the original OnePlus One was incredibly
disruptive we thought this is the phone
for the people we thought that's going to explode onto the scene and force the
industry Giants to lower their prices and abandon consumer unfriendly
practices like pre-loading bloated Android skins and carrier locking their
devices but 3 years later nothing has
actually really blown up and it appears
to be OnePlus who is slowly caving to the business realities of competing in
the smartphone market the one plus 5 is
still cheaper than competing flagships but the decision to buy one is getting
less and less obvious let's take a
closer look at
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link in the video description let's get this out of the
way first I not a huge fan of the
slipperiness of the new curved shape and
fine blasted aluminum finish on the OnePlus 5 but that's nothing a dbrand
skin can't fix and their material choices including 2 and 1/2 D Gorilla
Glass 5 for the 5 1/2 in 1080P AMOLED
display and Sur iic for the lightning
quick fingerprint sensor are difficult to question internal highlights include
a 10 NM Snapdragon 835 processor 64 or
128 gigs of non-expandable dual Lane ufs
2.1 storage 6 or 8 gigs of shiny new LP
DDR 4X RAM Lightning Fast Wave 2 AC
Wi-Fi and dual SIM support with very
broad mobile network compatibility thanks to the process node shrink on the
CPU and GPU the lower power consumption
of this Cutting Edge memory and some software tweaks performance is better
than ever across the board and the five comfortably lasts me through the day
without delaying notifications from any of my key apps and software overall
continues to be a strong point in general for OnePlus oxygen OS is
lightweight responsive and almost as clean as bone
stock Android and where they add things
it Mak sense navigation buttons can be
repositioned and remapped at will and even moved on screen if you prefer my
mobile carrier's preference that mobile hotspot not be possible to add to the
Quick Settings was rightfully ignored
and swiping to the right reveals weather
a notepad recent contacts and recent
apps instead of some bloated digital
assistant but the big highlight for me this time around is really the upgrade
to gestures flip to mute is for idiots
unless you've got a screen protector though thankfully OnePlus seems to be
aware of this and included one but three finger screenshots with a single button
to press to Autos scroll the rest of the page I'm not sure how I lived without
that and the ability to map some hand functions and any application launch I
want to five different drawing gestures
I have never launched Angry Birds on the can so fast in my life the doubleclick
camera launch too is among the fastest I've ever seen and on that subject
rightfully OnePlus is really proud of
their first ever dual camera solution in
general dual cameras can be used to capture sharper images or more data like
if they had separate sensors for black and white and color but OnePlus is going
after a shallow depth of field effect for portraits and this one made more of
a difference to me a built-in 2x optical
zoom overall I would never know that
this was a first attempt at anything the
16 megapixel selfie camera is pretty
good but has a very similar field of view compared to the iPhone so I do wish
it was a little wider for group shop shots but I really loved using the
five's rear cameras and unlike some other devices I've reviewed in the past
I didn't feel for a moment like switching to it during my review period
was causing me to miss out on properly capturing Precious Moments with my
family the only reason that I personally even care about having a highquality
cell phone camera and all the manual
dials and switches including raw capture are there for the photography nerds in
the native app too video recording is a
bit more of a mixed bag for me the capture modes are limited compared to
other flagships so no 240 FPS slow-mo
there's no Optical image stabilization so 4K video isn't stabilized and 1080p
video has this weird FPS character
effect that some people seem to really like but I don't and there's no obvious
way to disable it and from a usability standpoint
I hate being forced to switch to video
mode when I open the app before pressing
the record button rather than just having both buttons ready for me on
screen okay so Linus it sounds pretty good but there's no modular upgrades
taller aspect ratio screen retina
scanner waterproof housing stereo speakers pressure sensitive display or
any other new stand out feature why is
this thing more expensive again well as
I alluded to before OnePlus has grown as a company solving some of their initial
problems like their Reliance on third party software and their limited product
availability though their customer service could probably still use some
work and they've incurred the costs that go along with this development so
instead of coming in at less than half the price of a competing flagship
they're now closer to 70% compared to the latest iPhone what
that means is that the OnePlus 5 might not be the clear and obvious Flagship
killer choice for Budget consumers but
we're also giving up less than ever before which makes it a great choice for
a broader range of Android smartphone
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