so as some many of you noticed i never covered the
oneplus one was it because i thought their offer to lend it to me for less
than a week while one of their employees happened to be on vacation in vancouver
was insulting and ridiculous was it their offensive and irresponsible
advertising campaigns was it their trying so hard to be viral invite system
for ordering maybe a little bit of all three but
dbrand skins a great partner of ours threw a phone in the mail to me and
basically said you have to do the one plus two so i figured all right let's
see what the fuss is about let's see if it lives up to the hype
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oneplus comes right out of the gate boldly declaring their second generation
device to be a 2016 flagship killer and
obviously if they're going to run around and say things like that it better have
the horses to back it up so CPU-wise the oneplus 2 sports the controversial
snapdragon 810 1.8 gigahertz octa-core
processor paired with an adreno 430 GPU which should handle the phone's 1080p
display with relative ease RAM and storage specs aren't that clear-cut with
the 16 gig storage model being paired with three gigs of system memory and the
64 gig version getting a one gig bump to four gigs the display is a five and a
half inch 1080p ips lcd covered with corning gorilla glass 4 and features an
ltps glass substrate which is more expensive than both silicon and exo and
is accompanied on the top by a 5 megapixel selfie camera and on the
bottom by a row of capacitive touch sensitive buttons with the center being
used as a home button camera launch button and fingerprint sensor for quick
authentication cool beans i love this feature as long as it works it seems
that some units mine being among them may suffer from non-responsive home
buttons maybe something to do with chassis grounding or something like that
fortunately you can use on-screen buttons by flipping one switch in the
settings menu neat physically i really have started just
glossing over most phones these days because aren't they all just basically
rip-offs of the original iphone actually in this case no for starters
the notification modifier button on the left side has not 2 but three positions
to allow audible sounds for all notifications priority notifications
only and alarms only a nifty little inclusion the right side lock and volume
adjust buttons are flipping awesome protruding just enough to be easily felt
without looking at the phone and with enough resistance that i didn't
accidentally mash them all the time while trying to hold the phone and hold
the phone indeed is this what it looks like at the bottom yes on the bottom are
the regrettably well bottom mounted but surprisingly loud and clear speakers and
a reversible usb type-c port for
charging if you want to know all about the benefits of usb type-c we've got a
video about it which you can check out here but in a nutshell it's reversible
along with the cable oneplus includes which is freaking awesome it's more
durable and it can both handle more power and transfer data
faster than previous slim standards like micro b but that's the first in a series
of gotchas with the oneplus 2. thanks to the usb 2 backbone the type c port only
operates at usb 2 power and speeds and for whatever reason qualcomm's quick
charge 2.0 technology is not supported
in this config so you'll have to wait three hours or more for a full charge
not a big deal to me since the included 3300 milliamp hour non-removable battery
was enough for me to get through all but the most intense days but it might be a
factor for you gotcha number two oneplus
may be billing this phone as a flagship killer from a performance standpoint but
it's not like with more premium devices you aren't getting anything for your
extra money either and the two fails to deliver really any
cool standout features beyond its charging port no water resistance to
speak of no sd expansion although it does have dual sim slots under the
removable back cover which is still quite unusual in north american models
and no nfc support to name a few this
last one is particularly perplexing as while i've never been a regular user of
nfc its ubiquity among Android phones has made google even go as far as to
integrate it into their new phone migration wizard with who knows what
else depending on the technology in the future and on the subject of the future
and improvement oneplus really does seem to be banking on that to sell these
phones the software is refreshingly unbloated and has some great inclusions
like a system-wide dark theme gestures for like double tap to wake
double home for camera and swift swiftkeys fantastic third-party keyboard
app included but it just isn't completely polished in
a way that's sort of hard to quantify like reconnecting to wi-fi automatically
was really hit or miss for me auto brightness adjustments were very
sudden and jarring which hasn't been an issue for me with other phones for a
couple of years a voice over lte on band
12 a must for t-mobile customers is coming according to a reddit post
somewhere and the camera is getting more capabilities at some undisclosed time
which i guess leads us pretty well into the main pillar of a smartphone video
these days the camera it's pretty darn good the main camera sports optical
image stabilization laser autofocus and a dual led flash and captures 13
megapixel images and up to 4k 30fps
videos it handles low light reasonably well and if we ignore the pretty rubbish
viewfinder responsiveness and some stupidity in the app like that swiping
in from the left can try to try to change camera mode sometimes pulls down
the notification tray the two gets great marks here
not because oneplus has dethroned the lg g4 samsung galaxy s6 or the iphone 6 all
of which have excellent cameras but because the two costs half as much as
those other flagship devices which i think leads us pretty well into the
conclusion i still think the invite system is complete but the
oneplus 2 is still a winner in my book i love the price and i agree with most if
not all of the ways that oneplus has skimped on the two the build quality
feels great with a reassuringly premium weight and with the gently curved back
and extraordinarily slim bezels making it feel more like a phone a quarter of
an inch smaller diagonally a 1080p display makes a ton of sense to me at
this screen size and i will trade both wireless charging and quick charging for
a more robust connector on a device that i plan to use over the long term
but the lack of nfc baffles me and the inclusion of a second sim slot instead
of expandable storage is a trade-off that in my mind doesn't work well
especially for owners of the 16 gig model
you know what else is likely to work well for owners of the one plus two a d
brand skin you guys may or may not have noticed this but throughout the b-roll
of this video you have been looking at one of their precision cut vinyl wraps
that serve a couple of purposes number one is it protects the phone from
incidental scratches no not the screen surface itself but all of the parts that
you would actually want to cover with a vinyl wrap and number two is it allows
you to personalize the phone they've actually got a wide variety of mix and
match different combinations that you can play around with on their site
they've got a configuration tool so you can be like yeah what would my phone
look like with the wood grain on the front and like bright orange on the back
and they've actually they've actually got the logo even cut
out on the oneplus 2 which is pretty darn spiffy looking and then another
additional white sort of leather grain vinyl wrap over top of the camera in the
flash area really really awesome stuff
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