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one pluses newest handset is not only affordable but it might be their most compelling it's Josh of regard from Android authority what's going on everybody and here are the first 48 hours that I've had with the oneplus X now as the name implies of course we have had the oneplus X for a couple of days now and that of course started with the unboxing now the unboxing was mostly a conventional affair but you do get a microUSB cable in the flat red design that oneplus has sort of popularized since the oneplus 2 and it does look really great again this is a microUSB charging cable so you're not getting USB type-c here you also get the plug adapter but one nice addition that was in here was a lightweight plastic case that adds a little bit of protection but once we get into the actual design and we actually held the phone we thought we don't really need this case on there and for a phone that's supposed to be so affordable we actually think that the oneplus X is feeling pretty premium it definitely looks very premium with the metal chassis that then puts together the two glass panels now a number of people have already said that this might look like an iPhone 4 to them but we tend to think it looks a little bit more like a Sony Xperia but at least one plus has really been trying to put some of their own design cues into this device and that starts off with the metal sides that have a bunch of micro cuts in them now this seems a little bit simple but we do think that it helps with the handling because you get a real tactile feel on the sides there but the main thing about this device is its size with a 5-inch screen this is definitely one of the easier to handle devices in one hand now we haven't really had any shortage of small devices this year but we definitely have had a lot of bigger ones and it's nice to see that in their second offering in 2015 the oneplus X it sticks to the smaller size category now you're going to notice that I don't have any soft keys on right now even though in the oxygen OS it does allow you to turn them on but there are capacitive keys way down on the bottom there and they're actually kind of close to the edge there you do have to reach down pretty far at least it doesn't seem so symmetrical at least when you're doing it that you have to reach so far down near the edge in order to trigger those buttons but that being said the responsiveness of them has not been an issue at all it's just kind of interesting that when you have to reach all the way down and basically let your finger slide off the phone that's how you have to get to the capacitive keys the display is full HD amoled construction which is nice because the oxygen OS starts off in the dark mode is on by default which means that the AMOLED display should be able to provide some better battery life because it doesn't have to have all the pixels on at all times in the dark mode what you get in the inside of the oneplus X might seem really familiar if you had a oneplus one from last year then the performance aspect would be very similar except you have a bumped up ram capacity with one more gigabyte in there so really the Snapdragon 801 should be able to perform still pretty well on here and oneplus told us at their event that the 801 in their testing still performed better than the more recently released Snapdragon 617 and thus far we don't think there is any problem with that statement as we've had a pretty reliable time in the last couple of days of thus far but of course we're going to put more heavy usage on here and we'll let you know how that goes hardware is a bit of a mishmash from the previous two oneplus devices and the reason why is because a number of features that came on the oneplus 2 are not really here on the oneplus X which may be totally fine but one of them that does come is this alert slider on the side which is nice that you don't have to actually turn on the phone in order to mute it let's say but you can always have it in the typical sense you can do all none or the prioritize notifications to come through using that slider the features that don't come from the oneplus two are the fingerprint reader and to the USB type-c port now the one thing about this microUSB cable port right here which is more conventional and it should be better for everyone who still has a bunch of cables is that in my testing it doesn't seem there's any fast charging on here which is a bit of a bummer but the main feature that I know a lot of people are going to love about the oneplus X that wasn't even in the original to oneplus devices is the fact that you can expand the storage now this particular phone that I have in my hand has 16 gigabytes for usage but when you pop out that dual SIM tray that feature does return one of those trays can be used for a microSD card instead so it's great that you can add in extra storage on here where a lot of other phones tend to not have this feature and in camera listed as 12 point 4 megapixels in the settings at least we have taken a few pictures from this camera and we are going to show you them here but of course we're going to have our opinions for our full review that's said however the camera app inside of the oneplus X is very similar to the one in the 1+2 which allows you to change the modes by swiping in the viewfinder but that provides one little issue the thing is when you are in landscape mode trying to take a picture in you're swiping up and down from the different modes when you get to the panorama it reorient eighths to portrait mode which is a little bit disorienting I have to say it's not that big of a deal and it's actually nice that panorama is down at the bottom of that list and finally in software we have the oxygen OS which is very familiar from the oneplus 2 all of the same features do return here and there's not really anything that new but we will say that in the initial setup you do have the option to not only turn on the shelf but the dark mode is enabled by default and like we mentioned already before in the display section that's a really good choice to have for an AMOLED screen so battery life should be kind of good but ultimately you still get a really stock like Android experience on here with all of the same elements that you can pretty much expect and of course because this is lollipop we still have those elements from here and marshmallow should be coming pretty soon but really if you had the oneplus 2 and you have oxygen OS even on a one plus one if you updated it this is actually very familiar for you but of course as you probably know by now from our original first look the best part about the oneplus X is its price two hundred and fifty dollars of course with an invite at least for the first month and a little bit after that will get you a phone that so far seems pretty premium in its look feel and it actually provides some features that other flagships haven't been able to like expandable storage now of course we're going to reserve our opinions for the full review on things like the battery and the camera quality but ultimately right now we do already like what we see in the oneplus X so you can stay tuned for our full review coming very soon here on Android authorities channel you can see all of the content from my colleagues in Android and you can make sure to drop us some thumbs up on these videos because we'd love to see that and subscribe to this channel if you haven't already you can also head over to Android or decom to listen to our podcast discussing topics in Android every single week and then stick around for more because we are your source for all things Android