OnePlus 5 – Running out of Ideas?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,151 words · ~5 min read
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the original OnePlus One was incredibly
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disruptive we thought this is the phone
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for the people we thought that's going to explode onto the scene and force the
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industry Giants to lower their prices and abandon consumer unfriendly
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practices like pre-loading bloated Android skins and carrier locking their
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devices but 3 years later nothing has
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actually really blown up and it appears
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to be OnePlus who is slowly caving to the business realities of competing in
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the smartphone market the one plus 5 is
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still cheaper than competing flagships but the decision to buy one is getting
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less and less obvious let's take a
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closer look at
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it cyber power PC lineup of gaming
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desktops feature Intel 7th generation core i7 processors check them out at the
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link in the video description let's get this out of the
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way first I not a huge fan of the
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slipperiness of the new curved shape and
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fine blasted aluminum finish on the OnePlus 5 but that's nothing a dbrand
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skin can't fix and their material choices including 2 and 1/2 D Gorilla
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Glass 5 for the 5 1/2 in 1080P AMOLED
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display and Sur iic for the lightning
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quick fingerprint sensor are difficult to question internal highlights include
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a 10 NM Snapdragon 835 processor 64 or
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128 gigs of non-expandable dual Lane ufs
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2.1 storage 6 or 8 gigs of shiny new LP
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DDR 4X RAM Lightning Fast Wave 2 AC
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Wi-Fi and dual SIM support with very
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broad mobile network compatibility thanks to the process node shrink on the
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CPU and GPU the lower power consumption
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of this Cutting Edge memory and some software tweaks performance is better
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than ever across the board and the five comfortably lasts me through the day
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without delaying notifications from any of my key apps and software overall
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continues to be a strong point in general for OnePlus oxygen OS is
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lightweight responsive and almost as clean as bone
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stock Android and where they add things
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it Mak sense navigation buttons can be
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repositioned and remapped at will and even moved on screen if you prefer my
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mobile carrier's preference that mobile hotspot not be possible to add to the
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Quick Settings was rightfully ignored
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and swiping to the right reveals weather
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a notepad recent contacts and recent
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apps instead of some bloated digital
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assistant but the big highlight for me this time around is really the upgrade
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to gestures flip to mute is for idiots
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unless you've got a screen protector though thankfully OnePlus seems to be
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aware of this and included one but three finger screenshots with a single button
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to press to Autos scroll the rest of the page I'm not sure how I lived without
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that and the ability to map some hand functions and any application launch I
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want to five different drawing gestures
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I have never launched Angry Birds on the can so fast in my life the doubleclick
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camera launch too is among the fastest I've ever seen and on that subject
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rightfully OnePlus is really proud of
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their first ever dual camera solution in
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general dual cameras can be used to capture sharper images or more data like
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if they had separate sensors for black and white and color but OnePlus is going
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after a shallow depth of field effect for portraits and this one made more of
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a difference to me a built-in 2x optical
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zoom overall I would never know that
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this was a first attempt at anything the
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16 megapixel selfie camera is pretty
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good but has a very similar field of view compared to the iPhone so I do wish
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it was a little wider for group shop shots but I really loved using the
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five's rear cameras and unlike some other devices I've reviewed in the past
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I didn't feel for a moment like switching to it during my review period
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was causing me to miss out on properly capturing Precious Moments with my
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family the only reason that I personally even care about having a highquality
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cell phone camera and all the manual
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dials and switches including raw capture are there for the photography nerds in
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the native app too video recording is a
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bit more of a mixed bag for me the capture modes are limited compared to
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other flagships so no 240 FPS slow-mo
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there's no Optical image stabilization so 4K video isn't stabilized and 1080p
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video has this weird FPS character
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effect that some people seem to really like but I don't and there's no obvious
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way to disable it and from a usability standpoint
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I hate being forced to switch to video
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mode when I open the app before pressing
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the record button rather than just having both buttons ready for me on
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screen okay so Linus it sounds pretty good but there's no modular upgrades
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taller aspect ratio screen retina
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scanner waterproof housing stereo speakers pressure sensitive display or
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any other new stand out feature why is
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this thing more expensive again well as
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I alluded to before OnePlus has grown as a company solving some of their initial
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problems like their Reliance on third party software and their limited product
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availability though their customer service could probably still use some
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work and they've incurred the costs that go along with this development so
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instead of coming in at less than half the price of a competing flagship
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they're now closer to 70% compared to the latest iPhone what
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that means is that the OnePlus 5 might not be the clear and obvious Flagship
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killer choice for Budget consumers but
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we're also giving up less than ever before which makes it a great choice for
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a broader range of Android smartphone
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buyers how does dbrand do it every time
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