2018
and you can't count on the support period either the 3 and the 3t both got
Android nougat with oreo to come but the 2 which was released in mid 2015 is
still stuck on marshmallow so your mileage may vary
now let's talk about the quality of life things oneplus facial unlock
isn't as good as face id on the iphone 10 or even samsung's iris scanner from
my anecdotal experience but now that winter is rolled around it
is a heck of a lot better than nothing so i definitely prefer that to taking my
hands out of my gloves or my pockets though it should be noted that when i
wasn't wearing gloves i was really pleased with the performance of the
rear-mounted fingerprint sensor even if i do continue to prefer front
placement as for the camera well ditto i guess it's missing some top tier
features like 480 FPS slo-mo and it's not across the board quite as good as
the best flagships out there but there are a couple of things that it
does really well one it just works it's got pro mode options
like the ability to see an on-screen histogram and shoot in raw but the
default app in its default mode is super simple to use and gets it right enough
most of the time and even their portrait mode is actually pretty good among the
ones we've tested and two with the second camera actually
dedicated to low light i got some really impressive shots in very challenging
situations like in a dimly lit aircraft i mean it's not like you're going to be
able to do up a poster size print with acceptable quality but
if you gauge a cell phone camera on its ability to capture the moment the 5t
with its quick launch with the double tap its fast shutter and acceptable
image quality performs admirably so i guess by this point in the video you've
probably picked up on my point by now the never settle slogan
is a bit i don't know let's call it optimistic
but i'm still going to recommend the 5t
because at 500 bucks for the base model it's cheaper than anything else that i
would consider competitive with the overall user experience
also a sort of related comment literally
as i sat down to write this script
my type c to three and a half millimeter adapter died forcing me to toss aside my
daily driver pixel 2 xl for the 5t
so i could plug in and jam out to some tunes like bloody hell cell phone industry why
are you doing this to me and as for oneplus
thank you for at least putting it off for one more cycle
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