I can't believe it - OnePlus 6T Hands On
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,192 words · ~5 min read
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you know it seems like everyone and their dog is into throwing big product
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announcement events these days and today it's one pluses turn in new york city
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and they sponsored my trip out there to check it out
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ah thanks guys but
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you might have noticed that instead of this video being thrown together
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slapdash on the show floor i am at home in canada
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with my very own oneplus 6t to unbox and show
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off that's because oneplus had the good sense to mail me one early so i could
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take my time thank you smart people over there so i'm
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gonna grab a coffee and then uh have a look at what's new with the oneplus 6t
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one of the first things you'll notice about the 6t is that the matte glass
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back has no fingerprint sensor just a oneplus
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logo under the two lenses that house the same hardware as last time around with
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some software tweaks that is because the 6t has one of the most hotly anticipated
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features of the year an under screen
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fingerprint sensor it's really cool it's
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fast the little animation makes it feel
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kind of futuristic and i know i don't
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speak for everyone but i've always preferred fingerprint scanners on the
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front of the device versus the back because i like being able to use them
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even when they're resting on the table and this implementation lets you do
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just that and that's without having a
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thick hardware button equipped chin bar below the screen oneplus also told me
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that my preview of their oxygen os doesn't have it yet but if you continue
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to hold down the scanner after the phone has been unlocked they're adding a
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customizable app shortcut bar that will pop up
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nice so the under screen reader is pretty sweet and closely related to the
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next head turning aspect of the 6t the notch
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or the not ch that's terrible but it's justified
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because it's been considerably shrunk down since last year increasing the
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screen to body ratio more than 2 and also making oneplus approach among
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the least obtrusive designs that i've seen
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despite still packing in the front camera and the three-in-one ambient
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light color temperature and distance sensor making matters even better in
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typical oneplus fashion you do still have the option of turning off the
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amoled pixels beside the notch and just pretending that it isn't there
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though i mean by now so much of the notification bar
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is preserved that i actually can't say that i recommend doing that anymore
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now i would still prefer some kind of
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magic camera under the screen or something like that maybe that'll come
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in the future but for the time being this approach makes way more sense to me
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than the completely panoramic designs that exist now like oppo's find x or
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vivo's nexus they're really slick but
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the mechanical action that they rely on to function smoothly in the long term is
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still unproven at best especially after the device has been you know dropped a
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few times which well
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you know speaking of dropping stuff also new with
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the 6t is corning's next generation gorilla glass 6. now gorilla glass 5 was
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designed to withstand one big sumo grade drop from selfie height and we actually
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saw oneplus internal validation of these claims at their factory earlier this
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year but the new glass is meant to do that
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plus withstand multiple smaller drops
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surviving up to 15 drops from a height
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of one meter in corning zone testing not that everyone wants to take the risk so
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fortunately there's a couple more safety accessories in the box and i have to say
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it's a pretty nice unboxing experience overall
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the phone has a screen protector pre-applied and there's a transparent
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condom type case then there's two items you won't even
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find in the box of a fifteen hundred dollar iphone 10s max a fast charging
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capable wall charger and
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a usbc to three and a half millimeter audio dongle
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honestly i'm not angry i'm just
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well i'm just disappointed is all you were supposed to be the chosen one the
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phone for Android enthusiasts who don't have a thousand bucks to spend on a
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pixel 3 xl first we had that little incident with the wireless headphones
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and then found these in your dresser drawer you're making usb-c headphones now on
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the software side the 6t has the new oxygen os 9 based on Android pi and as
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always it is one of the best oem Android implementations only deviating from
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stock Android to give you meaningful customizations i'm a really big fan of
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their quick launch gestures like the three-finger screenshot
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oh yeah let's do that one whoop
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look at that or drawing an o to launch the camera or an m to launch maps or
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whatever app it is that you set up and what's really cool is that they make
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even more sense now because once you're
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eventually asked to unlock the device boom your fingerprint sensor is right
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there you don't even have to reposition your hand to hit it nice bonus so
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overall 6t is looking like a really nice upgrade especially considering the price
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there's still no formal ip water resistance rating which i would have
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liked to see but we get a 500 milliamp
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hour battery capacity upgrade which thanks to oxygen os's efficiency should
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be a huge boost in actual usability we get a slightly larger 6.4 inch display
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increasing the pixel count ever so slightly and taking the aspect ratio
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from 19 by nine to 19.5 by nine and we
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get six gigs of RAM with 128 gigs of
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storage on the base model now up from 64 gigs last time around and all of that is
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for an extra 20 us dollars then on the
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high-end model the RAM and storage stay the same but for the first time oneplus
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isn't shifting their pricing up with the new generation so as long as you're
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willing to bid farewell to your collection of wired headphones there's
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not much here to not like
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so thanks to oneplus for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for watching if
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subscribed and maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description
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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
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we should get a house coat uh cool shirts like the ones i usually wear and
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our community forum which you should totally join i'm in new york hey i'm walking here