so here i am at the oneplus event in new york city and
why do i feel like i was just here
oh right because i was
anyway oneplus just unveiled their latest
flagship the oneplus 5t and they sponsored us to come here to be among
the select group of people who will be hands on with it first
now there are a handful of major changes with the 5t let's do the big deal stuff
first this is the first device ever from
oneplus to deviate from the traditional 16x9 aspect ratio and also the first to
feature an immersive display with super narrow bezels and it's amoled which is
yet again this is becoming a theme here a first for oneplus
it's 2160 by 1080 for better battery life compared to higher resolution
options and it comes with the usual benefits of OLED like a near infinite
contrast ratio and power savings on darker backgrounds
though it also comes with the usual drawbacks so i'll be watching for any
early reports of burn-in on this display
i'm really digging the body design here it's super clean with the antenna lines
well disguised and you can get it in any color you want as long as it's black
and while the finish is a little bit slippery in the hand it's nothing that a
vinyl skin couldn't fix and the shape and aspect ratio make it pretty
handleable considering that it is a 6 inch display
i like the way that they've also squeezed together the nav buttons at the
bottom so it's a little bit easier to reach across with one hand if you don't
have gigantic digits now i'm not generally a huge fan of rear
fingerprint scanners but oneplus figures they've gotten around this with their
high speed face unlock it does seem to work pretty well so far
but i will need to spend more time with it the rear camera also got some
interesting upgrades 4k 30fps video is
electronically stabilized now but probably more importantly i've been
saying for a while now about both the note 8 and the iphone 8 plus that the
telephoto lens on the second rear camera doesn't achieve much more sharpness than
digitally zooming the usually sharper main shooter
well apparently oneplus agrees because their dual 16 and 20 megapixel camera
system uses two lenses with the same
focal length to achieve depth sensing for their portrait mode and their second
one is actually tuned for better low light performance with a 4 1 pixel
mapping scheme that they're calling intelligent pixel technology
requires more testing as with everything we're seeing today but it's very
interesting and finally true to the oneplus tradition the specs are top
drawer especially considering the aggressive pricing
every 5t will get a snapdragon 835 processor then there's six gigs of RAM
on the 64 gig model and eight gigs of lp
ddr4x memory on the 128 gig model and
that's accompanied by an adreno 540 GPU dual sim slots fast type c charging a
3300 milliamp hour battery and
yes my friends you can't really see it because it's dark in here but that is a headphone
jack and they're doing this without making a
ton of compromises that i feel are likely to affect their average user off
the top of my head you are giving up wireless charging but you're getting a
superbly crafted blasted metal body that should be harder to break than a
glass-backed one and you're giving up a dedicated button
or a squeeze for bixby or google assistant but you're getting oneplus's
trademark three position notification slider
so i'll be spending the next couple of weeks with the 5t
hopefully i'm taking one away from the unveiling here with me today and i'll be
looking deeper at the 16 megapixel selfie camera as well as some of the
software tweaks that oneplus has built based on their community feedback
program like parallel apps so let me know in the comments if you have any
questions about it that you would like to see addressed in my review the 5t
will be available on november 21st so thanks for watching and thanks again to
oneplus for bringing me out here to see their latest and greatest