Gadgetory

so a couple of weeks ago I did my written review of the oneplus 60 and I titled it fundamentally great but that got me thinking what exactly does fundamentally great really mean so probably one of the most important smartphone fundamentals for me is software oxygen OS is probably one of my favorite Android skins that has ever existed they're going with this fast and smooth methodology which pretty much means that it just gets out of your way when you're trying to use your phone but there's also this cohesive design language just just pulls it all together whether it's the fun or the navigation gestures or anything that you're just trying to use the software for it just feels like one really great skin of Android and if you want something super simple this is for you and notice how I said the software was just kind of trying to get out of the way of your experience well the hardware is pretty much the same thing it's incredibly simplistic almost to a fault they've gotten rid of the headphone jack on the bottom just can add this little symmetry thing and they've also removed the fingerprint sensor on the back to put it in the screen and so far it's not great I do hope it gets better oneplus did say it was gonna get better over time I haven't really found that to be the case over the last three weeks but it all kind of feeds into the fact that they want the hardware to just be incredibly simplistic and be a slate for the software honestly the software is so good on this phone that you kind of just want the hardware to be a way to access the software and that's pretty much exactly what oneplus have done with the 60 alright so one of my other smartphone fundamentals is performance and as usual oneplus doesn't disappoint here just like the oneplus 6 they've still got six to eight gigabytes of RAM they've still got 128 and 256 gigabytes of storage and they've still got that Snapdragon 845 and that just kind of makes it so the software and the hardware just get out of your way you're not seeing dropped frames and you're not seeing any lag or stuttering issues they've also done things like putting key app data in memory to make things launch faster so they're really taking advantage of the fact that they have so much RAM in this phone I don't think you're ever going to have an issue with performance in the oneplus 60 so probably the last of my smartphone fundamentals personally is battery life and then oneplus X T does not point I'm getting around six and a half to eight hours of battery life out of this phone and that is really really good for a three thousand seven hundred million power cell that's even beating out the huawei mate 20 which has a four thousand two hundred million power cell and I feel like if you want really good battery life in a smart phone like I do then you will not be disappointed with the oneplus 16 so those are my personal fundamentals of what makes a great smart phone and that's why I love the oneplus 60 so much but it's not the same for everybody most people actually want a really great smart phone camera and the oneplus sixties camera is not bad it's just not quite as good as something like the pixel but it's in a totally different pricing tier so you really can't compare it now what it does do is capture some pretty sharp images and they're little bit desaturate is here they're not gonna look like a samsung camera or even really a pixel camera but they're pretty unique they actually look really similar to like a Fuji film camera and I love Fuji film colors so I'm actually really diggin this camera oneplus also added this new mode called night mode which isn't the same as Google pixels nitesite effectively what it does is bump up the dynamic range so if you have highlights they're not gonna be blown out and the shadows are probably gonna be raised a little more so you can see a little more detail now this isn't actually that useful at night time so I'm not really sure why they called it night mode but if you're taking photos during the day when you have a lot of highlights and shadows then it can make them look pretty good so if you want the best smartphone camera you're not gonna find that in the 60 they did make it a little bit better than the 1 plus 6 so that's a plus if you're coming from the 6 or a 5 t but you're gonna want to go for a pixel 3 or a huawei mate 20 if you're looking for the best smartphone camera on the market so I guess that's what it means to be fundamentally great right you've got great hardware great software great performance and great battery life and those are the things that I value so if those are the things that you value in the smartphone then the oneplus sixteen might be for you and it's also like half the price of every other flagship on the market right now at five hundred seventy nine dollars and it's on t-mobile this is the first one plus device to actually be on a carrier in the US and that is a huge deal so overall if you don't want any gimmicks you just want something that is fundamentally great they get the oneplus 60