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while I finally have my own personal 1+1 and for the last number of days I've been using it as my daily driver obviously because well I bought the dang thing well now I wanted to give you what I promised you a follow-up review regarding all of the changes that may have come from the pre-production unit that I reviewed - and now the final production unit so let's take a look at those changes because it's Josh regard from Android Authority what's going on everybody and this is my follow up review on the oneplus one so I'm taking a somewhat unstructured look at the oneplus one in this particular video primarily because I just want to riff on the things that probably have changed and also give my thoughts on the phone as a whole because we are finally dealing with the final production units as compared to the somewhat pre production unit that I reviewed in my video earlier on and you can watch that full review I'll probably put the link probably right up there and it's the white baby skin version baby skin has a material on the back as they called it and it comes with 16 gigabytes of storage despite there being a few sort of quirks and kinks here and there when it came to mostly the software aspect I did say that that was one of the best phones that at least in my opinion I have been able to review primarily because of that price point because after all it's not very often that I get to review a phone and be able to buy it and that's exactly what I did with the 349 version which I'm doing the follow up for in this particular video as far as the feel in the hand goes it's very different in my opinion because the baby skin white the soft touch ish blah a plastic on the back of the $2.99 Edition that I reviewed did seem quite slippery now while it's still retained its good looks after quite a bit of time with me handling the phone I will say that it had a constant issue of slipping about in my hand primarily because of how soft that that plastic is on the back that is not the case when it comes to the 349 Edition because this sandstone black you probably won't be able to see here in the video a - - easily but you have to feel it for yourself it's the fact that this almost feels like sandpaper but doesn't great away at your skin obviously it still has a pretty soft touch to it but it's just pretty textured and in that regard it pretty much sits and almost grips on your hand you year then the soft touch of the 299 white edition and it's something that I've really liked about this particular phone but if you look around the device itself it almost seems a little bit more polished all around and when it comes to the display we have the same exact 5.5 inch display coming in at 1080p resolution that worked really well in the original unit that I reviewed and continues to do so in this one it's got nice colors that's pretty vibrant and actually it doesn't look that bad when you're out in broad daylight the screen while very nice and vibrant and easy to use it does have some sensitivity issues not necessarily in terms of just touch sensitivity but when you have the phone in your pocket and you have the screen off gestures on for example we have the circle in order to turn on the camera which I will do again right now there you go so you draw a circle onto the turned off screen and you'll be able to turn on the camera there are a few other functions you can have like a two finger swipe down to pause or play the music draw an arrow back or forth in order to change the track but the one that kind of gets me is the V in order to turn on the torch and if I go here and draw a V the flashlight would turn on now the unfortunate part about this gesture is that there have been plenty of times and I've seen with my brother who has a 1+1 now as well he's been he's been able to trigger the flashlight just in his pocket or even just when it's lying on lying on the couch right next to him so it's just kind of something you have to be careful of and if you happen to see that the torch is going off you really kind of just have to go into the go into the operating system and turn off the torch or you can draw the V again to turn it off which is okay but in my opinion it's probably just easier to keep it off in the gesture settings so you don't draw that V the only one I really keep on is of course the double tap to wake and then after that the circle to get easily to the camera as far as performance goes one thing I'll mention real quick is I've already catered the interface to my liking when it comes to my daily drivers but it is being powered by CyanogenMod 11s the specific version made for - the one plus one that is powered by the Snapdragon 801 and the audrina 330 that is one of the best processing packages available and it does a great job on here but also on the software aspect I have noticed that there are some improvements across the board not just in some subtle aesthetic looks which I'll get into later but also the fact that the Masha's that I may have witnessed or experienced rather in the previous unit are not happening here one in particular is vsco cam which just would not work on my previous 1+1 and in this case finally does in terms of the hardware aspect everything is essentially the same - the fact that the back cover is different but I will clarify something here the bottom speakers down here as you can see are not stereo speakers and that has become abundantly clear in this final production unit these are two single speakers that are just working in tandem doesn't really provide a left-and-right experience but I will say that the audio does get pretty loud unfortunately without a real stereo like experience the sound comes out rather tinny not quite as rich or full as before but nonetheless it gives the job done especially when I'm doing things that are performance intensive like playing games of which I've done a lot of on here and if you remember one of the big problems I had with the original review unit was the fact that the call volume was really low luckily that was a software issue and like I was promised by the guys over at Sargent mod it was going to be fixed in an upcoming update that update has already happened and now we have the full retail version of the operating system here in this version and as such the call volume is great now being able to store a lot of stuff inside of this nice phone has been really the the best experience that I've had because I've made this phone my media powerhouse not only does it save all of my thumbs up music from google play music but also I've made it my podcast machine in which I subscribed to a lot of different channels and love different shows and I make a player FM save all of them and I have no worries about taking up so many gigabytes inside of the phone with my podcast because there's so much to spare and of course we're talking about gaming and I've really kind of gotten game crazy on here because with all the space available and with games not really going over let's say two or three gigabytes apiece for the really crazy ones I've been catching up a lot of games that I haven't necessarily finished like anomaly 2 which I got really close to finishing I got really addicted to combo kuru which is a wonderful game and then finally I decided to catch up on another game that I did finish back in the old ps2 days the san andreas edition of grand theft auto grand theft auto san andreas and after that there's a lot more customization available because of the themes showcase application now beam showcase is a wonderful way of just changing the look of Sanergy model evanesce on your particular device because there are so many different themes on there in the past there were maybe like a handful maybe a dozen but now the list has just gotten bigger and bigger there are a lot of them in there a lot of them are paid for maybe a couple dollars you could change the look completely of your operating system but there are already some great looking ones that could warrant that price like for example a preview of Android L that takes on a lot of the aesthetics that the preview the Android L preview have introduced after that we have a couple other applications like for example the Audio FX which has been given a little bit of an updated look a lot flatter not necessarily in the knob that was before but it gives you complete control over the equalizer for your audio whether it's through the speakers or through the headphone jack and it works really well to be honest I have been able to get a bass boost out of it which is something I really like to do with my music but overall that is my experience with this final edition of the oneplus one this is my follow-up review on what has been one of the greater surprises of this past year when it comes to our flagship devices is it the flagship killer well that is up to you to say because a lot of particular aspects of this phone are missing that you would find on other flagships like a removable battery the battery is still only on par it's pretty much the same as before you're not going to get a super long amount of time from it but you will get just what you need in a day's work after that you are missing let's say expandable storage but that's the reason why you would pay that 50 extra dollars in order to get the 64 gigabyte edition of this phone and finally after that really it's like the core experience and it's one of the best core experiences that you can get aside from a nexus and I am going to be doing a comparison between the 1+1 at 349 and of course the other phone that comes in at the same price and is one of our beloved's the Nexus 5 I will be doing comparison between those two so stay tuned for that and keep it tuned to Andrew 30 for all of the best coverage thank you for watching this follow a review of the oneplus one and remember we have a giveaway we did one last week and we're doing another one this week of the 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