Some people in the comments have actually called out since the Samsung fold video that I went back to a brick phone and more specifically
I went to the one plus eleven which makes me really excited to jump two generations to the one plus
13 which out of the box comes with the most up-to-date oxygen OS and
Android 15 and features the octa core snapdragon 8 elite CPU which
Hold on first of all that is a really pretty blue midnight ocean
I actually really like that and it feels like almost like a leathery kind of back compared to I guess this is again two
Generations older, but more of like a plasticky gloss back feels really good in the hand
It almost feels like it adds a little bit more texture as you can see by the crack on mine
It definitely did slip out of my hand while I was on the toilet. So hopefully
This color will stay in your hand a little bit more, but let's see what else is in the box here
Oh, wow, that is a Chonky wall wart which can deliver 80 watts
I know the phone can do it, but that's awesome that they actually included a wall wart capable of that
Most phones might do some sort of 80 watt or 100 watt fast charging
But we'll only include a 45 or something watt charger and of course one plus trademark red
Moda what three and a half foot USB a to USB-C cable touring the outside of the phone here
It actually looks like they've moved the notification slider
So this is where you can have it on silent vibrate or your ring on they've moved it to the left side here and on the right side
Volume up and down and our power button and then on the bottom your sim tray and your USB-C port there
And then of course on the back They kind of have their signature circle design with the three cameras by Hasselblad, which we'll get into a little bit later here
Let's power on the phone. There we go. Yep. It looks like a one-plus phone
which some people have had hot takes over the years about oxygen OS kind of pivoting to more of a
stylized operating system instead of its roots where it was supposed to be a
Grounded more back to roots Android However, you like it. It's up to you
I personally don't care because I joined the one-plus game kind of late speaking of the OS one plus has promised four years of Android updates and
Six years of security updates meaning, you know, as long as phones don't get crazy in performance
It might be worth just holding on to this for those four to six years another feature that I saw
I saw a video breakdown by another youtuber I forget his name off the top of my head, but they've done a quite a few changes between
oxygen OS 14 and oxygen s15 including some stylized animations some other security features
Like you can actually have your notifications hide if it detects someone is looking over your shoulder
Which is kind of cool I think some people might like those features and I would say the animations kind of give it more of an iPhone feel
If that's what you're looking for in an Android phone But having a fancy OS with a bunch of features doesn't really mean anything if you don't have great hardware to power it and underneath like I said
That snapdragon 8 elite chip is what's powering this phone It's boasting a 45% performance boost improvement as well as
44% more efficient on the battery meaning longer battery life
Maybe with watching a YouTube video or better performance in games
This is normally where I would show some numbers about that, but unfortunately our it's the Christmas holidays and our Labs was on break
So we don't have any hard numbers on how long this phone will last but it is powered by a
6000 milliamp hour battery which is up there with all the flagship phones and I think from there you could probably
Guestimate it will last you all day probably just fine
Charge it overnight or charge it while you're in the shower and again that 80 watt fast charging
Means you can probably charge it pretty quick and I guess talking about long-lasting watching a video or something
We should actually pull up some content on the screen. It looks again I would never ever complain watching any sort of media on this phone
It's a 6.8 inch 1440p AMOLED display at 120 Hertz
So hopefully some high refresh rate gaming might look really smooth as well
And apparently at display mat It was the only phone or the first phone at least to receive an a plus plus rating that should mean it's pretty good
And I think for 99% of people they would look at this phone and probably go that's incredible
But half of a video's experience is the audio. I want to hear the speakers
These are definitely Not the best speakers I've heard in a phone in fact
I probably wouldn't want to go much higher than 50% I'm going to because I want to test it
But I can tell right now that going higher. This is probably gonna suck
They're loud so if you want everyone in the room to hear it if you're showing someone a video that's the mission accomplished
I don't know. I wouldn't say that they're amazing. They would pass a test, you know
I like I don't know I I think phone speakers always end up peaking usually when they're at 100% anyways
And I have found that on my phones in the past around that 70% to 80% mark seems to be their peak in this case
It seems to be About the 50% mark maybe 60% before I start noticing some crackling the bass sounded really good though
It was actually like thumping, but we all know why you guys get phones
You want a game what you guys don't have phones one of the crazy things about that new snapdragon elite 8 is it apparently can be
Equipped all the way up to 24 gigabytes of RAM and 1 terabyte of storage
One plus has dialed that back the max you can get is 16 gigs of RAM and 512 gigabytes of storage or starting at 12
And 256 either way, I think no matter what spec you get it'll probably translate to some good gaming
So let's let's give her a try. Oh, let's go
Yeah, I'm a gamer what can I say got a 4k, but as of right now feels cool in my hand doesn't feel like it's getting warm
Which is great. It doesn't seem like I'm dropping below 120
I don't have any sort of FPS counter open on screen So I went in the settings and looked it's set to 120
It looks to be about the same what I was looking at you guys won't be able to see it
But it is very smooth. No hitches. I mean, I'm not saying caught is the most demanding of games, but it's definitely up there for a
Mobile game. Okay, let's look at an actual reason you guys buy a phone sometimes as the cameras
Of course, like I mentioned earlier It has kind of its signature look of the tri cameras on the back made by Hasselblad
And each of those three cameras on the back is 50 megapixels, which if you remember from the 12 the telephoto lens was actually 64
Why they chose to go from 64 back down to 50 not really sure apparently some reviews and some people are saying that it is a little bit worse I
Think again for most people It's probably gonna be okay if you are someone who's buying a phone to go take professional photography
You're not buying a phone So I think again, it's gonna be fine for most people the selfie cam on the front
Which as you can see is kind of like a little hole punch camera it seems to be about the same specs as before 32 megapixels and
I think I like hole punch cameras
Man, I go back and forth on this decision all the time I like hole punch cameras more than most underscreen cameras, but then every time I've looked at red magics underscreen camera
That's the best implementation. I've ever seen in this case
It might work one plus does kind of an iPhone thing where they have like a dynamic island at the top where you can see some
Notifications see if your screen recording seeing if there's some app doing something in the background
And I guess in that sense you don't notice the hole punch as much again making this phone feel more almost
Iphone-y than anything, but let's let's actually take some photos here take a photo of my boys
Yep, that's a phone doing the classic Trademark watermark at the bottom. I'm sure you could remove that in the settings
Yeah, that's I love I love point six millimeter. This is my selfie
Yep, that's a selfie again shooting towards kind of like Belle and Andrew over there is probably one of the worst-case scenarios because there's like
Studio lights shining directly into the lens. It does a pretty good job. I don't know
I wouldn't complain now these cameras can do all the way up to 8k 24 FPS
4k 60 FPS, but according to the last phone the the one plus 12 some people apparently experienced frame drops
So I'm curious if maybe if we do a quick record here
And we'll let it roll for a little bit if we end up experiencing the same thing. Maybe it was a CPU limitation
Maybe it was a RAM limitation. I don't know we'll let the camera kind of go for a while here
Let's let it play back here and see if we see anything the stabilization is really good
But that's where I'm noticing the frame drops. I'm noticing occasionally. It'll like skip what should be smooth
It's very subtle and I think for like obviously if you're trying to record something that maybe you're gonna post on TikTok or for
Your YouTube channel obviously hitches are gonna suck and they're gonna, you know affect the quality of the video
But if you're someone who's just you know filming your kid unboxing a Christmas gift
You probably won't really care that much, but it's it is there. It's definitely an issue. I can see
So depending on your use case some other quick rapid-fire specs about the phone Wi-Fi 7 Bluetooth 5.4
IP68 and IP69 and a whole whack ton of AI features
Yeah, you hear the crickets too. I'll never use those features. Anyways, the starting price for this phone
$900 for the 12 gigabytes of RAM and 256 and then this version here, which is the 16 and 512 is a thousand US dollars
One plus definitely getting into that flagship pricing And I think the difference between this one and my 11 isn't quite enough to jump considering
I believe my 11 is also going to be getting oxygenos 15
But for some of you out there, maybe this is the jump you want to take if you want a more
Iphone-y like experience on an Android or if you're running an even older version of a OnePlus phone
Let me know your guys thought on the phone It's $100 more than the 12 which you should go check out Linus actually did an unboxing of that one last year like comment subscribe