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what's up guys lon here from Android Authority and for a company that hasn't been around for a very long time oneplus has certainly made a lot of strides over the course of just a few years we're only a little over six months removed from the 1+3 T but whether you're ready for or not one pluses newest flagship is here unlike a 3t this is more than just a minor spec bump and it's the true refresh that we've all been waiting for so let's find out what's new what's different and if oneplus still provides the most value for the money this is the one plus five oneplus has always been about delivering a powerful smartphone with excellent build quality and a great user experience all at a price that undercuts the competition and all that still holds true for the oneplus 5 but that price has slowly trickled upwards over the years as the phone has gotten increasingly more popular and more powerful the base 64 gigabyte model with 60th of RAM starts at 479 and for an extra $60 that will double the storage and bump you up to 8 gigabytes of RAM which is just insane to think about especially when four gigabytes of RAM is still be standard on most flagship I've been using the more expensive model with eight gigs of RAM and with Qualcomm slated Snapdragon 835 this phone is just crazy fast it performs every bit as well as you would want it to and it's probably more power than anyone would ever need in a smart phone which is certainly not a bad problem to have absent games open extremely quickly scrolling is very smooth and moving through the interface is nice and fluid touch response also feels much improved over previous one plus phones and seems to track my fingers a lot better when I'm typing scrolling or swiping put so much RAM on board this phone can hold a ton of apps in memory without ever breaking a sweat and it always felt snappy and responsive no matter how many apps I had open for the screen oneplus is sticking to 1080p and even though most high-end Android phones have moved up to quad HD it's not that big of a deal that oneplus hasn't made the switch because the screen looks gorgeous and it's probably the best 1080p panel you'll find on a smartphone it's incredibly sharp and unless someone told you or you read the spec sheet you wouldn't be able to tell that it was 1080p the screen size is 5.5 inches which is a good sweet spot for a big screen that's still comfortable enough to use one hand it's also AMOLED so colors are vibrant full of contrasts and deep dark blacks and it's plenty bright that reading it outdoors in direct sunlight isn't an issue while the oneplus 5 still undercuts other big flag ships like the s8 g6 and HTC u 11 in terms of price you don't have to look very far to figure out the reasons why there's no wireless charging no expandable storage and the phone lacks any sort of water and guts resistance while it's charging and expandable storage are by no means make-or-break features especially since a phone comes with plenty of internal storage and while it's charging while nice-to-have isn't entirely necessary but with so many phones nowadays coming with some sort of ingress protection it will be a feature worth thinking about especially if it's really important to you oneplus does make up for this in other ways the fingerprint sensor on the front is extremely fast it's definitely one of the fastest fingerprint sensors I've ever used and it's covered in ceramic so you don't have to worry about it getting scratched up oneplus is ever so useful alert slider and make switching between different notification profiles and effortless experience and although this isn't new it's the features that's still very unique to one plus it's also dual SIM and comes with the latest Bluetooth 5 which is currently only supported by a couple of other phones the biggest change the one plus five is the new dual camera system dual cameras are becoming increasingly more common on smartphones but every smartphone that has dual cameras does things a little bit differently and the one plus five is no exception most dual cameras either have the same resolution across both lenses or the secondary sensor is lower resolution but with the oneplus 5 it's the exact opposite the main sensor is 16 megapixels with F 1.7 aperture and electronic image stabilization the secondary sensor is a 20 megapixel telephoto lens with a smaller F 2.6 aperture but there's no electronic stabilization on this lens and neither lens have oh is similar to Apple's implementation on the iPhone 7 plus the telephoto lens will let you optically zoom in by 2x without any loss in quality oneplus has also included a new portrait mode that simulates that nice blurry background or bokeh effect that you would normally get from a disel R while keeping the subject in razor sharp focus the manual mode has now been replaced with a new pro mode that offers more control and a few nice enhancements you can control all the usual stuff like ISO white balance shutter speed focus and exposure but what it really like is the built-in histogram and a horizon leveler to help you gauge when your shot is perfectly straight the camera is capable of recording 4k video and EAS does a decent job of smoothing out any unwanted shakes and jitters you can switch to the secondary sensor while recording to get closer on a subject but because these second sensor lacks any form of stabilization the footage is noticeably more shaky photos from the oneplus 5 are well detailed sharp without looking over sharpened and color reproduction is more on the natural side and not overly saturated have any secondary telephoto lens is great for getting those closer up shots without losing any of the detail that you normally would from digital zoom it's perfect we're getting closer up on anything you want but I found it to be especially great for macro shots it does however produce slightly different colors from the main lens and is a little more inconsistent with exposure the portrait mode pretty much works just as advertised as long as you're following the camera's guidelines you can get some very convincing bokeh that creates a nice separation between the subject and the background low-light performance will depend on which camera you decide to use but it wasn't all that surprising that the second sensor doesn't do all that well in low light after all it has a smaller pixel size a smaller aperture and no stabilization photos from the telephoto lens are much more washed out noisy full of lens flares and overblown highlights and it has a lot more trouble with white balance the main sensor will give you much better results especially in terms of detail and color accuracy I haven't talked about the oneplus 5 design yet and although there's a significant amount of refinements it's not a complete overhaul it's an all-metal body just like the three and three t but the five is the thinnest phone that oneplus has ever made coming in at 7.25 millimeters and the aggressive taper or curves along the sides makes the phone feel even thinner than it already is the antenna lines have also been redesigned to go around the perimeter instead of cutting across the back making them a lot less noticeable with the rounded corners and curved edges the one plus five is nice and comfortable to hold but because the sides are so thin you don't have a lot to hold on to and the phone is already pretty slippery as is with the all-metal body the new design changes are nice and I'm certainly a fan of most of them but it's hard to deny the oneplus 5 heavily resembles an iPhone 7 plus especially with the addition of a dual camera system that similarly shaped has a lot of the same functionality and sits in the same location despite the phone getting thinner and some of its similarities to the iPhone thankfully those similarities did not include the headphone jack which can still be found on the bottom of the phone next to the USB type-c port and the single speaker the speaker is above average but it's not amazing it's a lot louder than I expected but it can get slightly distorted at max volume and it's pretty easy to accidentally muffle with your palm when using the phone in landscape I suppose the only compromise to the phone getting thinner if you can really call it a compromise is the battery getting smaller but it's only marginally smaller than last year's three T and it doesn't seem to have made much of an impact to the phone's battery life because battery life only one plus five is exceptionally good the 3300 milliamp hour battery left me comfortably through a full day even with heavy use that includes using the camera playing games watching youtube streaming music at the gym and doing all the other usual stuff like reading emails and checking social media on a much lighter day I'll typically end the day with around 50 percent and when that happens I won't charge the phone until the next day so it is totally possible to get a day and a half out of this phone I honestly have no problems going to bed without charging it overnight simply because this phone takes no time at all to charge it only takes 30 minutes to get a 60% charge and roughly an hour and 20 minutes ago from empty to full one Pleasence - charging is just insanely quick and power efficient making the charging process so much easier and convenient one of the best parts about using a phone from oneplus has always been the software it's running oxygen OS which is basically stock Android but with more customizations than what you would get from Google much of it we were seeing before on previous versions of oxygen OS you can customize the accent colors switch between a light or dark theme or enable on-screen navigation keys there's a variety of off screen gestures to open the camera turn on the flash or open up any application of your choice and there's other useful gestures like double tap to wake just like every new version of oxygen OS oneplus adds in more features to further enhance the experience there's a reading mode now that turns the entire screen to grayscale to give you a similar experience of what you would get on an e-reader and a lot of other nice little touches like a do not disturb mode made specifically for gaming and the updated app drawer that swipes up from the bottom just like the Google pixel there's no denying that the 1+5 is impressive and it's really a no-brainer on whether you should buy or not sure it's gone up in price but there's more packed into the phone than ever before and that makes it completely worth the price hike and it's still cheaper than most other flagships it is missing a few key things that I mentioned earlier like expandable storage and water resistance and the design is a little uninspiring but none of these are deal-breakers by any means overall it's a complete package and oneplus proves once again that they can deliver a phone that goes toe-to-toe with the best Android flagships without 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