you know it seems like everyone and their dog is into throwing big product
announcement events these days and today it's one pluses turn in new york city
and they sponsored my trip out there to check it out
ah thanks guys but
you might have noticed that instead of this video being thrown together
slapdash on the show floor i am at home in canada
with my very own oneplus 6t to unbox and show
off that's because oneplus had the good sense to mail me one early so i could
take my time thank you smart people over there so i'm
gonna grab a coffee and then uh have a look at what's new with the oneplus 6t
one of the first things you'll notice about the 6t is that the matte glass
back has no fingerprint sensor just a oneplus
logo under the two lenses that house the same hardware as last time around with
some software tweaks that is because the 6t has one of the most hotly anticipated
features of the year an under screen
fingerprint sensor it's really cool it's
fast the little animation makes it feel
kind of futuristic and i know i don't
speak for everyone but i've always preferred fingerprint scanners on the
front of the device versus the back because i like being able to use them
even when they're resting on the table and this implementation lets you do
just that and that's without having a
thick hardware button equipped chin bar below the screen oneplus also told me
that my preview of their oxygen os doesn't have it yet but if you continue
to hold down the scanner after the phone has been unlocked they're adding a
customizable app shortcut bar that will pop up
nice so the under screen reader is pretty sweet and closely related to the
next head turning aspect of the 6t the notch
or the not ch that's terrible but it's justified
because it's been considerably shrunk down since last year increasing the
screen to body ratio more than 2 and also making oneplus approach among
the least obtrusive designs that i've seen
despite still packing in the front camera and the three-in-one ambient
light color temperature and distance sensor making matters even better in
typical oneplus fashion you do still have the option of turning off the
amoled pixels beside the notch and just pretending that it isn't there
though i mean by now so much of the notification bar
is preserved that i actually can't say that i recommend doing that anymore
now i would still prefer some kind of
magic camera under the screen or something like that maybe that'll come
in the future but for the time being this approach makes way more sense to me
than the completely panoramic designs that exist now like oppo's find x or
vivo's nexus they're really slick but
the mechanical action that they rely on to function smoothly in the long term is
still unproven at best especially after the device has been you know dropped a
few times which well
you know speaking of dropping stuff also new with
the 6t is corning's next generation gorilla glass 6. now gorilla glass 5 was
designed to withstand one big sumo grade drop from selfie height and we actually
saw oneplus internal validation of these claims at their factory earlier this
year but the new glass is meant to do that
plus withstand multiple smaller drops
surviving up to 15 drops from a height
of one meter in corning zone testing not that everyone wants to take the risk so
fortunately there's a couple more safety accessories in the box and i have to say
it's a pretty nice unboxing experience overall
the phone has a screen protector pre-applied and there's a transparent
condom type case then there's two items you won't even
find in the box of a fifteen hundred dollar iphone 10s max a fast charging
capable wall charger and
a usbc to three and a half millimeter audio dongle
honestly i'm not angry i'm just
well i'm just disappointed is all you were supposed to be the chosen one the
phone for Android enthusiasts who don't have a thousand bucks to spend on a
pixel 3 xl first we had that little incident with the wireless headphones
and then found these in your dresser drawer you're making usb-c headphones now on
the software side the 6t has the new oxygen os 9 based on Android pi and as
always it is one of the best oem Android implementations only deviating from
stock Android to give you meaningful customizations i'm a really big fan of
their quick launch gestures like the three-finger screenshot
oh yeah let's do that one whoop
look at that or drawing an o to launch the camera or an m to launch maps or
whatever app it is that you set up and what's really cool is that they make
even more sense now because once you're
eventually asked to unlock the device boom your fingerprint sensor is right
there you don't even have to reposition your hand to hit it nice bonus so
overall 6t is looking like a really nice upgrade especially considering the price
there's still no formal ip water resistance rating which i would have
liked to see but we get a 500 milliamp
hour battery capacity upgrade which thanks to oxygen os's efficiency should
be a huge boost in actual usability we get a slightly larger 6.4 inch display
increasing the pixel count ever so slightly and taking the aspect ratio
from 19 by nine to 19.5 by nine and we
get six gigs of RAM with 128 gigs of
storage on the base model now up from 64 gigs last time around and all of that is
for an extra 20 us dollars then on the
high-end model the RAM and storage stay the same but for the first time oneplus
isn't shifting their pricing up with the new generation so as long as you're
willing to bid farewell to your collection of wired headphones there's
not much here to not like
so thanks to oneplus for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for watching if
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also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like okay we don't sell house we should get a house
we should get a house coat uh cool shirts like the ones i usually wear and
our community forum which you should totally join i'm in new york hey i'm walking here