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hey Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody and this is the 1 + 5 T now the reason why you're seeing an initial review right now is because we've used this phone for enough time to bring you some very positive thoughts on 1 + is best device yet however we wanted to spend a little bit more time getting to know the camera and also putting it up against some of the other flagships in the game now you're going to see a follow-up review sometime after this one and we're going to give you as much information as we can in the video you're watching right now so starting off with the design the 1 + 5 t obviously takes a number of cues from the original 1 + 5 the main change of course is that entire screen on the front you don't have any element except for a display on the front with an 18 by 9 aspect ratio and that means that the fingerprint reader that used to be below the screen is now on the back this fingerprint reader might be in a location that some people don't find ideal but it is still one of the fastest fingerprint readers out there just tap on the ceramic sensor and you'll be able to get the phone unlocked in fractions of a second there is another way of unlocking the device and it is the face unlock and it's kind of scary quick just have your face data be put into the phone using the outline in the settings and then when you're looking at the phone at least the camera should recognize that your face is in front of the phone when you hit the power button it's going to basically unlock straight into the UI the angle of recognition also seems to be pretty wide so I could have the phone wake up away from my face and then slowly move in you can tell exactly one it recognizes that my face is in front of it the security of the face unlock is a little bit questionable for some users but at least one plus does put a disclaimer that face unlock is not as secure as passwords or the fingerprint unlock now around the device you solve all the same bits and pieces including the alert slider which is one of the unique features oneplus has over any other phone in the market today the AMOLED display is doing a great job so far and having so much of it on the front has been an absolute joy it adds to the eye candy effect because colors are punched out pretty well so that all of the oneplus wallpapers that they put into the 5t are so good that I could pick any one of them and it would make the phone look wonderful text has also been enjoyed to read on this device not only because of the trademarked oneplus slate font which we are fans of but also because oxygen OS does a good job of tuning the text so it doesn't bloat out on a full HD resolution screen of this size if there is one thing I wish oneplus did with this AMOLED display it's make the ambient bleh be and always on display the way that oxygen shows its ambient display is one of the more attractive ones out there and I wish it was available at all times the only other change here is in terms of the camera not just the fact that there isn't a telephoto lens on there anymore but the fact that the camera bump is coming out a little bit more this time it's still nestled in the corner and you might be scared of scratching it from time to time if you slide your phone on services but we don't think it's that big of a deal now since we're on the topic of the camera we can talk about that for a bit there's no telephoto lens on here anymore like with the 1+5 so you don't have optical zoom capabilities instead you have a secondary 20 megapixel RGB sensor that tries to use groups of four pixels in order to absorb more light for low-light shots now we're spending more time with the camera to see just how it fares in the overall flagship space and one of the things that we did already was put it up against the pixel to now portrait modes aside what we see here is that Google's own algorithmic procedures in post-processing still yield a better looking shot that's not necessarily the case with the 1 + 5 t instead it does a pretty good job of enhancing the photo but doesn't quite get all the way there the way the pixel 2 does that said in regular - even really bright light situations we had a really good time with the 1 + 5 t thus far and underneath the surface you get the same specifications - with a snapdragon 835 and 6 gigabytes of RAM in the base model but you can still tear through a gigabytes of RAM if you pay a little bit extra money you also get upgraded storage there at 128 gigabytes as compared to the 64 gigabytes of storage in the base model the final bit of hardware is of course the battery 3300 milliamp hours is what you get here just like in the original 1 + 5 and having a larger screen might bring down the battery life but so far that hasn't been the case I was able to get 5 hours of screen on time on average on days when I was listening to a lot of music through Bluetooth earbuds getting navigation done and also using mobile networks but on a day that I was just using Wi-Fi for the majority of the time I was able to get over 6 hours of screen on time which is really impressive and of course the high quality accessories that come with the phone include the - charging cable and the plug adapter which helped to get the phone back up to speed in no time so the rest of the change is what the 1 plus 5 team might seem kind of subtle but I would argue that they are some of the most significant changes yet and is in the software you have the newest version of oxygen OS here and it's a version that hasn't made it onto the original one +5 yet it might get there eventually but for now this is the best version of oxygen that we've seen ever the best way for me to describe this current version of oxygen OS is through a phrase I used to use all the time simplistically elegant there's virtually no bloatware on here except for an application that gets you straight to the oneplus community and then there are a number of features that show that oneplus has put a lot of attention to detail in here one such feature is the parallel apps feature which is new to this version of oxygen and to the 1 + 5 t you're able to have two different versions of most social media applications including snapchat which is probably the main one to use here because many of the social media apps that you're seeing have multiple account support there are some returning favorites here like the Reading Mode which is a personal favorites it makes the display go black and white a lot like an ePaper display on a Kindle so if you actually use the Amazon Kindle app it's going to be one of the best ways of using it aside from actually owning a Kindle it also works for scrolling applications and websites it's just a lot easier in the eyes and makes this a better reading experience aside from that you also have the app folders which have that nice little header with the red line underneath that you can also change in the settings because you can customize what the accent colors are and it comes all the way down to even one plus his own trademarked slate font it doesn't look that much better than Roboto but what I did notice is that it utilizes the space even better and also fun fact not only does it look good it makes Android auto look good as well because it actually shows when I plug it into my GTI whereas oneplus devices in the past might have been reliable speedy and had great performance due to high-end specifications the software just lacked that little bit of polish that just took away from the overall experience just that nagging little bit this time around though the oxygen OS on the 1 + 5 T is just one of the best-looking ones and it does have that level of polish and it just makes this software a joy to use and so there you have it's the one plus 5t in our initial review here now we tried to give you a lot of information as to the experience of using the 1 plus 5t and if you can't tell by now we have very positive feelings about it the battery life is really great and the AMOLED displayed despite being full HD resolution does a great job of providing a high-end experience nonetheless even though this is just our initial review we would still wholeheartedly recommend the 1 plus 5t already the camera is already performing pretty well and the main thing we want to highlight is that it's 499 dollars for what feels like a phone that should cost even more than that now that's not necessarily something that we've been able to say about oneplus for a while it doesn't really hit the 349 price point of the high-end oneplus one from back in the day but then again very few phones do that these days anyway this is the closest that we're going to get to an affordable flagship that does a great job of keeping up with the pack at the very least it's a healthy and very welcome addition to the oneplus family and the 5 T might actually make one plus five owners rethink their purchase you might be a little bit miffed that you didn't wait out for this one but at least it's here now and you might strongly consider upgrading as always thank you guys very much for watching and we hope you enjoyed this initial review of the one plus 5t now we're going to be spending a little more time with the camera and you'll be seeing other videos and other pieces of content on android authority comm regarding the camera especially in comparison to phones like the pixel and the note 8 so you can stay tuned to andrew authority for that and even more because we are your source for all things Android