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if you're one of the lucky people that can call the 1+1 a daily driver what with the invite system and actually the ability to get the phone on Tuesdays nowadays then you would know that it is a pretty well designed phone especially with the sandstone black material on the back that is a premium feel for a $345 phone but for an extra $50 you can replace the back with what is now available a bamboo cover and that's exactly what I'm about to do now because it's Josh Berg our from Android authority what's going on everybody and my oneplus one right now looks like this but soon after this video it will look like this oh yeah workshop angle so here is my oneplus one currently with the sandstone black that comes with the $349 Edition obviously I haven't really been using it too much on the daily as of late but that's probably gonna change once I'm done with this installation and we're gonna go ahead and get started right now just a quick unboxing of the actual device itself or rather the accessory we should call it the typical white and red that the box has come in one plus-ones style or oneplus of style go ahead and slide it out and there is the bamboo cover and here is what everything kind of looks like now if you look at the bamboo cover it has everything cut just right but you'll notice here on the side I remember correctly that the SIM card slot right over here is a separate piece now we have our instructions right here to actually install the thing along with a couple of tools that are available for the installation this will separate the back cover from the device frame itself it's just this little guitar pick looking thing that I'm going to be poking and prodding all of the different snaps out from the sides and then these SIM card trays are over here oh there's two of them oh that's awesome so the SIM card tray is this one the original one and I used to have to put an adapter on my nano SIM card in order for it to work in the oneplus one but now there is a nano SIM tray right here which actually makes it very nice I don't have to use an adapter for it but those are the tools that are inside I will be going through these instructions in a sec and we're going to get started with this the other tools that you are going to need come with your 1+1 for the most part I have this SIM tray tool right here that will pop out the SIM tray and it's the first thing I have to do here and then I'm actually going to use a headphone jack in order to pop up the first part of the cover from here and then that blue tool that you can see right here is going to help me pop out all the other notches the sandstone colored back is now removed and we have access to the body itself so there are the two covers so you can see them side by side as compared to the actual device itself and you gonna see how the look is actually changing quite a bit from here if you know me already I love bamboo backing this on my phones that's why I'm a big fan of the Moto X and I use that on the daily but now I'm going to have a bamboo backing for my oneplus one now installing the bamboo backing onto the phone should be a matter of just snapping it on which is great so I'm not too worried about that removing the sandstone cover however uh was a little bit difficult but with the included tool it finally kind of came out and it was definitely a lot better than using like a flathead screwdriver or your fingernails god forbid but nonetheless I wanted to take a quick look at the insides of these two covers so you can just sort of see the differences between them one thing I will point out is that the sandstone material does feel like it's on the sides here but on the bamboo cover you have bamboo on the back but on the sides here it is a plastic lining and of course the insides of both are made of plastic so that's not much of a surprise and really not that big a deal I just thought I would mention that so we're gonna put the sandstone aside and it will probably sit in a drawer now because now it's time to install the bamboo one and there you go after popping in the replacement nano SIM tray over here on the side I'm officially on my way having this bamboo 1+1 in my possession and I'm super excited to use it I love bamboo backings on phones and right now the Moto X and the oneplus one are the main ones that have it especially if you spend the $50 in order to get your replacement backing to replace the sandstone of the original oneplus one and $50 is not that big of a cost to have when you can change the look dramatically of your phone I do have a couple of remarks though the handling of the phone itself is still mostly the same the sandstone black still has a bit of a better texture to it especially when you have it sitting in one hand the gripped feels just a little bit better but not by to much and as far as the look goes I will admit that that let's say plastic lining around the bamboo that separates it from the actual frame of the phone is maybe a little bit jarring you are expecting somewhat to have a full bamboo backing but I understand that that's not necessarily the case but when you go from the bamboo to the plastic and then you move over more you also still have that metal sort of frame around the screen so there's a bit of a juxtaposition when it comes to the look of this phone once you have this bamboo cover on it's not a big deal by any means but it is something that you might notice that you basically have well a three toned phone at this point but nonetheless it still looks very nice quite exquisite and I am going to enjoy putting it on here testing out the connectivity on this particular phone I do see that I still get reception just fine and the one thing that I knew I really wanted to test out was whether or not the end of see changes on here as well well I tested it on my UE mega boom and sure enough it was able to connect to the speaker just flying using NFC and then of course Bluetooth to get right over so it looks like the connectivity options are still going to remain the same and you'll still have the same experience when it comes to your oneplus one experience on here so that does it for this look and very quick review of the bamboo style swab cover that oneplus has made available now I did use an invite in order to get it but according to the website you don't necessarily need to have an in to get it for $50 off of their accessory section in their store website so you can pop over and buy it yourself if you have a oneplus one and you just want to change the look a little bit it is a pretty drastic change from the sandstone black but I think it's one that me at least personally will really love so keep it tuned to and row 30 for even more coverage we do have our 1+1 review right over on the side in case you haven't seen it already and also don't forget to check us out for MWC that is happening in just a couple of weeks and we're gonna have a lot of great coverage for you from Barcelona 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